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When I read threads like this begging for money based on a family member with cancer, it naturally tugs at the heartstrings of nearly everyone. I recently loss my boss (and good friend) to cancer...a man I greatly respected and admired for over a decade.
My wife has severe rhumatoid arthritis that she takes incredibly expensive medication for (infusion treatments, cortisone injections, methotraxate, plaquinil...and a littany of other drugs that knock out her immune system and leave her vulnerable to infections. We're fortunate she has a great benefit package through her employer...but we still have to absorb a lot of deductible expense on the meds. Each infusion treatment is $2600 - and it would take 5 minutes to snap photos of her meds...hell, even a photo of her in the chair at the clinic getting the infusion.
Through all this pain - she still works a 40hr. week. But we've never gone to strangers on the internet and begged for money. And even if we found ourselves in that position...we'd certainly provide a ton of proof of her condition...the costs involved, etc. Her night table beside the bed looks like a pharmaceutical shelf.
Yngwie - you are blasting people on here that were willing to generously donate to your situation for no other reason than you've failed to provide a shred of proof of the authenticity of this. You have no one to blame but yourself. You can't blame people for being inherently suspicious of this whole thing - given the large number of scammers we've seen over the years on GFY. You yourself have been around long enough to have seen this same scenario before. People's suspicions are well-founded and have merit.
I urge you to do the right thing - provide proof - or I will personally be in contact with authorities in Sudbury and provide them with information gathered thus far. Fake cancer scams really piss me off on a personal level (as someone said above - they touch a nerve).
I really hope I (and the rest of us are wrong)...but it's not looking that way.
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