Charitable donations flagged

After seeing the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti, many people have been scrambling to give donations to various aid organisations.

But people trying to donate online or over the phone may find their cards are flagged by their banks fraud department and the donations blocked.

A colleague in the Money Box office had just that problem earlier in the week when trying to give money to Red Cross.

We speak to Andrew Goodwill from Third Man, a leading expert on credit card fraud.

This item was first broadcast on Radio 4's Money Box on Saturday, 16 January 2009