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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 ...
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.
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.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
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 ...
James Paul Lewis, Jr., ran one of the biggest ($311 million) and longest running Ponzi schemes (20 years) in U.S. history [44] Victor Lustig , con artist known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower ".
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