GoFundMe removes Johnson family fundraiser after raising nearly $290,000

  • GoFundMe removed the Johnsons’ fundraiser after finding factual misrepresentations.
  • Nearly $290,000 had been raised before the campaign was taken down.
  • Amy Johnson said the family moved the appeal to GiveSendGo.

GoFundMe removed a campaign for Donald and Josephine Johnson after its investigators found the organizer had misrepresented her identity. The fundraiser, which raised nearly $290,000, was launched after a video showed 81-year-old Donald Johnson carrying luggage to help pay for his wife’s pancreatic cancer treatment. The organizer later acknowledged she was the couple’s daughter and had created the anonymous-neighbor persona, though she said the cancer diagnosis and luggage-delivery job were genuine. GoFundMe said all donors were refunded under its Giving Guarantee. The family has since moved the appeal to GiveSendGo, where daughter Amy Johnson disclosed the arrangement and defended the underlying story.

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