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The phone rings, and a sympathetic voice explains that the Police Association of Ontario really needs your donation to help underprivileged children.

Kind officers, little children. What could be lovelier?

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Don’t reach for your credit card, Ottawa police warned on Tuesday morning.

Yup, another scam.

Except that it isn’t.

The fundraising project by the Police Association of Ontario that Ottawa police initially deemed false is, as it turns out, a real fundraiser.

Ottawa police had to retract their own statement released Tuesday morning warning that the police organization’s “Friendship Through Fishing” campaign was a fraud. Turns out that the donations are safe.

Police learned that after warning people away from the supposed scam earlier in the day.

Anyone who calls the number with a 613 area code will hear a recorded message identifying it as the police association’s office. Police originally said the message is bogus. Again, it’s not.