[clug] Yi Fan is 4 years old and she is dying. Maybe you can help her.

Lana Brindley lanabrindley at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 14:51:34 MST 2009


It set off all my alarm bells too. Thanks for putting in the effort
Adam and Angus!

L

2009/12/22 Angus Gratton <indogus at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Adam Baxter <voltagex at voltagex.org> wrote:
>> Domain Name.......... yifanfund.com
>>  Organisation Name.... Steve Alexander
>
> From the press release on the yifanfund.com site:
>
> "Her Beijing-based international doctor, Steven Alexander..."
>
> Steven Alexander is mentioned as a doctor on the web site of United
> Family Health, the parent organisation for United Foundation for
> Children's Health, which is the organisation associated with the Yi
> Fan site.
>
> I have to admit this email set off my personal in-brain "spam filter"
> as well, mostly because the details in the email are fairly sparse
> (friendly tip for the author: be specific with names, especially
> charitable organisation names.) It does all seem to check out from a 5
> minute google.
>
> FWIW, I couldn't find anything about her father, Jack Pan, and what
> OSS projects he contributes to.
>
> To the OP: Good luck with the fundraising and the operation. :)
>
> - Angus
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