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Leave the Tin Cup at Home and Try 'Cyberbegging' Thu Dec 12,11:43 AM ET By Reshma Kapadia NEW YORK (Reuters) - Need to pay down credit card debt? Desperate for money for music lessons? Simply tired of working and too embarrassed to stand on the corner with a tin cup? Try 'cyberbegging.' For some, the clicks in their cyberpails are starting to add up. Karyn Bosnak, for example, paid off $20,000 in credit card debt -- accumulated from her life in New York - last month, after Web strangers contributed more than $13,000 to her cause, according to her Web site. Yahoo started a 'begging' category with four sites in 1996. But the recent spike in activity and diversity of sites, last month led Yahoo to rename the category e-panhandling. There are now 51 sites in the category, ranging from some shamelessly looking for cash to others seeking financial assistance for loans or medical treatments....
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