GIVE YOUR 10!, Please check this out!!!! Very important! Options

[IdlersDream]

Some of you may have saw the commercial made by the guy who runs Free the Children about 'giveyour10.'

What the commercial is about is signing up and choosing 10 commitments you'll make to help make the world better and they will donate 10 dollars on your behalf to this charity. All you have to do is choose 10 commitments from a list, validate the email they send you and they give 10 dollars! You don't have to spend any money!

So there is really no reason why anyone should NOT do this.

I'm not sure if UK residents are allowed to join in on this but I'm positive that US and Canadian residents are allowed.

The steps they ask you to do :

Fill in your name, country and email. {Make sure to use a real email or they won't be able to donate any money}
Click on 10 commitments they have listed or make up your own.
Either fill in 10 of your friends emails so they can do it, or just click 'sign up' and not have to give other peoples' emails.
Then check your inbox and just validate the email they send you and 10 dollars is automatically donated to the charity.

This is a good charity, if you get the Canadian MTV, Jessie from the After Show has been part of this charity since she was very young and has even gone to third world countries to help out and stuff.
What this charity does is help build schools for these poors countries and help improve these childrens lives.

The website is :

www.giveyour10.com

Please do this, I don't see why anyone wouldn't since you don't even have to reach into your pocket, just have to click a few buttons and 10 dollars is sent to them!

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

The "fill in your name and email" is a good reason to be suspicious. That and I've never heard of it. But considering it's for the children, I can easily just use a random name and use an old dummy email account. I lie for the children!

edit: Bravil Sea Dome has joined the cause!

[IdlersDream]

Why would you be suspicious? They have commercials on tv here for this 24/7.

All they are doing is donating 10 dollars in your name, how would they ever find out your bank account number or anything?

This is legit. The same charity also holds big 'meetings' in large cities across Canada {and I think the US aswell} where children under 18 mostly get together and people speak and often they even have children that have been helped by this charity to come and talk.

I don't see why anyone would be afraid to do this, I wouldn't advertise it if I didn't think it was extremely legit. Look up commercials for this on youtube, you'll find them.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

As I said, I'd never heard of it. The advertising must be primarily Canadian. And I never implied they could get your bank account number, at most they could pawn your email to spammers. It's not much, it's just that the concept could be used for evil. This is a non-issue though because, again, they don't prevent me from saying I live in Whoville.

[IdlersDream]

I don't think they'd give your email away. If they do, then block those emails. -.-

And exactly, it's not like you have to tell the truth, just use a valid email, that's all. Plus it's donating money to a worthwhile charity.

Edit - Also, anything you sign up for could use your email for spam.

[Guitar Smasher]

As I said, I'd never heard of it. The advertising must be primarily Canadian. And I never implied they could get your bank account number, at most they could pawn your email to spammers. It's not much, it's just that the concept could be used for evil. This is a non-issue though because, again, they don't prevent me from saying I live in Whoville.

I guess you've never heard of Craig Kielburger?

He's the founder of Free The Children. He's in school textbooks in Canada (I know for a fact I've seen him in multiple textbooks). It's totally legit, and of course they'd have ask for your name and email so that they can verify that you are a real person. It's called accounting.

By the way, I saw the campaign mentioned on The Hour (late-night talkshow), when he and his brother were invited.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Correct. I have not. I also don't see how the impossibility of never hearing about someone and that I exercise caution when handing out my name and email address to people or organizations I do not know anything about seems to be an issue. Even moreso I don't understand how this is relevant anymore when there's children to be giving money to and there's no commitment involved as demonstrated.

[Guitar Smasher]

Correct. I have not. I also don't see how the impossibility of never hearing about someone and that I exercise caution when handing out my name and email address to people or organizations I do not know anything about seems to be an issue. Even moreso I don't understand how this is relevant anymore when there's children to be giving money to and there's no commitment involved as demonstrated.

"The "fill in your name and email" is a good reason to be suspicious."

Yeah, if you don't give it any critical thought. There's a legitimate reason for them to ask this information. Please realize that people will interpret what you wrote as a real accusation. You haven't heard of the organization, that's fair. All you have to do is ask for more information.

The money isn't coming from nowhere. The foundation making the donation on your behalf has to know that you're a real person. Otherwise they could be suspected of fraud, money laundering, or any related financial crime. Remember The Simpsons episode where Mr.Burns wins the election by registering dead pets as voters? Charities, moreso than any other kind of enterprise, must operate transparently.

[General_Wolfy]

I'd never heard of this either, but I'll just give them my yahoo e-mail, which I don't use too much anymore. It seems like a worthy cause.

[IdlersDream]

GS explained it way better than I could've.

These guys are obviously much more popular in Canada than the states, but all you have to do is look them up on Youtube or google them and you'll realize this isn't some stupid thing to sell your name to spammers.

I hope more people start coming to the thread... All it does it take less than a few minutes and there's 10 dollars going to a very worthy cause.

[Hasfusel]

I'll sign up with my secondary email address that I use for everything I'm not 100% sure about (I think I get about 150 spam emails delivered to this account daily), and give a fake but ordinary name. Darth, if you give your name as Talos Plaza House or something they might not take you seriously.