Woman Fakes She Had Cancer, Dupes Sympathisers Over N.400m

A mother-of-one has coned several people of their hard-earned money tp the tune of over N.400 million by pretending that she had cancer.

About 700 well-wishers fell for her trick, collectively contributing about 45 thousand pounds – about four hundred thousand naira – to support her.

This was before it was discovered that the Elkabbas was fake.

She has now been ordered to just five pounds by the court.

Nicole Elkabbas spent thousands on holidays, gambling, shopping sprees, restaurants and even £3,592 on a luxury box to watch a single Tottenham Hotspur match, according to the report by Mail online.

The 44-year-old from Broadstairs, Kent, falsely claimed on her GoFundMe, which raised £45,350, that she needed to pay for private ovarian cancer treatment in Spain.

Woman Fakes She Had Cancer, Dupes Sympathisers Over N.400m

However she had been given the all clear from cancer by doctors days before the fundraiser was set up.

As she has no financial assets or ability to repay her nearly 700 victims, she has been ordered to repay just £5 in the next 28 days.

Nicole Elkabbass was found guilty of fraudulently accepting £45,350 in donations for an illness she didn’t have

Investigators have since probed her accounts and calculated she made a total of £360,000 due to criminal exploits, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Her spending habits included gambling more than £60,000 in just 2018, she described her habit ‘excessive, erratic and extreme’.

The former Harrods fashion consultant plead not guilty in her trial in November 2020, claiming she genuinely believed she had cancer.

Elkabbas was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison last year, Judge Mark Weekes said her ploy was ‘pure wild fantasy and a deliberate deceit’ used to finance her gambling habit.

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He said: ‘You produced detailed and at times graphic accounts of the treatment you were receiving with a view to keeping those you had snared in your web of lies paying you money.’

Her lies included stories about a major surgery, six cycles of chemotherapy and a wonder-drug.

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Elkabbas was also found guilty last year of one count of possession of criminal property in relation to the charitable donations which were subsequently transferred into her bank account