We’ve been receiving a lot of reports that various scammers are collecting money under the banner of “RosPil needs money.” Here is a typical example:

from here  It lists our Yandex.Money wallet number (our main and only one) as the “wallet for citizens abroad,” while the scammers’ wallet number is listed as “for citizens of Russia.” The scammers are also sending out emails and even text messages. Let me repeat once again: Here is our one and only number:

There is no other one, and there never has been. At this point, we are not collecting money in any other way. We do not accept PayPal, cash, or gold dust. The only fundraising announcement is this.  No one except me is authorized to collect funds. And I do it through announcements in this LiveJournal blog. You can get all RosPil news on RosPil itself or here. The people overseeing how the collected funds are spent are drugoi dolboeb olegmakarenko.ru plushev  Stay alert. P.S. We send information about the swindlers to Yandex. Yandex forwards it to the police (militsiya, the former name of the Russian police).

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