Re: Need Personal Loans so I can Collect Online Donations

Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi good people!
> 
> Throughout the years I have created (and still am creating) many useful and 
> free-as-in-speech digital resources: open source software, a home site with 
> many resources, presentations about various topics (including "Perl for Perl 
> Newbies"), essays, articles and fictitious stories. I placed them all on the 
> web for anyone to enjoy and learn from, without asking for anything in 
> return. I enjoy doing that and plan to continue doing that. However, I also 
> would like to start seeing some monetary benefit.
> 
> For this, I decided to add a PayPal donation button to my sites, so people 
> can 
> donate money for me in exchange for benefiting from the fruits of my labour. 
> In order to accept credit cards donations PayPal requires two things:
> 
> 1. An international credit card.
> 
> 2. An account in a U.S. bank.
> 
> I recently opened an account at FIBI and they told me that in order to get an 
> international credit card I need to reserve 15,000 NIS. I don't have this 
> kind of money at the moment, and since I need a PayPal account to collect it, 
> I have a chicken and egg problem. But I figured out a way to resolve it.
> 
> If you feel that you know me well and that my work is worthy, please consider 
> giving me a personal loan of several 1,000's NIS. I will use it to set up my 
> PayPal account and to eventually gather enough money to pay it back. 
> (Possibly with some interest).

Is this a phishing email?

        Gadi.


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