How Do You Spot Online Charity Scams?

<a href="http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/growingyourbusiness/a/spot-charity-scams.htm">How to Spot Online Charity Scams</a> Monday November 30, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Many kind-hearted individuals and businesses make financial donations towards the end of the year. Unfortunately, online scam artists count on this and step up their efforts to steal valuable identifying information, load your computer with viruses, and swindle donors. Scam artists send out their mass email campaigns asking for charitable donations for a variety of causes. Online scam artists have gotten more sophisticated and are no longer simply asking you to mail them information or offering a hyperlink (usually to a virus or form to input identifying information.) Many scam artists are now taking the time to develop actual "charity" websites in an attempt to convince you that they are real. Before you make an online donation to any charity you are unfamiliar with check ...  more