Don't go to this site for help you will get scammed!!!!

United States
August 9, 2007 6:54pm CST
I went online looking for help to get school clothes and supplies. A friend of mine on Yahoo messenger told me to go to digitalcharity so I did and all I got was tons of emails trying to scam me. I deleted my first post for help and posted one that wasn't nice at all. I told the people who are there looking for real help that that site is a cest pool of scammers and I let them scammers know that just because people are a little on the poor side doesn't mean they are alot on the stupid side. But the sad thing is my post didn't stay up long and those other people will probally(ms) fall for a scam if they are really needing the money. How can i get the word out that that site will hurt more than it will help? I've read alot of post on other sites where people have falling for scams from digitalcharity but the site is still up and running strong. Why won't anybody do something about it?
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@Stiletto (4579)
10 Aug 07
Dealing with sites like that is difficult because there is no governing body online to report them to. However, sometimes you can take action in other ways. For example I've reported sites like that to PayPal in the past (obviously only if they've had PayPal as a payment option) or other payment processing companies when relevant. Reputable companies don't want to be associated with sites that are dodgy in any way. I took a look at the site and I see it has PayPal as the payment option. It might be worth a try because the fact is PayPal doesn't check every site that they are featured on - they can't because there's millions of them! Another option of course is to complain to the websites hosting company. Having said all that I also noticed at the bottom of the home page there is a disclaimer from the company that operates the site but if you want to clip their wings it still might be worth trying the above.
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• India
10 Aug 07
Thanks a lot for inform about it. Now a days SCAMS are increasing rapidly n alternatively most of the people are beleive that its not a scam coz they do it very perfectly that its so hard to catch it. They're must be somethin like awareness program be developed. I recommened u to use McAfee Site Advisor it also warns u if the site contains spyware adware or spam. coz recently i just entered into a some site siteadvisor warned me about it n and just closed it. But MyLot people are safe from some sites coz of this discussions like you. Once again thanx.........