Evil scam or real?

Scam or Real?

  • Scam

    Votes: 16 84.2%
  • Real

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • Total voters
    19

nakamura

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Okay guys, somehow my Facebook feed gets spammed with posts like this:
Here is the link to the sponsored post
Basically its for saving the life of a sick children.

Now what is quite odd is how they are collecting the money: Check this

First off all: What kinda website is this? There is no address or anything, looks like someone just set it up with a Wordpress theme or something like this.

But whats very odd is (and what made me open this thread): I just saw 5 different posts like this, all different children, all different story, the style of writing looked like all by the same person (words used, sentence structure, etc.) and most of wall: They ALL had different URLs, but the exact same theme/style.

If this is a scam, oh boy...no moral values...and they are earning a shit ton of money
 
Taking donations for a sick suffering child is a classic scamming scheme. Not just on the Internet, this is something you can see in the streets sometimes.
Can't tell if this one in particular is a scam for sure, but if it is oh boy it looks like they did their homework... They even got a video from somewhere.
https://fund.lyusa.org/campaign/60080d92d9725578720b79e7 same website but this one actually has some sort of documents in it?
Either way, the text is grossly manipulative, ugh.
 
I just clicked "real".. I had no idea what I was voting for but I didn't want to get left out.
 
Could be a scam and in the USA that would be illegal (people have been arrested and charged for similar scams related to natural disasters). Something like this could be real, but could also be fake (way to be non-committal, right?). Since it's not a registered 501(c)# charity there are no tax documents to review. Would recommend reverse image searching their photos to see if they come up elsewhere. Not sure if there is a video equivalent to a reverse image search, but would use that on their videos as well, if one exists. An OSINT dive into any domains they use and who owns/runs their facebook profile would be good too.

Might also be worth looking into the entry requirements for sites like Lyusa.org to see if they do any due diligence on the charities.

Too many unknowns for me, so I'm going to be pessimistic and vote scam.
 
This Google search points to hebrew sites looking very much the same like the one above. No clue what it means, but it might be a hebrew scammer entering US market?
I don't know, I've seen too many similar scams so I'm biased, i voted Scam. It may also be real, but the hebrew thing looks strange.
 
the original website is http://www.lehosheetyadla.com/about.html
 
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