Minnesota woman made $117,000 from illegal lottery she claimed benefitted charity

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:53:36 GMT

Worked in a hospital setting for 20 years and same for Army 20 years so am quite familiar with HIPAA Federal regulations.

A family member usually rats out a fake from what I understand.

Don't get me started on outright HIPAA violations as far as Covid-19 goes, Dx are not to be plastered on outside doors to patient's rooms but they were. Dx is diagnosis, sorry to you non-medical folks!

Just like with Planned Parenthood, violations left and right. At my hospital instead of Federally pr... [ More ]

Comment #13

Artist77 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:20:08 GMT

The problem is proving a fake cancer diagnosis on gofundme. Medical records are protected under the law so it is virtually impossible to prove fraud. The burden of proof is on the person claiming fraud.

I was aware of one case where a woman faked cancer and her doctor saw the post and reported the fraud to gofundme. I know of a situation in my sister's neighborhood where a number of people suspect this one woman and her family faked her cancer diagnosis and death. They raised over 200 k. No... [ More ]

Comment #12

Soledad — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:27:13 GMT

There's go fund me's for everything.

Comment #11

Soledad — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:23:02 GMT

Stuff like this is going on a lot these days. And, using the so-called cover of a charitable organization. Could be lottery, could be women's shelters, could be anything. Point is, the only goal is to steal. It's a whole me scenario, what about me. It's actually kind of despicable. No matter how many times, they just refuse to stop. No matter the excuses. They hypocrites. Since when is life easy? I must've missed that news story. Get 'em. What is that grand larceny? Minnesota says so. Shoot mayb... [ More ]

Comment #10

Bleudog101 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:26:30 GMT

Did you know that gofundme has a good record for refunding money from scams?

Some folks used them for fake cancer diagnosis. Gofundme when they are made aware of a any scam refunds all of the monies to the unsuspecting donoor

Comment #9

lottoman626 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:34:05 GMT

not sure why some folks think they will get away with scams like this. smh.

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Artist77 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:40:53 GMT

I think there are more scams on gofundme.

Comment #7

TheGameGrl — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:58:06 GMT

Slow walk to justice.

Comment #6

justadream — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:52:01 GMT

Been there too ! Even worse for me because it was my business page and I have over 200k followers. Three days is a long time and then to catch up . I was actually giving away some free stuff , not taking any money for it. The insane part is that they never fully explain the rule..just that it goes against their standards.

Comment #5

Bleudog101 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:25:08 GMT

That's a great point. Heaven knows I've been in FB jail enough times. Funny first time was for three days. Little did I know their computer times out the 72 hours; went on a few minutes early and zapped with three more days. Longest was one month

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sully16 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:49:59 GMT

And it was Kathren's turn to host the Church Charity fundraiser, welp she'll be busy making license plates.

Comment #3

justadream — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:09:09 GMT

i'm actually surprised Facebook did not shut her down and suspend her account. And here I thought they knew everything ...lol.

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:42:11 GMT

Woke up from a nap and had to read the year again of HER Grizzly ATV...a 2018 model.

She got caught red-handed thanks in part to her greed and electronic transactions which are hard to cover the tracks.

Comment #1

Wavepack — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:42:09 GMT

If she had actually donated all the profit to a charity, along with actually awarding the prize to a winner, would she have been charged

Minnesota woman made $117,000 from illegal lottery she claimed benefitted charity

Lottery Post — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:24:41 GMT

Lottery organizer tried to disguise raffles after law enforcement told her to stop all operations

By Kate Northrop

A Minnesota woman has allegedly raked in at least $117,000 by operating an illegal lottery on Facebook and tried to disguise further attempts to run it after authorities gave her a hard warning.

Kathryn Jean Deblack, 39, of Hibbing, has been issued multiple charges after she ran an illegal lottery that brought in more than $117,000 over the course of ten months.

She