Right now $ millions are being made on "Haiti Aid Relief" donations

[JadaY]

Scammers are making BANK from all the stupid people sending cash to fake donations.

Don't donate. Even if you send to the right place, your money/goods will be stolen/looted away and sold by corrupt government official anyway.

[JadaY]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...02wyclef1.html

[babymaker]

I need one of these scams lol, but even the "legit" ones 85+ usually about 90% of whats donated goes to "administrative costs" so dont donate shit to these "non-profit" companies. Go in person if u want to make a difference or just go get drunk or bang a ho the money will be better spent.

[JadaY]

text what where?
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[IllTestYourGirls]

I dont mean to be an ass, and I have donated to the Red Cross to help Haiti.

But how much money is needed to rebuild something like this?

[epitome]

If you are going to donate, donate through Clinton Foundation, where 95.9% of what is donated goes to the programs (2.5% to administrative costs and only 1.6% to fundraising costs).

https://re.clintonfoundation.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=3869

[babymaker]

Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

I dont mean to be an ass, and I have donated to the Red Cross to help Haiti.

But how much money is needed to rebuild something like this?

It reminds me of the "terrorist" trying to blow up Detroit on xmas lol WTF are u serious who would even give a fuck lol The government would probably pay the guy a clean up fee.

[EscortBiz]

so many are scamming all different ways, its fucked up and there is a special place in hell for people who scam off these people now

most if not all of charities are stealing money left and right and everyone has a secret agenda here, from celebs etc

their are tens of thousands of people dead and the leader there is crying that his palace is gone and he dont know where he will sleep

these people need clothing food and shelter and out of every buck raised maybe a penny goes to these people

there are people who cant feed their families living within a few miles of you, go give them cash directly please, dont make those scammers rich, there are people maybe within your family that are having a hard time, help them!

people need to stop being such stupid fucking sheep, its one thing if there was a legit charity, one shouldnt start a charity if you cant dontate all of the fucking money that people give, charity is one of the most profitable businesses in these days, and sheeple are the ones supporting them.

if you have a way to send clothing go out and buy and send (dont be surprised if you end up finding it on ebay, im telling you most charities are scum).

[POed-poster]

Originally Posted by JadaY

Scammers are making BANK from all the stupid people sending cash to fake donations.

Don't donate. Even if you send to the right place, your money/goods will be stolen/looted away and sold by corrupt government official anyway.

Sometimes I wish there WAS a Hell for people who do this kind of shit. Slime will take advantage of anyone when they can. During Katrina, half the people let helpless people sit while they looted stores. During a tragic plane crash in Detroit years ago, a lawyer hired a Canadian guy to dress up as a priest, go to the accident site, and pretend to console victims families while handing them the accident chaser's business card. Charlatans make millions every year offering fake cures for incurable diseases like AIDS, and evil televangelists like Benny Hinn exploit the sick to generate donations. And I haven't even mentioned the shameless scammers who steal the life savings of 85 year old ladies who get kicked out of their nursing homes and put on the street while the filthy sharks who ripped them off live the good life in 10,000 a night luxury suites. FUCK THESE SOULLESS MAGGOTS. Sometimes, I feel like these thieving greedy cunts are all inhuman and should be put down like the fucking dog they are. On second though, put them in prison and label them as child molesters so they can get gang rapped with a tire iron twice a day for the next thirty years.

[Les Grossman]

Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

I dont mean to be an ass, and I have donated to the Red Cross to help Haiti.

But how much money is needed to rebuild something like this?

That is Haiti BEFORE the quake. That place is honestly one of the biggest shit holes on earth. It's actually the poorest country on that side of the world.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by epitome

If you are going to donate, donate through Clinton Foundation, where 95.9% of what is donated goes to the programs (2.5% to administrative costs and only 1.6% to fundraising costs).

https://re.clintonfoundation.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=3869

those are pretty good #'s, if they are true

[Nysus]

Some local yoga studios I go to here are fundraising to send a few people to go help with whatever they can.

Some details that shocked me...

United Nations building collapsed and 450 UN workers missing?

2,300 prisoners escaped from a major prison..

[NemesisEnforcer]

My preference is to give to the American Red Cross in the form of a check. Does anyone know how much money the phone company keeps if you text to make a donation?

[tiger]

If you are going to give money be smart about where you give it to. That's always a good rule of thumb. Scammers love wars, disasters etc. trying to make a quick buck off of kind hearted people.

[shimmy2]

true story... 3 yrs ago i had a call center job at a place called RMG (responsive marketing group) in canada that did fundraising. we raised for 35 'charities' like Madd, sick kids, african medicine foundation, flying doctors, PBS, political parties, etc you name it. our sales pitch would change every 20 min based on whatever the dialer screen in front of you said, and if u didnt convert at a certain $ per hour you were switched to another charity.

worst thing you can do is get on their sucker list. basically you become a donor and they bug you every 2 months for eternity because you were a past donor and they remind you of this. once you're on that retention list lawd ham mercy. and as far as percentage goes most have a 20% if not higher admin cost because they have to offer the call center people some incentive to hit higher quotas and sales goals. some had it where if they raised over 1000 a shift they got to keep a certain % over the top of their quota etc.

if you want to help, go there and grab a shovel seriously, it would be money and resources better spent to better lives individually thats my take on it. i have seen how wasteful most of these places are

[epitome]

Originally Posted by JFK

those are pretty good #'s, if they are true

I like to think that they are true ... we all know that the Clinton's have many other ways to make obscene amounts of money.

[Alky]

Originally Posted by NemesisEnforcer

My preference is to give to the American Red Cross in the form of a check. Does anyone know how much money the phone company keeps if you text to make a donation?

usually it's around 50% .. who knows if they have special rates due to the cause... doubtful.

[seeandsee]

donate all to obama

[kane]

Originally Posted by shimmy2

true story... 3 yrs ago i had a call center job at a place called RMG (responsive marketing group) in canada that did fundraising. we raised for 35 'charities' like Madd, sick kids, african medicine foundation, flying doctors, PBS, political parties, etc you name it. our sales pitch would change every 20 min based on whatever the dialer screen in front of you said, and if u didnt convert at a certain $ per hour you were switched to another charity.

worst thing you can do is get on their sucker list. basically you become a donor and they bug you every 2 months for eternity because you were a past donor and they remind you of this. once you're on that retention list lawd ham mercy. and as far as percentage goes most have a 20% if not higher admin cost because they have to offer the call center people some incentive to hit higher quotas and sales goals. some had it where if they raised over 1000 a shift they got to keep a certain % over the top of their quota etc.

if you want to help, go there and grab a shovel seriously, it would be money and resources better spent to better lives individually thats my take on it. i have seen how wasteful most of these places are

I used to work at a large tech company and every year they did a fund raising drive for the United Way. They would bring everyone into the big auditorium and the United Way guy would give his speech then the managers would talk about how important this was. As you left they handed you a piece of paper for you to fill out and give to your manager telling them how much you wanted taken out of your next check and given to United Way. I didn't fill it out because I wasn't going to give anything. There are some large charities I believe in, but this is not one of them. I'm sure United Way does some very good stuff, but I feel they give too little of the money raised to actual charities.

So I didn't fill out the paper and when asked was told I wasn't donating. I was called into the managers office and my direct manager as well as her manager were there. They asked me if I would just donate even a few dollars because they want to get as many people as they can donating. I told them I can't bring myself to give money to a "charity" who's CEO makes 800K a year. I also told them they should be ashamed of themselves for pressuring people like this because there were a lot of people who were donating who couldn't afford to, but felt like they would lose their job or get overlooked in the future if they didn't.

They weren't happy with me, but I was on my way out of that place and didn't really care. From what I understand over the next few years enough people complained and stopped donating that they changed it up and made it a much less formal thing and more anonymous thing.

[JadaY]

Originally Posted by kane

I used to work at a large tech company and every year they did a fund raising drive for the United Way. They would bring everyone into the big auditorium and the United Way guy would give his speech then the managers would talk about how important this was. As you left they handed you a piece of paper for you to fill out and give to your manager telling them how much you wanted taken out of your next check and given to United Way. I didn't fill it out because I wasn't going to give anything. There are some large charities I believe in, but this is not one of them. I'm sure United Way does some very good stuff, but I feel they give too little of the money raised to actual charities.

So I didn't fill out the paper and when asked was told I wasn't donating. I was called into the managers office and my direct manager as well as her manager were there. They asked me if I would just donate even a few dollars because they want to get as many people as they can donating. I told them I can't bring myself to give money to a "charity" who's CEO makes 800K a year. I also told them they should be ashamed of themselves for pressuring people like this because there were a lot of people who were donating who couldn't afford to, but felt like they would lose their job or get overlooked in the future if they didn't.

They weren't happy with me, but I was on my way out of that place and didn't really care. From what I understand over the next few years enough people complained and stopped donating that they changed it up and made it a much less formal thing and more anonymous thing.

that's fucked.