UPDATE: Glad I said at this time. He’s back: http://africanpressonline.wordpress.com/

For those who don’t know yet, at this time API and the Rainbow Foundation page have been shut down by Wordpress for Terms of Service violations.

After having a conversation with Mr. Karaban of the Rainbow Foundation it became clear that the Rainbow Foundation associated with API was not a part of the legitimate Rainbow Foundation.

Mr. Karaban said that the fake Rainbow Foundation had caused his charity a great deal of trouble. He posted this announcement on his site a few days ago.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION
It has come to our attention that a FALSE Rainbow Foundation email has been circulating, asking people for personal and financial information in exchange for certain sums of money. This email is in no way affiliated with, or is sent from, the Rainbow Foundation and all recipients are urged to ignore this email. WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH OR CONNECTED TO A RAINBOW FOUNDATION IN NORWAY OR THE AFRICAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you

I hope the real Rainbow Foundation charity can now focus on raising money and helping terminally ill children instead of answering the profuse number of inquiries it has received about Sammy’s “foundation”.

I haven’t posted nor will I post some of the details from the phone conversation as it was a private conversation and I couldn’t prove the claims anyway.

Thanks to all of you who researched and contributed here at Mountain Sage. I greatly appreciate it.

Special thanks to Grace, Cartoon Pig Dog, sluggojd, and Pokemon for their tireless research. And thanks to all of you who read here and commented.

Is this saga over? I doubt it but for now many of us need a rest.