Description: A white flyer with large brown blocks and a grim looking young boy. Text includes:
Help us to provide aid and affordable clothing for a sustainable future
Identifying numbers and names: “Second Life” , “C-Y REG NO: 391493(R.o.I.) | SC 309637″ and the email address second-life@mail.org
Further reading: Bogus charity agencies make huge profits selling-on donated Irish goods
They claim to be supporting families living in poverty, but many so-called charities are collecting old clothes from households around the country before shipping them to Eastern Europe and Russia and selling them on for profit.
A Sunday Tribune investigation into leaflets and stickers that are left into people’s houses found the vast majority are not registered charities and don’t have waste collection permits. Each ‘charity’ consists of one or two individuals who are making vast profits out of the free goods and clothing received from home-owners. Meanwhile, legitimate charities are losing money as a result.
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Posted on December 29th, 2007 | filed under Not a Charity | Trackback |
This is the second false appeal that we have had in the past two weeks
the police and the office of fair trading have been informed but seem to be doing nothing about it.
Suggestion ….Give to your local charity shop.
Dear Sir/ Madam,
My name is Orsolya Tanacs, I’m the owner of Jazmine Ltd. in Hungary. We retail with clothes for 5 years.We want to find new warehouses in Europe, where we can buy english clothes. We are interested in sorted and unsorted high quality english clothes, from different collections, like bag to school, door to door from Ireland. I found your e-mail address in a website. Can I ask you some questions?
- From whitch towns do you have collections?
- Do you select the clothes or you sell them unsorted ?
- If you select, how does it look like?
- Could you send me your full pricelist?
- What kind of grades do you make and what do they mean?
- Whitch one is your best selection?
- The price is lower, if I buy more?
- How can I pay?
- Please send me some photos of bags and clothes.
Than you for your help and have a nice day!
Orsolya Tanacs
A man dropped this exact flyer in my door at around 8:30 this morning in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. I thought the email address “@mail.org” a bit suspicious and googling the full email address brought me to this page. We tend to get various different flyers like this at least once every week. I will be examining each one in future, Im sure most of them, if not all are bogus.
The above bogus charity using second-life@mail.org are leaving label through the door with “I was naked and you clothed me” matthew, picture is of a hand with seed feeding a bird. They are collecting Mon next in Enniskillen Co Fermanagh
Fake Clothes Collections Charities – a new twist…
For some time now, most urban areas in Ireland have been inundated with leaflets, stickers or plastic bags from alleged charities who want your old/second-hand clothes, shoes, linen and, in some cases, toys and more expensive items.
Most, if not all, o…
giving to your local charity shop seems to be the safest
I got the same thing through the door here in Scotland.
The irish charity number is not listed at http://www.revenue.ie and the scottish charity number SC309637 does not exist and has never in fact been issued to any charity.
This label was just delivered tonight 10:30 pm on Saturday night in Malahide.
I actually saw delivery person, a young woman, on the street as walking around doin the “deliverys”.
She had stopped at a neighbours on main street for a 30seconds or so
was she texting the addresses to her partners in crime as an easy job???
I seriously doubt she’s working this hard esp on a Saturday NIGHT,
delivering what this site claims are bogus charity flyers
Saturday night after 10pm this leaflet got posted,
I walked around estate, and at entrance was VW van parked
- dodgy who parks on road and sits there on a SATURDAY night?
REG 98 D 59261.
appeared whoever was in front was on a laptop.
anyway, called guards, and they came up and checked out the van,
but seemed to just leave him
stopped them after to talk to them
and said he had papers for legit ukrainian charity
and I said at this time of night on a saturday??!! come on!?
- they said they would take a look around and try pick up the delivery people….. cant the guards just tell him to move on??
I’m sure the guy in van is all ready for police,
with his excuses and papers, but surely you cant conduct this kind of
business at this time on a saturday night?
if they are burgulars then they dont really want to be leaving any “calling
cards” around before,
so I can just assume these leaflets are BOGUS and can be purchased and used
for any unsavoury reason.
purchased by burgulars as a tool to hitting empty homes on a saturday night.
We got the “I was naked and you clothed me” flyer today in Balbriggan, so I checked out the company numbers. 391493 IS a registered COMPANY number in ireland (go see CRO.ie and do a company search). I dunno where to check for charity numbers, and I assume the ‘SC’ number is their charity number. They are listed as a clothing reseller, so what they are doing might be perfectly legal. I paid for a company printout (listing the directors names) and a copy of their latest company records, I’ll send ‘em on to anyone who wants them. For those interested, here are the names of the directors:
Director: Arturas Gocelkis or Fairview, Dublin
Director and Secretary: Audrome Rutkeviciene of Glasnevin, Dublin
Their full addresses are listed in these documents, so I think this is more opportunistic than an actual scam. Their flyers lie, but I honestly don’t think they’re breaking any laws :/
hi i just recieved one of these fae flyers in the door;i the one with the;i was nacked and you clothed me!i h eft out clothing ect on numerou occtations thinking there were ligit!until i checked the email address on the flyer.it sadens me and angers me that i leave these out for genuine charity and these people!come along and undo what genuine people try to do,to give to more needy people.so from now on i will be puttn a note on my front door sayin:no more fake charity flyers thankyou!
This is just getting ridiculous here in Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Three different fliers in the door this morning. Usually we get 2-3 a week, but 3 in one morning is crazy! There are rumours the clothes are sold at the notorious Sunday Market beside the M1 at Balbriggan. I notice from this site that one of the “charities” had been traced to the address of Lithuanian in Gormanston in Co. Meath, which is 2 miles from here. This might explain the frequency of these things around this locality? There must be a lot of people still putting clothes out, why else would they bother coming round so frequently? A major campaign is needed to discourage people from doing so.
Second Life are now running the same “scheme” in Scotland. We got one today in East Lothian. They still use the RoI registration number, but no address or telephone.