I am not that good financially to donate but i wish i can donate someone in need. i have made some donations earlier and i don't find it bad to donate money to anybody.
i will explain to you what exactly happened. i had a paypal account two years ago and i have 200$ left in it.
For some reason i don't able to withdraw them into my bank.
one day, i saw some kids without footwear and i got into tears seeing them. then i donate these 200$ into a kid orphanage house through paypal and then feel good after that.
I sent money to people who said they were in financial need online before. I let them know based on facts I had that I knew they weren't telling the whole truth. I asked them in return to to help someone in need. It felt good!
I have one today, its from a lady English (real bad)Just moved house took me all of 3 Hours. I travel light. Turned PC on to check messages:- She wants all my details, I am it seems her long lost cousin, she's hangin on at the moment, and she has no other heirs. I'm it.
I get 5 million buckaroos, when she leaves this core. I have a month to furnish her lawyers with my details, and it is a Real Bona Fide legal firm, trouble is they have written all over front page to see the Scam. So not the sharpest knife in the Drawer.
Well yes I do. There are actually good hearted people everywhere an including online....
How does it add to the scam? People are asking for donations, not trying to scam anyone?
I am saying that there are always scams in my Inbox, re people trying to gain money by perhaps telling me I have just inherited a Million dollars, and would I send the following
Home Phone number
Name
E mail
Last first/ names.
Obviously I spam them, but they come back. These are internet scams.
Now I am getting begging pleas. I spam them too.
Oh yea well those are scams. I thought you meant anyone asking for donations... sorry woman lol
O.K You haven't obviously had any, all my friends are getting them, I am improving the Spam Filters, they are a total nuisance.
Oh yea I have had those ones but I just delete them. Its quite annoying
just don't mind them.
the FBI's got them in the radar, if you go to FBI.GOV and click on internet scams or crimes.
Heck, just a while ago I got one from somebody calling himself the director of the FBI telling me to verify by sending them my information that I did get the money from some stupid dude somewhere in Africa because if I don't they're going to come and arrest me for receiving money illegally.
What.
Do these stupid jackasses think I was born yesterday ?
Yeah.
Fired back at them and told them to go "do" their moms, their cats, their dogs, and then jump off Lake Tanganyika.
Surely they must have a strike rate of some type, I mean we are obviously intelligent people, but who would really buy shite like that.
I have been told i have won the Biggest lottery, and its always really big. They are stupid.
If they aimed smaller they would be more successful.
As The first lady said, she just deletes them.
My friend is a Lawyer, she has just told me it is illegal to ask for even one red cent, so if they know who you are they can prosecute. So there is some justice. Glad to know FBI has them in their Radar too as I have just cleared a Message I wanted to keep, getting rid of the Rubbish.
Glad everyone agrees so far.
Oh, sure, candice5, they have their hits, and I am sure that 80% of those they hit are intelligent people like us, whose greed overcame their common sense.
That's how these people operate.
These people are good at psychology, mind you.
Look at the way they structure their letters.
I mean, back in those days "when I wore a younger man's clothes" in the Philippines, I tried my hand at doing a little po-lice work for 2 years, and was assigned in a little unit called anti-racketeering and we went after guys called the "dugo-dugo" gang (literally, blood-blood gang).
They have a very good knowledge of the layout of 5 and 4 star hotels in the country, and have "contacts" among the hotel staff of most of the hotels.
They operate on the presumption that if you are an out of towner, then you must be on a business trip, and if you're on a business trip, then you're talking to important people who would like to do you a favor, or you would like to do a favor for.
So they call you, manage to get your identity from the switchboard if they don't have an "operative" among the staff, and tell you this bull about their wife or son having gotten into a really serious accident and how it being the weekend they won't be able to get money from the bank of the magnitude they need for blood transfusion (hence the tag dugo dugo) and could you please lend them the money and they're going to send another son or relative come and get the money and the emissary will be wearing this and that and knock at your door in so so hours.
7 out of 10 they get their money.
It's the same process, exactly, Greed is a Biggy, I know of a Businessman that swindled the Citizens of a Town nearly one million dollars, (Big for that Town) nearly all elderly people. At his Bankruptcy Creditors Meeting, I was told he said to them, and this was meant to be an apology lol
Why didn't you put it in the Bank for less interest, you are all to blame, you were just greedy, move on and learn from it.
He wasn't very bright at all more cunning, and yet his victims, were I suppose in the smarter bracket, worked hard and long to get the money, so I hear what you are saying.
It's the same process, exactly, Greed is a Biggy, I know of a Businessman that swindled the Citizens of a Town nearly one million dollars, (Big for that Town) nearly all elderly people. At his Bankruptcy Creditors Meeting, I was told he said to them, and this was meant to be an apology lol
Why didn't you put it in the Bank for less interest, you are all to blame, you were just greedy, move on and learn from it.
He wasn't very bright at all more cunning, and yet his victims, were I suppose in the smarter bracket, worked hard and long to get the money, so I hear what you are saying.
There really is nothing the FBI can do because many of these people come from places where there are no laws, like Nigeria for example.
If it sounds too good to be true than it is.
On the news a couple weeks ago it said that between US and Canada there were 580 million dollars in scams reported in 2008 and that doesnt count the people who didnt report because they were too embarresed.
Think about that 580 million dollars.
Kristie, I think it is likely a scam setup
Another sock puppet should appear and tell us about the benefits of "cash giving"
Good evening by the way
Who are you referring to?
I agree on some level, but not just the internet. We are barraged daily by healthy young men begging on street corners, tv evangelists sitting in gold leaf chairs, spam, youth program kids selling mags door to door which I would never otherwise buy, and the list goes on.
But I would really like to help someone in need.
I think the problem is that there are so many hands outstretched, it is hard to know when you are doing good or feeding a bad habit.
My suggestion is to ignore all solicitation and donate to a cause of your choosing that you know will help someone.
Not actually referring to anyone, because I really obviously don't know them. Just people wanting to be given money mostly, to help them out. I always make donations to reputable charities, or kids but these are just individuals, with a hard luck story.
I mean they could be richer than us all. Its just annoying, but improving the Spam filters may get rid of them.
its just wrong, why not just ask for donations instead of making up some scam, but some people just don't care. Lately I have even been scammed by a close friend I was trying to help. She needed 20 bucks and I told her that was all I had. She assured I could get it back on my way to work the next morning. Here it is a week later and I never saw a penny. I am beginning not to trust anyone anymore. idk
Yea but some are hard to detect. I have actually bought something online just to receive nothing..
I have received 2 donations online. Not much but sooo appreciated when badly needed...
actually the one I had only known a couple days here. The other was about 5 years ago and I was in a very bad abusive relationship. This person had said if I make your car payment for 3 months will you promise to leave and I was 7 months pregnant. So I said Yes. And he sent me a check in the mail for about 750 which paid my car ahead till after I had the baby and could go to work. I moved into a shelter and gave up everything. To this day I wish I could contact him. Not a day goes by where I dont remember how he helped me..
Being a philosophy expert i can say he is GOD. GOD always helps somebody in need. Its just that we don't gave him credit but he is always up there for us.
Codswollop.
I've helped people in need anonymously, and I'm not God.
Far from it.
Like you i have helped too and i am also not god. Don't comment without understanding full story.
God always help needed ones in crisis.
Thanks for defending me, but really there was no need to bring it up here
And no, he was just trying to be important
Oh ok sorry, Well im not thinking I had a couple drinks... ooops,
no i am not important, i have just started my carrier and have not achieved any significant yet and how can i be important. No way.
hmmm maybe I should rite a hub on this. I always wish I could find this person just to say thank you..
Oh so it was someone just trying to scam money.. Didnt really go to kids without shoes.. Well although it sucks, I am a big believer in Carma and they will get what they deserve to not being honest. Sometimes I wonder what the person who donated to me thinks, because after he did that he never heard from me again, only because I left to change my life. Up untill recently I wasn't online and I couldn't figure out how to find him...
Thats why he is GOD and i fears only from him. He always saved me from critical situations and i always thank him for everything he does.
I still wonder how a 2 year old with a iron press in his hand is just murmuring in the house without getting any injury for almost 2 hours.
That's why they say God can be found in kids.
I don't remember his name... All I remember is that he was a retired police officer and he had said that him and his wife talked about it and they wanted to send me the money... I was under alot of stress at the time and was a very confused person. Not to mention pregnant and almost lost the baby 5 times.. I just couldnt believe someone who didnt know me did that for me. ya know...
Oh that was a gift then, don't think about it. He wanted you to have it. Besides you didn't beg for it Once again different.
Yea but still it is hard not to think about... I tell my husband about it all the time. He always finds it hard to believe someone did that for me that didnt even know me..
Yes I didn't beg for it and I know myself I am an honest person. I just wish he could know that changed my life what he did, and I appreciate everything anyone does for me..
It brought me back when I first read your post. That's why I said there are some kind people out there.
Good inspiration always came to me from the forums,
I was on Heluium, and triond.
I have mad a few dollars but its slow. You have to look at the Keywords some ads pay Big bucks. Its getting people to click them.
Actually, you are correct. i have been reading google adsense for last few days although i have not applied for it though.
The one main thing i found is if you found any niche as p[profitable as per $ per click then we need to write about 30-40 articles to get some good and consistent clicks.
Ambition I asked what that niche was supose to be?
i hope you are not asking what do you mean by niche. you can consider niche as a different topic and i advice you to write about important topics like the computer, weight loss, physical fitness etc.
Oh man I am reading from the bottom up. lol. but no I know what the word means but I meant what topic buddy.
like in weight loss you can say: how to loose belly fat, how to eliminate extra pounds, how to extra fat from hips.
from computers you can write simple topics like wireless headphones or for any hardware device or a review of hardware or software.
Yea that's what everyone says but what keywords ya know. lol I have made about 5$ so far on this site. although it lets me get things out. lol. Most of my writtings are about things that bother me.
everybody have different perceptions but they need to put their comments in context of the subjects.
Ambition is psychology expert, and knows better is no point from your side. if you want to have fun, go to bathroom and do what you are famous for last 35 years.
Also, i am expert in both philosophy and psychology.
LOL your Ambitions are swelling
And what exactly I am famous for? Since the times when your were not with us yet?
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