I generally use how much contact information charities require as an effective proxy for determining if a charity is a scam.
The scammers just can't help themselves to selling your information to every huckster on earth and hounding you for more forever.
Generally only smaller churches are willing to take donations without giving out as much information as setting up a margin investment account. Never seen a single secular charity that didn't want enough to sell you down the river.
Donating to the California wildfire victims was especially full of that nonsense.
I apparently have chosen wisely so far, and haven't received any further contact begging for MOAR.
Meanwhile, my grandma has gotten a full mailbox full of charity spam for years.(At least I was able to learn from her mistakes).
I generally use how much contact information charities require as an effective proxy for determining if a charity is a scam.
The scammers just can't help themselves to selling your information to every huckster on earth and hounding you for more forever.
Generally only smaller churches are willing to take donations without giving out as much information as setting up a margin investment account. Never seen a single secular charity that didn't want enough to sell you down the river.
Donating to the California wildfire victims was especially full of that nonsense.
I apparently have chosen wisely so far, and haven't received any further contact begging for MOAR.
Meanwhile, my grandma has gotten a full mailbox full of charity spam for years.(At least I was able to learn from her mistakes).