Cancer "Faker" Spent Over $44k On Holidays Ordered To Repay Just $6

A woman who claimed she needed the money for cancer treatment and spent $44,280.43 on vacations, gambling, shopping trips, dining out, and even a private box for a football game.

The single mother deceived 700 people into giving more than $55,340.32 by pretending she had cancer.

On her GoFundMe website, Nicole Elkabbas made a bogus claim that she required money to pay for private ovarian cancer treatment in Spain. Her appeal raised a total of $55,340.32.

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Doctors gave the 44-year-old patient from Broadstairs, Kent, the all-clear for cancer, nevertheless, days before the fundraising was organized.

Despite defrauding the public with such a substantial sum of money, she will only have to repay $6.15.

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The Daily Mail reports that after looking into her finances, investigators determined she made a total of $44,280.43 through criminal activity, Canterbury Crown Court was informed.

Additionally, they discovered that she lost more than $73,787.10 in gambling in 2018.

In her November 2020 trial, the former fashion consultant for Harrods entered a not guilty plea, saying she thought she had cancer.

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Judge Mark Weekes gave Elkabbas a sentence of two years and nine months in jail, calling her scheme "pure wild fantasy and a deliberate deceit" that was used to support her gambling habit.

He said: "You produced detailed and at times graphic accounts of the treatment you were receiving intending to keep those you had snared in your web of lies paying you money."

Her GoFundMe page, "Nicole Needs Our Help - Treatment," featured a frail photo shot months earlier following gall bladder surgery.

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She was introduced as a "beautiful daughter" and "loving mother to her dear 11-year-old son" in the description before claiming that she had undergone three operations and six rounds of chemotherapy and that she now urgently needed money to pay for a breakthrough drug in Spain as the "only way she could be saved."

But when London-based gynecologist Consultant General George Tsavellas discovered the fundraising, he discovered! no malignancy at all! She claimed that following a keyhole procedure in January 2018, both ovaries "looked normal."

Police visited Barcelona's Teknon Clinic, where she claimed to be staying, after swiftly realizing the photo was shot in Margate and not Spain.

The clinic claimed they had never heard of her, and Spanish media reported that the doctor who was treating her did not exist.