A young woman battling both leukemia and pancreatic cancer.

一位同時與白血病和胰腺癌抗爭的年輕女性。

The cops say she wasn't sick at all.

警察說她根本沒有生病。

They say she was faking it to rake in thousands of dollars in donations.

他們說她是假裝生病來不法獲得數千美元的捐款。

I want people to live, I want to live.

我希望大家活著，我想活著。

You know, I want, I want... maybe a cure.

你知道，我想要治癒。

That's Maddie Russo, a 19-year-old college student speaking about suffering from cancer.

說話的這位是 Maddie Russo，一個 19 歲的大學生，談到罹癌的困境。

They found a mass on my pancreas and I had stage two pancreatic cancer at just 19 years old.

他們在我的胰臟上發現了一個腫塊，我在 19 歲時就罹患第二期的胰臟癌。

She documented her treatment in a series of heartbreaking social media posts.

她在社交媒體上發布了一系列心碎的貼文來記錄她的遭遇。

Before I even started the chemo, I harvested my eggs with OB-GYN.

在我開始化療之前，我就用 OB-GYN 收集卵子。

And basically, it's just to... you're kind of like freezing the eggs.

基本上，就是有點像冷凍卵子。

She not only claimed to have pancreatic cancer but leukemia and a tumor on her spine, the size of a football.

她不僅聲稱自己罹患胰臟癌，還聲稱自己患有白血病，脊椎上長了一個足球大小的腫瘤。

She raised over $37,000 on a GoFundMe page.

她在 GoFundMe 網站上籌集了超過 37,000 美元。

Louis Filmon was so moved by her plight, he donated $1000.

Louis Filmon 對她的遭遇為之動容，捐贈了 1000 美元。

What struck a chord with you about her story?

她的故事哪邊打動了你？

She was a, you know, a very young person that appeared to be in a serious amount of trouble.

她是一個非常年輕的人，似乎遇到了嚴重的麻煩。

And your heart went out to her.

你對她深感同情。

She was totally believable.

她的故事聽起來完全可以相信。

But police in Iowa have arrested her, calling it an elaborate scam.

但愛荷華州的警察已經逮捕她，稱這是一場精心設計的騙局。

The alleged scam was first spotted by doctors who wondered about this image that supposedly showed her getting chemo.

這所謂的騙局首先被醫生發現，他們對這張顯示她正在接受化療的圖片感到疑惑。

It's not the way a medical port should look.

這不是一般內植式輸液塞應該有的樣子。

It's not sterile and it's not secured with medical tape.

它不是無菌的，也沒有用醫用膠帶固定。

Look, this is a real medical port used for cancer patients.

看，這是真正用在癌症患者身上的內植式輸液塞。

It's easy to see the difference.

兩者的差別顯而易見。

I spoke with cancer patient Anna Coward Covtesti.

我跟癌症患者 Anna Coward Covtesti 聊了一下。

The chest port is actually like a, like a little port under my skin.

在胸腔的內植式輸液塞其實就像是我皮膚下的一個小洞。

It was inserted by a surgery.

它是利用手術植入的。

Does it break your heart that someone would fake having this illness?

你會對於有人假裝患有這種疾病感到心碎嗎？

Absolutely.

絕對會。

Well, GoFundMe says they have zero tolerance for misuse of their platform, and they say all of those donations have been refunded.

GoFundMe 說他們無法容忍濫用他們的平台，他們說所有這些捐款都已退還。