The GoFundMe campaign started around a story of Johnny Bobbitt Jr. giving his last $20 to a woman with car trouble raised $400,000.
to help her when her car ran out of gas on Interstate 95 in New Jersey. Her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, launched a GoFundMe campaign for Bobbitt, which raised $400,000 via more than 14,000 donors.for a home, a 1999 Ford Ranger — Bobbitt's dream vehicle — and trusts in his name.
After reports that Bobbitt never received the full amount, GoFundMe said it was looking into the matter and that the company would ensure he got the remainder of what he was due. But then nearly a year after the trio went viral, the story began to unravel and a New Jersey prosecutor said the whole thing was a scam.
As for the money raised on GoFundMe, Coffina said the couple used it to pay back debt to family members, to buy a BMW, designer handbags, and vacations to Las Vegas, Disneyland, and Disney World.About a month after the story was debunked by prosecutors, GoFundMe refunded all of the donations.
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