I have often picked up hitchhikers or helped people on the road when their car was broken down. I also spent quite a bit of time mentoring people in some of my skills, but that actually also helped me become better myself in those fields. Probably the best way to help people was my Open Source project: OpenDomain. We give domains to groups for Free to support open source, such as Drupal.Com, Oscon.com, FosDem.Org, and OpenAjax.Org Unfortunately, I have also seen the other side: I have given money to people with a similar sorry as yours, only to find out they we just scamming me. And I have helped people for more than 12 years with OpenDomain, only for Google to steal my domain http://Schema.Org