Fundraising online should be placed under scrutiny

A WOMAN IN SUZHOU in East China's Jiangsu province reportedly exaggerated the breast cancer of her mother while raising money for the medical treatment via an online crowd-funding platform. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Saturday:

That the woman has withdrawn her previous fundraising request and lowered the target amount from 300,000 yuan ($44,000) to 50,000 yuan, after it was reported she had exaggerated her mother's illness, highlights the need to plug the supervisory loopholes in online crowd funding.

According to her explanation, she set the 300,000 yuan fund-raising target before her mother's most recent diagnosis, which proved to be less serious than she expected. But those who donated money, have the right to worry they were mislead.