charity phone scam

[big bloke]

Chestnut House and Honeyrose Foundation - watch out for these guys, have been in the papers recently - they phone businesses asking them to lend a hand sponsoring yearplanners. It seems it's a scam, here's some stuff about it -

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/07/charity-conman-peter-lyon-gets.html

Try this one if that doesn't work ...

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/charity/

[Rob]

Thanks for that warning. Always difficult to spot a scam when its claimed a charity is involved but this is a lesson to carry out as many checks as possible before you hand over hard earned cash.

[ange771]

What is this, what the people are doing in the name of charity
Its not fair, what a hell it is, its not a good behavior