Top Consumer Scams
Charity Fraud
FRAUDULENT fundraisers take advantage of donors’ goodwill by misrepresenting who they are and what they do with the money they raise. To collect money from sympathetic individuals, solicitors often pick such popular charitable causes as support for police or firefighters and their families, or for veterans or terminally ill children. They also take advantage of such current events as the war in Iraq or the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
