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Woman who ran Stage 4 cancer scam on GoFundMe so her friends would ‘like her more’ is sentenced

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Emily Joyce Hinojosa sentenced for GoFundMe scam

Background: Emily Joyce Hinojosa with her children (GoFundMe). Inset: Emily Joyce Hinojosa (Bell County Sheriff’s Department).

A Texas woman who faked a stage 4 cancer diagnosis to solicit money donations on GoFundMe was sentenced to probation.

Emily Joyce Hinojosa, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony theft of property after she was arrested for conducting a GoFundMe scam in 2020. On a page that is still live but inactive, Hinojosa’s friend Natalie Nelson posted a plea for help for Hinojosa, who claimed to have been struggling with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer after living with the disease for nine years. The page also claimed that the cancer had spread “throughout her body” and that the medical expenses for the married mother of three would still be massive even with their insurance. The campaign eventually raised $7,085 — but Hinojosa was never as ill as she claimed.



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