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If you have been affected by a scam or fraud, contact the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office at 877-566-7226. Under many circumstances, scams and frauds are a crime so contact local law ...
If you have knowledge of fraud, waste or abuse, tips can be submitted to the FEMA Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-5721 or by e-mail at StopFEMAFraud@fema.dhs.gov.
The National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF), established by the Justice Department after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to protect people from scams following disasters, is warning the public to be ...
Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.
Charity non-profits face many of the same challenges of corporate governance which face large, publicly traded corporations. Fundamentally, the challenges arise from the "agency problem" - the fact that the management which controls the charity is necessarily different from the people who the charity is designed to benefit. In a non-profit ...
ShelterBox was founded in 2000 in the town of Helston, Cornwall, UK by Rotarian and former Royal Navy Search and Rescue Diver Tom Henderson, OBE, who conceived the idea of "a disaster relief kit for a family, contained in a box for fast and easy global deployment" after watching a disaster relief broadcast on television that highlighted the difficultes that disaster relief efforts frequently ...
Nov. 30—The surge of charitable giving supporting survivors and rebuilding efforts after the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires that killed 100 and left 7, 500 homeless highlights the need to watch out for ...
Cifas is a fraud prevention service in the United Kingdom. It is a not-for-profit membership association representing organisations from across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Cifas states its mission is "to detect, deter and prevent fraud in society by harnessing technology and working in partnership".