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Bogus clothing collections
feature on BBC's Watchdog

Bogus house-to-house charity collections of clothes etc were featured on the Watchdog consumer programme on peak-time BBC1 TV at 7pm, Wednesday 20 November 2002.

The first 11 minutes or so of the half-hour programme were devoted to the topic.

See the Watchdog website for a summary of the investigation :

• Watchdog - BBC TV consumer programme www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/
  

The programme focused on bogus collections by 'Gotham' and associated organisations, who had alleged in their leaflets that the donated goods would go to charity shops in Eastern Europe, especially Lithuania.

The same organisation (Gotham) had been the target of a police investigation a few weeks before - for details see :

• Men arrested in charity scam - Article in local newspaper 2002.  Bogus collections by "Gotham"