An email from a supposedly respectable legal recruitment firm suggested students find “sugar daddies” to help defray the expenses for a legal education.
New York University’s School of Law graduates recently reported having received an email from Katherine Loanzon, Parker + Lynch’s attorney search director, advising them to sign up at Seeking Arrangements, a popular matchmaking website.
The email continued on to recommend connecting with a “sugar daddy” or “sugar momma” to help pay off student debt, Next Shark reported.
Citing unconventional ways to manage their student loans, the email went on further to cite that NYU graduates had a history of topping the website’s “Sugar Baby” list of registrants, with 225 students from the school having signed up in 2015 alone.
Initially thought to be spam email because of the catchy subject line, “Cost of NYU is making it #1 on Matchmaking Site,” the message turned out to be a legitimate message from Parker + Lynch, Above the Law said.
Loanzon further stressed degrees at NYU were expensive to come by, and offered her suggestion as one of the creative ways students and graduates could get their tuition and student debt paid off.
She further went on to offer her assistance in helping interested individuals sign up with the matchmaking website, Law Deluxe mentioned.
Loanzon said signing up as a “sugar baby” would help students achieve their goal of career success by going on this particular path to pay off their student debt.
It has not been disclosed whether Parker + Lynch has previously inked a deal to be the matchmaking website's marketing arm, or on whether the NYU email recipients did sign up with the website.
The former has listed itself as leading executive recruitment and consulting firm, while the latter advertises bringing people together for “mutually beneficial relationships.”
