Above: Me on 1 of a few dozen trips around the world to help people, in this case primarily the fatherless & victims of extreme racism.
I never have enough discretionary time in the day, so must be careful about how I spend my time. In order to cut down on time spent engaging with scammers, here I go through exactly what a conversation with a scammer and me might look like, from a previous conversation with a scammer.
Scammer: Hello
Me: Hi, How may I help you? I also don't have your number programmed. Have we communicated in the past?
Scammer: Thanks,
I got a couple of Appointment and I am limited to a phone access currently, I don't know when i will wraps up and I need you to help me purchase EBay gifts card asap at any nearby grocery store around you, I'll reimburse you amount of the cards purchased once I'm done with the appt.
Me: I'm sorry but I'm not ignorant. Also it sounds like you don't believe in God. You should.
Scammer: I have believe in GOD and I swear with the mighty name of god I will reimburse you the amount of the card you purchased once I’m done with the appt like I told you earlier
Me: if you believe in God it doesn't sound like you believe in judgement
(here I've shifted to Android auto in the car, thus the absence of capitalization/punctuation)
Scammer: Of course I believe in judgement and why are you saying all this
Me: you wouldn't be scamming ignorant people like you are if you believed in judgement really
Scammer: i know it’s not easy for you to trust someone you don’t know and I’m here not to scam anyone or do bad to on here God sees all my single words on here what ever say here karma will judge me if i did anything bad will face the karma so don’t doubt I can assure you about this 100% that I got nothing to do with your $$ just help me out so let me know
Me: you have got a lot more coming than Karma.
Scammer: What now
Me: while small crimes in this life may not amount to much judgment in this life, there will be a judgment day when all is revealed
Scammer: Okay I understand but I'm not in to any stupid act just help me out if you want to
Me: if I had to estimate I would approximate that there is a less than one in a billion chance that you're not trying to scam people
Scammer: Yes are you helping me out now I will reimburse you once I'm done
Me: also if I were to do what you're asking for I wouldn't be helping you. I would be feeding dysfunction and you hurting more people
Scammer: I'm not hurting anyone stop saying that it's not normal
Me: maybe you think everyone that you're hurting can afford it. You have no idea how negative an impact you're having on people
also if you're exclusively targeting the wealthy, then the people that will likely be hurt the most is those that are positively impacted by the giving of those wealthy people to nonprofit organizations
a lower discretionary budget commonly means less money towards those organizations
for instance, a village in Asia or Africa may not get clean water and people could die because of your theft from those that are wealthy who then have less money to give to organizations that can do something like Well Drilling
I personally have been on a few dozen trips to 2/3 world nations to help people and if you had taken advantage of me, it would have meant less money for me to contribute to humanitarian causes. I have seen the wells get put in for the first time. It's a beautiful sight.
Also if you're primarily targeting Americans, it has one of the highest probability of negatively impacting those hurting the most since the US is the most charitable nation according to at least a few sources so is most likely to hurt non-profits and those they impact.
While I'm not going to make any guarantees, on judgment day you may see the faces of those that you hurt, whether those you scammed directly or those you hurt much worse, including anyone that died, because of what you did indirectly via the butterfly effect like those dying from bad water with no way to get a well without assistance from a non-profit who didn't have the funds to get that well because of someone you scammed.
Below are some pictures from a a small sampling of experiences I've had, most if not all of which were made possible by charitable donors from America to these trips:
Ammu, a fatherless girl in South Africa I met who had the sweetest spirit.
South Africa
With Orphans in Nepal from Mendies Haven when I was 11
Russian Orphanage
Orphanages & Juvenile Detention Centers in El Salvador & Honduras
India at a Charitable Hospital
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