Selling donations to fake charities is a sustainable business model

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ClothingCollection.org is a website dedicated to exposing fake clothing donation charities. From a news article quoted on the site:

They claim to be supporting families living in poverty, but many so-called charities are collecting old clothes from households around the country before shipping them to Eastern Europe and Russia and selling them on for profit.

A Sunday Tribune investigation into leaflets and stickers that are left into people’s houses found the vast majority are not registered charities and don’t have waste collection permits. Each ‘charity’ consists of one or two individuals who are making vast profits out of the free goods and clothing received from home-owners. Meanwhile, legitimate charities are losing money as a result.