It was all a hoax to begin with

[jimnyc]

A homeless veteran, a young female runs out of gas in the wrong part of town. The homeless vet miraculously has $20 on him and tells her to remain in the car, and off he goes to get her 20 bucks worth of gas to save the day.

Her and her boyfriend start a "gofundme" account for him to help him out as a result - and it makes him $400,000!!

But of course the 3 end up fighting over money, and drugs were involved somehow - and the truth ends up coming out. They knew one another all along and it was a setup to make money.

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New Jersey couple and homeless man whose feel-good story went viral charged with GoFundMe scam

It was a feel-good story for the ages — a homeless military veteran’s random act of kindness and a New Jersey couple intent on helping him get back on his feet during the holidays — that inspired people to donate than $400,000 in an online fundraiser when it went viral last fall.

But prosecutors say Mark D’Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. fabricated the story in an effort to raise money for themselves.

“The paying it forward story that drove this fundraiser might seem too good to be true,” Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said at a press briefing in Mount Holly, N.J., on Thursday afternoon. “Unfortunately it was. The entire campaign was predicated on a lie.”

The three were each charged with second-degree conspiracy and theft by deception.

McClure and D’Amico surrendered to authorities on Wednesday and pending a Dec. 24 court date, Coffina said. Bobbitt Jr. taken into custody on Wednesday in Philadelphia, where he is awaiting an extradition hearing.

Coffina said that less than an hour after the couple’s online campaign went live, McClure texted a friend to say the story of Bobbitt assisting her was fake.

“OK so wait, the gas part is completely made up, but the guy isn’t,” McClure wrote, according to prosecutors. “I had to make something up to make people feel bad.”

Ernest Badway, the attorney representing McClure and D’Amico, declined to comment. An for Bobbitt did not immediately return a request from Yahoo News seeking comment.

A spokesman for GoFundMe did not return a request for comment. Coffina said that the company informed him it will be providing a full refund to anyone who donated to the couple’s GoFundMe page.

Rest - https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-jerse...193432689.html

[NightTrain]

Yep, it was a scam from the get-go.

...And then the big bucks rolled in, and all 3 of them started squabbling over that free money.

I think all 3 should go to jail for fraud.