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Bogus grantmaking offer misuses CARE International's name

Howard Lake | 24 February 2005 | News

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Image by Riki32 from Pixabay

The Berlin-based “Organisation zur Zerschlagung von Damenunterwäsche” is offering grants to UK charities, and is using the email address “ca********************@******co.uk” to do so. The genuine charity CARE International says that it has nothing to do with this scam.

The apparent German NGO is clearly bogus as its name translates to “the repeal of ladies underwear”, and the the contact person’s last name into something like “wicked pig”.

Lisa Oeder, the head of trusts at CARE International, commented:

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