From a contact at Franklin Military:
Someone is riding some kids around in a white van going door-to-door asking for money for a teacher at Franklin who supposedly has cancer. Which is not true. Can you put out an alert please?
From a contact at Franklin Military:
Someone is riding some kids around in a white van going door-to-door asking for money for a teacher at Franklin who supposedly has cancer. Which is not true. Can you put out an alert please?
17 comments
This little guy came to my door a week or so ago. I gave him my email and told him to send me information and I don’t give out cash. He had gotten cash from some of my neighbors. He had a notebook and was writing down names like it was very official.
Brian Hall liked this on Facebook.
The kids were cold and wet when they stopped by our house last week. It was dark and they shouldn’t have been out. Offer them food or drink instead, they especially like hot chocolate. A parent, caregiver, or older sibling could be forcing them to work this scheme. They are sweet kids.
We gave the boy something to drink and I offered food but he passed on it. Great advice!
He came by our house too! I told him we didn’t carry cash but could I give on a website, he said they didn’t have one. His sister is usually with him too doing the same thing.
Doug Kipps liked this on Facebook.
Kelly Doolin liked this on Facebook.
I wonder if this is the same group of kids engaging people at Kroger a few weeks ago. They were carrying around clipboards and asking for cash for an after school program. Kroger management and RPD ran them off after a while.
A young girl came by our house seems like more than two weeks ago. Was nice to her and chatted but never have or give cash at the door. So I asked her to stop by another time with more info. She hasn’t. Sad for them.
I always keep a few one dollar bills on me for instances like this. I will give them a dollar and tell them Good Luck. It’s worth a dollar to get them out of my hair.
Has anyone called the non emergency police to look into this? I don’t want any backlash from what I am about to say but also don’t want to have to say “duh” later and get backlash so I’ll say it now…. I hope no one is opening their door to a stranger regardless if kids are with the stranger or not. If you don’t recognize them you don’t want to put yourself or your family in a potentially dangerous situation. Example, they could push themselves in and hurt you and your family.
I once had a friend that liked to give away $100 at Christmas. He would get 20 One dollar bills and 4 Twenty dollar bills. He would put the bills in a envelope with a card that said Merry Christmas. He would then go to a soup kitchen and give one envelope out per person as he walked down the line very quickly. The $20 bills were spread out in his pile. He would then go sit down and watch the excitement as the people opened their envelopes. Of course, most of the people got a $1.00 bill, and would see that one of their fellow people got a $20 bill. He said it was always interesting to see their reactions.
Hi everyone, I have talked to RPD and RPS about this. I too met these kids. It appears from RPS that there really was a sick teacher and these kids took it upon themselves to raise money for the teacher. This was not endorsed or known by RPS. The students have been spoken to.
In addition RPD is not investigating because they never got a call or complaint from anyone. However, they are aware of the matter and they ask that I share that anyone who is approached with this possible scam to contact the non-emergency number to file a police report (804) 646-5100
Sadly, people will stop at nothing these days.
It’s wrong on many levels to create this lie but quite another level to involve children. What kind of future generation are we developing?
This is sad to see happening, but I’m going to walk WAY out on a limb here: this is not the first time in history an adult has used kids to run a scam.
On another note, maybe they accept bitcoin…
Based on the comments by the poster at #10, could we change the title of this post since it seems like it is not a scam and these kids were actually trying to do something nice?