[yarddog]

After he died, I noticed Daddy had been donating to several police charities. Odds are they were all scams.

The preacher used to come by monthly to pick up Daddy’s tithe. He seemed like a good man but I don’t recall his visiting at any other time.

[Mears]

They ALWAYS want to pick up the money———no mailing address ever given.

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[punknpuss]

Each time we get a call from a police benevolent society or fireman’s fund I always ask what percentage of the dollar they actually receive. The answer is typically 10 percent. What they usually don’t tell you is that the 10 percent is only after they reach a certain threshold. One time I was told they had to reach 200K before any amount over that was given to deserving recipients. And that is why I rarely give to charities unless I know them (my church, a local rescue mission, Salvation Army). There are a lot of vultures out there and the profiteering from charitable institution is very high.

[ratzoe]

After he died, I noticed Daddy had been donating to several police charities. Odds are they were all scams.

As soon as you donate to one, a bunch come out of the woodwork. Friend of mine had to step in and tend to his uncles affairs due to dementia. He went through his uncle's checkbook for prior 6 months and found almost weekly checks for 50 or more to a whole array of police and firemen funds. All in all, better than 6k had been given. Luckily the uncle was wealthy but they were bleeding him dry. Also, many of the checks were deposited into the same bank account, even tho they were to supposedly different orgs. Sadly, police in DC said they couldn't do anything, police in state where the main bank was collecting all this money wouldn't do anything, and the bank themselves said not our problem.