Sorry ladies I need to keep this vague. I wouldn't ask if I wasn't 100% certain and have seen the proof.
Who do I report this too? This person is raising money for a legitimate Illness but has failed to tell the donators they are incredibly well off and can fund all treatment themselves without it leaving them in a hard situation. Money is being raised under the guise this person is destitute and cannot afford this.
I am so pissed off at this abuse of the charitable nature of everyone. Just not sure where to go?
Charity fraud
Charity fraud
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Depends how they are fundraising go fundraise me and kickstarter and other groups have policies against this and are capable of investigating and acting on reports themselves they shut down such pages.
Keep in mind also that many of australia's wealthier are asset rich and cash poor....and no one necessarily knows how large attached mortgages actually are...
I have an uncle worth millions literally but its all in the form of property....one bad frost and they are penny pinching as much as we are as in 5 years he hasn't been able to sell the property which is a large farm producing flowers only an hour from the city....realistically the only practical way to sell it is to subdivide it and doing so would literally destroy his life's work.
Thanks, they are asset rich and equity is enormous and a huge market for sale available to them and they would make a killing in this market.
They're not using go fund me or any of others, it's all a personally advertised charity with the acct in a personal name so therefore no accountability but due to their profile they are receiving a lot of support.
3 big fundraising charity nights organized do far with just the entry alone bringing in close to a million. Treatment is approx $150,000.
Sounds like they are using profile to obtain support.
If people donate its a voluntary thing let's hope they do the right thing and put the overflow into a research Trust. Many do.
We dont have alot of money the way we support medical research is by fundraising for it. All the funds go straight to a designated research institute. We dont even see any of the money except the few occasions people don't know how to pay online and ask me to do that side of it for them....in which case I pay out of my own account and use my own card to make the payment (its easier than screwing around at the bank)
Unfortunately not the case here. Which is what's pissed me off so much. I feel so sorry for the sick person but once they have treatment life will go on as normal, the funds they've raised however will be used to buy another investment property ( their words not mine )
Bugger
I think depending on the state you contact who ever is in charge of fundraising/charity licenses. I think in NSW its The Office of Liquor and Gaming
Google fundraising license and your state
The ATO maybe able to help you. If they have got a large amount of money they may need to pay income tax on it.
https://www.acnc.gov.au/ACNC/Pblctns/Guides/ACNC/Publications/FraudGuide...
Might help
Anyone can gift money to someone else for it to be tax deductibe it needs to be a registered charity and then falls under those laws
Can you not speak to the police. There is such a thing as obtaining financial gain by deception. If they're lying to people in order to get them to gift money then it would fall under this, however given that the person is actually sick I guess it would be dependent on proving that they are painting a different picture of their situation than what is true.
A current affair. Obviously if you do this though you'd have to go public.
I think it's sickening. Wow! The audacity of them.