If I was doing legitimate fundraising the last thing I would want to do is insult people, annoy people, or smear anyone asking questions or for more details.
Just saying, I’m very suspicious of anyone who gets aggressive & combative while promoting asking other people to send them cash. At best it’s just weird.
High Pressure Sales Techniques and How to Deal with Them
And it seems like forums and groups these days are full of these fundraisers, including fundraising for people not in the group, who nobody knows, sometimes the person fundraising is using their own cash app and saying they’re fundraising for someone else… and there are strange details, and when asked for more info or details the person goes on the offensive and insults anyone questioning anything as discrimination or lacking sympathy, etc.
It’s just not normal to be approached in this aggressive and confrontational way by someone who is asking for you to give them money.
It’s normal to have a fundraiser in a group of people who know each other for a length of time, for someone people know and have some reasonable ascertainment that the person is real and the cause is real. This random drive-by stuff where people join social groups, forums, and support groups just to drop cash app promotions is out of hand.
Typically people asking for money for a good cause have transparent disclosure about where the money is going, they are polite, try to be respectful and not annoy people, they take no for an answer, they have reasonable answers to questions or at least politely decline to answer and move on.
They don’t go on the offensive smearing, harassing, and insulting anyone who dares to ask a question.
So excuse me if I’m tired of this trend of promoting random charity cash app asks everywhere all the time, and really getting nasty if anyone complains about the level of spam in a space. I realize people don’t want to seem “rude” to “people in need” – but it’s not wrong to be on the watch for scams. They are numerous online, it’s epidemic the level of scams taking place all the damn time.
At times I’ve suspected a straight-up pig butchering scam posted someone who is an indentured servant somewhere and being forced to do fake fundraising. That’s a thing that happens. It’s sometimes suspicious as hell. But often people are bullied into silence if there’s any objection. At times the sheer volume of it is disruptive to any other purpose in the particular space. So I’m tired of people getting attacked for pointing out how someone might get had online with scams and bad actors. It’s a real thing. We’re living in an internet of fakes.
And it’s not my imagination that they are often strangely employing hard high pressure sales techniques.