National Association of Police Athletic Leagues soliticitng donations. I declined and then prompty added them to my Ooma blocked numbers list....gotta love Ooma.
What happened to the DO NOT CALL list??? This obviously is someone looking for donations and they've called EVERY day this week! We've not been home when they've called, but if I get the chance to answer, they're getting told off. I'm tired of every organization you can think of calling for money. Are they NOT required to abide by the DO NOT CALL LIST? Or was that list just a way to accumulate an extensive database of working phone numbers that groups like this gain access to?
Trust me, you don't even get a chance to tell them to remove you from the list.....they hang up.
Charities are exempt from the Do Not Call list law.
Most charities that call hire a telemarketing company to actually make the calls. That company takes a large chunk of every donation, often close to 70%. For charities that claim to help law enforcement tnat number is usually closer to 95%.
This is not the Police Department calling you for donations. It is a professional fundraiser calling on behalf of a police union or association. The Paid fundraiser can take as much as 99% of your donation. Then they use that 99% to call you again and again and again for more donations that will do no good for your Police Department or anyone else for that matter. Your best bet is to hang up the phone and if you want to give to the police then call your local police department by getting their number out of the phone book. Plenty of info about scams like this one at http://www.pfcl.org/
*Never* give donations to a stranger who calls you. Might be a scammer. Might be a legit independent fund raiser who keeps 90% for themselves and sends 10% to the charity. Best to find what charity they are collecting for, research the charity to make sure it's legit, get charity contact info from an independent source, then donate *directly* to the charity so they will get 100% of your donation.