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If you want to donate to these — or other — charities, it’s important to make sure the charity is legitimate. See: Elon Musk Gives $6 Billion to Charity in Historic Philanthropic Donation
GreatNonprofits is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization based in the United States with a website where donors, volunteers, and clients review and share their personal experiences with charitable organizations, essentially providing crowdsourced information about the reputability of these organizations.
• Spoofing - used by spammers to make an email or website appear as if it's from someone you trust. • Phishing - an attempt by scammers to pose as a legitimate company or individual to steal someone's personal information, usernames, passwords, or other account information.
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.
As of 1998, GuideStar provided digitized 990 data on its website's individual public charities pages. [16] In January 1998, GuideStar received an award for Nonprofit Web Site Excellence from Philanthropy Journal, with an honorable mention for "Service to the Sector" for its searchable database of (at that time) more than 620,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations. [17]
Americans give billions of dollars to charitable operations every year, but sadly not all of the recipients are legitimate. On Tuesday, charges were filed against 4 cancer charities for allegedly ...
Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...
This is a list of charities accused of ties to terrorism. A number of charities have been accused or convicted in court of using their revenues to fund terrorism or revolutionary movements, rather than for the humanitarian purposes for which contributions were ostensibly collected.