How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up their phones instead?

Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by stoolpigeon on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:57AM (#15378141)

I think one big reason to avoid giving out money is to try to avoid fraud. There are a number of people who are not refugees who would certainly find ways to get at the cash if it were being given out. So the refugees may all be great, honest folks but you have to think about other ways programs can be subverted by people who aren't honest.

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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:26PM (#15379361)

True, but you also have to avoid spending more money preventing fraud than would actually have been lost to fraud. This is a huge problem in, for example, welfare/public support programs, e.g. Reagan's fear of imaginary "welfare queens".

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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by sin7 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:14PM (#15378469)

That happens anyway. The Hillary Foundation and the American Red Cross have come under fire for doing just that.

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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by CharlesDodgson on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:32AM (#15382445)

Sad but true, I wish people weren't so shit :(

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