Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Last week I got a heart rending message from a long time friend. She had to go suddenly to another country to help a cousin and needed $1, 500 dollars to get the cousin back to the states for an operation to save her life!!! We met the next day at our Beta Sigma Phi meeting...she was astonished to learn she had left the country!
We both had AOL mail for personal letters.
Now that you mention it, every single one of these scam pleas I've gotten has been from an AOL address. My cousin, who is a pediatric nurse in MS, needed $2500 to pay her bill and eat - poor thing was half-starved <G> - so when she didn't answer her home phone, I called her at the hospital. Imagine how shocked she was to learn that she was in Scotland having such a hard time. I could hear the other nurses laughing in the background. I was the third person to call her!