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Shitty people unfortunately do this kind of thing all the time. Not really sure if this belongs here as unfortunate as the headline is. >

Maybe the OP saw irony in an overweight woman scamming a Holocaust survivor; because we all know people were starved then, and worse. 
I would comment about her face, but "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".... 

It really isn't that shocking though, like you implied