Mylot is not a CHARITY...

I noticed someone wanted $10,000. After reading the post, I still couldn't understand why the guy wanted it. Something about needing it give to his girlfriend's parents. You are right, too many scams. If I had the means, I wouldn't mind helping out a few of those truly in need. But, it is difficult to know who is honest. I have a tendancy to believe people to be more honest than not. However, I haven't fallen for any scams.

Good work my friend.I mean you did very good by reporting them.I can't say if they believe that mylot is a charity but certainly they believe we are so fool and we can give to them money just like this.This make me worry is that actually they find foolish people here.Just make you wonder......

Have not come across those. Do have one friend that is looking to see if someone wants to retire to the Philipines and such though. I warned her about theives that could prey upon her. Wonder who these are, would be nice to know. Glad that you reported them. I always have a problem when money is asked for. I usually give them my sob story about my fire and if anything they need to donate to me. That usually shuts them up. Hope that Mylot takes care of these. It sure would ruin a fun place to learn and earn.

I have seen a couple of them. One was from a girl claiming that she need to buy a laptop for her exams as she was going to qualify as an accountant shortly. She sure had a funny way of doing her figures. I have also had friends requests and when I accepted them I received pms asking for money. You will get the scammers on every site. I am glad you brought up this discussion as you may have saved some unsuspecting indivdual from parting with their hard earned money.

I agree with you most folks sign on here and whilst the money is small often they need it why give a beggar a forum if they need money do what the rest of us do get a job and earn itanother thing that appaled me on here was someone boasting about how he had stolen money from someone and gotten away with it I found this despicable and turned him in to my lot I was sure this is not what they want this to be about However to date they have done nothing about it it is still here so maybee they realy dont care whats done on here?

Yeah.. some people may do such things... but if you're smart and wanna stop them.. you can. You have two options.. give them a negative rating for the discussion and responses.. if it is sufficiently low.. myLot delets the discussion before payday and poof.. no charity.. if you report abuse... this happens before payday and once again.. poof.. no charity.. lol good luck on your mission :D

I haven't seen charity-like discussions on mylot for quite a long time. When I first joined here that's all you would see- charity discussions, spammers and copied and pasted discussions. Rest assured that mylot does delete discussions when they are reported and have went against guidelines but they can't always find the discussions themselves, that's why the "report" button is so important...so good job for reporting it.

thank you for your advice, but what if it's people that really need help, like the children is sick and they need a lot of money for the hospital. I know it's hard to know if it's true or not, so I suggest just follow your feeling, do you think it's true or not, or do you want to give money or not..

I have actually not come across any of them yet but I never would anyway, I would only give if it is one my dear Friends. By that I mean People that I have know for a year or so. If I see any I will report them to.

I saw one or two of these when I first joined "Please send just a little money to my Pay Pal account" etc. but I have not run across any in the last month or so. I guess my scope is narrower, and myLot is bigger, so I missed it. I will report this as abuse if I see it. Thanks for the heads up.

How someone can do such thing? They fool everyone here, and getting paid for! It really bugs me to know that there are people that love to be so missrable, and to get money from charity. Charity is for people who really NEED it! Not to people that has money, and want to increase their bank account in some illegal way. I hope that the police will find those scammers, and give them a proper punishment, because they deserve it!

Being mean to others is just not fun. Anything derogatory that is directed at a myLot user is strictly prohibited. Just be nice and have fun! Request donations, post charity requests, petitions for signatures, chain letters or letters ...

That is what most saddens me about, scammers who ruined the chances of people who really needed that sum of money. Without considering the genuine situations of the needy, scammers have nonchalently destroy the only hopes of those who needed help. It has become such a confusion, that we cannot really identify, who are the real people in need. I cannot bring myself to not help those we really needed some money to pay of their debts, or medical expenses. Though there are some many scammers that are, around, there are those who really needed help. However, we have to recgonize that giving money should not be the resolve out of symphathy of the person. We should clarify whether it is a real needy person before we help. Like many emails we see, people who are in need seeked others to foward their mails, just as to earn a few cents from large co-operations for every email forwarded to each person. Sometimes, I wonder if that was true, but with little effort,I was able to send it to my friends, and family. There is no money transaction over there, its just an effortless help. MyLot is definitely not a place for people to beg for money, though it is a socially, globalized interaction domain, it doesn't qualify, or accept beggers to come here, seeking for cash. The poster is right, if I were to see such kinds of request in discussions, I would rate it as a negative, and report is as a lousy discussion. That is what I could do at least, as a MyLot user.

yes im with you in this point becouse i have saw lot for what you have note

I hear ya, Valleygirl. I saw a post where some chick was begging for $10,000 so she can get married or something. Get a friggin' job already, ya know? Nice rant, VG, rock on.

well i have noticed here many people do scam discussions n they jus wanna fill their discussions so may be they discuss here very strange stories.. bt nw frst time getting to knw here people ask for charity?? Strange..hmmmmm i duno.... well many people say to pray for them here sure, bt duno about them who ask for charity too..

Dear friend You are not here for earning,I know that.But dear some one came here only for that.And I will remembering you mylot own opens this site only and only for some earning.Its there business policy to share there earning among its members.Then why why not people would not take this facility.And you cant have any right to say to others activity.Thanks.

Fair Enough, thanks for letting me know. I did reply to this person who wants $10,000. It was so ridiculous, but kind of sad, that I couldn't help myself. I will avoid it next time. I'm still getting used to the rules.

Yes, i agree with you. We all have our issues and some of us have worse than others...but myLot is not the place to ask for help.

okay thanks for the info