Unfortunately, there is far too much of this kind of crap going on. When I was working/volunteering for a local environmental group fighting the proposed high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, we regularly battled large, well-funded, national entities passing themselves off as environmental/consumer-rights groups only to discover that they were actually lobbying *for* the dump under the guise of appealing for safety or "clean, efficient power for all."
We discovered that the fastest way to debunk a group like this is to look at who is on its Board of Directors/Advisors. When you've got a group calling itself "Grassroots Enterprise" lobbying for the dump with John Sununu on the board of advisors, something isn't right.
There's also a lot of obfuscation in the click-to-donate world. Lots of people think every click goes straight to charity, but in reality some of those sites are operated as for-profit entities in which only a small percentage goes to charity. I used to try to keep track of these sites here: http://kimberlychapman.com/charitycheck/charitycheck.html but had to stop due to lack of time to do it properly.
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