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It seems that nearly every news story is accompanied by a "Go Fund Me" link.
So many "Go Fund Me" accounts have been fraudulent. People watch the news and then start fraudulent "Go Fund Me" accounts. Some accounts in the area where I live have been started with the name of crime victims, and the crime victims come forward to state that they have not started a Go Fund Me, and that the accounts are fraudulent.
I can't believe that so many people actually donate to the Go Fund Me accounts.
Even if not fraudulent some of the reasons the accounts are started seem less than worthy, IMHO.
Recently we received a request via our neighborhood website from someone in a nearby neighborhood. He stated that he and his wife had become overextended with the purchase of their home and vehicles and had to go bankrupt. He was asking for money so that they could get back on their feet and keep their home, plus allow him to finance a college education so he would be able to get a better job. He included the link to Go Fund Me.
Someone made a comment on his Go Fund Me site mentioning that he should be able to apply for student loans, and he replied that he didn't want to have to pay back student loans. He would rather just receive donations that didn't have to be repaid. And unbelievably, many people were donating to his Go Fund Me.
There was a tragic death in the Indianapolis area last year, a young father who was murdered while jogging and minding his own business. It was highly publicized in the news and FIVE gofundme campaigns were immediately started. The family members stated on the news the next day that they were fraud accounts and that the family had not authorized any Go Fund Me account at all.
The crooks who started the gofundme accounts simply took the details from the news reports. Each account had the story, most were very poorly written.
The unbelievable thing was that some of the accounts had misspelled the name of the person who had died. The family pointed this out as well and said they were attempting to get the fraudulent accounts taken down.
I don't think Gofundme cares if the account is legit or not. Gofundme takes a percentage of the funds that are donated.
"While it's free to create and share your online fundraising campaign, GoFundMe will deduct a 5% fee from each donation that you receive. Since our fee is deducted automatically, you'll never need to worry about being billed or owing us any money."
"While it's free to create and share your online fundraising campaign, GoFundMe will deduct a 5% fee from each donation that you receive. Since our fee is deducted automatically, you'll never need to worry about being billed or owing us any money."
Right, so GoFundMe doesn't really care if the accounts are fraudulant or not. They are still making their money.
GoFundMe I get... you're helping someone. This Twitch craze to me is mind blowing....
People pay other people.... to watch them play video games. I thought no one had money today???
It seems that nearly every news story is accompanied by a "Go Fund Me" link.
So many "Go Fund Me" accounts have been fraudulent. People watch the news and then start fraudulent "Go Fund Me" accounts. Some accounts in the area where I live have been started with the name of crime victims, and the crime victims come forward to state that they have not started a Go Fund Me, and that the accounts are fraudulent.
I can't believe that so many people actually donate to the Go Fund Me accounts.
Even if not fraudulent some of the reasons the accounts are started seem less than worthy, IMHO.
Recently we received a request via our neighborhood website from someone in a nearby neighborhood. He stated that he and his wife had become overextended with the purchase of their home and vehicles and had to go bankrupt. He was asking for money so that they could get back on their feet and keep their home, plus allow him to finance a college education so he would be able to get a better job. He included the link to Go Fund Me.
Someone made a comment on his Go Fund Me site mentioning that he should be able to apply for student loans, and he replied that he didn't want to have to pay back student loans. He would rather just receive donations that didn't have to be repaid. And unbelievably, many people were donating to his Go Fund Me.
I laugh at most of these requests. The people who donate are the bigger dummies.
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