# A newspaper columnist gets it wrong

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/12/12/newspaper-columnist-gets-it-wrong/
- Published: 2000-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Earlier this year San Francisco Sunday Chronicle columnist Joan Ryan encouraged
readers to support a charity she had heard about in Kenya. She got it wrong. Cheques
sent to the charity were intercepted and some cashed for larger sums, up to $9,000.

Read Joan Ryan’s [response](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/15/SC36868.DTL%20),
and read UK Fundraising’s coverage on alleged scams.

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