Archive for July, 2010

Phishing scam of the day: U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change lottery

It’s not unusual to get phishing scams in the form of lottery “winnings” or that appear to come from legitimate businesses or nonprofits (see the Habitat for Humanity job offer scam).  But this scam is more creative than most.  It arrives as a nice-looking 4-page PDF attachment from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]

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Choosing a donor database

I get a lot of emails like the following from small nonprofits: We desperately need to get a new donor database and most of them are totally unaffordable!! Looking at the Idealware Low Cost Database report, I find that there are so many considerations that it is quite complicated to make a choice. I am [...]

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