All Chapters of The Buffet Was a Red Flag: Chapter 11

On presentation day, the auditorium was packed.Freshmen. Upperclassmen. Even reporters from off campus.Backstage, I looked out at the crowd, palms sweating."Simone, you've got this! You're our hero!"Lily sat in the front row, pumping her fist.I took a breath, adjusted the mic, and walked to center stage.The first slide showed the $3,600 Bosfa seafood buffet order."Everybody remember this dinner?"The auditorium went dead silent.Every eye locked on the screenshot."This dinner cost $120 a person. It looked generous."But really, it was the entry fee to a scam worth over $650,000."I clicked to the next slide.Repayment schedules filled the screen."After that first bite of lobster came a year-long nightmare—your parents' savings drained and your future buried under predatory loans."I didn't try to be dramatic.I just broke down how Ada played on everyone's greed and how the scam spread by turning victims into recruiters.Then I pointed to the interest-rate form