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Good old fashion GoFundMe fraud. >Bobbitt filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey couple who had raised more than $400,000 on GoFundMe to help him rebuild his
by astura 8y ago
Good old fashion GoFundMe fraud.
>Bobbitt filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey couple who had raised more than $400,000 on GoFundMe to help him rebuild his life, alleging they'd withheld the money and spent it on vacations, gambling and a luxury car. A judge gave them until Sept. 3 to hand over the remaining funds. But a day after the deadline, a lawyer for Bobbitt said there's no money left to surrender
This is why I refuse to use GoFundMe, I think fraud like this is rampant and underreported. There's been many times when you see a sad story in the media and multiple GoFundMes are created for the person in the story by people who are unrelated to them, or some who are related but have less than honest motivations. It's just too ripe for fraud and abuse. Even if I 100% know the campaign is real, I won't use the platform out of principle.
They claim they would release the money once the homeless man got off of drugs. I don't even think that's appropriate, if they raised money for him they will have to accept he will spend it the way he wants.
- bena 8y agoI also tired of GoFundMe rather early. Every sap with a sob story had a GoFundMe. Now, some I feel true compassion for: funeral expenses, medical expenses, and the like. But then I started seeing some that were like "Eh. Whatever". Stuff like "I need to buy my college books" or something where it's like "Yeah, you kinda need that, not really an emergency, but if you don't have the money and are trying to avoid credit, yeah, whatever". Then the ones that are just blatant begging. "Hey, I want to go on vacation". "Hey, I want to move back home". "Hey, I want to be a streamer and I need all this equipment". Fucking sorry, mate. If I had $5 to pitch in for any of that, I'd pitch it into the "I'm gonna do that shit" fund before yours. I understand you need to live your best life, but not at my expense. Sad thing is that people I know have engaged in these. And of course, just blatant fraud.
- angus9mcmuffin 8y agoI mean the move back home one is kind of necessary. It means that the person failed to be independent away from their support network without being homeless
- esaym 8y ago>This is why I refuse to use GoFundMe I've always wondered how https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory turned out...