Provjera.com Checks Security of Petrinja Earthquake Donation Campaigns

January the 4th, 2021 – Not sure where to direct your Petrinja earthquake donation? Ask Provjera.com (Check.com).

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Provjera.com website has been launched on which anyone can check the bank account numbers of organisations and Petrinja earthquake donation campaigns in order to protect themselves from financial fraud and potentially fake campaigns, the Croatian Association of Security Managers reported on Monday.

With the support of that association, Provjera.com was launched and maintained by a group, as they say from that association, of independent people, including experts in information security management, data protection and security of banking systems.

The site and content are constantly being improved with the help of volunteers from the wider field of security, marketing and communications, is available on social media and is constantly being updated with available information after its verification.

The aim of launching such a site is to inform and protect people from fraud, false and unverified information and data, which circulate on a daily basis and as such can cause harmful chain reactions, and serves to help prevent financial fraud while collecting Petrinja earthquake donation funds online.

In addition to guidelines for checking the source of information and precautions when making Petrinja earthquake donation payments, Provjera.com also has a list of verified bank account numbers of organisations, as wll as list of verified donor crowdfunding campaigns.

“It’s extremely important to continuously raise the awareness of each individual to recognise potential fraud and make their own decisions. The emphasis is therefore being placed on education, and I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who is working on this project, which is entirely voluntary,” said the vice president of the Croatian Association of Security Managers and one of the initiators of the platform, Alen Delic.

He also noted that no particular Petrinja earthquake donation campaign is promoted on that page, and that they simply want everything to be successful and reliable. On the other hand, it is up to each individual to decide to whom and how to direct their help, and the site can help them in that because, among other things, it offers information about campaigns that aren’t on the list and ones which they can’t determine the safety of, as well as the ones about which little to no information can be found.

“The solidarity and support shown by the people of Croatia after the devastating earthquake that hit the Banovina area inspired the entire region, but in the sea of information circulating every day, there is frequent and unverified false information, which we tried to deal with by launching this site,” explained Delic.

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