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Hearts Ease Bearsa woman from the UK has emailed me and asked for a raffle item to help buy her daughter ( severly handicaped ) a wheelchair lift.
she is a bit far from me and its not a good time for me financially to do this after my husbands surgery etc,,,but i am wondering if its legit?
deb
mjbearsi must say i have never heard of this before i would check her out a little 1st before even thinking of anything like this, i would ask to see proof of her daughters disability etc what organisation the raffle will be for whom to send the raffle item and what charity and check the charity out as well hope this helps melissa, if its legit then ok but most certainly i would not depart with anything unless legit maybe there has been a newspaper editiing about her daughter or raffle etc
Yes, I had it..and I deleted it...my instinct tells me it's a scam..and, if it isn't as scam it's a shame because it looks like one. There is no proof of anything ..nothing you could verify..it wasn't even signed by anyone.
I won't get involved in this kind of thing...it looks decidedly dodgy to me. I think that this kind of thing doesn't help anyone in the long run.
Hearts Ease BearsThank you Jenny and Melissa..that was my feeling but boy they know how to tug at your heartstrings dont they?! what a scummy way
to raise money! deb
Back Road Bears"Tugging at your heart strings" is the whole idea. There are a lot of suckers out there and these creeps hope to find at least enough of them to give money so they can really pay off their gambling debt, credit cards, buy a fancy car, support their drug habit, etc.
Hi,
Yes, I have received the email and so have quite a few other girls too. As discussed elsewhere, the general impression is that this is definitely a scam and I am ignoring it along with several other people.
Marilyn
Hearts Ease Bearsi hate to be suspicious all the time..but nowadays you just have to be...thanks again everyone! im deleting it also! deb
Me too, i had this email today and it is now deleted.
Hugs :hug:
Vicki
Matilda Huggington-beareIsn't there some police site you can send the email to?
I had a fake paypal the other week. It was very professionally done. But was missing one piece of detail, so I looked on my paypal site to see if it was from them but couldn't find anything resembling so I sent the email to Paypal and a few days later they said thankyou that is was not a legitimate email. I gather they give the email to the federal police and they take it from there.
What this 'raffle' person is doing is fraud and I gather that is a federal offence?
So don't just delete/ignore it. Send it to the police.
Wendy
tEDDIE bearsHi Deb -
I got the email (exactly the same) Easter Sunday. I think it's a fake and I just deleted it.
Ed
mjbearsas ex police i would firstly never send a reply to these awful emails and maybe phone the police not on there emergency number obviously... and ask to report it they will then give you an incident crime ref number and look into it i dont think there is a department that you can send these through as they woulkd be totally bogged down with this sort of email but it is definately worth repoting in this case as fraud regards melissa
I did not get that one, but another one. My reply is always that I do all my charity donations thru Mission Fish on Ebay.
In order to be registered with Mission Fish they must be a registered 503c Charity organization registered with the government.
If it's a scam, that will most likely scare them off 
Hearts Ease BearsTHANKS AGAIN FOR ALL THE INPUT! GREAT ADVICE! ED WHAT A CUTE MOUSIE! DEB
"a bear by kim"iv had it toooo, if you actualy have alook on her sight, theres no actual details, if i were donating anything, id want more info, a definate scam!!!
