The 27-year-old Lucy Wieland of the Australian city of Townsville posted to Instagram allegedly moving images of their fight against cancer. Now she stands in front of the court.
“Ovarian cancer, no thanks” (“No Thanks Ovarian Cancer”) – this is the title of Lucy Wieland’s Blog, on which she reported for several months about her alleged cancer, as ABC News writes was.
On the pictures of your blog and your Instagram Accounts, from the hospital – drawn, a young woman was to all the Users thought, at least. Your Blog and its Instagram Account has been deleted, the defendant in the meantime.
Via the Online platform “GoFundMe” set up the 27-Year-old a Crowdfunding campaign, nearly $ 55,000 has been donated. First of all, many recovery found your Posts and blog entries still to be desired. While Wieland was at all times healthy to the core! However, due to some inconsistencies in your story the hoax was revealed in the end. Now you will be accused of fraud.
“It is daunting”
“It is disheartening. The real victims are the people who have heard this story, trying to help according to your possibilities and in some cases even the little money you have, have donated time“, said investigator Chris Lawson.
Whether the life partner of Lucy Wieland, also in the fraud was inaugurated, is not yet known. After all, the people who had donated to the campaign have received back your money.