Crooks prey on Bus Beheader Victim with Money-Begging Scams

by Christina 123 | August 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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Scammers are in operation, it has been revealed, pretending to be members of Greyhound Bus Beheader victim, Tim McLean's family.  One bloodsucking vulture has posed as Tim McLean's SISTER, in a Facebook scam. 

 

One Facebook site dedicated to the memory of Tim McLean, 22, was launched by Ron Schinners of Vancouver. He told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. a woman contacted him saying she was McLean's sister, Amanda. She said the family was having financial problems dealing with funeral expenses, so he set up a PayPal account to collect donations for the family.

However, McLean's real sister, now Amanda Corrigan visited the site and told Schinners the family wasn't receiving anything, the CBC report said. He shut down the PayPal account and told the CBC he feels "really stupid" about being duped.

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Amy Judd

That is just so sick...

Barry Artiste
Barry Artiste
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at 14:37 on August 19th, 2008

Christina 123, I like this story. It's good stuff. Well you know maggots only go away once the body is picked clean,

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Christina 123

Thanks, Barry Artiste.  You can never underestimate human propensity to "cash in" (with apologies to Mencken). 

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ron schinners

i'm from victoria... yea i even talked with her on msn... it was stupid...i felt dumb...

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