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E-mail scams exploiting Haiti earthquake generosity

..and FAKE Ghanaian ID! 

The Haiti earthquake led to millions of pounds being raised to help people with next to nothing who, literally overnight, found they had even less.

But alongside genuine appeals and donations, something more sinister started to emerge.

Within days, scam e-mails began appearing on the internet. Some had what looked like logos from genuine charities.

One said it was from the British Red Cross, but was traced to a computer in Nigeria; another used the Unicef logo, but was nothing to do with them.

Our investigation focused on two e-mails. One was from a charity called Help the World, which is not registered with the Charity Commission.

There was a mobile number on the e-mail which we rang. A man responded and told us how the funds they were raising were being used.

He told us: "We are repairing the centre of the disaster in Haiti. We focus on the schools in Haiti. We have to let the children have their future back, you know without education there's no future."

None of this was true. Scam e-mails tend to list only mobile numbers, which a bona fide charity would steer clear of.

We checked with the Charity Commission, who have no record of Help the World.

However, unusually for such e-mails, there was a London address which we checked out. It turned out to be a jazz and blues bar.

A second group we investigated called itself the M E Foundation and was also not registered with the Charity Commission.

In the e-mails, a Mr David Isco Iker was said to be running the charity. I asked him how they were getting their donations and what they were using the money for.

He said: "We get mostly phone donations... mostly for food, medical supplies."

This was all also untrue. Unsolicited, the M E Foundation sent us photographs of the Haiti projects they said they were involved with.

One showed rows of white tents with a logo on each one. We discovered the camp belonged to the well established Cambridge-based charity, SOS Children.

Chief executive of SOS Children, Andrew Cates, told us the picture was one of theirs, cut and pasted from their website, and not from Haiti, but from the Pakistani earthquake a few years ago.

He said: "The problem is it's not just about exploiting a donor or a charity, really they're exploiting the victims. Because they're taking money people want to give to the victims of these natural disasters and they're stealing it.

"So I don't feel that they're robbing me, I feel that they're taking from the mouths of children we're trying to help and that is something which is very difficult not to get angry about."

Research from the Office of Fair Trading shows that last year, around two million people were conned out of cash via scam

e-mails of various kinds.

But given the scale and nature of the Haiti tragedy, there is something quite different about this cyber crime.

Richard Hurley from Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service, said: "They're very sophisticated and with that sophistication goes a large level of a very insidious nature which deliberately preys on your feelings for those innocent victims and your desire to help them.

"So it's making use of human suffering and the best in human nature at the same time simply for commercial profit."

The evidence against the M E Foundation was piling up. Their listed address in London turned out to be a newsagents which had been there for 20 years.

The newsagent said he was offended to learn that people were stealing money from others and using his address as a cover.

The other address listed for the M E Foundation was in Malaga, so we went there to try to talk to the people involved. We told our contact in Spain we would send our donation for the charity via courier.

The address given to us was in a run-down area of Malaga, and our courier waited for the contact. It all happened in a flash.

Our courier spoke to the man, in Spanish, very briefly. He clearly identified himself as the man I had spoken to.

However, as soon as the BBC team appeared with a camera and a microphone, he fled, shedding his coat, flip flops, and fake ID.

On Tuesday (26.01.2010) , US troops pulled a man alive from under a collapsed building in the capital.

French rescuers have pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble of a school in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

Darlene Etienne had just started studying at the school when the disaster struck.

She was said to be severely dehydrated with a weak pulse and rescuers rushed her to a French-run field hospital, before later transferring her to a hospital ship moored off Haiti for treatment.

It is unusual for anyone to survive more than three days without water, but Etienne may have had access to some water from a bathroom in the collapsed building and rescuers said she mumbled something about having a small amount of Coca-Cola with her in the rubble.

Neighbours had earlier alerted rescuers after they heard a weak voice calling from under the rubble. 

On Tuesday (26.01.2010), US troops pulled a man alive from under a collapsed building in the capital.

The 31-year-old man had a broken leg and was severely dehydrated, US authorities said.

The last previous rescue of someone trapped by the quake occurred Saturday, when a man was extricated from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.

Read more at Al Jazeera

Only a handful of artistes had come on board for the benefit concert for Haiti scheduled for the Alliance Francaise on Saturday, January 23 by the middle of last week...,

but the number had swelled considerably by the end of the week and the organisers are now politely turning some of them down. Haiti was hit by a huge earthquake last week. The international community has united to offer relief and some concerned outfits and individuals in Ghana have also decided to raise cash and awareness about the situation in Haiti at a benefit night which will feature music performances, messages and film clips on the Caribbean nation.

Organised by a group called Friends of Haiti and the Iinternational Red Cross in Ghana, in collaboration with Creative Storm, artistes that have confirmed their participation are Becca, Reggie Rockstone, Praye, Kwabena Kwabena, Kings Jubilee, Gyedu lay Ambolley, Kubolor, Bernice Offei, Black Rasta and the Noyam Dance Company.

"We have been overwhelmed by the desire of our artistes to help show love for our unfortunate brothers and sisters in Haiti. They are all appearing free of charge," Dr Kwesi Owusu of Creative Storm said in a chat with Showbiz.

Haiti became the world's first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in a series of wars in the early 19th century. However, decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas.

A mostly mountainous country with a tropical climate, Haiti's location, history and culture once made it a potential tourist hot spot, but instability and violence, especially since the 1980s, have severely dented that prospect.

A 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti's worst in two centuries, struck the country last week. President Rene Preval has been quoted as saying that more than 100,000 Haitians had died. The Red Cross also says over three million people have been affected by the quake.

According to Dr Owusu, people who want to help with the relief effort in Haiti can text to 1962 on all networks. He said resources generated from Ghana will be sent over to Haiti through the International Red Cross. According to him, some diplomatic missions in this country also plan to make some input for a successful event," Dr Owusu said.

Journalist Kweku Sakyi-Addo, who has visited and written about Haiti in the international media, is expected to be among the people to give messages at the benefit concert.

Sponsors for the event include Mastermix Studios, Friends of Haiti, Alliance Francaise, International Red Cross, EKB Entertainment, Jungle Productions and Creative Storm. Many American entertainment and sports figures have already raised millions of dollars for the relief effort in Haiti.

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The Government of Ghana has announced a three million United States dollar ($3,000,000) donation to the people of Haiti, following the January 12 devastating earthquake in that country.

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister for Information, told the Ghanaian Times in Accra Wednesday that the donation was in fulfillment of President John Atta Mills' pledge in a letter to his Haitian counterpart, Rene Preval that the government and people of Ghana, "will in due course, make our modest contribution to your national efforts."

The President, on behalf of the people and government of Ghana, expressed heartfelt condolences and sympathies for the incalculable losses suffered.

The Deputy Minister said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was arranging for the prompt transfer of the money to the Haitian government.

Meanwhile, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) is mobilising relief items that will, at the appropriate time, be presented to the people of Haiti.

Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa said individuals and corporate bodies desirous of assisting the people of Haiti could contact the local office of World Vision International, which was engaged in an international relief effort for Haiti.

He noted, however, that government was not associated with and had not been informed by any private organisation or individuals seeking to use text messages and charity concerts to raise funds for the people of Haiti.

Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa advised interested individuals to contact the World Vision Office if they had any doubts about an institution or organisation soliciting for funds on behalf of the people of Haiti.

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Accra, Jan. 21, GNA - The African University College of Communications (AUCC) on Thursday joined the global effort to help the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake that hit the country last week.

Speaking at a press conference held in Accra, Professor Reginald Jackson, Vice President (Academic) of AUCC, said the college would announce a fund and appeal for donations to be sent to Haiti through legitimate aid organizations. Prof. Jackson said the College was recently initiating an academic collaboration within the Caribbean region with Dr. Linda Davis, Vice President of the College of Bahamas.

The idea of the collaboration was to extend assistance to the people of Haiti in the Caribbean region. Meanwhile, the Student Representative Council (SRC) of AUCC has also set up a fund, dubbed "AUCC FOR HAITI YOUTH FUND". Nana Glover, the president of the AUCC SRC, said it was meant to raise funds for the youth and people of Haiti. He said the funds generated would be sent through the appropriate agencies like World Vision International, Red Cross Society and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. "We will like students of Haiti to know that as part of the rebuilding process, our doors are open to them. We will like the youth and people of Haiti to know that we are part of the recovery process," he said. Haiti is located on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with a population of about 10 million people. It carried out its first successful African revolution for independence in the Western hemisphere on January 1, 1804. The country suffered storms and hurricanes in 2008 which left almost 800 people dead.

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 Wa, Jan. 21, GNA - The Ghana Enslavement Reparation and Repatriation Foundation (GERRF), a non governmental organisation

operating in the Northern Regions, has appealed to government to donate to help the Haiti earthquake victims. The NGO said government could donate in cash or in kind and that if possible give gold to Haitians in order for Ghana to join in the

world relief efforts to support Haiti. Kuoro Kuri Buktie Limann, Paramount Chief of the Gwollu Traditional Area and an executive member of the NGO, made the appeal

at a news conference held in Wa on Tuesday. Haiti, a former French colony, fought bravery and successfully won their freedom in the 19th Century. The 7.0 magnitude

earthquake hit the country on January 12, 2010. Kuoro Liman said the earthquake, which has decapitated the country, had brought untold hardship to the Haitians and called on

President Mills to help them out of their present predicament. "The whole world is reacting favourably to our suffering brethren and we are urging President Mills to help them as most of them

are of African origins," he said. Kuoro Limann urged President Mills to ask colonial masters that undertook chattel slavery against the Africans to repatriate them

to their ancestral home. He said President Abdoulai Wade of Senegal had taken a good lead with the promise of providing Haitians with lands and possibly

creating a region for them if they so wish to come back home and Ghana must not be left out in that direction. Kuoro Limann expressed the NGO's sympathy and God's blessings to the survivors in Haiti and pray to God to help restore to them

good spirit, good health and prosperity so that they could regain their dignity and happiness.

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'Amazing' rescue - 2 more woman rescued

*Source: Al Jazeera / Ghana-Net.com - 20.01.2010 

There was a rare moment of hope on Tuesday as rescue workers pulled a woman out from under the collapsed home of Haiti's archbishop and one woman from the rubble of an supermarket.

The rescue team said it believed two more people were trapped alive.

Anna Zizi was placed on a makeshift stretcher, put on a drip, covered with a heat-conserving wrap and taken to a hospital, witnesses said.

"It was an amazing thing to witness, no one could believe she was still alive," Sarah Wilson of British charity Christian Aid said.
  
"She was singing when she emerged. Everyone clapped and cheered."
 
While the chances of people being brought out alive were slim after seven days, rescue work is continuing all over the city.

Despite the scale of the devastation in the city, teams from many different countries were showing that it was worth continuing the search, he said. 

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$10,000 For Haiti?

MP Kennedy Agyapong is ready to donate $10,000 to any fund that will be set up by government...

* Source: Myjoyonline.com / 20.01.2010

The Member of Parliament for Assin North has urged the Mills administration to set up a fund that will ameliorate the devastating effects of the earthquake on the government and people of Haiti.

Aid agencies are appealing for water and food items for thousands of survivors in a deadly earthquake disaster that claimed countless number of lives.Kennedy Agyapong told Joy news he is ready to donate $10,000 to any fund that will be set up by government.

He said African countries must begin to demystify the ‘poor mentality’ noting that will earn the continent the needed respect from the world.“It looks as if Africans we consider ourselves poor and therefore what is even important to mankind we stay out. That is why we do not earn respect all over the world,” the NPP fire brand said.

The Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah in an interview welcomed the donation by Hon Agyapong, adding government through the National Disaster Management Organisation is coordinating a relief package for the Haitian cause.

In the meantime, Mr Okudzeto said donations can be channeled to the World Vision office in Accra which is being coordinated by the United Nations on behalf of the people of Ghana.

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Ghanaian Feared Dead In Hiati Earthquake

Source: The New Crusading Guide/Ghana  / 20.01.2010

Ghanaians are without doubt found to be living everywhere on this planet, as it has been indicated that a Ghanaian resident in Haiti might have perished in that country’s ‘apocalyptic’ earthquake.

A close relative of the Ghanaian sojourner Francis Ochetre-Minta, who lives in Accra but hails from Dominase in the Central Region, named his cousin as Joshua Ezra-Essel whom he said had lived in the Caribbean Island for about 12 years.

The relative said in an interview that when the news about the tragic incident occurred, he anxiously made efforts to contact his cousin on the phone but all efforts proved futile; and till date he had not been able to make any further contact or locate the whereabouts of his cousin, raising fears among family members that he might have died in the earth crumbling disaster.

According to him, he knew little about his cousin’s work on the Island, but insisted that he believed he cousin (lived) a decent life and was even making remittances occasionally to some family members. He observed also that, his cousin had informed him about a sizable number of African nationals on the Island particularly from West Africa.

Meanwhile, all attempts to contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration for confirmation on the number of Ghanaians living in Hiati and the possible loss of lives in the catastrophic earthquake hit the wall. This reporter dialed two numbers in an effort to get official response on the matter but the calls were not answered, although all of them went through.

Moreover, the current death toll in the Hiati earthquake is said to be a ‘reasonable assumption’ of 200,000. The BBC reported yesterday that an American General in Haiti Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, said “it was too early to know the full human loss,” whiles rescuers pulled more people from the rubbles at the weekend, with at least 70,000 people have already been buried.

Gen. Keen when asked about the death toll estimated between 150,000 and 200,000 people said: “I think the international community is looking at those figures and I think that’s a starts point”. “Clearly, this is a disaster of epic proportion, and we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us,” he told the BBC. Amid the chaos and destruction, a number of people were rescued from collapsed buildings at the weekend.

Among the lucky ones was a seven-year-old girl pulled alive from the ruins of a supermarket. At the UN headquarters destroyed in the earthquake, rescuers lifted a Danish staff member alive from the wreckage; just 15 minutes after the UN secretary general visited the site. And US teams with search dogs also found and rescued a 16-year-old Dominican girl trapped for five days in a small, three-storey hotel.

While hopes dim with every passing day, a South African rescue official, Collin Diner, also told the BBC he hoped there would be more. “What we are seeing is that the buildings have a whole lot of openings, collapsed voids and things, and that always gives you a better opportunity. “We’ve got so many people killed and so many people trapped, the chances of some of them still being alive is pretty good.” 

Palestina is sending items [Al Jaziira]  (17.01.2010)

Ghana solidarise with Haiti

* Source: GNA / 15.01.2010 

Accra, Jan. 15,GNA-Ghana has extended her sympathy and solidarity to the people of Haiti following a devastating earthquarke which caused a devastation of unprecedented proportions mostly in the carribean island's capital city of Port au Prince.

"I have learnt with shock and deep sorrow the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in the early hours of Tuesday, 12th January 2010, causing massive loss of human lives and destruction of property." President Atta Mills stated

According to a Ministry of Information statement copied to the Ghana News Agency, President Atta Mills empathised with the grieving nation and assured them of Ghana's commitment to contibute in her own modest way to mitigate their suffering.

"The People of Ghana and my Government are deeply shocked by the event and wish to express our solidarity with our brothers and sisters in this hour of despair. We are marshalling our resources and will in due course make our modest contribution to your national effort at bringing relief and succor to the people of Haiti who have suffered great loss.

The statement said:"While the scale of destruction is still being assessed, it is already clear to us in Ghana that a tragedy of huge proportions has hit your beloved country. I therefore hasten to express, on behalf of the People and Government of Ghana and in my own name, heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the People of Haiti and your Government for the incalculable losses your country has suffered in this natural disaster." 15 Jan.2010

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 Atta Mills Conveys Ghana's Sympathy to Haiti

* Source: GNA / 15.01.2010

Accra, Jan. 15, GNA - President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday conveyed Ghana's sympathy to the Government and people of Haiti, following the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean nation last Tuesday.

In a letter addressed to President Rene Preval of Haiti, and released to the press in Accra by the Ministry of Information, President Mills said he had learned with deep shock and sorrow the unfortunate event that had caused massive loss of human lives and destruction to property.

"While the scale of destruction is still being assessed, it is already clear to us in Ghana that a tragedy of huge proportions has hit your beloved country.

"I therefore hasten to express on behalf of the people and Government of Ghana, and in my own name, heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the people of Haiti and your Government for the incalculable loss your country has suffered," President Mills said.

He added that the government and people of Ghana were deeply shocked by the event and wished to express their solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Haiti in this hour of despair.

"We are marshalling our resources and will in due course make our

modest contribution to your national effort to bring relief to the people of Haiti," the letter stated

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From: ABENA GYAMFI   / February 2010
Phone: 347 602 1315
E-mail: Mamanash@hotmail.com
Message:
The Bible says do unto others that YOU WANT them do unto you. You are doing a great JOB I also pray that God gives the people of Haiti strength to get trough this bad situation.

From: Emmanuel Darko / January 2010
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E-mail: edarko2.cass@yahoo.co.uk
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I pray for the lords mercy for the people of Haiti,and encourage them to trust in the Lord for He will direct their path to a prosperous future.