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going as far as having your child believe this as well. Forcing them shave their head and alter their appearance to go along with this terrible act of deceit.
     Most people, when they hear a friend or loved one has a terminal illness, react accordingly with devastation, heart wrenching compassion, and a willingness to do anything to make their remaining days as tolerable and filled with love and joy as possible.
    They organize fundraisers to help with medical bills and encourage them to go on a trip to the Happiest Place on Earth, urging them to have one of those magical days despite the looming cancer diagnosis. These actions and reactions are exactly what happen when people fake illnesses for donations. Donations that often lead to trips to Disney that are just part of an evil stratagem for greed, attention and a vacation.
    Unfortunately, you hear about these stories from all over the country. People get diagnosed with cancer or a fatal illness and the community springs into action, as they should; fundraisers, beef-and-beer parties, you name it. Friends and family come together to help this person in need.
    More and more, the stories are popping up that some twisted folks aren’t really sick at all and sought out this attention and money for illnesses they never had. The scam always works, at least for a short time. The conscience-less people ultimately end up being revealed as the frauds they are. In the end they do get the attention they were seeking. They receive notoriety in the news when their antics put them through the legal system and often into prison.
    So why do thousands of people fall for this over and over again? I think this is the easier question to answer than the one of “why do people perpetrate this heinous act?” These illnesses strike at the core of us. Everyone at some point in their life has had someone close to them get diagnosed with cancer or some other terrible illness. We see the destruction and devastation illnesses do, not only mentally but also physically. If pitching in a little bit may help this person, society in general is all for it. With that being said, where do many people go to escape reality and leave the “real world” behind with all its stresses and pressures, let alone a terminal illness? Disneyland or Walt Disney World.
     If you can’t afford your next Disney vacation, just follow the lead of these despicable folks and fake an illness to receive a free trip. In turn, you actually may end up getting two free trips, one to the mouse house and the other to the “big house,” aka prison.
    Men seem to be the anomalies in these stunts, so let’s get started there. Jeffrey, forty-six years old and from South Jordan, Utah, told friends and family he was suffering from terminal cancer. The local Mormon congregation heard of Jeffrey’s plight and organized a fundraiser on his behalf. The money raised went to Jeffrey so he and his family could go on one “final” vacation together to Disney. The family set out on Jeffrey’s farewell tour in September of 2011. After people became suspicious of his story, detectives checked his medical records and determined he didn’t have cancer and wasn’t terminally ill. He was arrested and charged with felony communications fraud.
    Our first deceptive young lady was then twenty-three-year-old Ashley from Toronto, Canada. She shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes and starved herself to have her physical appearance coincide with her “chemotherapy sessions.” If that wasn’t enough to pull on your heartstrings, Ashley would update her illness status on Facebook and post photos with a big smile and fake tattoos emblazoned on her fingers that said “won’t” on hand and “quit” on the other.
    Life was tough for young Ashley, as she was not only staring down the big “C,” she was doing it alone. She frequently told people she was disowned by her drug addicted parents or they were dead. The reality was, she didn’t