To All of the brothers and sisters of Free Public
Praise be to the Lord Jesus
I'm Pastor Paul Ciniraj from India. The mentioned message which Lazamataz posted to All as "{URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL) RE: INDIA RELIEF FUNDS" is not from me. It is what we call Nigerian Scam. What they do is promising this kind of multi millions for mutual investment or buisiness transaction and asking money for its expenses. It is absolutely fraud and cheating. I think poor people might believe and sending money as well as going to African countries or where they are asking to go to sign the Affidavit. If you go, you will be in danger. They might kill you. We must have an international remedy against it. I request U.N.O. to consider this Scam very serious and put a end of it.
The mentioned message says about the Royal Bank of India. India's Bank is not Royal Bank. India is a democratic nation and India will never allow such kind of cheatings to anyone. India is a secular nation and we love India as our mother. We never allow to spoil the good name of India among other nations.
For me I'm a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm not a barrister. I love Jesus Christ for He is my Lord and Saviour. Because I love India as my mother, I love to win India for the love of Jesus Christ from whom all the goodness and salvation come. I'm neither a millionare, nor rich. But an ordinary man. I cannot give anybody millions and I don't keep millions in any of the securuty companies. But by grace of God I can verily say I'm rich in Spirit. I'm rich before the Lord, for the King of kings and Lord of lords is my Eeverything. And I belong to Him.
Now we're suffering because of the tsunami disaster. I'm a prayer warror of Free Public since last few months. Also I love President Bush personally and I love America and pray everyday to GOD BLESS AMERICA. I'm a prayer warrior of Pray4Bush. So I use to visit the site of Free Public, praying for President Bush and all the brothers and sisters of America as well as other nations, and update our prayer requests to the Pray page. So I'm updating the news of tsunami disaster and said our present situations. If the moderators think it is useless, please ban my postings or please say that I will stop sending our news.
Once again i request you to visit the site of tsunami disaster: http://www.geocities.com/baseelia/tsunami.html
Our email addresses: salemvoiceministries@yahoo.com; baseelia@yahoo.com
India's international telephone code is "0091". Our societies telephone number is in the website. If anybody gets such nigerian scams, they will tell you a telephone number to contact. From the international code you can find from which nation it is coming.
Thank you all for your prayers and love
In Jesus
Pastor Paul Ciniraj,
Salem Voice, Devalokam (P.O),
Kottayam, Kerala-686038, INDIA
Please know that Free Republic is filled with many good-hearted and generous people, so you will understand, we are often targeted by unscrupulous people and have actually had money stolen by a convicted felon on at least one occasion.
So -- many times burned, we become shy -- and when a group that is not one we have normally heard of comes to us for donations, we are quite naturally skeptical.
You are correct, the letter I posted was an actual 401 scam letter I got recently, altered to feature your name instead of the name I was offered.
If you are legitimate, I sincerely apologize for taking my humor too far. I hope you understand that my intent was to avoid letting members of our forum be defrauded, and I often illustrate my points with humor.
I invite members of Free Republic to exercise due diligence before contributing money to your organization. People have used tragedies to scam and defraud good-hearted people many times in America, most notably after the 9/11 disaster. A little caution is wise. Things to look out for range from excessive costs associated with 'administrative fees', all the way to outright fraud.
However, if you are legitimate, then G-d be with your effort to give relief to the poor victims of this horrible tsunami tragedy. And in that case, I wish you all the best luck in your attempt to raise money, and all the best luck in your efforts to assist these poor people.
In any event, our prayers are with the victims of this horrific tsunami. America weeps with you.
Yours, Lazamataz