Kars4Kids Fools the Public Again

Note that many car-donation websites are all owned by Oorah / Joy For Our Youth (aka, "JOY") which claims to raise monies for Jewish children "at risk". But very little of the $30+ million they receive each year actually goes to any "at risk kids" - some monies go to ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshivas (private schools) and MOST seems to go to real estate controlled by Kars4Kids' founder and CEO Eli Mintz.

The following are some of the aliases that Kars4Kids / Oorah / JOY / Eli Mintz operate under:

givejoy.org
kars4kids.org
donatecars.com
junk-yard.org
junk-car.org
towing4tots.org
scrapcar.org
donateautos.com
donatecar.TV
carsforkids.com

Don't be fooled by the expensive jingle on the radio: Kars4Kids has been under investigation by attorney generals in many states and is still reportedly being examined by New Jersey, New York and New Mexico. DO YOUR HOMEWORK - see if anyone has actually received a "free" vacation or where the money really goes. Bernie Madoff was trusted, too... until the authorities finally shut him down.

TimesReporter in Ohio Shows Kars4Kids Under Investigation

Anna Lee Brendza, The Times-Reporter’s consumer columnist, is looking into the Kars4Kids scam. If you have information or complaints, contact her by writing Hot Line, The Times-Reporter, Box 667, New Philadelphia 44663 or emailing trhotline1@gmail.com.

Kars4Kids Offer of a Vacation Exposed

Kars4Kids promises donors a free vacation with their donation. But the internet is filled with complaints that all the donor received was a "vacation voucher"--a slip of paper entitling them, at the end of the day, to frustration...but no vacation. Click here to read about this scam.

Kars4Kids (aka Oorah) Swindles Hispanic Workers Out of Pay

As reported by The Asbury Park Press, more than 30 workers and others affiliated with a workers' advocacy group were forced to protest outside the gates of Oorah (aka Kars4Kids) in Lakewood, NJ. The workers said they were part of construction and janitorial crews that helped build and clean BoyZone, a Jewish boys' camp in the northwestern Catskills Mountains of Upstate New York. The camp is owned by Oorah (Kars4Kids). The workers said they worked there for about five months.

Andrew Cuomo Subpoenas Kars4Kids; Says "Charity" Takes New Yorkers for a Ride

Good-hearted New Yorkers who donate their used cars to charity may be being taken for a ride, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

Announcing a sweeping probe of hanky-panky in the vehicle-donation business, Cuomo said some charities appear to be pocketing the proceeds from car sales instead of helping the needy.

Read more here

The Whole Truth About Eli Mintz's Kars4Kids "Charity"

Here's the tip of the iceberg (click on the links to read more):

"Kars4Kids steers donors in the wrong direction" - Consumer reporter and AOL columnist Mitch Lipka looks at some of the slight-of-hand that Kars4Kids is playing and discusses where the millions they collect supposedly goes... and doesn't go.

Pennsylvania Attorney General says Kars4Kids misleads doners.

Charitywatch.org looks at how Kars4Kids is fooling people.