My Fellow Deletees and The Cyberbullied Sisters

I think its a week Bren.

Ladies:  I am curious about something.  We have all this discussion about the dangers of giving out personal info on the internet soooooo how do you handle the donations.  You certainly can't send cash anonymously to a post office box.  If you use a personal check or your credit card aren't you exposing this information on some internet page.  What protects us from hackers or troublemakers getting into this personal information.  I am sorry if I sound paranoid but all this latest stuff going on about someone being able to hack into very private information the people on the other site thought would not be read by any one but their own really concerns me.  I have always heard about hackers but until this stuff exploded on here and the other forum, it never got that close to home with me.

So how are you who are donating finding a way to donate without exposing your personal info?  If there is a way, I would appreciate any info you can share.  More than ever now, I do not want to expose myself or family to anyone knowing my personal info.  Thanks for any advice you can share.  

Medigal .. I think it's perfectly safe to donate to BCO.  I would be hesitant about donating to other sites though.  I think the security here is pretty tight, not too sure about other internet locations though.

Bren

Athena:  You don't understand my concern.  When I post on here I can feel free to say what I want because no one really knows if it's me or Dale Evans (You're probably too young to know her) but once I send in a donation, Melissa and her cohorts and her "lawmen" will know who Medigal really is!  What's the good of having a "Nome de Plume" if I will be uncovered and my anonynimity will be gone!?  I will have to behave forever after on here!  No more fun and picking at everyone.  Medigal will be Medisad because BCO needs money!   

Can't she just meet me in disguise on a street corner and I can give her a few bucks and run?!  I am great at disguises.  Or we could meet at the local Walmarts and I could pay some stranger to hand her my donation.  Must be a better way than having to reveal myself to anyone.  I love the anonynimity of the internet and being able to have strange names.  I'm really not crazy about my real name.  It's boring and not me at all!  For example what if our Jim Morrison "Blue Dahlia" were really Mrs. Harry Watson?   Where is the excitement and mystery in that?  (Oh Cripes!!  I HOPE her name isn't Harry Watson!)  Blue, I APOLOGIZE.  It was just a guess and I think Harry Watson is a great name so tell hubby not to be angry with me if he IS a Harry Watson.  It's the Arimidex ladies.  It messes up my mine!  I would delete this but somebody wrote today it would be here forever anyway.  So I rest my case.  Melissa needs to meet me in disguise in a Walmarts of MY choice if she wants my donation (petty as it will be considering).  Have a good night ladies.  I need to hang it up for the night.  Sanity may return in the morning but don't place big bets on it.

Medigal, I think you could mail a check to the BCO offices in Ardmore, PA -- I'm sure Melissa could confirm how to address a donation.

So how do you report a post and get someone to listen when there is a scam on this site? I sent info from the Mississippi secretary of state and attorney general who filed against them in on going investigation involving another "charity" where donations went missing.

speaking of secure - here is a facebook hint:

While on Facebook, look at your URL address (in the bar at the top of the internet). 

If you see http: instead of https: then you don't have a secure session and you can be hacked. Go to Account|Account Settings|Account Security and click Change. Check at least the first setting, then click 'save', .. It will change from http to https.

Facebook defaults to the non-secure setting and it is up to us to make it secure.

Facebook (ebay, yahoo microsoft and apple, ind) and BCO use TRUSTe.   On Facebook however, the user must choose options to protect one's self.  .. Non privacy seems to be the default.  Here there are no options as far as I can tell, to make our presence more or less private.. Privacy is the default.

(cliff notes)

motherofpatient, what are you talking about? A scam here?

Thanks for the info Melissa ...

Bren

Motherofpatient:  Don't you think we have enough "energy" going on here without your insinuating about a "scam"?  My concerns about "how" to donate without revealing my personal info has nothing to do with thinking the donations are not being used for a good purpose.  I trust this forum completely as long as I can stay anonymous.  I wonder how far Ardmore, PA is from where I live?? I'll resolve this sooner or later.  Thanks ladies for all the helpful but unuseful info.  Nobody seems to like my idea of meeting Melissa in disguise at Walmarts so it's back to the drawing boards for me.

I don't use Paypal, or Payenemy or any of those places where I have to give a credit card.  I use it at the stores because the way they make you scribble your name NO one can read it and tell who I am.   Maybe if I can talk my Onc into taking me off of this mine-blowing Arimidex, I will be able to think clearly and not be so concerned about this issue.  I wonder if Donald Trump has these turmoils when he gives donations?  

Athena, will you quit talking about leaving us?  No one is going to ban you especially not Melissia, imo.  See how nice she is being to us and instead of the lawmen she has a "Team" now with her.  If you stay, I'll give you my real, fake name I use for my "real" friends.  No, I won't.  That is too much to ask of me.  Have a great day ladies!  I have personal business to attend to.  

JB even though I can understand why some here may have issues with the scope of how bc.org is managed I personally do not.....so I can assure you that you are not speaking what I was thinking or probably what many here are thinking......I do believe that you are speaking  to what you are thinking......

but I wouldn't assume that it is what every else may be thinking.....

shokk (I think)

Every honest, reputable charitable organization clearly states its mission and explains to potential donors WHY it is raising funds, WHEN and WHERE it directs those funds, and HOW those funds have been used.  The organization eithers publishes (or has available on request) annual audited financial statements, frequently accompanied by an Annual Report which gives body to it financial statements.

Obviously, it behooves these organizations to use the highest level of security when accepting donations and receipting on-line.