A Burlington woman who was the subject of a medical fundraising campaign that raised more than $100,000 on the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe is facing a fraud charge in Milton court today, according to Halton police.

Police allege the woman had informed family and friends that she had been diagnosed with the rare neurological disease Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP).

Police also allege she acted out many of the symptoms to her family and friends who assisted her in initiating a charity in her name to raise funds for experimental medicines in the U.S. An online GoFundMe page was started in the woman's name last November and, in combination with other local donations, raised more than $100,000.

None of the allegations has been proven in court.

The GoFundMe site entitled Please Help Us Save Cindy's Life indicates that a total of $126,594 had been raised to date.

The woman was featured in a Burlington Post story in late March of this year. Her friends told the Post they were fundraising for her because she had a rare disease and needed special medications not covered by the Ontario health ministry.

The story was subsequently pulled from insidehalton.com when follow-up questions about the medical treatment and fundraising campaign were met with resistance. The Post alerted Halton police to concerns surrounding the validity of the charity.

According to Halton police, officers from its regional fraud unit obtained the woman’s medical records and determined she had never been diagnosed or treated for the illnesses she claimed to be suffering from.

Cynthia (Cindy) Lynn Smith, 39, of Burlington is charged with Defraud Public over $5,000 and is to appear at Milton Provincial Court today