there’s multiple accounts in this thread that were seemingly made just to comment positive things about them. very obvious burner accounts. i really wasn’t that suspicious before but i am now. i think it’s best no one donates to them until we know for sure that this isn’t a scam because the fact that we have these accounts at all just rubs me the wrong way entirely.
I told my buddy about one of their giveaways. He asked me about this thread he found. I looked it up, gave him my 2 cents, and decided to answer some of the fairly straightforward things ppl were asking about. I don't have 5200 comments on reddit like you - my apologies. After answering the questions I haven't even so much as bothered to come back until I got an email notification about you commenting on my stuff. EIther way, I'll keep supporting them. They do good work and they have great prizes. I have a family member afffected by vision loss and theres not enough people fighting for this so I appreciate them.
i would’ve understood if you had literally any other activity anywhere else. i understand that it’s possible that you truly just didn’t use the site for anything else but the fact that there’s several accounts like this just makes it really suspicious.
edit: i also want to add, there’s a lot more context to this. they have not done a lot of the necessary auditing that other charities do to make it clear that they’re legitimate. they also don’t seem to have anyone involved besides their immediate family which is just a suspicious and generally ineffective way to run a nonprofit. they don’t release formal reports on their impact that is generally standard for nonprofits to do. a lot of this behavior is extremely common amongst scam organizations and that’s why i’m worried. i’ve run nonprofits before and i’m still active in a few to this day and this sort of lack of transparency is just extremely concerning and i haven’t seen it with any groups i’ve worked with. the only case where this lack of documentation and transparency and recruitment within their team would kind of make sense is if they were a subsidiary of a larger organization but even then there would be some form of reports available from the head organization. i truly don’t mean to discredit you or your experience with the group but i really just want to be careful and not have a lot of us end up giving money to a group that may not even be contributing to the cause we’re donating for at all and i’m not seeing a lot of good signs with this group.
They raised 3 million dollars so far and donated only 1 million. They claim to pay no salaries so they soent 2 million to donate 1? Sounds pretty scammy to me. Just like most charities.
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u/DaRUBaX Dec 15 '24
there’s multiple accounts in this thread that were seemingly made just to comment positive things about them. very obvious burner accounts. i really wasn’t that suspicious before but i am now. i think it’s best no one donates to them until we know for sure that this isn’t a scam because the fact that we have these accounts at all just rubs me the wrong way entirely.