General Discussions

**Hobbit** · 07-24-2006, 01:25 AM

Has anyone been to this site? It's to simply post a story and get people to donate money to you. Anyways, should I trust this site and the people? I thought it wasn't going to work, but apparently I got 3 emails of people that wanted to donate to me, but some wanted my address and stuff. I'm just a bit skeptical that this works or not. Does anyone have any experience using this site?

**imported_Henry** · 07-24-2006, 01:27 AM

Hmmm. Maybe I'd go check it out.

**Hobbit** · 07-24-2006, 01:30 AM

Actually it was more than 3 people willing to help, the weird part is that the page you make has a paypal button so people donate, yet people still email me and ask for my address and stuff. I don't know what to do, although I am very thankful (if indeed these people are real).

I'm gonna give it a shot, I doubt the person is going to rape me.

**obenix** · 07-24-2006, 01:37 AM

This part of the warning should help answer your question:

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Important Warning: Only accept donations through your Paypal account. Don't give potential donors any other financial information. We have had reports of scammers asking people for personal information under the premise that they wanted to donate using alternate payment methods because they can't use Paypal. Many of these scams involve helping Katrina victims or are related to Africa. They also may involve you cashing or writing a check (possibly from Qchex) where the money is "shared" with some other charitable cause, or they may want to wire you money. Do not fall for these scams no matter how real they sound.

**Hobbit** · 07-24-2006, 01:43 AM

Curse my goose!!! I just sent personal information to one person. My name, address, phone. Not my email, or bank info. But still, can anyone tell me what they can do with that information?(other than go to my house and rape me).

**NavySeals91** · 07-24-2006, 01:53 AM

Not much, it is the same info as your whois I presume. So really if someone does not like a person he or she could do a whois search and then do whatever to the person.

**Hobbit** · 07-24-2006, 02:00 AM

Yup, same info. Well I still don't want any annoying calls or boring mail, even though my parents will be reading the boring mail lol.

EDIT: Here's a new one I posted, it's worth a try hah. http://digitalcharity.com/m.php?id=2193 It's to raise money for my vbulletin license. Currently $0/160.