Online Beggar

The Internet is a seething battleground for tetchy chancers trying to make a quick buck. You can't surf the digital wave for more than a minute without being confronted by some hair-brained gimmick designed to enlighten your life and lighten your wallet.

Unless you visit today's site, hosted by a man who begs to differ. With admirable honesty and a neck as hard as a jockey's undercarriage, he is the world's first online beggar. To the online beggar, the idea that 'money' should be a reward for 'work' is simply implausible. Instead, he wants you to give money to him for no reason whatsoever.

If you're unusually kind, fiscally blind or maybe in need of some positive karmic realignment, you can donate to this cyber bum, via post, paypal or credit card and help his spiralling pension plan. In return, you'll get approximately not very much.

For an amount over $10 expect 'an email whose length in words is equal to the sum sent'. Donate over a thousand dollars and you'll get a pamphlet called 'Ten Ways to Better Manage Your Money', which you'll clearly need. High rollers who divest themselves of more than $10,000 will be bestowed with the dubious sartorial honour of a t-shirt that reads 'I gave $10,000 to some guy on the net and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!'

All of which may sound barmy if not for the fact that the site has received over 600,000 visits accumulating almost 76,000 dollars for its creator who is now planning on what to do with his first million.

And, his slacker approach has divided the verdict on the site's message boards, where comments from would-be entrepreneurs on the make are tempered by those who hint at displeasure at the idea: 'GET A ******* JOB YOU **** *** ***** **** **********!'

But isn't the whole point of the exercise not to get a job. The online beggar has invented his own free market and shouldn't we salute him for managing to make money from nothing?

Even as an investment it's worth considering. Your funds may not appreciate over time but they will definitely be appreciated over time and rest assured because the online beggar offers a shopper's guarantee. If he's not 100 per cent satisfied with your money, he'll return it. You can't ask fairer than that.

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