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Fake Nepal Earthquake Appeal / Donation Website - www.savenepal.org

The website "www.savenepal.org" is a fake charity website. Scammers have created the fake website to trick people into sending them their money thinking they are making charitable donations that will help the people of Nepal, who are trying to recover from the deadly earthquake that occurred on April 25, 2015 that has killed over 5000 people so far.

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The fake website: “www.savenepal.org”, is a copy of the website: www.actionaid.org.uk, which is a legitimate charity organization currently accepting donations to help the people of Nepal.

The Fake Website: “www.savenepal.org”

What the scammers have done is to make a copy of the Nepal Earthquake donation page from the legitimate website http://www.actionaid.org.uk, and put a link on it that goes to a fraudulent PayPal donation page. Any donations made on the fraudulent PayPal donation page will be sent to the scammers who have created it and the fake charitable website.

For persons who have already made donations on the fake website, please click here to report it to PayPal to have your money refunded and help PayPal terminate the fraudulent account.

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