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Greece Bailout Could Be Coming Sooner Thanks To This Crowdfunding Campaign

Someone Is Trying To Bailout Greece With An Online Crowdfunding Campaign
Ryan Barrell
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A crowdfunding campaign has been set up on IndieGoGo with the hopes of raising €1,600,000,000 (£1,138,320,437.89) to bail out Greece's faltering economy and pay off a loan to the International Monetary Fund.

In one day, 6,744 people have donated more than €100,000 but the campaign is far from actually helping the troubled nation.

UPDATE: The campaign is now reaching €1.5m.

As with other crowdfunding schemes on the site, people who donate will receive a special gift depending on the size of their donation. €3 will net you a beautiful postcard of Alexis Tsipras, €6 will get you a Greek feta and olive salad, and a €1,000,000 donation will get you "lots of gratitude". We'll take the salad, please.

The fund was started by Thom Feeney, an Englishman who hopes every European will scrub together a few Euros.

Good luck with that, Thom.

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Elderly people, who usually get their pensions at the end of the month, wait outside a closed bank in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015. Greece's five-year financial crisis took its most dramatic turn yet, with the cabinet deciding that Greek banks would remain shut for six business days and restrictions would be imposed on cash withdrawals. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People stand in a queue outside a bank which operates on Saturday but eventually didn't open, in central Athens on June 27, 2015. Greece's fraught bailout talks with its creditors took a dramatic turn early Saturday, with the radical left government announcing a referendum in just over a week on the latest proposed deal - and urging voters to reject it. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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