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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Specialist-Link-3972 on 2025-05-13 13:06:45+00:00.

My city has chuggers (charity muggers).

These are people working for companies that are contracted by charities to raise funds for them. Chuggers want people to sign up for monthly donations. This is because the chugger gets a nice commission of each monthly donation. In fact, if a person cancels their monthly donations before a year has passed, the charity actually loses money as they have to keep on paying commission to the chugger.

Chuggers stand outside shopping centers and train stations and canvass the public to sign up for these monthly donations. They can be quite persistent and manipulative.

A chugger approached me outside a train station and asked me if I’d like to donate to major charity. I took out a $20 note and told him I’m happy to donate. He said that he cannot accept a one-off donation and that monthly donations are better as one-off donations are kept aside for 3 years before being used for “scrap projects”.

He said that $20 was the minimum monthly amount he could sign me up for.

I looked at his shirt and saw that he was working for a major charity. I took out my phone and went directly to the charity’s website. I selected $25 as a monthly option and showed my screen to him.

“This shouldn’t be a problem, right?” I asked.

The chugger looked like a broken record, “Oh well ugh, you see”. He then walked away looking pissed.