http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/2011/03/17/uk-japan-tsunami-relief-use-your-social-media-accounts-to-help-and-to-frustrate-fraudsters/ Social Media Marketing Agency offering training, consultancy & management for businesses. London & Midlands UK Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:56:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/2011/03/17/uk-japan-tsunami-relief-use-your-social-media-accounts-to-help-and-to-frustrate-fraudsters/#comment-155 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:58:38 +0000 http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/?p=753#comment-155 Hi William. Thanks for your thoughts – I’d actually recieved a scam email personally, which was the trigger for this post.
The purpose of the article was to encourage people to spread the word about those large scale appeals, hopefully meaning that additional givers would be recruited, but we take your point about smaller and potentially more agile organisations. If you have personal experience of any who are working in Japan, please feel free to put some links here and we’ll certainly check & publish them.
~ Kate

]]> http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/2011/03/17/uk-japan-tsunami-relief-use-your-social-media-accounts-to-help-and-to-frustrate-fraudsters/#comment-152 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:44:19 +0000 http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/?p=753#comment-152 Whenever a disaster comes along, people mention scams. Perhaps I’m lucky but have yet to see one (though hundreds on other subjects !). My 22 years in aid work have shown me that the small and middle level organizations are usually the ones that do the best, most dedicated and cost effective work. Pages like yours channel funds away from these true gems of organizations into the mega-groups, paying large salaries to their workers and with large overhead costs. In this way you do a major disservice to those in need pulling funds away from so many dedicated people and organizations who are operating at a considerably more grassroots level.

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