April 5, 2006
Charities issue warning after lucky draw
FIVE well-known charities on Wednesday warned of a possible scam after seeing their logos reproduced on tickets to a lucky draw of which they were not even aware.
The logos of the Community Chest (ComChest), the Singapore Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and the Singapore Children's Society, all appear on the company Great Concepts' 'Crack the Safe' National Lucky Draw tickets.
The troubling thing is, that they are not involved in the draw, nor had they even heard of it until tip-offs arrived via concerned and suspicious members of the public.
The draw offers a Chevrolet Aveo and $10,000 in cash as prizes.
Worried that people may take part in the lucky draw thinking they were helping the charities, ComChest, SPCA and the Singapore Red Cross went to the police last week.
The police told The Straits Times they were looking into the matter.
The charities say they have not been able to reach the people behind the draw for the past week.
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