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{{trope}}
[[File:fakecharity 5489.png|frame|[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|We totally swear we won't spend the money on the new]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda]]'' game.]]
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: A '''Fake Charity'''.
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{{examples}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the comic: ''Future Five'', as featured on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', Dr. Know uses a charity fund for homeless kittens as a front for his illegal activities.
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* Cribbins in ''[[
* ''[[The Lincoln Lawyer]]'': One of the lawyer's clients used a fake charity to trick people out of their money. The donations went to the defended cause but the organization used the donor's numbers to steal even more money.▼
=== [[Magazines]] ===▼
* This anecdote, published in ''Reader's Digest'' and [http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/buff/blindman.asp cited by Snopes] in their discussion of another urban legend hinging on the same wordplay:▼
{{quote|In our college post office, a collection box appeared marked: Help The Blind Fund. It filled up rapidly with small change. One day it was replaced by a card which read: Thank you for your contributions. The Venetian blinds for our dormitory room have now been purchased.}}▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* [[Seinfeld]]: "The Strike." Also known as "The Festivus Episode." George Costanza creates a phony charity called "The Human Fund" in this episode that nearly gets him the axe at work.
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* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'':
** The Bluth family once held a fundraiser to fight a disease, though they hadn't yet decided which one. But the guests were more than happy to donate their money to ease the suffering of victims of TBA. To make things worse, while the first time this was genuine indecision, next year they did the same thing, and pretended George Michael was suffering from it.
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* Brian Arthur Derek Boyes in ''BAD Boyes'' is a rare example of a [[Lovable Rogue]] who goes out with a fake collecting tin (generally Lovable Rogues disdain this, because you're preying on generosity rather than greed). He stays Lovable because he's only doing it because he's desperate; he needs to raise cash for the school bully or he'll be beaten up. As with Lucy and Ethel, his money then gets taken by the ''real'' charity he's using the name of. There's also some [[Hypocritical Humor]] in the [[Novelisation]]; when his first attempt nets buttons and foreign money, he's outraged at the dishonesty of some people.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'': Some friends of Denny Crane pulled a prank on him by tricking them into thinking the Republican Party wanted him as their presidential candidate. During the ceremony to announce him, they told him it was just a prank. Their laughter ended when some federal agents showed up to arrest them for using a phony presidential candidate to scam money out of people. As the pranksters tried to explain the situation, Denny explained he figured out they were pranking him and brought the "agents" as a payback.
▲* Cribbins in ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'' poses as a devout Omnian collecting "for the kiddies".
▲* ''[[The Lincoln Lawyer]]'': One of the lawyer's clients used a fake charity to trick people out of their money. The donations went to the defended cause but the organization used the donor's numbers to steal even more money.
▲== [[Magazines]] ==
▲* This anecdote, published in ''Reader's Digest'' and [http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/buff/blindman.asp cited by Snopes] in their discussion of another urban legend hinging on the same wordplay:
▲{{quote|In our college post office, a collection box appeared marked: Help The Blind Fund. It filled up rapidly with small change. One day it was replaced by a card which read: Thank you for your contributions. The Venetian blinds for our dormitory room have now been purchased.}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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