One a Year Campaign. Is it a scam charity site? Oneayearcampaign
Posted on | November 26, 2008 | Comments Off
If this Sibohan Jones running an alleged “charity” pixel website called ONEaYEARcampaign was genuine, she would post her contact details, at least on her own website. She uses keywords like: One A Year Campaign, 1 a year campaign, oneayearcampaign.com, 1ayearcampaign.com, Charity Donation, Help Raise A Million For Charity, Solution For Charites, Credit Crunch and Recession.
She says on her “charity” website: “My name is Siobhan Jones. I’m 21 and from Wales in the UK. I have been wondering what to do with my life, whether to get a job, volunteer for a charity, which I’ve done for PDSA in the past, or start my own business…” she says, “How It Works: Your business will receive customers through my website. You will need to donate 10% of the profit you make from these extra customers to a registered charity. You get to keep 90% of the profit.”
In the meantime, as she is running this business in 4 countries and the page will renew each year, she stands to make £1,200,000 in receipts each year!
This is like setting up a charity for homeless people, raising enough to pay for some poor soul a dirty flat to share with a few other homeless on the odd night, and at the same time making enough money out of it to buy yourself a £1.2m 5-bedroom detached house.
As she refuses to declare her business details (which I am sure is unlawful in the UK), along with the German Ali Gous connection (ALI GOUS of no fixed abode because that is who the site is registered to, and in Germany, not Wales), and the fact that she has no one of any note vouching for her, endorsing her or knowing her, or any previous record of success in this field, and the fact that she can show no charity agreements, and there is no auditing framework for donations, and that the donations are just so vague…
I am afraid my view, on balance, is that people should question if it is a SCAM. I would be very happy to be put right on this, but despite many requests on the UK Business Forum where Sibohan began promoting her site, she has not given me answers to any of the following questions.
If you are doing it for Charity it should be:
- Extremely clear where the money is going
- How much is going
- How it will be audited
- Who you are (business info)
- Charity endorsement/agreement
“She” has none of these.
Has ANYONE paid any money to this scheme, yet?
Sibohan says: “We are not fund-raising, but seeking licensing agreement… when businesses tell us after registering which charity they want to donate to we seek an agreement. Different charities have different methods for doing this, we are in the process of trying to acquire blanket agreements from the main charities to cover every business that wants to donate money to them from the charites will be donating to. This enables the businesses and ourselves to use the names of the charities we will be donate to.”
…she has given no evidence of this, either on here, on the webpage, in the FAQ or any advertising guidance.
Now, if I plastered “CHARITY” suggestions over LINGsCARS, and the concept was simply that I was inviting my suppliers to donate 10% of their car sale profits to a charity with no audit procedure and with no visible agreement from any charity, everyone would rightly scream that was an inappropriate use of the “CHARITY” angle in my marketing.
Sibohan has some questions to answer before she can get my agreement that this is a genuine opportunity.
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