Woman sentenced to three years in state prison for collecting $400,000 in viral GoFundMe scam
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Has anyone ever gotten away with one of these donation scams?
The only reason they didnt is because they only gave the homeless guy $75k. He found out they made over $400k and turned their asses in.
Its entirely possible if they had given him a bigger chunk they would have gotten away with it.
In case you're wondering the homeless guy was in on it too...
Edit: Here you go: https://www.inquirer.com/news/johnny-bobbitt-gofundme-scam-probation-20221003.html
Did he lose the $75k?
Oh yeah. He got lucky though, in that he's the only one out of the three who didn't get sent to jail.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/johnny-bobbitt-gofundme-scam-probation-20221003.html
So he's still homeless I'm guessing.
I hate paying to read
That website has almost never worked for me. https://www.printfriendly.com has by far been the most reliable paywall-bypasser.
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He took his toys and went home
And this is why you always make sure the terms are equitable beforehand. Come on, this is like Heist 101!
Well the OG fundraiser was for $10k. I think it blew up and greed got the better of them.
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The ones that get away probably never make the news. It's probably less viral and less news-worthy. While at the same time equally heart-warming and heartstring tugging.
Would you know about it if they did get away with it?
Politicians do all the time
Think a youtuber did a "socia experiment' where he gave a homeless guy $100 to see what he'd do with it. The homeless guy bought food for his freinds and people were touched by the story they donated hundreds thousands to the homeless man. Later it was revealed that the social experiment was staged. The homeless man also died of alcoholism and hte youtuber kept the money
Literally all the time, problem here was how much money got raised and it got caught in the news cycle and then homeless dude turned them in
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If they got away with it we wouldn’t know it was a scam. So, probably.
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