After the earthquake disaster that shook our country deeply, while aid campaigns continued throughout the country, unfortunately, opportunists and fraudsters emerged.
held in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, After the 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes Search and rescue and aid efforts continue in the region.
All over Turkey, we are trying to send aid to the region through NGOs like Ahbap, AFAD, Kızılay and Municipalities. But unfortunately undermining relief efforts and even in a time of such a great disaster, there are ‘people’ who resort to many ways from opportunism to fraud…
There are fraudulent attempts with fake sites opened on behalf of AFAD;
AFAD is currently both controlling the search and rescue efforts and collecting aid in our country.
Personal information is collected and entered through fake websites opened on behalf of AFAD by people who take advantage of goodwill and great aid initiatives. Fraud is being done with critical information such as card information.
The detected sites such as yardimbagis.net, earthquakevergileri.net, afetadresi.com.tr, afad-yardimerkezi.net, afad-kahramanmaras.net and afaddestek.net are no longer accessible, but it is thought that many fraud attempts were made through different sites through AFAD.
For this reason, be sure to visit only the official website of ”afad.gov.tr” for your support to AFAD. Do not rely on donation information from any account or source other than AFAD’s official social media accounts. Similarly, trust only sites with ‘gov.tr’ extension for support to all official institutions.
Dude, who works hard in aid and search and rescue efforts, is also faced with fraud cases over fake accounts;
From the very first moments of the disaster, the dude embraced all the works and made great efforts… Trying to scam people who want to send their support using the dude’s name unfortunately there is.
For example, scammers who want to take advantage of Dude’s crypto money earthquake donations can use fake accounts. they made referrals to their own wallets.
For the help you want to convey through the dude information shared only from official Ahbap accounts and Haluk Levent’s official account. trust. You can also buy from Ahbap Digital Support Cards, which are on sale on platforms such as Trendyol and Hepsiburada.
Fake phone numbers are also in circulation. While not a scam, such inaccurate information also harms relief efforts. Be careful in this regard and be sure to contact the numbers shared by reliable sources and official institutions;
- Some of the fake numbers that have spread…
Fake contact numbers are often spread on platforms like WhatsApp and Twitter. For example, the first of the numbers above Trying to notify AFAD It was a citizen’s number, but it went into circulation and was launched as an ‘AFAD official’. The other number is also given as if it is related to AFAD, but the number does not belong to AFAD.
At this point, all the numbers required for communication are in the official accounts of the Ministries and institutions such as AFAD and Akut. If necessary, try to access contact information through these accounts.
There are also those who have almost turned the business into opportunism, although they are not fraudulent.
Especially on Instagram, after the disaster, many businesses started to post sponsored posts. In these advertisements, businesses are kind of ‘Shop from us, come to us and spend money, we will donate our earnings’ they say… Ads sometimes go to a shopping site, sometimes to the address of a business…
We do not want to put any business under suspicion, We are sure that there are some well-intentioned and genuinely donors among them.. But in such a time, such an advertisement seems like opportunism to say the least.
Moreover, these businesses It is not possible to know whether they actually donate their income or not unless they share it. When faced with so many scams, unfortunately we have to think about everything. For this reason, I recommend that you prefer to make your donations directly to institutions such as Ahbap and AFAD, not through such intermediaries.
If you want to donate for the earthquake, you can reach the current list of all reliable sources from our content below;
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