….Wheat Ridge, Colorado – Jennifer Risa Stover, a 35-year-old Wheat Ridge woman was jailed Tuesday after she allegedly pocketed more than $30,000 in donations for cancer treatments she never required..According to police, Stover reportedly told co-workers at the Metro Hospice that she was diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing “experimental cancer treatments”.
She also authorized a co-worker to solicit funds for help with her cancer treatment and expenses and collected more than $30,000 in donations from 16 good Samaritans between January 2010 and April 2011.
Investigators say in 2008, Stover was employed at the Collier Hospice. Former co-workers stated that she had told them that she had some sort of a cyst and missed a lot of work because of her alleged illness. Detectives determined that she had never been diagnosed with cancer and didn’t require cancer treatment.
What I don’t understand is how this woman got caught? How did that happen? Not that I want to know how to successfully pull a scam off like this from A to Z not A to everyone figures out I was lying and now I have to go to jail. Just curious. She’s clearly the scum of the earth for doing this but what if I did something similar minus the whole cancer thing? Like if I were to hypothetically set up some vague charity that was “money for people” how would that all pan out? Would people start being skeptical right away or would it take them a few years to catch on? Is there a special police unit that tracks down fake charities? Again, not that setting up a fake “fund” is something I would ever consider doing. Just a curious person by nature. Anyone know how you get one of these things off the ground?
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