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On Tuesday, charges were filed against 4 cancer charities for allegedly scamming donors out of over $187 million. Americans give billions of dollars to charitable operations every year, but sadly ...
The letter represented itself as a letter from a seven-year-old girl with terminal brain cancer. She requested the email be forwarded to the recipients' email contacts, with a carbon copy to an email address the letter represented as that of the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society denied involvement in the campaign and ...
The Reynolds cancer charities refer to the four "sham charities": the Cancer Fund of America, Inc. (CFA), Cancer Support Services Inc. (CSS), Children’s Cancer Fund of America Inc. (CCFOA), and The Breast Cancer Society Inc. (BCS) that began operations in 1984 and were shut down in 2016. [1]
Ashley Anne Kirilow (born 1987) is a Canadian woman who raised money to aid cancer patients while pretending to have cancer herself. [1] [2] When Kirilow's fraud was made public, her story was republished around the world. [3]
A Pennsylvania woman is accused of faking cancer and scamming people out of more than $10,000. Jessica Cornell Smith, 32, was arrested Monday and charged with theft by deception-false impression ...
A travel agent who pretended to family and customers that she had cancer as part of a £2.6 million scam has been jailed for nine years. Lyne Barlow, 39, sold holidays around the world for too ...
Smokeless tobacco is not a "safe" alternative to conventional tobacco; smokeless tobacco products contain nicotine and are therefore highly addictive. [496] They also can cause various harmful effects such as dental disease, oral cancer , oesophagus cancer , and pancreas cancer , coronary heart disease , as well as negative reproductive effects ...
The success of such scams relies on a particular compassion in people towards children. When a child is sick, this particularly touches people's hearts. [ 1 ] An early example of this kind of hoax online is the "sick child chain letter ", [ 1 ] an email making the claim that "with every name that this [letter] is sent to, the American Cancer ...