The Ministry of Social Affairs calls for not responding to misleading Facebook calls to raise funds

Damascus-Sana

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor called for not responding to misleading contributions to contributions on social networks, "Facebook", which exploit fabricated images of children, people with disabilities, patients and families in need in order to arouse the emotions of followers.

The Ministry stated on its Facebook page that it has recently noticed the presence of people who intend to use social networks by creating fake pages with pseudonyms to photograph and fabricate images of children, people with disabilities, patients and needy families with the aim of raising the emotions of followers of the pages as difficult humanitarian situations and exploiting these images by requesting to collect donations through transfers Financial and publish phone numbers in order to provide care for them.

The ministry explained that what is being published is for fraud and fraud to collect funds from inside and outside the country, stressing that donation and assistance are provided only through well-known charitable societies that operate under the umbrella and supervision of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.