In the past few months, Israeli Internet surfers have been passing around an e-mail that calls for donations to help Oren Almog, a 12-year-old boy who suffered eye injuries in the Maxim restaurant bombing. The moving message included a Bank Hapoalim account and branch number to which money could be sent.
But it's a scam. The e-mail used an original message pleading for donations to fund surgery for Almog, but someone changed the real bank account and branch number.
One surfer who sent money to the bogus account says she will complaint to the police and Bank Hapoalim said it would cooperate with any investigation. Sources close to the Almogs say the family is "shocked" by the affair.
Oren Almog was injured in the Maxim restaurant terror attack on a Saturday morning last October. He was at the restaurant with his grandparents, mother, brother, uncle and cousin and the suicide bomber wiped out almost the entire family.
Grandfather Ze'ev Almog, a former director of the Israel Navy officers school in Acre, and his wife, Ruth, were killed. So were Oren's uncle, Moshe, 43, his cousin, Assaf Stier, 10, and his younger brother, Tomer, 7. His mother, Orly, was injured and hospitalized. Oren was blinded in the left eye and his family began a race against time to save his right eye by surgery in the United States.
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Partial sight restoredOren Almog had an operation at a medical center in Alabama, where doctors managed to partially restore sight in his right eye in a complicated nine-hour procedure.
The doctors said that rehabilitation, Oren will be able to orientate himself in his surroundings, see large objects and distinguish colors, but will not be able to focus on small particulars.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/385609.htmlA tragic story, and a boy who will need a lot of courage to grow up with such limited sight. Shame on people who take advantage of the call for assistance. 
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