{"id":5134,"date":"2017-01-12T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T23:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:41:17","slug":"scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been contacted by an overseas nonprofit asking for help raising money and\/or processing donations? Be careful! This is most likely a scam targeting US nonprofits!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve recently witnessed overseas nonprofits (or someone posing as nonprofits) asking US-based organizations to assist them in their fundraising efforts by processing their donations. These fraudulent organizations are basically saying, &#8220;Hey, we can give you donors and money if you&#8217;ll process the donations and send us a large percentage of it.&#8221; If an organization agrees and processes the donations, large amounts of chargebacks and fraud may occur and wind up costing the US organization quite a tidy sum.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short &#8212; don&#8217;t do it! If you suspect you&#8217;re being contacted by a fraudulent organization, simply do not respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been contacted by an overseas nonprofit asking for help raising money and\/or processing donations? Be careful! This is most likely a scam targeting US nonprofits! We&#8217;ve recently witnessed overseas nonprofits (or someone posing as nonprofits) asking US-based organizations to assist them in their fundraising efforts by processing their donations. These fraudulent organizations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[265,261],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scam Alert! - Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We wish everyone was kind! But, unfortunately, we&#039;ve noticed a rash of scammers taking advantage of nonprofits. 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