Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Your help is desperately needed

date posted 12th February 2008 08:31

Hi Steven,

Whilst it's not a scam it does look like one, only last night on tv
there was a show about how the Nigerian scammers work, they spend months
building up an image of someone and then suddenly there is an emergency
and they need money. Your domain was registered by proxy, and there was
no homepage - this shouts scam to most people as there are no obvious
contact details with real names or addresses.

Anyway, my advice, talk to CAB, talk to the mortgage lender and ask if
you can have a payment holiday, the same for anything else financially.
Talk to your mothers employer, maybe ask if she could work part time at
home (having something to do will help). You should also find out if you
can get any benefits whilst she isn't working. You could also contact
the various cancer charities, they are there to help people in cases
like this. I'm assuming there is no medical/life/payment insurance that
covers cases like this, otherwise you wouldn't need to be asking for money.

If you do want to take payments, rather than lose money to paypal, setup
an account at http://www.justgiving.com/. I'm not sure but you may be
liable for tax on donations, the just giving site will probably have
info, along with gift aid info for people donating.

And finally, I wish you and her luck and I hope she gets well soon.

Martin

On 11/02/2008 13:39, Steven Lavine wrote:
>
> I am writing this email to ask for your help.
>
> My mother-in-law, Darina, has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and
> will have to under-go an intensive treatment of chemotherapy. When the
> initial tests were being carried out, she was advised by her doctor to
> stop working for the duration of the tests and therapy. Sonja and I have
> agreed to assist her mother, in everything that she requires during this
> difficult time, however this is going to be quite difficult, financially
> for us, as there are extra costs involved such as Darina's mortgage and
> other financial commitments, not to mention, the care and
> responsibilities for Sonja's young brother, who is currently in his
> first year at high school.
> We are trying to raise money to help with treatment costs etc., and I
> ask if you could place a donation to help us on our way towards this goal.
>
> To donate any amount of money, please click (or copy/paste) the link
> below. You will be directed to Paypal, who will process the donation
> payment.
>
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=paypal%40beyondss%2ecom&item_name=Help%20Darina%20beat%20Cancer&page_style=PayPal&no_shipping=1&return=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ebeyondss%2ecom%2fppsuccess%2ephp&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=GBP&lc=GB&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8
>
>
> Many thanks for your time in reading this email.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Steven & Sonja Lavine
>