Bogus grantmaking offer misuses CARE International's name
Howard Lake | 24 February 2005 | News
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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- “CARE International UK would like to clarify that in no way does it support these bogus e-mails. We know of a number of such scams and have reported all to the police.”
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