Go Fund Me Scam

To protect the identity of the victims, names have been redacted in the pdfs

Evidence related to the fraud described can be viewed below in the 'Evidence/Screenshots' gallery and are italicized in the story

'IBC The Scammer' was also involved in multiple Go Fund Me scams. According to victim statements, screenshots and email threads, he created multiple Go Fund me campaigns in an attempt to defraud donors.

For at least one campaign (Sep 2017), he allegedly posed as Jeremy Brandston, a man he claimed was his cousin’s husband who had just “lost everything” in Hurricane Harvey. He tried to ensure as many people as possible saw the campaign by attempting to rope an unsuspecting friend into sharing it widely.

(See Conversation btwn IB and friend) – cross reference phone number in this screenshot against the phone number contained in Request for American No from Ex-wife in evidence/screenshots below.

We have been provided with evidence showing that the 2 Factor Authentication phone number for Jeremy Brandston’s email (jbrandston@gmail.com) and 'IBC The Scammer's phone number at the time have the same last 2 digits.

(See JB Email Verification and Request for American No from Ex-wife)

“Jeremy Brandston” ran into some issues withdrawing the donations and required help from a “friend” to do so. 'IBC The Scammer' was this ‘friend’. Unfortunately, as 'IBC The Scammer' did not have a Social Security Number, another ‘trusted person’ needed to be found to process the withdrawals.

'IBC The Scammer' proceeded to use Victim BB, a friend of his, as the beneficiary without, Victim BB’s knowledge. IRONICALLY, VICTIM BB IS THE SAME FRIEND IBC THE SCAMMER ATTEMPTED TO ROPE INTO SHARING EARLIER in “Conversation btwn IB and friend”.

(See Email thread btwn JB, IB and GFM team.pdf)

It is unknown what flags were raised with Go Fund Me, however, 'IBC The Scammer' received emails from the Go Fund Me team (via his multiple email accounts) stating his Go Fund Me accounts would not be able to process donations pending receipt of further information about himself including government issued identification.

(See Email from GFM - Closure of campaign 1 and Email from GFM - Closure of campaign 2)

'IBC The Scammer' created at least 2 other campaigns, of which he was the named beneficiary, by apparently posing as other people: Randy Malone and Jane Costa. It is unknown whether these are real people.

(See Help Randy Get Home GFM and Help us get to Croatia GFM)