“Cunning” cancer counterfeiters scraped for £ 45,000 were ordered to repay just £ 5: “manipulative” mother, 44 years old, cash from 700 well-meaning Spurs tickets, holidays Spent, gambling
- Nicole Elkabas launched a fundraiser and insisted that he had to pay for treatment
- However, he was never diagnosed and instead used a large amount of cash to fund his lifestyle.
- She was ordered to repay only £ 5 of the £ 45,000 she raised and spent.
- Last year she was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison and convicted of fraud.
A mother who detained hundreds of people pretending to have cancer and donating more than £ 40,000 only needs to repay five.
Nicole Elkabas spent £ 3,592 on holidays, gambling, shopping, restaurants and even luxury boxes to watch a match at Tottenham Hotspur.
A 44-year-old woman from Broadstairs, Kent, falsely claimed that GoFundMe, which raised £ 45,350, needed to pay for private ovarian cancer treatment in Spain.
However, she was exposed to everything from cancer by her doctor a few days before the fundraiser was established.
She was ordered to repay just £ 5 in the next 28 days because she lacks the financial assets and capacity to repay nearly 700 victims.
Nicole Elkabas (pictured), 44, used a compelling GoFundMe page and a picture of her lying in a hospital bed to put the kind-hearted public in a pinch from £ 45,000. ..She is now ordered to repay just £ 5
A photo of Elkabas lying on a hospital bed for gallbladder surgery. She used her fundraiser to trick people into thinking they had cancer.
Nicole Elkabas was convicted of fraudulently receiving a £ 45,350 donation for an illness she did not have.
Investigators have since investigated her account and calculated that she earned a total of £ 360,000 for criminal exploitation, the Canterbury Crown Court heard.
Her spending habits included over £ 60,000 in gambling in 2018, and she described her habits as “excessive, unstable, and extreme.”
A former Harrods fashion consultant pleaded not guilty to her trial in November 2020, claiming that she truly believed she had cancer.
Elkabas was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison last year, and Judge Mark Weeks said her ploy was “pure wild fantasy and deliberate deception” to fund gambling habits. Said it was used for.
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Her lies included stories about major surgery, six cycles of chemotherapy, and mysterious medicines.
Elkabbas was also found guilty last year in one account that owned criminal property in connection with a charitable donation and was subsequently transferred to her bank account.
She was captured only after a consultant oncologist discovered her fundraising page asking for donations that appeared to have been set by her mother Delores a few days after examining her.
Her GoFundMe page contained a frail photo taken after gallbladder surgery a few months ago, entitled “Nicole Needs Our Help-Treatment.”
It touched the hearts of the masses by describing her as a “beautiful daughter” and “a loving mother to her beloved 11-year-old son.”
It is “the only way that can save her” trauma that has undergone three surgeries and six chemotherapy, which now leads to a desperate need for money to pay a breakthrough drug in Spain. I explained.
The photo on GoFundMe’s website showing that Elkabbas was “obviously struck and actually very ugly in a hospital bed” was actually from surgery before removing the gallbladder.
Surgery at Spencer Private Hospital in Margate, Kent was paid by private health insurance and had nothing to do with cancer.
After all, this photo only speeded up her shoot after her former friend, London’s leading obstetrician and gynecologist, came across the GoFundMe page.
General George Tsaveras, a consultant, said in a trial last year that “there are no malignant tumors” and that both ovaries “looked normal” after keyhole surgery in January 2018.
After the photo was taken in Margate instead of Spain, police contacted the Techno Clinic in Barcelona and claimed she was staying.
According to Spanish media, the clinic said she had never heard of her, but no doctor was treating her.