Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#2Great investigative journalism. And so, so sad that these hopeful parents were scammed. Terrible that someone could do this to a child. The conclusion doesn’t give me hope though. The alleged scam organizations didn’t respond to questions and … that’s it? No one is going to jail?
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#3Great investigative journalism. And so, so sad that these hopeful parents were scammed. Terrible that someone could do this to a child. The conclusion doesn’t give me hope though. The alleged scam organizations didn’t respond to questions and … that’s it? No one is going to jail?
Well before one can go into jail there must be a trial. I am not religious but for people like this I sometimes hope hell would exist.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#4Great investigative journalism. And so, so sad that these hopeful parents were scammed. Terrible that someone could do this to a child. The conclusion doesn’t give me hope though. The alleged scam organizations didn’t respond to questions and … that’s it? No one is going to jail?
Well before one can go into jail there must be a trial. I am not religious but for people like this I sometimes hope hell would exist.
What do you think the effect would be if, after a trial, everyone in the scam organization was executed?
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well before one can go into jail there must be a trial. I am not religious but for people like this I sometimes hope hell would exist.
What do you think the effect would be if, after a trial, everyone in the scam organization was executed?
I am strongly against the death penalty, so I dont want to imagine a scenario in which this happened. Maybe there should be regulations in place making it so that only registered groups can start donation campaigns. Its a legislative failure. So many crimes are legislative failures...
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#6This is part of the reason that people do not donate.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#7This is part of the reason that people do not donate.
At least not when some rando stops you on the street.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#8"The campaigns with the biggest apparent international reach were under the name of an organisation called Chance Letikva (Chance for Hope, in English) - registered in Israel and the US."
Chance Letikva is registered with the US IRS as a charity. They've filed a Form 990. Location is Brooklyn, NY. [1] Address is listed. It's a small house. It's also incorporated as CHANCE LETIKVA, INC. in New York State. Address matches. Names of officers not given. There's one name in the IRS filing, listed as the president.
Web site "https://chanceletikva.org" has been "suspended". Domain is still registered, via Namecheap.
Some on the ground digging and subpoenas should reveal who's behind this.
[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/852...
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#9Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#10It is disgusting that those with health issues are scammed. I do think these instances require extra time on sentences. As someone who was a regular at a cancer hospital in my life, there is nothing harder than seeing a child and a parent who are clearly going through so much at a hospital at 8am. You realise all that they have gone through the whole time, and how much their life has changed, possibly permanently. It is hard for an adult, of course it is, but children have done nothing for this to happen.