A New Jersey man who was the instigator behind a fake story about a homeless veteran who helped out his then-girlfriend and used the tale to raise thousands of dollars as part of a GoFundMe scam was sentenced to five years in state prison on Aug. 5. Mark D’Amico, of Florence, who pleaded guilty to…
GoFundMe Shuts Down $1 Million Amber Heard Fundraiser Claiming to Support Trial Damages
GoFundMe has shut down a fake Amber Heard fundraiser with a $1 million goal that claimed it was raising money to pay Johnny Depp after the actress lost a high-publicized defamation trial against her ex-husband last week. Shortly after a 7-person jury in Virginia reached a verdict on June 1, someone named Kimberly Moore created…
Ottawa Permanently Adds Crowdfunding Platforms to Anti-Money Laundering Regime
The Liberal government has followed up on its plan to permanently subject crowdfunding platforms to its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime, a measure that had been initially put in place in response to the Freedom Convoy in February. Blacklock’s Reporter first reported the issue on April 28. Canada’s financial intelligence agency FINTRAC says the…
Russian Money Not Behind Freedom Convoy, Says GoFundMe
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says Russia played no role in the financing of the Freedom Convoy as it was testifying before the House Finance Committee Thursday, with a Liberal MP suggesting it was the case. Liberal MP Sophie Chatel prefaced her questioning of GoFundMe by saying that Russia has been “engaged in misinformation warfare for years”…
No Russian Money Behind Freedom Convoy, Says GoFundMe
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe said Russia played no role in the financing of the Freedom Convoy in testimony before the House Finance Committee Thursday, with a Liberal MP suggesting it was the case. Sophie Chatel prefaced her questioning of GoFundMe by saying that Russia has been “engaged in misinformation warfare for years” and that it has…
Feds’ Narrative for Invoking Emergencies Act on Convoy Protests ‘Faulty’ as CBC Retracts Second Story, Says Tory MP
With Canada’s public broadcaster CBC retracting a second story about the Freedom Convoy, Conservative MP and party leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis says the government should also make amends about invoking the Emergencies Act. “With even the CBC now admitting that some of their main narratives about the convoy and who was behind it were false,…
GiveSendGo Founders Want Hackers of Truck Convoy Fundraiser Brought to Justice
Heather Wilson, and Jacob Wells, two of the founders of the crowdfunding company GiveSendGo said there is an investigation into the hack that occurred in February of their company’s website that targeted the Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy 2022’s fundraiser. “There is an ongoing investigation right now to bring those perpetrators to justice and make them accountable to…
GoFundMe Tells Committee 88 Percent of Freedom Convoy Donations From Canada
The federal government’s claim that the Freedom Convoy was mostly foreign-funded was challenged on Thursday as a House committee met to review the fundraising behind the weeks-long cross-country protest. The meeting of the Public Safety Committee was often tense as some MPs berated the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe for initially even accepting to carry the convoy’s…
The GoFundMe Scandal Should Not Be Overlooked
Commentary Imagine if your bank notified you that you no longer owned your life savings, and that your money would be distributed to those in need on the island of Madagascar. The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe essentially tried to pull that off last week, when it announced that the $10 million raised by the Freedom Convoy in Canada…
GiveSendGo Says No Credit Card Info Leaked or Money Stolen in Freedom Convoy Crowdfunding Hack
GiveSendGo says no credit card information was leaked and no money was stolen after its website, which contains a fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy, was recently hacked and names of donors were made public. “GiveSendGo has a dedicated team aggressively focused on identifying these malicious actors and pursuing actions against their cybercrime,” said the company…
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