Sketchy sketchy!
The cancelled Dionne Warwick American Music Inaugural Ball has left ticket purchasers and volunteers without any explanation and growing concern for their lost money and the fate of sensitive personal information they were scammed into giving up.
Promoters claimed they needed volunteers’ social security numbers to clear for a potential visit from President Obama, which was a total scam.
People who bought tickets have been able to trace their purchases to a disconnected number in Dallas, and the “Dionne and Friends” foundation to which others mailed checks has been virtually inactive for years nor holds any record of non-profit status with the IRS. Sketchy!
Calls and emails have not been returned, but an email from someone claiming to be Warwick thanked and apologized to volunteers, and, to add insult to injury, said that when help is needed again, “I trust that I will be able to call upon you.”
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