I've got a nice car you can have, you just have to get the plane ticket and pay for hotel and food while you're here....
I think he figures if he gets just 1 or 2 sympathetic people to send him a buck or two from every site, he'll be doing alright. Maybe we should all try it. It's just like all those chain letters that ask you to send $1 to the people on the list, then remove the first name and put your name at the bottom of the list, and mail it to another 1000 people...