Dear Nelly:

Yes, lots and lots and lots… and lots of internet scams, and even more, many, many, many… people and organizations, dishonest and honest asking for money, online, knocking on people’s doors, on TV, radio, at the entrance to supermarkets, here and there and everywhere. So many, many requests. It would take a full time job for a person to research all the request in a day so to figure out who is honest and who is not, who is likely to use the donated money well and who is not… actually, it requires for each person to figure these things out, it requires every person to hire a team of employees to research these things. Since the person doing all this figuring would have no time to work for a living, he or she would not have money to pay the team of employees, each of whom will be asking for money themselves so to make it possible to research what they are not paid to research by the guy who hired them and doesn’t have the money to pay them.

It gets complicated that way. I have given lots of money to others, so has my husband, he more than me, to so many random people who knocked on our door and asked him to buy cookies for their causes. I asked him to stop because I was worried we will not have enough money for my oatmeal in the mornings.

So you have a lot of competition when you ask for money here or elsewhere.

Because my antennas directed toward scams have been triggered, I am now triggered. (sad face icon here).

anita