GoFundMe Scam Offers Good Lessons for Charitable Donors

In 2017, we couldn’t get enough of the feel-good story of Katelyn McClure and the man who “saved” her.

It was fall in Philadelphia when McClure said she ran out of gas one evening on her way home to New Jersey. She was scared, she claimed, and had no cash on hand. A homeless man eventually identified as Johnny Bobbitt Jr., who had been sitting on the side of the road near an exit ramp holding a sign, came to her rescue. He offered her some of his own cash so that she could get a can of gas. As ...