I wrote this post a little while back and Racer-X had this to say about it: Sorry, this blog sounds suspicious to me. This person just starts blogging, then their husband dies, then they tell the whole world how hard it is financially and then they make a reference for donations for money through some paypal thing or something like that.
Sounds like another internet scam out of Eastern Europe to me.
Beware when anyone asks you for money over the internet. There are people who spend their entire lives writing BS over the internet to scam money.
It left a question in my mind and I've avoided the blog because I didn't like feeling I'd perhaps been fooled.
Then the Balloon Boy incident happened and it showed me more conclusively that their are manipulitive people in the world who will stoop at nothing, not even using their own children to advance their schemes for fame and/or money. If you're unaware of the incident because you've been living inside your own helium bubble click here.
Yesterday I decided to visit her site again and see if there were more appeals for money and if she was still writing. She is. There was also a link...to a TV news report interviewing her about the loss of her husband. It turns out she wasn't being dishonest, she is a real person who is experiencing a real tragedy. I had mixed feelings at the discovery. Knowing it was true brought back the pain I felt for her when I read the news her husband had died, it was easier to be angry at her deception than feel sadness at her terrible loss.
It's a sad state of world affairs when we have to be distrustful of every one and every thing.
