i received a call from a telemarketer who was fundraising for a 'feed the children' charity that she explained was formerly run by children's emergency foundation. i used to donate to the children's emergency foundation fairly regularly so i didn't question the call at first.
i don't recall the name of the charity she claimed to represent. i agreed to donate money but declined to provide it by credit card so they should be sending a package by mail. after i hung up, i was troubled by a couple of inconsistencies (they had the wrong mailing address; they didn't pass me along to a verification centre) so i researched the children's emergency foundation and found that the Canadian Revenue Agency had pulled its charitable license for "failure to devote resources to charitable activities."
i will be researching the new organization once i receive the donor package in the mail. i don't want to penalize this new charity if it is doing the work it claims to do, and is just trying to recover from the damage caused by Children's Emergency Foundation. but if it is the same telemarketing company (Xentel DM) working with the same individuals under the same gimic, i won't be fulfilling my pledge.
See article in Toronto Star: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:FsKR1kHzd ... n&ct=clnk&gl=ca
They have phoned me 8 times in the past couple of weeks!! I do not answer as I know by the ring that it is a telemarketer. I finally phoned this number back and left a message that they are to remove me from their dialing list. I took a stand many many years ago not to donate to whatever telemarketers decide to call - so leave me alone!
Are you kidding me? This number has shown up on my call display EVERY day for the past several months, and sometimes several times a day. They have already called twice this morning, and it's a Sunday! Not happy.... not happy at all!