Dear James,

or send to e-gold account #1005030 sept112001family

SCAM ???

Does it really matter if this e-gold message is a scam or not?

It is clearly spam, if it was sent to you unsolicited.
You can, therefore, report it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
full headers, and they will take some meaningless action
like balance limiting the account.  (Five minutes
later, the spammers will have a new account and all
the gold in that old one converted to cash, more than
likely.)

Suppose it is legit?  Are you seriously going to
provide money to everyone who asks for it, even if
all those people are truly needy?

Is it moral to give alms in public?  Jesus taught
we should pray in private to avoid hypocrisy, since
those who pray in public are more interested in
getting approval from their neighbors than having
their prayers heard by God.  Perhaps it is also
immoral to publicly solicity alms, for the same
reason.

Is altruism the best you can do?  Perhaps you should
read Ayn Rand's book _Atlas Shrugged_ for some insight
into what you owe other people.

A moral society can be formulated on two basic
premises:  do everything you agree to do; respect
all the property of every other individual.

Suppose it is a scam?  Scam e-mails come through
my e-mail inboxes at the rate of 500 a day.  I
filter them heavily.  Echoing scam e-mails to this
list for discussion seems like a waste of time.

Be advised that all those people who claim to be
Nigeria's oil minister or Liberia's Charles Taylor
are lying and scamming, without exception.  (Even
the "real" oil minister and the real Charles
Taylor are scammers and liars.)

Ultimately, whatever advice you receive from others,
you must choose for yourself.  Is helping the family
of someone who was killed in the 11 September 2001
attack the highest and best use of your money?  Don't
you have yourself, and perhaps your own family to
consider?

Regards,

Jim
 http://www.ezez.com/


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