I got the call today around 6:07 cdt. No answer when we picked up the phone. He got my wife to donate $20 a couple of years ago. We checked and the money wasn't used for the police at all. This guy makes you believe he is a policeman. We are on the "No Call' list, but some of these people don't care. We have told him not to call back, hung up on him once and I was very rude another time. We donate to Backstoppers which is a legitimate foundation that helps police and firemen in the St Louis area. Use this excuse if he pressures anyone again. Let's make all out friends aware of this guy so we can put him out of business!!!
Identified himself as being with the patrolmans association soliciting for funds. Told him that I don't donate to marketing companies. He hung up.
According to a Lincoln IL Police Dept. news item posted 1/4/08 "The phone number is a legitimate number, however a telemarketer is using the number by "spoofing" it from another phone number."
Hardly sounds legit.
Husband got a call from this number when he was home sick. Caller requested a contribution to Fraternal Order of Police. He said he couldn't deal with this because he was sick. After he told me I recalled a woman in a neighboring suburb who said her credit card number was stolen after making a contribution, husband asked me to check number of caller. Then I search and find THIS! I am confident the caller was a fraud.
Got the call today around 5:50pm. Caller ID said it all. I'm a police Detective Lieutenant and I can tell you that I never donate to any of these type of "Law Enforcement" organizations. It's bogus. What happens is some small police group contracts out to companies like this one who call on Behalf of the "FOP", "Troopers Association", "Mickey Mouse Police Group", etc. They then give the group about 10 to 15 cents on the dollar for every $1 donated. So that in itself is a scam! Then they "demon dial" numbers across the midwest or US for funds. A lot of scammers also soicit as Fire Department fundraisers. Just hang up when they call. I once got a tele-marketer call back which I forwarded over to the local FBI office via my speed dial button. That stopped 'em for about 3 years. LOL!
DO YOUR RESEARCH!!! THIS IS 17 year old LAW ENFORCEMENT UNION and is completely LEGAL and LEGITAMENT. IT is the Illinois Police Patrolmen Association, headquatered out of Elmhurst, Il. If you take the time to ask questions and EDUCATE yourselve's this would not even be an issue. I guarantee you that the "detective" above is an active member of a union, but since it is not the one he belongs to he bad mouths them. That is pretty sad!!! I thought law enforcement and firefighters were apart of an unspoken "Brotherhood".