Fraud and scams

Howard Lake | 10 June 1999 | News

• Tagged with:
• charity fraud
• Law / policy

RNID and Sense have reissued their warnings about an alleged fundraising scam involving the door-to-door sale of deafblind alphabet cards.

UK Fundraising tracks reports of alleged and attempted fraud against charities. Occasionally it even features news of successful prosecutions against such scam-artists.

RNID and Sense have reissued their warnings about an alleged fundraising scam involving the door-to-door sale of deafblind alphabet cards. UK Fundraising tracks reports of alleged and attempted fraud against charities. Occasionally it even features news of successful prosecutions against such scam-artists.

Keep up to date with scams against charities. It is alarmingly easy to transfer a particular scam from one charity to another and from one region to another. If your charity has suffered from a scam and would like other charities to be forewarned and fore-armed, contact UK Fundraising.

• Theft from charities

• Bogus grantmaking offer misuses CARE International's name (24 February 2005)
  
• New fraud prevention guidance issued to help the public (26 October 2017)
  
• Excessive trust & lack of challenge enables majority of insider fraud in charities (26 April 2018)
  

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.