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富婆借种广告: 大学生从保定骑车六天到大连「献种」
富婆借种广告 大学生上当
从保定骑车六天到大连「献种」 借来的2600元反被骗光
【本报综合报导】河北省保定市农村青年张晓军（化名），今年考上了一所艺术院校。为了凑足学费，他轻信大连一名假富婆的借种广告，千里迢迢骑自行车来大连向假富婆「献种」，结果反被假富婆骗光了人民币2600元，还差点耽误了学校报到期限。
河北「新商报」报导，22岁的张晓军今年以优异的成绩考上了一所艺术院校。但是由於家境不富裕，父母无钱供他读大学。张晓军就自己利用暑假在外面打工挣学费。
有一天，他看到了一则广告，上面写着：某女26岁，丈夫是个富翁，意外车祸夺走了性命，留下了千万遗产，还有别墅、工厂和轿车。丈夫走後没有留下子女，欲寻找身体健康、智商聪慧的男子给她「借种」，先期预支二万元，待生下儿女後，一次付给10万元。
报导指出，看到这则广告後，张晓军动了心，觉得如果向这个富婆献种成功，不但可以筹集到学费，还可以解决生计问题，便立即与富婆联系。在电话中，张晓军告诉富婆，自己是个刚考上艺术学院的大学生，有艺术细胞，种子的质量肯定优秀。
听说张晓军是个艺术学院的大学生，富婆说他们结合将来生育的儿女一定会很优秀，立即表示同意，并郑重地表示，只要孩子生下来，不管是男孩还是女孩，她都会给付10万元的酬金。
但是，这名富婆同时表示，本着公平交易原则，若想见面，张晓军必须要先付2600元保证金。她见到保证金後，就会当面给张晓军二万元钱定金。
张晓军见富婆对自己很满意，便瞒着正在四处给他筹备学费的父母，从同学家借了2600元准备来大连献种。因为没有路钱，张晓军又从同学那借了一辆自行车，背着乾粮，骑着自行车到大连见富婆。
报导说，经过六天艰苦的行程，8月30日，张晓军来到大连，并与富婆联络上，但富婆表示很忙，暂时没有时间见面，给了他一个帐号，让他把保证金先存进去。
富婆还特意告诉他，见到保证金後，就把二万元定金当面付给他，并选个吉日安排圆房。涉世未深的张晓军赶紧把保证金存到富婆提供的帐户，并充满期望地等待着富婆召见。
但没想到，8月31日，张晓军再给富婆打电话的时候，对方已经关机，张晓军赶紧打电话报警。
而由於艺术学院报到的时间已到，张晓军只好来到救助站，等着家人给他寄路费。9月1日，张晓军离开大连，到学校报到去了。
非法居留911难属 不敢露财; 虽成百万富翁 怕身分曝光被追查
纽约时报报导，一名遗孀领到两百多万元，可是外出只能步行或搭乘巴士，唯恐引人注意。另一名拥有百万财富的遗孀不再参加九一一支援团体的活动，担心遭到警察和消防队员的家属出卖。一名鳏夫有足够资产返乡实现创办营建公司的梦想，却为了在美国出生的稚龄女儿动弹不得。
这叁人都在世界贸易中心崩毁时失去丈夫或妻子。就像另外几千人一样，他们从九一一罹难者赔偿基金领到几百万元，不同的是他们都是在美国非法居留。
虽然政府为他们痛失亲人给予丰厚补偿，使他们拥有梦想不到的大笔财富，这些金钱却不能改变他们的移民地位，使他们随时担心被驱逐出境。
九一一事件过了五年，他们仍生活在异常的矛盾中。他们长久以来生活贫穷，却在一夜之间成为百万富翁，可是他们没有社会安全号码或工作签证，不能申请抵押贷款或驾照。他们不敢花钱，就怕引起注意。
他们遇难的配偶被视为英雄，名字刻在围绕世贸遗址的牌子上，可是他们却不敢公开表露自己的身分。
一名来自厄瓜多的遗孀说：「我不敢梦想太多，因为我没有合法文件，随时都怕身分暴露。这种感觉很可怕，可是我不想回去本国。我丈夫的灵魂在这里。」
国会当初成立罹难者基金时，政府官员特别声明外国人和非法移民也可以领取赔偿，而且移民当局不会利用他们向基金提供的资料追查他们。
但是，这些家属如因其他理由而暴露身分，仍可能被驱逐出境。国会已提案向这些领到赔偿的非法移民提供绿卡，可是这项条款附在参院移民改革法案中，在移民论战中随同整个法案遭到搁置。
赔偿基金共为罹难的非法移民发出11笔赔偿，数额从87万5000元至410万元不等。这些罹难者都在世贸中心顶楼的世界之窗餐厅工作。★
2006-09-03
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Millions in 9/11 Payments, but No Green Cards
By CARA BUCKLEY
One widow has more than $2 million but walks or rides the bus everywhere, terrified of drawing attention. Another millionaire widow stopped going to 9/11 support groups because she feared that families of police officers and firefighters might betray her. A widower has enough money to start a business building houses, but cannot buy himself a home.
All three lost a husband or a wife when the World Trade Center collapsed. Like thousands of others, they were beneficiaries of the federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which awarded millions of dollars to families whose loved ones died in the attacks.
But a secret sets these three apart. Like their spouses who died, each is in the country illegally. Even though the government compensated them richly for their losses, making them wealthier than they ever dreamed, the money did not change their immigration status. They fear they could be deported any day.
Five years after the terrorist attacks, these people are living with extraordinary contradictions.
Long accustomed to stashing dollar bills in coffee cans, they became millionaires overnight. But because they do not have Social Security numbers or work visas, they cannot get mortgages or driver’s licenses. They say they have spent little of the money, afraid of attracting notice.
Their spouses were labeled heroes, their names emblazoned on placards ringing ground zero. But none of these three, still living in or near New York City, feel they can publicly identify themselves.
“I can’t dream very high, because I have no papers,” said one widow from Ecuador, who, like the others, agreed to be interviewed on the condition that she not be named. “You’re always afraid of exposure. It’s a horrible feeling. But I don’t want to go back to my country. I know my husband’s spirit is here.”
After Congress created the victims’ fund, promising payouts in return for an agreement not to sue the airlines or other interests, the officials who drafted the fund’s rules explicitly stated that foreigners and illegal immigrants would be eligible. And immigration authorities announced that they would not use in????ation provided to the fund to track people down.
But the families who received money could still face deportation if their identities come to light in some other way, their lawyers say.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York, Mark Thorn, said the agency could not comment on specific cases, but confirmed it was not focusing on the families. Still, he added, “generally speaking, anyone who is in this country illegally is vulnerable to removal.”
Legislation before Congress would grant green cards to the illegal immigrants who received money. But the measure, attached to the Senate’s immigration bill, is deadlocked with the entire package.
From the start, many immigrants were suspicious of the fund.
“They were these modest, poor, fearful people,” said Kenneth R. Feinberg, the fund’s special master, who determined the awards. “They were afraid they’d be punished.”
In the end, 11 awards went to the survivors of illegal immigrants. All those victims had worked at the restaurant Windows on the World. Although they had earned modest wages, many were upwardly mobile and supported relatives back home, factors that increased the payouts. Their awards ranged from $875,000 to $4.1 million.
But their lawyers still worried: That their clients would become marks for hustlers. That relatives, sustained by wire transfers and living in unstable countries, would be kidnapped for ransom.
Details about the 11 families are sketchy. At least three lived abroad at the time of the attack and remain there. At least three were here in New York on 9/11 and still live here with their children in modest apartments.
They could return to their native lands with their money, but feel tethered here, unwilling to leave the country where their spouses worked and died, and determined to give their children a chance to grow up here.
“I have half my life here,” one widow said. “And my husband is here.”
When the widow from Ecuador first heard about the fund, she thought it might be a trap to catch immigrants like her.
She and her husband moved to Queens in 1992, paying smugglers $11,000 to help them cross the border. But now her husband, a supply-room manager, was dead and she was alone with their son, who had joined them later. She could no longer afford the rent on their cramped basement apartment, where sewage leached through floors, or her son’s asthma spray.
The union at Windows on the World arranged for families to meet with pro-bono lawyers. One lawyer, Debra Steinberg, convinced her that Mr. Feinberg, the fund’s administrator, was sincere.
But the woman was petrified. Mr. Feinberg worked for the government, after all. When she told him her story at a hearing in April 2003, her voice quavered.
“How could he understand how I was feeling, how I was screaming from the inside?” she said she wondered. “That we need help, and we’re alone. That we don’t belong here, but that I don’t want to go back to my country. That I’m already part of this one, because my husband is here.”
Mr. Feinberg awarded her roughly $1.6 million.
The sum frightened her. She had grown up in a mountain town where dinner often consisted of rice and half an egg. “I was praying, ‘Please, God, don’t let me change, let me stay myself,’ ” she said.
The woman, 38, tried to make peace with the windfall by thinking of the money as her husband’s gift to their son. With help, she put it into conservative investments that she could tap if forced back to Ecuador. She has lived off the interest, she says.
And she has continued to live modestly, renting a two-bedroom apartment in East Elmhurst, Queens, for $1,200 a month. Her splurge was a bedroom set for her son.
But the money did change her life. She is still a warm woman with laughing brown eyes, but she has grown withdrawn.
She is afraid to tell neighbors she is a 9/11 widow, fearing questions about her immigration status. She yearns for work to fill her days, but has no visa. She stopped seeing old friends who made snide remarks about her sudden wealth. Even 9/11 support groups made her feel unsafe, because they were filled with spouses of dead police officers.
“I’d rather be alone,” she said softly.
Her son, 17, is a senior at a private school in Manhattan, his tuition paid by a private foundation. A gifted photographer, he dreams of studying design, but the colleges he is interested in require Social Security numbers.
He says he cannot imagine moving to Ecuador, which he left at age 5.
“I have no idea what I’ll do,” he said, as a trailer for the movie “World Trade Center” flashed across their television screen. He took a shaky breath and said, “My history is here.”
For the second widow, school days are the hardest. The Mexican woman with the soulful eyes and a sweep of dark hair tightens her fingers around her 9-year-old son’s hand and boards the public bus. Only 4-foot-7, she almost disappears into the seat. But she feels like a beacon sending off warning signals.
Her son was 4 when his father, a grill cook, died on 9/11. The Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund, which helps families of the restaurant workers, pays the boy’s tuition at a private elementary school in Manhattan. But this woman lives outside Newark and has no car. So she takes her son to and from school, a daily commute totaling six hours.
She finds the journey harrowing. Security is tighter now at bridges and tunnels. “I never know if they’re going to get me,” said the woman, 30, who recently had a baby girl with her new companion.
It is hard to fathom that this woman has about $2.2 million, trusted financial advisers and a lawyer, Ms. Steinberg. Yet there are things that a fortune cannot buy. She has the cash to buy a house outright, but fears that if deported, she could lose any property here. She struggled to find an apartment, because most landlords demand a Social Security number. She cannot get a driver’s license, so she carries groceries and laundry for blocks, her baby in tow.
Immigration officials have caught her before. In 2000, she says, she and her husband were intercepted as they were returning from their wedding in Mexico. Deportation hearings were scheduled for May 2002, but by then her husband had been killed.
As a lawyer asked an immigration judge to grant the woman mercy as a 9/11 victim, a memorial service was under way at ground zero. The judge let her go, and she applied to the fund the following year.
If she has to return to Mexico, the money will still be hers, government officials said. But she will have to make a wrenching decision. Her son is a United States citizen, born in Queens. He has relatives he adores nearby, and she feels his future is more assured here. Yet she cannot imagine leaving him behind.
The third spouse, a widower, faces a similar dilemma. He could move back to Ecuador and start the construction business he has always dreamed of. But he is torn and amazed to find himself in a country where he is not supposed to even work or drive.
“Why am I staying here?” he says he asks himself.
The answer is his 5-year-old daughter, his last link to his wife. The girl has just started prekindergarten. If he can endure staying one more year, her English will improve, he says. And maybe the legislation allowing him a green card will pass.
Yet waiting is not easy for this stocky 35-year-old, caught between his fierce independence and a deep concern for his daughter.
A construction worker, he was always proudly self-sufficient, though his wife earned more as a prep cook. After her death, he threw himself into raising and coddling the child, then 8 months old. He filled her bedroom with plush animals and bought her the frilliest dresses he could find.
Yet when his lawyer, Saralyn Cohen, told him about the fund, he balked, offended by charity. But when she gently noted that the money would help his daughter, he softened.
She said he invested the money, about $2.2 million, only occasionally tapping into the interest. Seemingly indifferent about the windfall, he kept the same small apartment in Borough Park, Brooklyn. “Money cannot buy my daughter’s mother back,” he said.
Though resolved to stay another year, he aches for Ecuador and wants the girl to meet her grandparents. Yet if he traveled home, he could not return.
And so he ticks off the days until his life can begin again.
“It’s all for her, so she does something better,” he said as his daughter wrapped her arms around his neck. “That she becomes a doctor, a lawyer. That she’s not the same as me.”
作者：dck 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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富婆借种广告: 大学生从保定骑车六天到大连「献种」
