Teen Finds Her Photo in 'Dead Sister' Fundraiser

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Published on February 21, 2020 - Duration: 01:06s

Teen Finds Her Photo in 'Dead Sister' Fundraiser

When 17-year-old Safia Barkadle got a text about a fundraising page featuring her personal photos, she thought it was a joke.

But it turns out the page was not a joke.

Instead, the GoFundMe campaign was genuinely using Barkadle’s images to scam people into donating thousands of dollars to a fake cause.

Titled “Help With My Babysisters Funeral,” the fundraiser used a selfie taken from Barkdale’s Instagram.

Claiming that “Yusuf’s” family was in debt and needed help paying for a funeral, the campaign managed to raise nearly $7,300.

The discovery spurred the teen to create a now-viral Twitter video, in which she proved to her followers that she was, in fact, alive.

Barkadle captioned her video, "IM ALIVE STOP DONATING TO THIS FRAUDULENT PERSON!

YOU ARE ALL BEING SCAMMED".

The teen’s clip has since been viewed more than 150,000 times on Twitter.

GoFundMe, meanwhile, has confirmed that the fraudulent page has since been taken down.

The company told BuzzFeed in a statement that none of that money found its way to the scammers


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