In Reply to: Only give ... posted by KiwiCarol on Monday, 28. July 2014 at 14:13 Bali Time:
I know a couple who had met a Balinese lady with a 4 year old girl who needed life saving heart operation. They felt so sorry for her they gave her thousands of dollars for the operation. 6 months later they were told she needed another one so once again sent thousands. The next time they were in Bali they invited the whole family to their villa, the little girl was in the pool and when she got out she took her clothes off and the wife noticed their were no scars on her chest. She asked the Balinese woman's brother about the little girl's heart operations and he said "what operations?" and then proceeded to tell her the little girl had never been sick. So they had been scammed big time and when they questioned the woman she just shrugged her shoulders and laughed it off. So I would be very wary of giving anyone money that asks.