You're not wrong, most of them are phonies. All of us little people have been sending donations for a couple of weeks. Now they think we need them to sing, dance,etc, to send more. I'm gonna go watch a DVD.
Conceived and executed by Hollywood (pretty much, Looney Clooney, et al) -- if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a duck...well you know the rest.
Big question is : how much of the money raised will ever get to the TRUE NEEDY VICTIMS THAT NEED IT??? Based on the past record of the "charities" that Clooney has been associated with, don't hold out any great hopes. Ala 9/11 and its charity/money/victim scenario. Same folks, different day.
I just realized... one thing that really bothers me about this is that these are MULTI-millionaires asking Joe Public for money, selling COFFEE CUPS signed by the Almighty Celeb Elite for $2.5k.
Do you suppose if the roles were reversed, that Brad Pit would give up a month's pay for a coffee cup signed by my family?
Unfortunately, I'm sure their java mugs are selling faster than they can uncap a Sharpie.