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While vacationing in downtown Seattle, I encountered some street people soliciting for a local charity (they said). I authorized a $10.00 donation and gave them a credit card. They said they would email a receipt, so they got my email address as well. They then charged $3468.75 to my card. No receipt ever came, either. The credit card bill showed no contact info for "Positive Impact Program" other than Tukwila, WA 98168 (a small town just south of Seattle). I can find no record of a program by this name anywhere. I have also contacted the Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce and the Tukwila Police Department. No one has ever heard of them. According to the credit card company, there was a digital receipt for the transaction processed by squareup.com (an e-services processer), but squareup.com refuses to release it to me, so I have no idea if it would show anything useful.