I am not religious. But if there is hell…
There is not in the religion of the alleged key player in the scam.
One of the others might make an exception to allow them in theirs.
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
#92Of all the people that you can scam, why go for children with cancer. I guess you think they are an easy target because they are desperate? Pure sociopath mentality. Crab mindset.
In case any sociopath is reading this: just go for old rich people. They are also desperate because they are alone, seeing their relevancy wane, and their deaths are closer every day. A single successful scam will represent a bigger return of your invested time and effort than, compared 10 successfully scammed children with cancer. And they might not even make a fuss if you steal some money from them, it will make them look weak and it will only represent a small percentage of their wealth.
And you are less likely to be killed by a mob, as a bonus.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#93I have reported these ads to YouTube multiple times, because I tracked down their scam websites, but YouTube didn't delete them anyway. Common pattern they had was: - similar or same domains - same messaging on their website YouTube could have taken action, but it choose not to
Once you realize how profitable it is, it's hard to stop. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/meta-reportedly-projected-10...
see Meta, which is operating like a crime syndicate, leveraging higher fees on scammers "to discourage" them, retaining their impact on supply side auction prices and well knowing many don't pay with their own credit cards.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampan...
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#95It's worth noting that if the suspect is in Israel, and he nerds to be tried in the US it might be an uphill battle trying to get him extradited. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/israel-law-of-return-extradition...
It’s so predictable by this point
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whether or not non-productive individuals who don't do any work can own the means of production and reap the majority of the economic surplus from it is somewhat tangential to the question of who pays for whose healthcare. There are plenty of capitalist nations that provide public healthcare on a large spectrum of coverage and quality.
With 2 month long plus waits for basic scans in countries like Canada
Still better than months long fundraisers that aren't even certain to raise enough to cover the cost.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#97Great 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.
there's also "remand" or detention before trial. One example where this is common is when there's a flight risk, or a risk the subject will influence the investigation.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a period when I was constantly showered with these ads whenever I visited YouTube. It quickly became clear that it was some kind of scam, but YouTube didn't do anything about it for years.
Does clicking on the ad cost the spammer a lot of money
Yes, which is one of two reasons why I use a blocker called adnauseum. It an adv locker that “clicks” on every single ad it sees, as well as hides it from my view. This makes my ad profile useless, and also costs them money.
Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
#100The root cause of the problem is that parents and children need to raise funds for cancer treatment in the first place.
I am curious: how else would you fund them? I sometimes donate & follow such cases and cancer treatments are expensive , especially experimental, custom ones. Worse, the rarer and more aggressive the disease - the more expensive the treatment and the slimmer the actual chances.
With Universal Health Insurance as all other developed countries do