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Some 2,000 people have responded to your e-mail asking for $2.50 donations. How much have you raised so far? Over $5,000. In two weeks. It's been a great response. Most of the money is from anonymous people, sent by mail. It could be a dollar or two or as much as a $10 bill. I also received some payments through PayPal...
Your 765-word plea for tuition help notes that your mother is handicapped and your father has three jobs. Do you worry your e-mail looks like a scam? I definitely see why people might think it's a scam. They can check it out; they can call NYU's financial-aid office if they want ... I was trying to make it seem as unscam-like as possible. Which is kind of difficult when you're asking for money...
...many people have you sent the e-mail to? Two hundred people in my address book and about 100 people my mom thought would be interested. And I asked all those people to forward...
...plan to e-mail more potential contributors? People have said, "Oh, why don't you buy a list from a website, and you can get a million people's e-mails for $40." But I don't want to do that, because it's impersonal and it's spamming...
...e-mail looks like a scam: "I have to come up with big-time cash," writes Max Stephenson. The 18-year-old is headed for New York University, he explains, but his mom is on disability, his dad works three jobs, and all his grants and loans only cover half of the school's $50,000 annual tab. So to cover the gap, he's hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call...