[ireleda]

same thing used to and most likely still does happen in Mexico, people come around asking for a donation to help in the recovery of alkies and junkies and say that they are collecting donations for AA, which I know is a scam because AA never goes public or even asks for donations from members at a meeting, sure they do accept and the org. operates on donations but only from members and never a public asking.
some meetings will not accept donations from members at their first meeting either and AA has no outside interests and dopers are not alkies, so they are outside interests too and detox facilities are a private interest.