GoFraudMe

GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising platform, which has among other things raised some $15 million for the Humboldt Broncos and the families of the dead and injured hockey team involved in the 2018 fatal bus crash. The Broncos GoFundMe page was viewed by almost 2,000,000 people in the first 24 hours.

GoFundMe has grown to 40 million users and two-thirds of the donations are from people who have given to the site for the first time, which to me means this thing is becoming even larger.

Most of the time GoFundMe is a wonderful thing. But like most great things, bad people always find a way to ruin it. So although GoFundMe can be a way for people to help others in need, it should also come with a warning label. That’s where GoFraudMe comes in, as a website that tries to expose the fraudsters on GoFundMe.

For every yin in the world there is a yang and although GoFundMe tries very hard to police fraud, it happens more often than they’d care to admit.

A favourite for fraudulent people has been presenting sob stories about having cancer, with one woman raising more than $25,000 for medical bills. The same person started a “Mom Has Terminal Cancer Disney Trip” page and raised another $10,000. . . . contd.