I received an email from PayPal this morning regarding a campaign they are running for Oxfam.
Time is running out for you to give 100% to Oxfam and let PayPal pick up the bill
for running costs.• What’s the deal? – PayPal are paying Oxfam’s running costs on your donations
• 100% Giving – Every penny of your money goes directly towards fighting poverty
• Only 11 days left to give – The chance to make 100% impact must end FebruarySo what’s stopping you?
Obviously I’d deleted previous exhortations without bothering to read them or I would have picked up on this before. Anyway, what’s stopping me? Well, while not recorded on the Fake Charities website, they took £112.7m of taxpayers’ money for the year ending 31 March 2010, so I have already contributed without being asked for my consent. And, as this charity is at the forefront of peddling the eco-loony climate disruption scam designed to deprive the developing world of a way out of poverty (and drag the developed one back into it), I can see no reason to give them a brass farthing, so won’t. Does that answer the question?
Oooo! Are they going to do the same for MAG? 🙂
I had the same mail from Paypal about OxSCAM. I sent Paypal a disgusted from Tunbridge Wells e-mail and closed that particular paypal account. The same happend when they did the Commic releif thing a year or two ago.
At this rate I wont have a valid paypal account to launder my money.
I got one too! Straight into the “Delete” folder (heartless wretch that I am).
The RNLI and a number of Service charities get my money and my time. I decide about any others.
TTFN 🙂
Kidney Research has now passed the way of so many charities in this household – into the bin. After being asked on the phone to distribute collection envelopes to the street, I was informed, in a manner positively bursting with pride, that the administration and the chugging company responsible would only take 20% of all donations. That’ll be a No, then.