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A few are obvious scams. Some are certainly legit and deserving. Most fall somewhere in the middle. Separating the good from the bad would take hours of research.
Many are infuriating: "Our school is planning to go to Washington for our senior trip and a few kids don't have the money" (ever hear of a JOB!)
That certainly is a tear jerker, amid all the disease and poverty within email range of us!
So many of these emails DEMAND an answer (very time consuming to think up an excuse). But in rare cases these people are actually customers that we don't want to offend.
What do you do?
"Our school is planning to go to Washington for our senior trip and a few kids don't have the money"
i had an email from a nice nigerian man with a tragic tale. he has millions of $$$ that he needs help to move out of the country, adn he will pay for your srevices. maybe the school could riase the dough, and then all the kids would have enough money. i can mail you 200 - 300 if you haven't had one yet
we are a charity who have NEVER given money to external organisations...and I get at least three a day to the webmaster address...the admin address is inundated with the things
At the same time, my own company was advertising for help in our area with virtually no takers (this was 1999).
Ain't life hell when you have to wear last years' wrestling shorts!
