Charity fraud is the act of using deception to get money from people who are making donations to charities. Deception (or mystification) is to intentionally distort the truth in order to mislead others. ... // Legal definitions A charity is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ...
Some suggestions to help prevent charity fraud (and avoid being a supportive victim):
use a search engine (such as Google) and Wikipedia.org to "research" any potential charity.
avoid giving cheques, credit card information, etc. to any person/group you are suspicious of.
The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its simple, easy-to-use, no-ad interface, and its powerful PageRank algorithm. ... A check or cheque (borrowed from Persian چك Chek) is a document instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specific demand account held in the maker/depositors name with that institution. ... Credit cards An array of various credit cards. ...
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