Live caller who claimed he was asking for money for some police-related charity. I'd never heard of this particular charity, and even if such a group exists, how do I know how much (if any) of contributions actually go to program work? So I had to hang up on the guy in mid-sentence. Sometimes I feel a little bad about doing this (It's probably because this fellow had a very sexy Southern accent if I'm telling the truth), but that's the way it goes.
Received and answered call. Caller asked if I was Elaine Gibson; I said yes, and he hung up. He did not have a sexy southern accent. He actually sounded very Professional,
Paid solicitation company for a nearly fake police charity.
Robocall with automated voice system asking for support for the 'National Police and Troopers Association'.
This is yet another semi-real police 'charity' that works through for-profit solicitors that keep 90% of the funds.
(Typically 90% to the 'fund-raiser', 9% to the 'charity administration', and 1% to police/families - just enough to keep them from being arrested and put in jail.)
NPTA is located in Sarasota Florida with several similar pseudo-charities. The calls come from a for-profit company that violates telemarketing laws and uses spoofed out-of-service numbers to spam call millions of numbers.
I could not get the robo-voice to tell me what company was actually calling, so I asked to be removed from their call list and it hung up.
Not rated on CharityNavigator, not BBB listed but plenty of complaints. Also - not a legitimate tax deductible donation.
Treat as you would a scammer.
They split the money between themselves and give usually maybe 10% to charity. Makes the telemarketer and their boss very happy though! I am on DNC as everyone knows it doesn't work, Thieves!!