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Venkatesh Rao
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Remember gofundme scammer woman with the homeless-man-$20-gas hustle? Finally going to jail
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Woman sentenced to prison for collecting $400,000 in viral GoFundMe scam | CNN
A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to one year and a day in prison for her role in scamming more than $400,000 from GoFundMe donors, claiming to be collecting money for a homeless man.
6:29 PM · Jul 24, 2022
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Jul 24, 2022
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2018. 4 years ago.
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Police say the fundraiser for the homeless man was a scam. Now GoFundMe has refunded the money | CNN
GoFundMe has made refunds to thousands of people who donated money to a feel-good story that police say turned out to be an elaborate scam.
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Mike Lamb
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Jul 24, 2022
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i'm from the area. even though the story was always implausible, when i saw the bf i knew something was up
the couple and the homeless man who ran the gofundme scam in 2018
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