Avaaz Reviews 

Absolutely annoying website. I signed a petition maybe four or so years ago and was still being spammed until I recently blocked them.

Like others here, I assumed, naively, that Avaaz was a genuine, non-partisan petition site to help make the world a better place, seeing as they sometimes promote genuine human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, which is one of my interests.

I am not a fan of Donald Trump, but when the major focus of Avaaz became to seek to destroy Trump and put the criminal H.R. Clinton on the throne, I was disgusted. Even after the election, Avaaz refused to accept the result, sidestepping important issues to concentrate on hating Trump and those who voted for him!

I noticed all their other leftist causes, disguised as women's rights, environmentalism and the usual lies to effect social change, to fragment society and kill what's left of our freedom.

George Soros supports Avaaz, which is a good enough reason in itself why you shouldn't.

Avaaz has a physical presence in NY, local people around world, runs a lean organization, major fighter against corruption, against climate change, against animal abuse, for the better treatment of refugees, etc. I contribute monthly to them and have had no problems with them. I also contribute to occasional causes beyond my monthly amount. They claim 44 million members, and even if that's miscounted by a factor of 10, that's still a lot of persons who will read and often sign their petitions. I believe we need more Avaaz's in the world; you certainly can't trust government or private industry to benefit the planet and future generations.

I signed up with Avaaz naively thinking I was doing some good by signing their petitions. Until I saw a pattern emerging in the kinds of petitions and campaigns Avaaz were running, particularly when they started being overtly political. For example, going after Trump (I'm not a fan of Trump or criminal Clinton but there was something suspect in the assumption that everyone should be petitioning against Trump but not Clinton)

I believe Avaaz has either been overtaken or setup by people with a hidden global political agenda that isn't in everyone's best interests. It's one thing campaigning against policies that harm people, animals or the environment. It's another - as in the case of AVAAZ - to target specific politicians for 'elimination'. Yes, some of the campaigns appear 'good', but you can be easily led into believing that this means all Avaaz campaigns are good. When you analyse the pattern of petitions you can begin to recognise the overall globalist agenda coming through. I no longer trust Avaaz because I think they are using the goodwill of the people to further their own political objectives. But they are not the only petition site who are playing this game.

Either way, I have stopped engaging with them. And I would caution people to scrutinise other similar petition websites before committing time, energy and money to them.

I got an email about going after Trump for firing Comey. I know Comey is highly corrupted hence Hillary Clinton. This right here tells me that this site is corrupted. Plus I know the woman Emma is from an evil family. The guy that wrote the good review after all these PPL said they take your money without asking is paid to give good reviews. Never pay ANY of the Campaigns, petitions r one thing but they are all out to get your money excspecislly those that advertise with heart breaking matters as that's how they get you to do it. Wounded Warriors is another one that doesn't give a penny to the Veterans... We are controlled by an evil secret society that are keeping us poor, no health care, high prices, high taxes n so on. We aren't supposed to be paying taxes from our wages. I'm taking a picture of my comment to make sure this site isn't deceiving as well...

I suddenly started getting spam from this organisation. At first I just erased them but then as they kept coming I opened an email and it said I had become a member after signing a petition. I NEVER SIGNED ANY.
So Avaaz just picks random email addresses and claim they signed petitions. This renders all their petitions worthless since they are not to be trusted. Fraudulent, fake and sheit.

They keep taking money without any authorisation from my Credit Card. This is AFTER they have had to refund money to me for the same errors almost 2 years ago. Appalling and scandalous behaviour. I am awaiting yet another refund.
As of mid-March 2017, this money has now been refunded. Thank-you.

I have been a member of AVAAZ for many years. Signing petitions, donating now and then. This morning AVAAZ withdrawed money from my account without me authorising it. This is really of big concern, as AVAAZ claims that visacardnumbers are not kept at the website. I mailed a complaint and got an autoresponse saying that I will get an answer within a week. I find it shocking that one cannot trust an organisation, that claims to work for the good worldwise. I had my visacard cancelled just in case. And sadly I will not be part of AVAAZ any more.
Linda Holm
Denmark

Had put a nagging review 2 weeks ago, and this is the update as promised. After all not that bad.

I had made 3 donations this year, when I found out an automatic donation from my credit card which was going on since end of 2014. The auto donations had summed up to more than 100$, so decided immediately to send an email to "donations at avaaz", and two more afterwards, no reply from 11-Nov to 11-Dec. Finally got my money back and transactions stopped.

My tip: just be patient, it takes time...

Writing from London,UK:Around September-end this year,Wanting to support a good cause,I signed up online for a recurring donation of $5(5 US dollars) via Paypal which comes to about £2.52).Found that £252(TWO HUNDRED&FIFTY TWO POUNDS) had been taken off my VISA debit card!I Wrote to AVAAZ on their website form.No reply.Stopped the donation forthwith and out of courtesy,let them know on their website form.Subsequently,kept getting emails that my recurring donation hadn't gone through,which I took in good faith.All the time,£20 was being charged to my card as I found out.You can imagine how disgruntled I am.Wrote to them again.No reply.My bank says they can put a stop to further transactions but can't claim back ones that thane already been processed,no matter how unauthorised or fraudulent they may be.Very helpful.I have now referred the matter to Trading Standards.Avaaz,if you have any credibility or integrity,you who claim to want to make the world a better place,YOU WOULD GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK.

First, I like the idea of online petitons and many I agree with.

Though I get a LOT of spam EVERY time I sign an Avaaz petition!

Either their system is compromised and somone is hacking my emails they gather from me - or they just sell it to third parties - but they say tey do not do this. This only happens when I sign Avaaz petitions.
Is anyone experiencing the same problem?