PSA: A New Fundraising Scam Targets Crown Heights

by CrownHeights.info

We all get the calls where a young voice ask if you would like to donate towards a fundraising campaign going, or maybe purchase a ticket in an annual raffle. It’s so common that most don’t even think to question.

A troubled youth in the Crown Heights community has taken the community’s complacency to perpetrate a scam that has ended with numerous community members having fraudulent charges on their bank accounts.

The scam goes like this.

The young man calls or texts you asking if you want to donate towards an ongoing or even completed fundraising campaign. When you say yes, he tells you that the “link” for the campaign is not working, but he will take down your Credit Card information and plug it in manually.

Suffice it to say, when fraudulent charges show up in your account, you know how that happened.

CrownHeights.info would like to remind everyone NEVER to give your Credit Card information to ANYONE, and instead use a secure payment system so as not to compromise your card.