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 So you have donated your computers
to charity? These scams are normally operated
from Pakistan, India or African countries and will use a
registered UK company or charity as a front to the scam.
This differs from the mostly African based 419 scams that
promise you millions deposited into your bank account in
return for legal fees or set up fees in advance because the
419 scam is based on peoples greed.
The computers recycled for charity scam is based on peoples
sense of good will and willing to give to charity.
 Its easy to be drawn in.
You deal with a genuine registered UK company or
charity who tells you of all the good they are doing for
poor children in the world, some don't even bother to do
this, they simply phone or email with a tale about helping
the children in a random and usually non existent village
they will claim to originate from.
This sounds like a wonderful idea as you hate to see all
this good equipment goto waste so off it goes in a container
to a developing county destined to be given out free of
charge to children and Schools in desperate need of
equipment.
 Think again. Ask your
self who is paying for all this?
Sending a container around the world costs a lot of money
and then the cost of logistics when it arrives in the
developing country also costs a small fortune.
The fact of the matter is these people are in business to
make money.
Once your equipment has left the E.U. it can not be checked
or audited even though you will be told that it is tracked
all the way and the UK agents own cousin will be dealing
with the computer equipment when it arrives.
 What actually happens:
Firstly the hard drives will be harvested and sent to
another location where they will be scanned for usable data
like company or bank details. Software is available freely
on the internet to enable data to be recovered from a
formatted hard drive this information will be used in any
way possible by the scammers.
Pictured above are the children who will receive the
equipment.
They work all day burning the donated computers to recover
the precious metals contained inside
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