# Simply not the best – ICFM warns of street collection fraud

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/10/21/simply-not-best-icfm-warns-street-collection-fraud/
- Published: 1999-10-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

ICFM is warning its members of a new street collection fraud. Street collectors 
are collecting in the Euston area of London on behalf of BEST, the Benevolent Ex-
Servicemen’s Trust. The Charity Commission confirmed to ICFM that no such charity
is registered with them. ICFM recommends that you inform local police if you come
across any other sightings.
Given Euston is just around the corner from the Directory
of Social Change’s Charity Centre, which is frequented weekly by hundreds of charity
staff attending training courses, let’s hope that the fraudsters get caught out 
by trying to fundraise from real fundraisers.

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