{
  "id": "WEB-153",
  "slug": "web-153",
  "title": "A charity campaign must supply both its own site and an accreditation listing",
  "statement": "A Charity campaign must supply the charity's own website URL and a listing URL at an accreditation organisation, and both must resolve.",
  "rationale": "Donation messaging is the most impersonated category there is, so the carriers demand a second, independent source that the charity exists — a listing nobody can create for themselves. A real charity that has simply never registered with an accreditation body is stopped here, and finding that out at submission rather than after a rejection is worth weeks.",
  "layer": "WEBSITE",
  "layerSlug": "website",
  "object": "charity website URL + accreditation listing URL",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "EXTERNAL_DATA"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EVIDENCE",
  "authorities": [
    "T-Mobile",
    "Bandwidth",
    "Infobip"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "T-Mobile",
      "code": "9002",
      "remediable": true
    },
    {
      "provider": "Bandwidth",
      "code": "TFV 1110",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "useCases": [
      "CHARITY"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the use case is CHARITY.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Supply the charity's own website alongside a listing at an accreditation organisation — a GuideStar/Candid profile, a Charity Navigator entry, or the state charity register — and open both links yourself before submitting.",
  "notes": "We cannot verify an accreditation listing, and we do not hold the listing URL as a field. The user has to obtain it, confirm it resolves publicly, and supply it with the registration alongside the organisation name and EIN.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Do you have both URLs — the charity's own site and its accreditation listing — and do both open in a private window?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Obtain the listing URL: a GuideStar/Candid profile, a Charity Navigator entry, or the state charity register.",
      "Open both links yourself, logged out, before submitting.",
      "Supply them with the organisation name and EIN."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "A real charity that never registered with an accreditation body is stopped here. Donation messaging is the most impersonated category there is, so a second, independent source that the charity exists is not negotiable."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-153/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-153.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}