Checking out a charity

Factual Questions
1

Recently ,yesterday actually, I recieved a phone call from a woman claiming to be from
the Diabetes Society. Usually thats all I ever hear since I hang up on those type of calls.
To make a long story short.
She wasn’t asking me for money just my help. She wanted to send me 10 letters that she
wanted me to mail for them. I was to provide the postage.For some reason I agreed. She
then asked me to stay on the line while the agreement was confirmed. Shortly a man
came on and asked me if I agreed to do it. I said yes. He then said don’t worry if I didn’t
get any responces to the letters.The woman again came on the line.She said it may be a
couple of months before I recieve the packet.

The Flag
Several times,after I agreed to do it, she said that I would surely be blessed. As a parting
comment she asked if anyone in our family had diabetes. I said no. She said truely I was
blessed.
Also she did not say “the American diabetes society”

My thoughts
In this country we have religious freedom. Which also gives us the right not to believe.I
would think that they would not want to alienate anyone by adding religion to the mix.
I’ve argued religion before and sometimes the agnostic gets nearly violent.

But thats not my question.

Is there any way to check out weather or not this is actually the diabetes society?

2

You can contact the American Diabetes Association by calling 1-800-DIABETES.

You can also contact the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to see if they do this.

I’ve never heard of this, though. I think you’re wise to be skeptical.

3

I’m assuming you live in the United States. The largest diabetes organization here is called the "American Diabetes Association, not Society. There are, however, some local and foreign organizations calling themselves “Societies.”

I’d poke around this site, http://www.diabetes.org and see if they are running a program such as the one you’ve been pitched. You may also want to contact them directly. Given the current U.S. Mail situation, I have a difficult time anyone would be running a program such as this right now.

4

Yep
She knew my last name,strangely she didn’t confirm my first name and she knew my address,which she did confirm.

It just seemed so amateurish
The Heart Assn uses this method.It just may be the local one though.