GoFundMe Scammers

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Rachaele Hambleton aka Part Time Working Mummy on Facebook and Instagram.

She set up her page claiming to help women who have been in abusive relationships, telling stories about "women and babies suffering the most horrific abuse", and claiming she was getting 6 women a week into refuge. She's had multiple Go Fund Me appeals set up, including one set up by followers to help her buy her home (after the landlady said she wanted to sell it shortly after they'd moved in).

She also had (and probably still has, nobody knows) a PayPal fund set up going directly to her, with woolly wording around "enabling me to continue doing what I love", no actual guarantee that the money was going towards abused women, but the implication was there. It appears that "what she loves" is quitting her job to become a full time Instascammer, doing adverts for anything and everything, buying her house and doing a load of tit renovations and decorating, ignoring her kids and step kids unless she's bribed into being in an advert. A couple of years ago when criticised about her change in lifestyle, she said "I'm not dripping in Gucci". Well guess what, these days she has Gucci bags, sunglasses, shoes and sandals etc, as well as a number of other designer items (Mark Jacobs, Mulberry, Victoria Beckham etc), and is constantly out for expensive meals and nights away (despite having 4 kids and 2 step kids, at least 2 of which she claims have "additional needs").

She then set up a CIC with herself and a couple of friends as directors, the paperwork detailed their aim was to help "one abused woman a month". She rented a building, threw loads of money at it to renovate it into a "women's centre", the purpose of which isn't really clear, it appears to mostly be a hangout spot for her and her mates. Then she opened a shop next door, with "all profits going to the centre". Then she opened a packing centre, so the shop tat could be sold online. Then there was a second "centre ", all these buildings were renovated and decorated, but the centres have no real purpose (she claims that local agencies, including social services and the police use them for "meeting women") other than being a vanity project and feeding her saviour complex.

Since setting up her shop, she's run various raffles, none of which she has ever announced the winners of. She regularly asks for donations in the form of vouchers "for the women", and also asking for food donations around school holidays. The only person who appears to have benefited from these is a friend of hers (and the sister of her old accountant), who is from a very well off family, sends her kids to private school, and has set up her own business, so not someone in desperate need of financial support.

Recent Amazon wish lists have included things like vouchers for restaurants, Costa, cinema, as well as shops like Footlocker and ASOS. Again, all apparently "for the women".

She has never provided any evidence of where the various funds she has received have gone, even back to the PayPal days when she promised a monthly newsletter, donors have confirmed these were never received. When anyone emailed her asking where their donations had gone, she got all passive aggressive, refunded their money and blocked them. She has restricted comments on her Instagram so if anyone mentions PayPal it's filtered out.
Don’t forget the wish list for the women and children of the Mother and Baby unit at Styal Prison! We all know prisoners need a £20 Costa or Foot Locker voucher for Christmas 🙄
 
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I have two women on my Facebook who did go fund me for for IVF
Now I know it’s very touchy subject but they chose to be two ladies together knowing they wouldn’t have children the normal way so to expect us to pay for there IVF I thought took the piss
 
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Hate one for kids funerals, they are free, we had to have one. Not only that everywhere we went for the extras either did it free or at a massive discount l the lady who did our flowers charged 100, when we went to collect she gave us the little card to write on. Asked which one and I said daughter, she asked was it for my daughter and how old was she. I said stillborn and yes mine. She then said ok that’s £20, she ended up charging for just the few flowers she had to order in. All the flowers she had in stock and her time were free, the lady who did the speaking usually charged a couple of 100,. But she also did it free and said if we did pay her she would just donate it straight to a baby loss charity, and all said they would never want to profit from a child’s death.
Not everyone is so nice
We lost family member when she was 1
Funeral director charged huge amounts
No discounts for anything he
Tried to bleed them dry
 
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Funerals are expensive, I tend not to have an issues with people asking for help with them. In some parts of the world the local community donates cash to the family which pays for the funeral.

However, there’s normal people who ask for help once in their lifetime and others who make a nice living from it.

I hate the lack of transparency around it all. PTWM is a prime example of this as is Jack Monroe
 
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On a lesser scale than others but Jo Solomon from No Verbal Filter.
It was a fundraiser via PayPal rather than GoFundMe because she said PayPal took a smaller cut but the principle is the same.
Her cat was shot and had an air rifle pellet stuck in its shoulder. Jo said she would need major surgery requiring the shoulder to be fused or quite possibly amputation of the leg.
It happened three weeks after she spent almost £15,000 on a new horse lorry, she said she had no savings left, claimed she felt awkward and embarrassed to ask for help but set up a fundraiser which raised over £4000 plus she had some direct donations to her bank account. She actually hit the target within three hours of setting it up and lots of people said she should take it down but she left it up for ages citing "technical difficulties" and got a lot more donations in that time.
In fact its the second time she has done a fundraiser, the first one was a GoFundMe for her horse to have an op on its eye as it had cancer, she even went to the local paper about it.
If any of you follow NVF you will know that Jo is obsessed with money, begs and drops hints constantly about how hard her life is and all the things she wants as well as putting expensive items on her wishlist so the pretence of being embarrassed was purely for show and she could have just sold the lorry again to get the money needed.
The cat made a "miraculous recovery" and she announced within days no surgery was needed, it soon became clear that the second Jo realised that the injury was potentially serious she saw pound signs and set up the fundraiser rather than waiting for the specialist vet to examine the cat and give her verdict on wether surgery would be required which the first vet had told her would be the next step.
People suggested donating the money to a charity, some asked for their money back but Jo just deleted their comments and blocked them. Some did say that they didn't want their money back and Jo said she would use it for the horses vets bills. Again if you know Jo you know that her animals live in disgusting unsafe conditions and rarely get the care they need because Jo thinks she knows better than vets and other professionals.
She talks about the "hate from trolls" she got over the GoFundMe a lot, still insists she refunded money to those who asked and says the vet is amazed that the cat made a full recovery without surgery.
She desperately wanted to set up another fundraiser last year for another of her horses but said she didn't dare because of all the hate she got last time. If she really needs money she should sell the posh horse lorry that has hardly ever transported her horses and is mostly used to pick up hay and dump rubbish!
I don't think it will be the last fundraiser she ever does sadly.
Yep, Jo does love a good gofundme, when asked to refund the money donated to girlcat for the op she never had, quite a few were blocked and no refund given, strange because one of Jos sayings is charity begins at home motherfuckers….she’s a disgrace, with her Amazon wish list…. Does she ever buy anything for her horses and kid with her own money… doesn’t appear so to me
 
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Im adding The Nurse Mum as she’s a terrible scammer. Also agree the worst are Ashley Cain and co
I beat you too it 😉 she was so bad I can't find the original go fund me that had over £80,000 in it! that poor little boy was so exploited buy her so she could buy her designer stuff and have luxury holidays, Jaxon was a gorgeous little boy and my heart broke the day he died, his poor dad was so pushed out the picture too just so she could claim he wasn't part of jaxons life 😢
 
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Yep, Jo does love a good gofundme, when asked to refund the money donated to girlcat for the op she never had, quite a few were blocked and no refund given, strange because one of Jos sayings is charity begins at home motherfuckers….she’s a disgrace, with her Amazon wish list…. Does she ever buy anything for her horses and kid with her own money… doesn’t appear so to me
Ah yes the delightful "Charity begins at home motherfuckers" comment, what she really means is "Charity begins and ends at my home and sod everybody else"
No doubt she will pass off all the Xmas presents sent by her deluded fans to her son as being from her again this year.
 
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Don’t forget the wish list for the women and children of the Mother and Baby unit at Styal Prison! We all know prisoners need a £20 Costa or Foot Locker voucher for Christmas 🙄
£40k worth of presents/vouchers for the "1 woman a month" that she helps
 
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Rachaele Hambleton aka Part Time Working Mummy on Facebook and Instagram.

She set up her page claiming to help women who have been in abusive relationships, telling stories about "women and babies suffering the most horrific abuse", and claiming she was getting 6 women a week into refuge. She's had multiple Go Fund Me appeals set up, including one set up by followers to help her buy her home (after the landlady said she wanted to sell it shortly after they'd moved in).

She also had (and probably still has, nobody knows) a PayPal fund set up going directly to her, with woolly wording around "enabling me to continue doing what I love", no actual guarantee that the money was going towards abused women, but the implication was there. It appears that "what she loves" is quitting her job to become a full time Instascammer, doing adverts for anything and everything, buying her house and doing a load of tit renovations and decorating, ignoring her kids and step kids unless she's bribed into being in an advert. A couple of years ago when criticised about her change in lifestyle, she said "I'm not dripping in Gucci". Well guess what, these days she has Gucci bags, sunglasses, shoes and sandals etc, as well as a number of other designer items (Mark Jacobs, Mulberry, Victoria Beckham etc), and is constantly out for expensive meals and nights away (despite having 4 kids and 2 step kids, at least 2 of which she claims have "additional needs").

She then set up a CIC with herself and a couple of friends as directors, the paperwork detailed their aim was to help "one abused woman a month". She rented a building, threw loads of money at it to renovate it into a "women's centre", the purpose of which isn't really clear, it appears to mostly be a hangout spot for her and her mates. Then she opened a shop next door, with "all profits going to the centre". Then she opened a packing centre, so the shop tat could be sold online. Then there was a second "centre ", all these buildings were renovated and decorated, but the centres have no real purpose (she claims that local agencies, including social services and the police use them for "meeting women") other than being a vanity project and feeding her saviour complex.

Since setting up her shop, she's run various raffles, none of which she has ever announced the winners of. She regularly asks for donations in the form of vouchers "for the women", and also asking for food donations around school holidays. The only person who appears to have benefited from these is a friend of hers (and the sister of her old accountant), who is from a very well off family, sends her kids to private school, and has set up her own business, so not someone in desperate need of financial support.

Recent Amazon wish lists have included things like vouchers for restaurants, Costa, cinema, as well as shops like Footlocker and ASOS. Again, all apparently "for the women".

She has never provided any evidence of where the various funds she has received have gone, even back to the PayPal days when she promised a monthly newsletter, donors have confirmed these were never received. When anyone emailed her asking where their donations had gone, she got all passive aggressive, refunded their money and blocked them. She has restricted comments on her Instagram so if anyone mentions PayPal it's filtered out.
Well said DipsyDoodle ❤.
This will give Rachel Hambleton something to think about when she steps off her plane from Dubai in a few hours!
& should help take her mind off her period pain & the trauma of having to parent her 6 unwanted children (2 stolen), until the next live in babysitter turns up.
 
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£40k worth of presents/vouchers for the "1 woman a month" that she helps
Don't forget the claim that her 18 year old daughter had been in an abusive relationship, and she handily took photos of her brand new trainers (from Footlocker) not long after the vouchers were begged for.
 
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I have two women on my Facebook who did go fund me for for IVF
Now I know it’s very touchy subject but they chose to be two ladies together knowing they wouldn’t have children the normal way so to expect us to pay for there IVF I thought took the piss
I know someone who did this to have IVF and pay for the sperm donor!
 
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Can we also talk about the fact that the funeral clips Cain et al posted on instagram very clearly broke the lockdown rules in place at the time for events.

(Working in events at the time and having to deal with a complete dumpster fire of tit sent me into such a rage)
 
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Arias mum still asking for money
On her funeral website
 
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Don't forget the claim that her 18 year old daughter had been in an abusive relationship, and she handily took photos of her brand new trainers (from Footlocker) not long after the vouchers were begged for.
I find it absolutely incredible that Rachel …the expert on DV, ( who teaches “High Court Judges“ ..who popped in to the Family Court, just to listen, stood by and did nothing when her daughter was in a supposedly, abusive relationship…
Not forgetting, of course, her step father was a “ serving” Police Officer and also did nothing …

oh yeah ..I forgot, Rachel gave her a “care parcel” when daughter left for Liverpool, when wearing her new Footlocker Trainers …
 
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I’d just love to see Louis Theroux interviewing a few of them. Anyone know any investigative journalists that fancy doing a massive expose on instascammers? PTWM would be perfect for Ep1
 
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What about Jack Towers, the slimming world chap?? Lost a load of weight, someone set up a GFM and raised thousands for his loose skin op. I'm sure he had the weight loss surgery on the cheap and spent the rest on holidays and clothes? And food, judging by the size of him again now!
 
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Ooh this takes me back to a few years ago now to an Instagrammer who actually started out on blogspot. In her blogspot days she was clearly really Ill with an eating disorder (although never admitted it), she disappeared and came back with an Instagram and quickly amassed a tonne of followers in a short space of time. She was a healthier weight but garnering sympathy for cystic fibrosis. She’s post a tonne of pictures with breathing equipment, from hospital beds/ the wristbands and then came the go fund me’s so she could go to Disney land because her cf was so bad she’s not have long left and it was on her bucket list. A load of people donated before people started to twig something wasn’t right. People truly suffering with CF pointed out her medication was wrong, equipment was incorrect amongst other things. And then people realised some of the images of hospitals/ scans were taken from other people. Someone close to her in real life was contacted and said she did not have cf- the breathing apparatus was a relatives, images of her in hospital were from when she was admitted for her ED and she’d been scamming people. Then she disappeared again, accounts deleted and the go fund me (and the money) were gone.
 
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There was one recently I can't remember her insta handle travelling something?? Lived abroad, told everyone she had cancer. A few up the huns set up a GFM page & a raffle. Then they started to get suspicious about some of the stories she was telling. She finally fessed up it was not true. I'm sure there was thread about it.
 
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Arias mum still asking for money
On her funeral website

This woman is absolutely disgusting. Still asking for money. Where the hell has all the other money gone? Using that poor little baby girl of hers to get money out of people, I just can’t believe it. I’m not sure I’d be able to even get out of bed if my son was dying/died, let alone ask people for money.
 
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There was one recently I can't remember her insta handle travelling something?? Lived abroad, told everyone she had cancer. A few up the huns set up a GFM page & a raffle. Then they started to get suspicious about some of the stories she was telling. She finally fessed up it was not true. I'm sure there was thread about it.
Was that the Australian woman? Wellness thing
 
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