Kickstarter hoax

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

A friend at work, who's a bit of gaming geek, told me about this last week.

Destructoid ran a story two days ago praising the Kickstarter campaign of Susan Wilson, a mother who was asking for $829 to send her 9 year old daughter "Kenzie" to RPG camp. (Nevermind the next logical question, what the **** is RPG camp?) Why you may ask? Because her brothers supposedly made fun of her and said that girls can't make good RPGs.

Right off the bat it raised $10K.

But then questions were raised. Then it was discovered mom is a multimillionaire.

... is the same Susan Wilson that also happens to be a millionaire, now asking for $829 to send her daughter to "RPG camp." She's the one on the left, next to Warren Buffett.
She's the founder and CEO of The Judgment Group, a company that focuses on debt collection. She was featured on CNN Money as part of their list of The Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. Oops.

Her Kickstarter campaign is basically a resume to show potential clients how she and her firm can raise money for them.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll bet this happens a lot...

 

[Captain Obvious]

Love some of the comments here from Internet literalists who really think Wilson was trying to "scam" them to send the daughter to camp because she didn't want to pay for it herself.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=528903