From Homeless To $400,000: The Biggest Scam In GoFundMe History
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
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The internet loves a feel-good story. One often finds such heartwarming narratives being facilitated by crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, a well-known website where an individual in a tough spot can solicit the internet for financial assistance. Some are known to start GoFundMe's for other people, hoping the internet will share their sympathies toward a person in need. That is the premise of today's story. A Philadelphia homeless man reportedly helped a stranded woman fill up her gas tank on a busy highway exit. Using his last few bucks to get the frazzled driver back on the road. In return, this woman starts a GoFundMe to help get this homeless man off the streets. The story of the gas toting homeless man emotionally moves internet users, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are raised. But as soon as money enters the picture, this story degenerates into a showcase of greed, conspiracy, and crime. This is the story of the $400,000 GoFundMe scam.
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00:00-01:01 Internet Sympathy
01:02-02:01 Keeps
02:02-06:27 The Homeless Hero
06:28-10:25 Money Issues
10:26-14:47 The Crowdfunding Conspiracy
14:48-15:27 Final Thoughts
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So you don't care about people struggling right you just make money of their misery.
@@kinky2526 I've seen keeps work
You inspired me to make a channel exposing the greed that you tubers like you. I simply told a story and you straight up remove my comment because maybe some people will feel sympathy for me. You are horrible. I'm going to record my life to prove how trash you are for removing my heart wrenched plea for help. I'm not gonna continue because I gotta be up at 3am and it's 930pm. I gotta drive my piece of shit car to work hopefully I make that 30 miles.
@@kinky2526 Also quit judging. Let the man make his money. He makes fire content. You've got legit issues if you don't think these people should advertise a product they feel works.
Imagine running a scam and just casually telling your friends about it. To think they all could have also just gotten away with this if they had given the dude his share of the money.
Pride.... errr greed cometh before the fall....
and to think the friend let them go through with scamming people. their sentences are an embarrassment.
“I hope you learned your lesson, Lisa: never help anyone.” - Homer Simpson
Classic like from the big short: : "I don't get it. Why are they confessing?, They're bragging."
@@AlcoholicBoredom lol true
GoFundMe is a real one for refunding all of those donations. I know it's not a huge amount for big company, but assuming they weren't legally required to refund people, that move really took the sting out of the situation. At the end of the day all that happened is some scumbags were exposed, Go fund me got some positive PR, and a bunch of people learned to be more skeptical. I'll take it
although that was back in the day when I don't think they were making huge money like they do now. They had a reputation to keep up so people would use it; that's why they gave the money back.
nowadays, they don't give money back for scams, it is bad luck because the site is popular now.
Exactly, sometimes that's just the way the news goes.
Too bad that later they stole from the canadian truckers.
@@garrysekelli6776 fascist dont get donations
If they hadn't, it'd set precedent of helping scammers.
Unpopular opinion (?), but I'm not particularly mad at Johnny for his part in this. It sounds like two relatively well-off people used his image in a money-making scheme without letting him know first, and when he found out, he's like "well, I might as well gain something from it, too." A homeless man is in a disadvantageous position. There's a difference between getting yourself off the street and purely being greedy.
Nah, he’s just as guilty. Looking at their house in the video, they were one step above homelessness themselves.
@@entropysmith6965their house looked fine mate
I actually agree with you
They would've gotten away with it if the couple didn't get greedy and gave him his cut. Pretty sure the homeless man knew they were going to get caught if he sued but he did it anyways because unlike them, he had nothing to lose.
He is a drug addict, he would have spent the money on drugs, and died of an overdose.
To this day, I think the thing that pisses me off most is he *actually was a homeless man in need, and they could have done actual good work* with those donations, helping not just him, but other homeless as well. Instead they turned it into a greedy shit show that I've seen people use as their reasoning for not donating to charities or trying to help the homeless in anyway. They didn't just give an 80% fake story to increase the funds they could collect, and use them inappropriately, they actively damaged and hindered really good causes.
That's called collateral damage, as result of greed.
goes to show, don't help anybody for any reason. Only help yourself and your own children, everyone else can fend for themselves.
No good deed goes unpunished!
@@Ganbakodon That's a horrible takeaway I really hope it's a bad joke. It goes to show that you should do your due diligence and research, not that you shouldn't care about and help your fellow Human Beings.
@@hokage102364 You can help and sympathize but never ever give money to anyone except your own children.
I think was done more harm to stories is giving such people large amounts and within a year they are dead from an overdose. Should donations shouldn't be to the general public to be handed out at will to substance users.
I work in this field myself for two decades and the public giving cash and sellable items to addicts of heroin especially does not go the way they think it would
I worked with a woman about 5 years ago that raised something like 50k for cancer she didn't have. Crazier than the crime itself, maybe, was the fact that she came back to her general public job knowing that people knew until she was ultimately convicted.
i’ve heard about a nurse who did the same. when she said she was going to chemo, she was just loitering at the hospital
probably one of those people incapable of feeling shame
I actually had to do a retake and reread that comment again. I can't even imagine how morally bankrupt you would have to be in order to do something so vile. Then again, there are sometimes that I wish I wouldn't need to know how they do that.
i know people like that. they don't care at all! don't have conscience.
She’s got some nuts
As someone who's actually broke and on the streets, I'm not sure if bobbit really did too much wrong. He was in a desperate situation and needed help. It's not his fault that what he thought would help turned out to get him deeper into trouble
I’m not gonna be one of those and just like this but I was in your shoes just under like 2 years ago man. I was homeless, strung out on everything, and hopeless. I ended up getting stabbed in the back literally in the abandoned construction trailer I slept in and I finally woke up.
Now I have a 15 month year old daughter. I’m in college and almost have my degree in addictions counseling. It gets better. Stick it out and put in the work to get better. You can do this. If you need someone to talk to I can give you my info bro. Be safe.
he knew it was a scam when he brought up the civil suit. He is an idiot
His biggest crime was once he knew that this was a lie/story & a crime to cheat people he went along. And when asked by reporters he kept lying. Had he come clean earlier he would've been cleared. 😪
@@user-kn6dq8uw2p if that's true then I really hope u continue on ur beautiful path and if u ever relapse, it's not the end of the world, u know how to get help ASAP cuz u now know it gets 10x worse every day u wait to get help. Stay strong. I'm 8 years off dope im 33 now and so happy to be alive.this is after 20 rehabs and making a real death pack to make sure I was gone by 22, before I even turned 18
How can you have electricity if you're homeless?
This sickens me to the core.
I have a friend who has dementia, and she has been scammed more than once, and is now getting evicted out of her home.
Her step-niece is her caretaker, and is a total pothead, and he’s doing nothing to help out, and I cannot do much because of a physical disability and lack of funds. This world can truly be a very cruel, cruel place, no matter how good of a person you are
Kinda feel bad for the homeless guy though, like if I was in the same situation and someone promised me that if I played along I could get a lot of money, then I would do it. Like I was expecting the big twist to be that he wasn't homeless.
Yeah. He’s a liar and a thief, but primarily through circumstance. I can’t say I wouldn’t have taken the opportunity to get out of poverty, all through feigning a story.
i DEFINITELY would have went along with it I were him. he was homeless. he had nothing. he needed money. would have been fine had they not told anyone else nor swindled him. but they wouldnt have done it if they werent gonna benefit from it themselves unfortunately.
Yeah feel bad for someone who lied and stole money and is a drug addict
@@tomatojews8500 stfu you wouldn’t done the same
Yeah I feel bad for a guy who spent 70k and an RV on heroine and needed to sue people he scammed money out of so he could get more dope.
As soon as wavy said Mark was a gambler I was like GOT IT! Don't need to hear another word, I know exactly what they did and why.
So her mother tried to warn her about consequences of scamming and she was offended because her mother thought of her as a scammer? This level of stupid should be illegal.
I have never donated to a GoFundMe ever. I wouldn't trust it even if it was real.
Wait so Johnny was homeless, he conspired with them, and then they didn’t even pay him a good amount?
They didn't pay him jack shit. Of course he tried to sue. They forgot the one rule you never forget. Don't piss off a man with nothing to lose.
@@craigh5236 lol yup
He probably got some of it but wanted more.
I'm kinda surprised he was arrested too, honestly. Basically he's gonna get free room and board for a while, and then he'll have to pay back money he never received? And like maybe the story was BS, but he's really homeless and was able to benefit from it? Or did he just spend it all on drugs...
Didn't he get that camper? Thats totally better than not having a camper
The real crime about this Go Fund Me was everyone I know willing to help others who need it over Go Fund me.
Now refuse to do it over this specific scam. Everyone who ran this scam also robbed from those who really needed money in the future.
How people do you know? Lol calm down guy
@@one.2622 How people you know he know?
How people do u know he know u know
ohhhhh i feel this when i became homeless suddenly in 2020 and threw up a gofundme, people were questioning it, like we're talking right before the pandemic.
@@NoxNyx666 yep I had a gofundme around panini times too.... Needed rent money and also wanted desperately to pay a friend back. Nobody outright questioned me but... No one shared either 🤡
O well. maybe my disability application will be approved in the next five years.
Edit-- also I hope you're housed now. I've been homeless too it's... Really really rough. I wish you all the best ❤️
That really makes me so sad to watch this...Humanity at its worst
It's absolutely revolting. I totally regret having a generous nature/helping people. This is only one of a few occasions I was tricked - a few times I donated money to a person on FB. Luckily it wasn't alot, well not in the hundreds or thousands but still it was alot at the time. I wanted to help because I know too well what it's like to be in dire straits & I felt sorry for this sweet elderly woman in my country. She lived interstate & others had helped her out too but after a month her FB & messenger account was gone, couldn't find her anywhere. She just disappeared. I wanted to text her to find out if she was doing ok..
I feel for anyone who has been tricked & has actually lost large amounts of money because they genuinely wanted to help someone..
Manipulators come in all shapes & sizes..learnt my lesson, not right away but I did.
@@Lila_FoxCub137 no you wont learn you will do it again because you are empathetic and its a quality and a failing only because others take advantage ...but dont change who you are for anyone - your reward comes in the next life whilst they tend to think this is all there is ...a small 10 or 5 pc of the world have this genuine empathetic caring quality of kind spirit and compassion....the rest are either narc types or just ignorantly selfish. I fall for these things too ...We can get tajen in by the narcs as we attract them .. I actually spot these types of people now by a method thats unusual...Empathetic types usually have cats or animals they love and show great love for and the selfish/greedy nasty narc types t tend not to show that same affection towards animals or have any at all. if they dont have pets or they dont adore their pets steer clear ...lol sounds strange but i think it true and a good guide to spotting hidden character of a person ...lol
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In defense of the homeless man he had nothing to do with the planning and was a pawn, they used him for a scam and didn't pay him or warn him till it got big. Honestly he probably didn't care if they got found out because his part of the scam was minimal and if he did end up in jail he would probably be better than if he was on the street. At least then he'd get a meal a bed and a roof on top of him.
It's like they always say. Never mess with someone who already has nothing to lose.
@@WhiplashPuppet Tbh I feel like he should've got like 6 months in prison
@@TheSpacePlaceYT Why? He was literally used. He didn't know they were even doing all this until after the godundme made a bunch of money. If I was him (homeless and addicted to heroin) I would've played along once I found it out too. Doesn't make it right but the guy was probably desperate for some kind of change and the couple used that against him.
@@quark_E Exactly. And that's the thing too. He's homeless, jail would be a upgrade for him. It's better than sleeping out in the cold eating out of trash cans, that's for damn sure.
yeah he got swept into it, because he thought he had gotten friends that could help. he may not even understood all of it and that is sad this couple and scummy ppl in general use any excuse to grab cash. if there's any caring ppl in the probation system, he can be checked on regularly and that's probably a good thing
Somehow I don’t remember this scandal but I do remember that tumblr had this big donation scandal that I was admittedly dumb enough to fall for. Someone claiming to be a gay guy said that his boyfriend had cancer and was homeless because his family had disowned him for being gay. For like a week everyone was donating to him and then the sister of the “cancer patient” revealed that it was all a scam, it was just two straight guys conning everyone. And that’s when I stopped donating to 99% of fundraisers.
Last time I went on tumblr like a year ago, I saw some many self-fundraisers. It's so sketchy. Like people will post there predicament and link there paypal. Sure maybe some of them are real, but like I'm sure the majority are scams.
@@Chewi_ Yeah I don’t donate to those anymore.
Tbh that's actually a good thing since there's way too many lgbtq people scamming people by making up some bs sob story for some quick donations. Hopefully you didn't donate too much money.
Not only is he gay and got kicked out by his parents but also got cancer AND he's homeless.
Based
I gave money to a (teenage) girl begging at a gas station once.
Never again as when her friends arrived (bunch of blk guys in a Pontiac playing loud rap), she bought snacks for them with the money she had obtained via pity for her false story.
This isn't to mention when my aunt bought food for a homeless man with a sign that said "Homeless, hungry, please help" and he threw it in her face because he didn't want food, he wanted money.
Most people who are actually hurting will not tell you and will not beg it's usually addicts or people that want to scam people most often that do that unfortunately there's a lot of people that have good stories and will try to get help from their really good grifting
Was in St Stephens Green, Dublin about to head to the airport to head home. Had a plastic bag with some snacks, a half bottle of whiskey, a few tins of beer and some toiletries, petty stuff we'd bought on holiday but didn't wanna bring back with us, and we gave the bag to a beggar and she looked in the bag and asked if we had any money. Disgusting!
Why does it matter they were black?🤦🏾♂️ some people
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@@BigSmoke-xh5hi It was just surprising to witness walking stereotypes live.
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i remember seeing so many people getting torn to shreds for doubting the story. i hope they took advantage of their “i told you so’s”
Could tell there was something fishy right away when they said he spent 20 dollars on gas for her. In 2017 gas was on average 2 to 3 dollars a gallon... Was he lugging around an 8 gallon container?
@Robert Nguyen "not many people these days, especially homeless dudes, are just carrying around a gas can." exactly.
@Robert Nguyen not many people at all brother because we can’t afford to 😂😂
Yeah exactly, I'm in Philly,I live around where the situation happened ,there is a major issue with the homeless situation and opioid situation, we all knew that there is no way a homeless person would be given their last 20 for gas. Especially like you said gas was 2/3 at this time too.
@Ollie Nguyen I mean when I was working at a gas station I had people trying to fill up in plastic that couldn’t handle it so well and denied the sale. If they didn’t make it so obvious they were about to use a gallon milk/tea/water jug then I probably would’ve took the money.
But yea it’s not really believable that a homeless man would be jugging around a 5/10 gallon gas filler.
I like your style of reporting. While slightly delayed, the info info has the benefit of being always on point and up to date.
As confusing as it sounds for Johnny Bobbit to have sued Mark and Kait, I can see an explanation for it. Given Bobbit was a legitimate former homeless person, if he wasn't getting a good amount of money that was rightfully owed to him, he could sue them because I mean, being in prison is barely a step back from being homeless. Some would even call it a step forward. So his worst case scenario of him going to prison as well wasn't that much worse than being homeless already.
When you're already at the bottom with nothing to lose, the only way to go is up.
yeah, isnt it grand larseny when someone steals over 30k of money/assets that arent yours? idk for sure its its 30k but he does have grounds to sue.
He sued, because he wanted more money for drugs!
@@lakanron640 he was still owed money that was promised his
@Jenny Main You're a living legend thanks for the insight haha
A triple-A membership cost $100 a year. They will bring you gas or a battery almost anywhere in the USA. Way better value.
and hotels will give you great discounts if you have a triple A membership. some stores too. it’s totally worth it
Doesn’t really make me mad at the homeless guy. Im sure that kind of life is hell and if some guy who has been nice to you comes and says I want to create a little story to motivate people to donate some money to you then that’s gotta be hard to say no to. He’s still a guy living on the streets of the people who came up with the idea hadn’t been scum bags he might have a better life now and the lie would be worth it
Same here I'd go along with it too. People can complain about scammers but people donation just enable the scammer when the donator should know better and start thinking with their head not heart
Yea and it's not a surprise he lawyered up to sue the couple despite being part of the scheme. He couldn't really make his life/situation any worse, but he could surely drag that couple into the ground with him if they weren't going to uphold their end of the deal & that's exactly what he did. lmao. Considering he ended up on probation and they got prison time, I'd say he accomplished his mission.
@@XoDanielleFaith 75k was alot to start a new life though.
If to drag them down with him was his intention, then it is no wonder he is homeless. He would rather drag them down instead of taking what he could get to start a new life. Remember its still from 0 to 75k without doing anything.
@@XoDanielleFaith, he wanted money for drugs!
Johnny shouldn’t be charged with shit. He was an actual heroin addicted homeless man who was taken along for a ride he never asked for. The fact the public would be outraged at him at all simply because the help he truly DID need wasn’t packaged in the little feel good story they were sold. Do you want to help this drug addicted homeless man or not?! Or do you now want him sent to prison and his life truly ruined because some scum bag couple used him and deceived everyone to line their own pockets? Goes to show 99% of people out there don’t ACTUALLY give a shit about the causes they claim to- it’s all about the ability to virtue signal and pat their fragile egos on the back
I just came aware of this channel and I absolutely love it. Great content, super cool stories, and not boring! I’ve been watching for hours now. Kept me awake after waking up to feed the baby.
Keep the stories coming, friend!
That’s heartbreaking.
I remember calling this a scam on the first day it was reported on Facebook. People crushed me on Facebook. I estimate 90% of all these feel good stories on social media are fake or staged. It’s a pretty easy way to make money. I can say I dropped my wallet full of money and have my friends kids walk in front of my ring doorbell camera to return it to me and poof I have suckers believing my story. I setup a gofundme to reward the kids and split the money. Easy peasy
step 1 to committing crimes: don't tell anyone about your crimes!!!!!
Well get ready for deja vu. cause I call BS you wrote anything about it being fake.
You shouldnt have incriminated yourself!
@@nickyblue4866 I wouldn’t do it. Unfortunately I have a conscience and I don’t do meth or gamble so I don’t have the guts to pull it off. 😂
Honestly I agree, most of these feel good stories are staged. I refuse to buy into them, even if it's someone I know.
I’m just now realizing that your background looks like what happens when you keep rubbing your eyes.
Ong it’s so cool
Are you rubbing your eyes with LSD.... Psilocybin or DMT maybe?
wait...
@@uniquefreak13 Okay I know what I said sounded weird, lol. But it’s like when you keep rubbing them for a minute or two, then some weird, grayish blobs pop up in your eyes for a few seconds before fading. It’s hard to describe, and I know it’s not just me. There are sometimes very faint colors as well.
@@Jack-496 floaters.... That's what they are buddy.... Bits of dead cells floating around in the liquid in your eye... They're normal and are present all the time... Some people call them eye worms 🤣
Something recently just happened like this to a single mother, Basically there was this homeless woman bumming outside of Walmart with her kids. A young man comes up to her and asks her a series of invasive questions then gives her like $100 right away start a go fund me in her name. He said that he wanna make sure that she gets a home to stay in with her kids and make sure she gets a stable job, HE DID NONE OF THAT. He ended up taking the money and the homeless woman got nothing
I feel like a can't blame Bobbitt.
He was a homeless vet struggling with addiction.
After going through struggles that most of us will never know the realities of. Struggling just to survive. Not knowing if you'll eat today or survive the night. Every single day.
If you find a way out of that, you're gonna grab it and hold on for dear life!
So they punished the homeless man... hard... I mean what would you do?! I've been homeless. I tell you that stays with you. The first day you have nowhere to go you receive a scar that never heals.
I spent an extended period of time in my late teenage years homeless. I remember the first day feeling so alone and hopeless I just broke down in tears. It is absolutely a scar that stays with you for life.
Yeah I was homeless for a couple years in Tennant Creek... most people that knew me pretend it never happened now... But you never forget the ones who helped you and the ones who didn't
He was lucky though. Now, he's living a much happier and healthier life than he'd ever been.
I feel for that man. I went through that opioid and homeless thing. Did that my whole 20's. I got lucky and met a girl who fell in love with me and lifted me out. Not everybody gets that
How do we know he even was on drugs?
This was fake, lol
A girl who goes around falling in love with homeless junkies is probably not right in the head. Just saying’, you might want to get that checked out by a professional.
Damn dude, I've been binging your vids the last few weeks. Really love the format and as love the 00-10 topics especially for nostalgia purposes. Yes, that was me smashing the like button on all your earlier stuff.
Gosh darn this is a good one!
This is why if I know people I trust are in a tight spot I try to help them directly so I know they got the help they needed. Nothing against 3rd party fundraisers, many have done great good, but between scams and what GFM takes... I would rather just deal directly. The sad thing is this whole scam did more harm in the long run since it made otherwise generous people a lot more cagy about these feel-good stories.
As an actual military vet, this really pisses me off. I was one of the people that donated to that. I was glad to get my money back but after that I would never again donate to gofundme.
ayo thank you for your service
That's one of the reasons I'm having so much trouble with my legit fundraiser. I'm homeless and disabled, I lost everything because my ex and covid.
@@octavius8562 never said it was gofundme's fault. Just don't want the risk of dealing with another scammer on there.
It pisses me off too. I have family that were veterans. Also thank you for your service.
@Will N ● Im a veteran also. I didnt hear abt this but if i had i would have donated also. Thats just what us vets do for each other. Thank you for ur service 🇺🇸❤
I'm from the same town as Bobbitt. He had trouble keeping a job in part because he was often stealing and had a pill problem. He even took his mother's meds and stole pills at his job as an EMT. Couldn't get clean and was always looking for some way to get high. It was sad.
That’s some shameful sh*t right there.
This video is breaking my heart
I posted a go fund me about a week ago cause I need to go to rehab but have no savings to pay for my rent/bills while I was gone for 90 days
Turns out I’m going to have to wait a couple of months and sparingly save to try to get my treatment
I got nothing but negative feedback on Reddit with people saying “you’re a piece of shit” “maybe you should have never put yourself in this spot” etc and ended up deleting the go fund me and the post on Reddit out of embarrassment
I hope stories like these don’t discourage people from helping people in need
Three months of rent and bills is a big ask, but if you went to war or something, the government might clean you up. I don't care. I mean, we have all seen drugged-out wackos, and every single one of them could have said "crack is wack" and decided to not do it. Every single one of them, unless they were one of those "candy" kids who was abused in a certain way. I mean, that's different.
@@miastrong151 oh man I would never ask for something I couldn’t do on my own
My vice is alcohol, I’ve never taken any other drug except tobacco
I wish our vets were more taken care of, they deserve it more then I do
I’m just in a bad spot and thought Reddit could help me and my family
But I can understand how everyone is skeptical of anyone
@@Sadeye92 You sound cool. I hope that things work-out for you.
Sometimes all we can do is take it one day at a time. Hang in there brother, where there's a will there's a way ✊
Reddit is a woke cesspool now. Just add in that you're gay or trans or something. You'll get treated like royalty.
Take solace in the fact that regular acts of kindness and generosity go unnoticed and unannounced on a regular basis. When I was suddenly homeless (aong, unhappy story I don't want to relive right now) I found myself staying in a motel. Due to the housing market in Arizona, I had difficulty finding a place to live. Despite raises every year I had been priced out of the market for even a studio apartment. Arizona is a mess. I couldn't afford long at this motel either. The cheapest one that allowed my cats was 100 a night aka 3100 a month... more than the apartments I couldn't afford. Well, a youtuber who has no desire to be made public sent me around a grand over venmo to keep me and my cats fed and sheltered until I finally found a room for rent with some awesome roomates. Just moved in Saturday in fact. Thank you, Adam, you are an actual real life angel.
@Max Taelor I'm glad I could spread some happiness! There are good people out there, but they aren't the type to advertise their acts of kindness. I wish I could say who it was because he deserves the shout out but I know he doesn't want the accolades or to advertise it. "I don't like seeing someone suffer when I can do something about it" is what he told me. Genuinely good human being. And he had been scammed before, it didn't harden his heart. It reminded me I should do the same.
I hate that too about the cost of living increases. I imagine things are getting worse where I live too. I literally can't go for a day without a phone call from some company trying to buy my house so they can charge exorbitant rent and drive up the costs in my own neighborhood.
@@nmxsanchez that’s what’s up. I am the same way and if I had the money I’d do exactly like they did and wouldn’t want to be publicly known for it either because I did it for you. People like us are out here everywhere 💯💕
@@swampdonkey4919 lol I’m a hard money lender so I know exactly what you mean lol.
I hope you're doing well and will continue doing even better in the future. You yourself are an angel for not giving up on your fur-babies ♥️🙏
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i remember visiting my grandfathers house, turning on the tv and seeing this story. I remember it so well for some reason.
Why did people donate $400k in the first place? That could help many homeless people rather than just 1. Lots of people with big hearts and small brains. Get this guy enough to buy a decent RV, enough to pay lot fees for a while, clothes, hygiene products, food, etc. $75-100k will more than do the trick. You want him to be able to support himself and get everything in order. He won't have to worry about anything and could live off a part-time job
I can imagine several reasons why they'd donate so much for this one cause.
-Because donating a little bit to a big viral fund is easy, quick, cheap and gets that "I'm a good person who helped someone" feeling without needing to think much about it;
-Because they get to talk about how they "played a part" in the wholesome story everyone is talking about and feel good about themselves some more whenever they hear about it;
-Because they get to hear on the news about how their money helped save this one man, instead of not being sure how much their donations actually did for a bunch of people they might never get to see depending on how they donate;
-Because they just aren't used to seeing homeless people where they live and honestly felt sympathy once "homelessness" had a face;
-Because they felt guilty for not donating when everyone else was;
There's probably plenty more.
People don't usually see situations very objectively once it goes viral. If anything, whether positively or negatively, I think we tend to feel much strongly about it, since it see it everywhere.
"Why did people donate $400k in the first place?"
Did you not watch the video?
@@vlcthefish Yeah? Did you not read my comment? I'm not asking why people donated, I'm asking why people donated $400k. If the GoFundMe reached $3.5 million would you not scratch your head? My point was $400k is way over the top for 1 person
@@shybzrk Because it was a feel good story that got national attention about a homeless ex-marine samaritan who used his last $20 to help a women out who broke down in a dangerous area. It's not rocket science understanding that a lot of people wanted to donated money because they like the story. It's not about sending money to homeless people....it was about rewarding 1 particular homeless person. Human beings act on emotion not logic and fundraisers are about emotion.
@@vlcthefish You know my question of why people donated $400k was rhetorical. I did say "Lots of people with big hearts and small brains". And those people got scammed hard
I was a content moderator for Fb when this feel good story was reported. I called it out for the BS it was as nothing about the story made sense. Homie was supposedly a junkie but gave up his last $20 to some random woman instead of robbing her ass for his next fix? I was called all sorts of foul names, and even after it came out that it was a scam people still called me heartless, all cause I refused to believe clear BS.
i also got so much shit for saying the story sounded like BS. he doesn’t look anything like an addict. he’s not emancipated, his teeth are PERFECT (perfectly straight and unnaturally white with no chips or stains), he doesn’t have marks from picking at his skin. though i do want to correct you when you say an addict would’ve robbed her- addicts are stupid & steal stupid stuff. i live in one of the most drug riddled places in the country and addicts won’t steal actually valuable shit, they’ll steal stuff like your spoons and decorative wreaths ppl put on their doors during the holiday. once my mom’s crackhead friend stole the glass from all of our picture frames. i still have no idea why.
@@misseselise3864 you'd be surprised how normal addicts can look.
@@misseselise3864 *Emaciated not Emancipated
@@misseselise3864 probably the easiest thing they could get their hands on for a reliable couple of bucks.
@@Joel-gf4zl on heroin? Lol
Your channel still is so good over the years
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I was already familiar with the story but you did a great job building intrigue and telling the story.
This makes me so mad. I had been homeless over a year through the hight of the pandemic. I met a heap of people that were really in need, a few of us would try to help each other when we could. Then you have people like this who abuse the system and take away an opportunity for someone in need to get a hand up. I hope it did deter any of the generous people who donated from helping people in need in the future
It really is such a scummy move,your 100 percent right about deterring people.
I hope you are safe and staying cool!!
Same. I was fortunate enough to receive help here and there and only really asked for assistance maybe twice during my 2.5 years homeless. Met others in the same who were actively trying to get back on their feet, and others who just gave up.
@@TheFos88 man 2.5 years had to be really tough I'm happy you got threw it man
Someone I know, their family refused to give them their inheritance that they had a legal right to, because they relapsed into drugs and homelessness. We kept telling em, instead of wasting the money yourself (becazse how is that better than letting HER waste her own money, and how does that justify stealing & leaving your supposedly "beloved" sister in the dirt?) why don't you buy her a small flat that she cannot sell, or set up some kind of fund where there are limits, unless she gets clean. Then she would 1. be not homelss and 2. she would have a proper motivation too get clean.
But now, shes still homelss,, knows her family is trash - just socially accepted trash -, the money is gone within one year, nobody speaks a word about it. The thing that bothers me the most is the hypocrisy that they ALWAYS claim "we love her so much, we wish she wasn't homelesss :( we wish she didnt relapse".
Ughh, greed. I sometimes hate humans.
I'm pretty sure I can tell you what Johnny was thinking: He was broke, out of dope and had much bigger heroin habit than he ever could afford before, he was sick and was desperate enough to do whatever he thought would get him the money he needed. As soon as the couple offered him a bunch of money to play dumb for the cameras they pretty much controlled him....it's not like the addict is going to ruin his only source of free drugs , which can come at a very high costs that aren't $$.
But they didn't control him, because in the end he stupidly sued them and got the whole scheme upended and landed himself a criminal record and possible jail time
@@kalisto52 and yo he kinda did lol
Yep a lot of homeless people are addicts or mentally ill or both
@@kalisto52 the homeless guy would still probably come after them when his money runs out.
This was a great story, thanks for taking time out to research and put this up so we can see it! 😀
I remember this case well. It was all over the local news in NJ.
So Bobbitt was an actual homeless veteran, but the story of helping them out was fake. Honestly I don't think he should take much blame at all for this scam.
Regardless of the feel-good story, donators wanted to help out a homeless vet battling drug addiction, and that part of the story was true. He barely even did anything wrong, he just went along with their story. Then the couple got so greedy that they only paid him a small fraction of the money, and spent the rest on themselves instead of creating the trust they promised. Bobbitt was rightly angry that they had stolen the money, so he sued them, which led to the whole thing unraveling. They probably intended to scam him the whole time.
Thankfully, Bobbitt has so far only been sentenced to probation and must attend a drug-treatment program. As of May 2022 his sentencing for the federal charges was postponed, and he told a reporter he was doing well and ready to put the whole debacle behind him. He looked much healthier and seemed to be living a better life now.
I agree….. he just wanted to get his life back on track. Like he’s a victim like the donators.
This is a very condensed version of the story.
Bobbitt was doing stuff like demanding money or he'd blow the whistle, demanding money with threats while high, telling his dealers about the scam and that the couple would pay them off etc. He's far from innocent.
He was in on it the whole time. None of the three are victims
@@jessetorres9502 ? Okay, let’s say you have nothing and you’re presented an operation that to get your life on track. That’s a desperation type move on you and you were taken advantage of in your desperation to get someone else money. He was a victim.
@@brendancramphorn44 I agree this was his only shot at a better life. A lot of us act like we get it but we will never understand what it feels like to be homeless
Reminds me of the similar fundraising drive for a Homeless man who returned a diamond wedding ring that accidentally fell into his possession. The owner launched a crowdfunding campaign to House this man too. I wonder if that was legit.
100%.
ayyyy congratulations on 1mill!
I love this channel, congrats on a million subs
I hate people who scam peoples good nature. There was a hippie looking chick on the side of the road with a sign asking for money. I went over to McDonalds and got her some food. She then brought it over to a car 20 years newer than mine to eat with her hipster boyfriend. Then later that same day, I see them come into my work (Walmart) buying a king sized mattress. I'm all for people having nice things, but nothing about that even remotely says homeless.
lol that's why you never give money to anybody who isn't behind a cash register
You should never buy a homeless person food. There are so many food banks, soup kitchens, TANF benefits, and centers that give them food, that there is no reason to spend any money out of your pocket to feed anyone. You should also never give them money.
I mean I was only out $10 it's not a huge deal, and I would rather take the chance just in case the person legitimately WAS homeless and not a scammer
@@steamedauroraborealis8208 Most homeless people are out due to an emotional need, not a physical one, and many of them prey on people that try to fill that spot in their souls. I don't know. I just think that it is a matter left best to professionals. No one says you can't, but there is a reason that those people aren't helped-out by people they know.
I don't have the balls to try to pull a massive scam on the internet. Its not the wisest decision.
That intro makes me think of NTF haha. Awesome content as always, Wavy!
12:01 "I want my $3 back" is hilarious
“That’s what my own mother thinks of me” so she was basically shunning the scammer label?? That’s like killing someone and acting appalled that others would think of you as a murderer. Make it make sense
Some people aren't looking for advice, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Reassuring lies over harsh truths.
Imagine how many potential benefactors were deterred by this incident and the amount of people whom are actually in need that will be erroneously accused of fraud and won't receive the help they need
SMH and this is why people are so reluctant to help people in need because they never know if it's a scam or not💔
The exploitation of homeless people on social media is just so horrible.
I hope everyone involved in these scams and fake good deeds stub their toe every day for the rest of their lives.
I've been Watching your videos for a little bit over 2 years now. your journalism & script writing is so engaging.
I knew it was a scam from the beginning. People are not that nice.
One time, I picked-up a black guy standing beside his car on the side of the road and brought him to a gas station where I bought him a gas can. He filled it up with his own money, and I dropped him off on the other side of the road from his car. I think that it was in Arkansas, in 2013. It was not a busy highway.
Some defenetly are, just not homeless people cause they cant afford it
Thank you for this video 😊
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Their faces in the court photos, brilliant, you can see the reality and severity of it all written over their faces.
I can't even get mad. Man played the game to the fullest extent. Gg.
Me and my family just spent the past couple months living in a homeless shelter after our landlord was arrested for poisoning us and would have been so happy to just get any help.. and these people scam!!!
This is a fucking roller coaster and you've given zero context lol. Anyway more importantly, I hope your family is housed and safe now:)
@@mightymeatymech they don't owe you context of their personal life.
the text messages with her friend cleansed my soul
What's that sound when you start the video at chapter 1 a day 2 🤔? it's from a video game....it's driving me crazy!!!
Omg it's majoras mask!! Got it lol
The scary thing is they would've got away with it if they were smart about it. Makes you think about how many other GoFundMes might be made up.
It’s pretty sad even for Gofund me as a company. There was always small scam being shut down but this story ultimately put a hold down on stranger even thinking about donating to another strangers cause. I feel like gofund me in the coming months was hit hard and even began to crack down on suspicious and deviant advertisements.
People will CRY on national TV and STILL be lying, smh
just by the fact of wavy doing all these wholesome internet stories he's absorbed some of the energy to become a wholesome figure himself
Wow, I live in Burlington County and never heard about this case! Love your channel!
I got one for you. In my town when I was a kid there was always a homeless guy that would show up around the holidays. I lived in a very rich small town with a majority of retired money running the place. When I got a little older this guy was ARRESTED bc turned out.....HE HAD A HOUSE ON ONE OF THE RICHEST HILLS IN THE AREA, 6 CARS, ALL THIS CASH....all from being "homeless" and getting donations from the rich in that area. Hed live up there and walk around clean shaven ordering food and buying groceries but then holiday time came and hed HOMELESS UP and was making more than a my parents by not doing anything at all.
Vids like this is why I subbed.
that was good man, thanks for the great content
I remember when this happened. Everyone talked about it for like 1 day and then never again.
The good thing is that those funding sites seem to be willing to collaborate with the victims when things like these happen.
Real human being, and a real hero
Onya Wavy your the man now dog your content is always 🔥🔥🔥.
the way kate darts her eyes back and forth is so telling. I'd be willing to bet she's a real sociopath
how to tell someone has never met a sociopath
@@swollentesticle420 she IS a sociopath.
Damn that’s wild…I bet she gives sloppy dome
REST IN PEACE GARY, KEEP CRANKIN THAT HOG FOR THE BIKE ANGELS UP THERE GOBBLESS
GOBBLES
The fact that if they would've given him his share, basically since there's 3 people it would've been 120k or so each so yeah, still very idiotic
1:29 Literally nothing changed but your haircut 😭😭
This guy could cover the story of paint drying and I’d watch the whole thing
Wendigoons go-to sponsor is magic spoon and wavy’s is keeps lol
Pretty sure it's ridge wallet, although he hasn't done one in a while
That is so messed up that they will scam people on gofundme and great video man :]
I love videos informing us about scams so that way we can identify themand avoid getting scammed.
Anyone else not really see a difference in the guy's hair? Also, isn't keeps all about just keeping what you have? Do they actually restore hair?
I looked into using stuff like that. It typically can keep your hair loss steady in a best case as long as you use it for life. The minoxidil was giving me side effects (low bp and facial blood vessel swelling) and I just stopped.
Yep
I said this on another of his more recent videos. I love this guy's content, but his hair looks exactly the same to me.
@@PowerSynopsis keeps doesn't grow hair back it just stops it from leaving your head
Came back thicc
I remembered this from project nightfall, but I came here to see the story in full detail
no harm was done. people online love to throw money at strangers. meanwhile their real neighburs are at home with no one to for help.
I wonder how many scammers are still out there only because they haven't decided to take pictures of themselves spending the money 😂
Congrats on a milli!
Nice to see that I get to see this immediately after binging your content. Keep up the great work!
I heard that story before from another crowdfunding platform and I had no clue the details of the scam causing a lot of distrust when you donate online.