fundraising
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Charity Finally Discovers Venmo Loophole That Lets People Send Spam
It was only a matter of time before spam came to Venmo, a digital wallet service in the US. Frankly, it’s astonishing that it took so long to figure out the marketing secret: You can message anyone on Venmo, so long as you send them as little as one cent.
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Universities Stalk Your Facebook To See How They Should Hit You Up For Money
On the scale of “irritating” to “soul-boiling” telemarketers, university alumni fundraisers aren’t the worst. The way that school alumni relations offices decide which former students to contact, however, is a liiittle creepy. Universities are scouring former students’ Facebook and LinkedIn profiles to figure out who to hit up for cash, and using targets’ interests to…