Posted on 01/16/2016 10:15:25 AM PST by Beave Meister
A woman by the name of Cinnamon Nicole from Cordova, TN has raised a little more than $800 in seven hours via her Powerball Reimbursement Go Fund Me page.
Nicole alleges to have spent all of her money on purchasing tickets with the assumption she would win the $1.6 billion jackpot, but soon realized the winning tickets were sold in Los Angeles, Florida and Tennessee suburbs.
Despite the chances of anyone winning the jackpot being 1 in 292.2 million, Nicole still decided to go big, and unfortunately now can’t go home because she allegedly doesn’t have any money.
Please help me and my family as we have exausted all of our funds. We spent all of our money on lottery tickets (expecting to win the 1.5 billion) and are now in dire need of cash. With your small donation of at least $1.00, a like and one share, I’m certain that we will be able to pick ourselves up from the trenches of this lost and spend another fortune trying to hit it big again! PLEASE, won’t you help a family in need. DONATE NOW.
For your charitable donations, Nicole promises to make you her #MCM or #WCW. Yet, despite the gall of the Go Fund Me Page, some users simply weren’t in support of her attempts.
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I don’t know who’s dumber....Nicole or the people who gave her money.
Her campaign was pulled yesterday...old news.
It’s like donating to someone who has a drug habit.
They will only spend that donated money on their addiction,
which in this case is lottery tickets.
WTF? How did she assume she would win...and how does someone "realize" that the winning tickets were sold elsewhere?
Right. I want to see the tickets.
You nailed it.
People who would donate to this = enablers.
I didn’t play so I should start a go fund me page to make up some of the millions I might have won if I had played. I could explain that the money would be spent wisely because I don’t blow money on gambling.
I see a local guy did win a million.
This used to be called begging.
The only other person I know of named Cinnamon was Cinnamon Carter of Mission Impossible...even that was a fictional character.
No....suckers, it’s a hoax!
Anyone stupid enough to give her money has more money than they can handle, anyway.
Kind of reminds me of the folks who were using a ‘go fund me’ account to buy heroin while their kid was in the hospital (page taken down after the father od’ed in the hospital.
Despite the chances of anyone winning the jackpot being 1 in 292.2 million
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I ‘chuckle’ everytime one of the news reading airheads GASP and give the odds of winning.
Suppose someone could sit down and tell her/him that if the prize is ONE DOLLAR, the ‘odds’ of hitting it are 292.2 million to one .
The only thing that changes is the higher it gets, the more people buy into it and the PROBABILITY of winning changes.
More power to ‘Cinnamon’ ??? it is the dummies that pay into it that need help.
People ‘used’ to say the Art Bell was a ______(fill in the blank) I used to say he was pretty intelligent - the scary ones were the people calling in AND believing they were abducted etc..
Bells ‘smarts’ were he was able to make a living publicizing the ‘dreamers’.
If one is ‘dumb enough’ and will pay me for analyzing your dog it sort of makes me an opportunist and the ‘one’ a fool.
Years ago ‘Hill Street Blues’ had an episode where someone was ‘hiring’ Seniors to take messages to those that had already passed.
The guy would ‘charge’ regular folks, keep a percentage and ‘pay’ people in nursing homes etc to ‘deliver’ the message.
Worked fine for EVERYONE INVOLVED.
The guy was making money.
The ‘victims’ were paying for peace of mind.
The Seniors were making geedunk money
AND - more importantly.
They were given a ‘job’ that made them feel useful and give their existence ‘meaning’.
Would Imagine that those that ‘parked’ the people in the ‘home’ were not all that happy that one was given a ‘reason to hang on’ for a few more days.
NO HARM, NO FOUL.
Except, of course, for those that weren’t ‘smart enough’ to think of it or weren’t ‘profiting’ from it.
Believe it is called entrepreneurship.
Obama voter, race of professional victims, and entitled Democrat. Why am I not surprised?
Go Fund Me has become a joke. It is nothing more than a begging web site for ghetto denizens who wasted their money.
I’m afraid to click to the link to confirm what I might find.
Nicole ain’t the dumb one.
I wonder how much money = all ? 5 bucks ?
I would advise her to call the Clinton foundation on her Obamaphone. Hillary needs votes and I suspect she has the money to buy them.
That phrase makes me think that the original Go Fund Me page was meant to be a parody. I can't imagine a real beggar actually including that.
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