Don’t get me wrong. I love sheriffs, the police, highway petrol, firemen, and so on. I even love them when they give me a ticket (I wish I had not been caught speeding but that’s the risk you take).

It is because most of us feel the same way about our public servants who put their lives on the line for us on a daily basis that the Sheriff’s charity scam works so well. You get a phone call from a boiler rom telemarketing company.

Say your name is Joe:

“Hello, Joe. This is John from the injured Sheriff’s retirement fund. I see you have contributed to us for the last three years. How much would you like to contribute today.”

There’s only one answer to give: “I do not accept phone solicitations. Please send me information about the charity so I can decide if I’m interested to contribute.”

I don’t want to prejudge. It has never happened to me. A genuine bona fide charity will gladly send you information or will at least guide you to their websites. The boiler room “charities” will stay on script using every manipulative techniques to persuade you to donate money and will send a courier to collect the check or cash immediately.

My guess is that they phone every person in a street and have their “courier” handy to collect the money. I was gullible enough to donate once about twenty years ago and immediately afterward I started thinking about the fact that they sent a courier to collect my cash within fifteen minutes.

I did some research and yes most of these telemarketters do work for so called charities but ninty five cents out of a dollar goes to the marketing company.

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