1/ One of my weird hobbies is taking scam phone calls to see if I can get through the system far enough for the ask.

Today's is a head scratcher, so far: guy calls offering me free money for education if I just express some interest in taking a business management program

2/ Supposedly, the money is coming from @USED -- he coaches me about what D.O.B. to give, and when I graduated HS, say I'm interested in either online or f2f classes, and to say 'no' if i'm asked whether i was coached

3/ Ok, second call, guy asks me a bunch of questions corresponding to the things the first caller coached me on - then confirms that I should tell subsequent calllers I wasn't coached and am not expecting anything in return

4/ my guess is this company is cold-calling folks as part of a lead-gen operation...waiting for call number 3...

5/ BTW, the caller identified the company he works for as "Education Now' but who knows if that is real...

6/ Now, we're getting somewhere: http://www.college-radar.com/  is the lead-gen company

7/ Third caller, indentifies a program at @AIUniv and then i get a call from a representative from the insitution. I decline any interest in their program and inform the agent that I was promised a cash reward and coached on my answers...

8/ To recap: A lead-gen company promised me a cash reward, coached me on how to answer the screening questions so that I would eventually get to @AIUniv admissions rep. ... seems legit, right?

9/ Here's the link to a related site that sent me an email, immediately following the calls: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXVGtMLDlNjgBLlJntQQTlxfp

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