Attorney General Stephen Cox Sues FinTech Companies for Impersonating Alaska Nonprofits’ Identities and Deceiving Donors
Today, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox
announced lawsuits against six crowdfunding platforms—GoFundMe, Pay Pal Inc,
Charity Navigator, Just Giving, Pledge to and Network for Good—for creating donation
pages for charities without their knowledge or consent. The lawsuits allege that these
companies used publicly available data to generate fundraising pages for over a million
nonprofits—including several thousand in Alaska—and then solicited donations through
those pages without first obtaining permission from the charities themselves.