The Worst Internet Faker Of All Time?
Oct. 18th, 2012 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronSo, anyone who's known me for a while will know that I have a "thing" about internet fakers - you know, people who fake their own serious illnesses or deaths on the internet. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fake_lj_deaths, I've possibly found the most egregious faker of all time.
This girl claimed to have cancer as a result of AIDS - that she'd caught from a rapist, seizures as a result of the cancer, and also deafness. None of this is true.
There are photos of her online with "feeding tubes", "oxygen masks", a "catheter", shaved head because of her "cancer treatment"... Videos of her online "having a seizure". She even faked seizures when friends were visiting.
I can't stop reading this crap. It's ridiculously compelling. And all quite convincing, apart from the times when the silly little cow was showing off tattoos despite allegedly having cancer and AIDS, and having photos taken "while in a coma in the ICU" with a pet cat visiting.
I know from all my research around the topic that people who lie to THIS extent are really quite mentally ill, so need a certain amount of sympathy rather than complete and utter hatred - but it's hard not to hate someone who could make friends with genuine cancer sufferers, and convince all her friends that she was dying.
fake_lj_deaths, I've possibly found the most egregious faker of all time. This girl claimed to have cancer as a result of AIDS - that she'd caught from a rapist, seizures as a result of the cancer, and also deafness. None of this is true.
There are photos of her online with "feeding tubes", "oxygen masks", a "catheter", shaved head because of her "cancer treatment"... Videos of her online "having a seizure". She even faked seizures when friends were visiting.
I can't stop reading this crap. It's ridiculously compelling. And all quite convincing, apart from the times when the silly little cow was showing off tattoos despite allegedly having cancer and AIDS, and having photos taken "while in a coma in the ICU" with a pet cat visiting.
I know from all my research around the topic that people who lie to THIS extent are really quite mentally ill, so need a certain amount of sympathy rather than complete and utter hatred - but it's hard not to hate someone who could make friends with genuine cancer sufferers, and convince all her friends that she was dying.
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Date: 2012-10-18 08:00 am (UTC)It was really weird, because my only previous encounter with him was selling him something on eBay (and meeting him in person because he was local). And then half a year later I got this email saying that he'd died, apparently emailed to everyone he'd ever had email contact with. And a few days later a reply-to-all alleging that actually he hadn't and was faking it. I never did get any more of the story, and it was a bit odd being on the periphery of it.
(Edit to add: I just looked and found I still had the emails. They're incredibly sketchy. Let me know if you'd like a copy!)