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Originally Posted by 4X4
What I can't believe about this story is that the guy is bumming around Victoria. It's a pretty small world, and even smaller with the internet. There are lots of people that frequent more cities than one. Off the top of my head, I have four friends that spend substantial amounts of time in other cities in Canada, whether for work, or because they're from there, or family or friends moved there... It just baffles me that a person from Calgary would do this, and then hide out in Victoria. Oooh-kay, dude. You're going to be spotted within a week or two. If you want to pull a d-bag scheme like this, at least go somewhere far away after you've scammed all your friends. Going to Victoria is like moving to another quadrant in Calgary.
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I don't find it surprising at all. You expected a better effort from a hipster?
It's pretty obvious he wasn't a sleek con-man planning all of his steps. Based on the articles telling the story it seems as though he probably wasn't planning to scam money when he started faking the Cancer. He would have been smart to flee the country before he was charged but it's not like he had all that much money to travel around and he probably didn't expect the story to blow up in the media so much.