Posts in category Charities
Protecting your Parents and the Elder...
Heads up folks. Who is calling your parents? Who is sending them mail or soliciting them? Readers Digest? Publisher’s Clearing House? Lillian Vernon? Fingerhut? These organizations and others prey upon aging parents. Some of the most common mail scams targeting seniors today are fake checks, phony sweepstakes, foreign lotteries, fr [...]
Charity & Fundraising Fraud Aler...
All of us have seen commercials that tell a sad story and then request us to help. Nightly we see animals suffering or small children with no food. Many if not all of us have received a telephone call on behalf of this charity or that. This telephone fraud is successful maybe 6 percent of the time which is relatively low.
Why is this so i [...]