This "verification project" is in fact a huge marketing ploy to convince Eagle Scouts across the country to spend hundreds of dollars on their "50th Anniversary Book". This is, in fact, a variation of the "Who's Who" book scam many people encountered in college, where we receive a letter telling us that we've been selected for this book, verify your information and purchase a copy! Of course what they don't tell you is that everyone gets in the book, and there's nothing special about it at all.
The only reason these businesses are allowed to operate is because they do indeed provide you the book you ordered for the extremely inflated price of $460.
The very first law of Scouting is that a "Scout is Trustworthy". The fact that NESA would do business with "Publishing Concepts", an organization which requires their employees to use hard sale tactics and even lie to people on the phone, leaves me very disappointed in NESA.
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