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RSPCA get their claws into you.
The RSPCA and the British Heart Foundation have been fined for secretly ‘wealth-screening’ millions of donors so they could target them for more money.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham fined the RSPCA £25,000 and the BHF £18,000 after an investigation found they hired wealth management companies to analyse the financial status of supporters. the RSPCA told the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that it repeatedly wealth-screened all seven million of its supporters without their consent, had been doing so since 2010, and had no plans to stop. http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/07/rspca-...onors-6307346/ |
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And people are in denial about the real use of the Snoopers' Charter. It's not Government you need to be afraid of, it's people who want to make money out of you.
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And people are in denial about the real use of the Snoopers' Charter. It's not Government you need to be afraid of, it's people who want to make money out of you.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38130344 Edit: What the RSPCA and the British Heart Foundation did is probably just the equivalent of hiring a private investigator. |
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This is what happens when you run charities as a business.
I'm going to bequeath them some stuffed animals and my Tiger rug. Maybe my vintage ivory snooker balls if they can tell me when Ray Reardon was champion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Edit: What the RSPCA and the British Heart Foundation did is probably just the equivalent of hiring a private investigator.
Do you think that is what a charity should be doing to see if it can squeeze a few more pounds out of you?
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The RSPCA is an awful organisation. Hopefully it'll be stripped of some of its powers.
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Do you think that is what a charity should be doing to see if it can squeeze a few more pounds out of you?
Genuine charities are grateful for any donations, blood suckers like these exist only to make profits and pay huge wages to those in charge and the chunts hounding on the street. My local pub wanted to have a fund raising night for Cancer Research but CR tried to make them jump through so many hoops they told them to forget it. They now have two nights a year where they raise money for the local hospice. |
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Absolutely not!
Genuine charities are grateful for any donations, blood suckers like these exist only to make profits and pay huge wages to those in charge and the chunts hounding on the street. My local pub wanted to have a fund raising night for Cancer Research but CR tried to make them jump through so many hoops they told them to forget it. They now have two nights a year where they raise money for the local hospice. I do not support the RSPCA, they refused to back the anti fox hunting bill for fear of losing their royal patronage |
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The RSPCA is an awful organisation. Hopefully it'll be stripped of some of its powers.
and that is said as a staunch supporter of animal welfare |
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Big charities exploit people, that's what they do.
And "wealth screening" is just that, exploitation. These charities have become 100% self-serving and they use their particular "good cause" as a shield against criticism. |
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"We notice that you have been so generous to us over the years. Isn't it about time you paid us a little more?"
This ended up with me cancelling my direct debit. |
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"We notice that you have been so generous to us over the years. Isn't it about time you paid us a little more?"
This ended up with me cancelling my direct debit. She was constantly trying to upsell me as though I was signing up for a TV package. In the end I said I'd left my debit card at work and only had 5 minutes left. She still wanted me to go and fetch it and claimed it would be OK if I were late! |
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Do you think that is what a charity should be doing to see if it can squeeze a few more pounds out of you?
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I do not support the RSPCA, they refused to back the anti fox hunting bill for fear of losing their royal patronage
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They also don't like to get involved with cases of cruelty which involve members of the traveling community!
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The RSPCA has lost its way and has become out of control from what it should be concentrating on.
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Totally Agree!
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The RSPCA is an awful organisation. Hopefully it'll be stripped of some of its powers.
They are more interested in persuing political agendas than concentrating on the welfare of animals. I would like to see the current organisation disbanded and another,political free one,created in its place! |
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I have my issues with the RSPCA (and any charity that uses these kind of tactics) and don't donate to them but most of the clamouring and outrage about them and these accusations of them being "political" seem to be coming from the right wing, pro-bloodsport lobby. Anything that upsets those tossers has to stick around in my opinion. There are a lot of good, decent people in the RSPCA and their Scottish equivalent.
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My Dad has had a cat stuck on his roof for 3 days, the RSPCA came out today and put an open tin off cat food on the floor in the hope it would jump down to it. When that didn't work they advised they couldn't do anymore as the roof is too low to call the fire brigade, unless my Dad wanted to pay the fine/charge for it!
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My Dad has had a cat stuck on his roof for 3 days, the RSPCA came out today and put an open tin off cat food on the floor in the hope it would jump down to it. When that didn't work they advised they couldn't do anymore as the roof is too low to call the fire brigade, unless my Dad wanted to pay the fine/charge for it!
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Slightly off topic but I read recently that the chief executive of Birmingham Dogs Home had been arrested on suspicion of taking as much as £450,000 out of the charities funds.
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The Bhf were one of the charities we found that was taking money out of My Mum's account after she died.
I won't support any charity that uses charity door muggers to pressure people into signing up for Monthly donations. |
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I have my issues with the RSPCA (and any charity that uses these kind of tactics) and don't donate to them but most of the clamouring and outrage about them and these accusations of them being "political" seem to be coming from the right wing, pro-bloodsport lobby. Anything that upsets those tossers has to stick around in my opinion. There are a lot of good, decent people in the RSPCA and their Scottish equivalent.
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The two charities also traced and targeted new or lapsed donors by piecing together personal information from other sources, and traded supporters’ personal details with other charities to create a massive pool of donor data for sale.
This gets me. It's exactly the sort of thing that telephone and internet scammers do.
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What I find offputting also is how many of them now don't offer a one-off opportunity to donate. They're not happy until they get you to sign some contract which has them taking money every month from your account. Don't know if RSPCA do this but I've encountered quite a few charities that use this tactic. It comes across to me as seriously ungrateful for the donations they receive, or like a used car salesman resorting to high pressure sales tactics to get you to sign.
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