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The home page for the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe is shown on a device on Oct. 16, 2024, in New York. (Peter Morgan / Associated Press)
Fair Lawn officials are asking people to take care with fundraising appeals for businesses destroyed by last week's strip mall fire, warning that some "fraudulent" campaigns have popped up.. A two ...
A New Jersey man who authorities say was involved in a GoFundMe scam was indicted in federal court on 16 counts of wire fraud and money laundering on Wednesday.
GoFundMe has described itself as the "leader in online medical fundraising". [29] One in three campaigns is intended to raise funds for medical costs, with about 250,000 campaigns for a total of $650 million in contributions each year.
A woman who admitted her role in a scam that raised $400,000 using a fake story about a homeless man received a one-year prison sentence in federal court Thursday. Katelyn McClure was also ordered ...
A New Jersey man who orchestrated a fraudulent scheme with his girlfriend and a homeless veteran to raise more than $400,000 using a fake story on GoFundMe was sentenced to five years in prison on ...
Americans are losing billions to online scams. In June 2023, online investigation service Social Catfish released its third annual State of Internet Scams 2023. The study provided key findings of ...
The story of Johnny Bobbitt, 39, originally gained national attention as a random act of feel-good kindness, but quickly unraveled into a tangled scam that bilked patrons out of more than $400,000.