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" There are a lot of warnings out there about how to avoid being scammed by a charity, but how about this turn of events: Charities have become the victim! According to METRO, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and his charity Livestrong: The Lance Armstrong Foundation, nearly got duped into donating funds to a Dutch woman named Adriana, who recently made a Twitter appeal that she was dying of cancer. Armstrong and thousands of other Twitter followers believed her (wacky) story, so the cycling legend reached out to help\u2013but was taken for a ride in the end.  This is not the first time Armstrong has been involved with fraud. He told METRO that several years ago, he was asked by parents to donate money to their child who had cancer, another lie.  Armstrong says, &amp;quot;\u2026it also doesn&amp;#039;t surprise me. Some people do the weirdest things to get attention and money. It is so easy to pretend to be someone else on the Internet.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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