Woman Fakes Having Cancer & Raises $20,000. How Sick!! (502 hits)
A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported. Ashley Anne Kirilow, 23, shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes, and starved herself to look like she was going through chemotherapy treatments, the report in the Toronto Star said.
She befriended different local groups and recruited volunteers to help her organize events and benefit concerts in her own honor, and even convinced a cancer awareness organization -- Skate4Cancer -- to fly her to Disney World to fulfill what she said was a dying wish. All told, she raised C$20,000 ($19,400), volunteers said.
How dare this woman scam people like this...the sad part is that she is giving TRUE cancer patients and charities a bad name...she deserves to be locked up!!!
Monday, August 9th 2010 at 5:25PM
Siebra Muhammad
What deceivers wil and won'tl do for the love of money.
Monday, August 9th 2010 at 5:53PM
MIISRAEL Bride
Misreal, you ain't never lied!!!
Monday, August 9th 2010 at 6:04PM
Siebra Muhammad
This nut shaved her head and even plucked out her eyebrows! Can you believe that mess?
Monday, August 9th 2010 at 6:33PM
Jen Fad
She should be on the list of America's Dumbest Criminals!!!
Monday, August 9th 2010 at 7:14PM
Siebra Muhammad
[Ashley Anne Kirilow, a 23-year-old Canadian, may have continued to scam people had her father not discovered her lies. "When I found out that she was taking people's money and it wasn't going to the University of Alberta as she had specified, it made me sick to my stomach," her father, Mike Kirilow, told "Good Morning America." When his daughter refused to come clean, he and a group of duped volunteers filed a police report.
In fact, Kirilow's father, Mike, told "GMA" that his daughter had been untrustworthy since a young age and that her criminal activity was unsurprising. "She's always manipulated people, manipulated situations to get what she wants," he said.
Kirilow's grandmother told The Star: "You couldn't trust anything she was saying." Her stepmother added that at age 16, Kirilow, who had left her biological mother's home to avoid following rules, "made this house a living hell." According to her stepmother, Kirilow persistently lied and stole from her siblings.]
