Gabby Petito’s legacy is being jeopardized by some greedy thieves.
The slain 22-year-old’s family has been on a mission to do right by Gabby and all domestic violence victims since her tragic passing over a year ago.
Her parents, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, founded “The Gabby Petito Foundation” in honor of their daughter.
Petito and Schmidt are turning their personal tragedy into a positive, and they’ve kept their word.
Sadly, there are very greedy and malicious people online who are trying to benefit from Gabby’s family’s kindness.
Petito recently shared a series of Instagram direct messages from what appears to be him or Schmidt asking people to donate money for a mural of Gabby.
The actual Joseph Petito captioned the carousel of screenshots, “This is the account trying to scam people on #instagram and it this kind of stuff that’s make me sick. We would never do this. #scammers suck!!!”
They were also pretending to be Gabby’s mother in the messages.
“Twitter fam, just a heads up.. someone is trying scam money in my name. I will NEVER message anyone asking for donations, ever! Please share, people are awful,” she tweeted.