Selma Wrote:
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> I just got a call from them. I asked how can I
> verify they are really them. He said to go to the
> website at
http://policeusa.com/. I asked if I
> could make a payment online instead of over the
> phone. He said they don't have that capability
> yet. I went online and sure enough THEY DO. I
> told him that and he was surprised. So I said
> that I'm going to go ahead and make a donation
> online. Then he asked me to hold and a couple of
> minutes later he said that I could do that but
> that I'm taking my chances. REALLY? First he
> gives me the website then says not to trust it.
> He said it's on me if its not real. I said yep,
> it sure is on me and I hung up the phone.
>
> So for those of you who think this is real and get
> a sticker back. Don't you think that ANYBODY can
> print out a sticker and put it in the mail? For
> the price of postage and a sticker, they get back
> $50 to $100 from each person. Sounds pretty good
> deal to me. Also sounds like a scam too.
It is not a "scam" per se, just a really REALLY inefficient "charity".
You give them a hundred bucks, they give 3 cents to some police organization and pocket the rest (numbers are for example only - I have no idea what the real very poor numbers are).