Paypal involved in a scam. I don't believe it.

Other than that pondlife is too good a description for some forms of human nature.

Scammers operating out of China must be either uniquely courageous or uniquely greedy, given the Chinese authorities robust approach to law and order which so often appears to involve a bullet in the back of the head.

A practice I'd normally deplore.

But in this case.......

as Cyrus the virus said in Con Air, they're somewhere between a cockroach and the scum that collects in the corner of your mouth

I refer the learned reader to the comment above. Death REALLY is too good for some people.

Given the record of "official" websites with legitimate donations:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/

and add to that the efforts of spammers and scammers, you can begin to understand the mentality of the Burmese regime...

Sure beats Daniel Cuthbert's break into the DEC website a few years ago..