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To ask if anyone else has received a donation request PM from cheesecakemunc?

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Fandango52 · 14/08/2025 13:31

Hi all,

I’ve just received a PM from a user called Cheesecakemunc in which they say they are widowed and they ask for money to help buy their daughter’s birthday present.

Has anyone else had a message from this user or similarly worded messages from others?

I’ve emailed MNHQ to report the message and have replied to the user saying there are sources of financial support out there if necessary (Citizens Advice etc).

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Fandango52 · 15/08/2025 15:26

WindEmUp · 15/08/2025 14:36

Got their bank details and submitted them to their bank as suspected fraud.

Wow - well done!

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WindEmUp · 15/08/2025 14:36

Got their bank details and submitted them to their bank as suspected fraud.

ilovesooty · 15/08/2025 13:42

x2boys · 14/08/2025 16:05

No but if people are foolish enough to give money to random strangers on line I have no sympathy for them.

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I'm inclined to agree with you. Of course people shouldn't send begging messages, but surely no one with any common sense would donate to someone who approached them like that.

StrawberryJangle · 15/08/2025 13:19

Well now you're widowed, that's 1/3 off all bills. Have you looked at your budget? Yours, Karen.

DISCLAIMER
I would never, ever say or even think this to anyone truly going through something so horrendous.
A scammer - Absolutely I would.

***'
I was chatting to an old fella outside Asda a few weeks back, explained no cash, good luck to him (previous old man in spot just wanted banana milkshake - no problem).
He reached his hand out and I reluctantly went to shake it. He pulled himself up and whispered in my ear -
"I earn enough to pay you for sex if you want?"
Fucking grubby cunt! I immediately shouted for security. Told him he was a filthy pig. Security made him leave.
I went in to the cigarette/collection counter inside the door and woman who's known me for years as in shopper/worker relationship asked if I was okay.
" I'm fine, I'm just the usual fucking idiot, now please squirt that antibac on my hands and I'll wipe it all over!"
Dirty cunt.

The bloke who sits outside KFC though is lovely. He hates KFC 🤣 it's just that his shelter manager's offices are upstairs from KFC. I bought him some black pepper flavoured peanuts last time saw him, sat down for a chat. Those peanuts were lush and he was very grateful for an 80p snack.

Oops went on a bit.

Thank you for heads up @Fandango52

ghostyslovesheets · 15/08/2025 13:06

Well according to the messages sent yesterday under a different name it her birthday today poor fictional child

MrsSkylerWhite · 15/08/2025 13:05

Scammers everywhere atm. Inundated with DfWP, HMRC, Royal Mail crap this week. That they’re PMing on here now is the bloody limit.

notatinydancer · 15/08/2025 13:03

ChangeOfTheName675274 · 14/08/2025 14:32

I didn’t even know you could send/receive messages on here?! on the app. ?

You can’t in the app. Just the main site.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 15/08/2025 12:09

If thats their real phone number up there they've left themselves wide open to being signed up to all sorts of unsavory things

GiveItAGoMalcom · 14/08/2025 18:29

Fandango52 · 14/08/2025 15:11

Luckily, I don’t think scams are a common thing on here, but it makes me angry to think of the money that Cheesecakemc could have potentially made from posters donating via that PM.

Posters who give blindly to every strange beggar on the internet actually anger me a bit more.

And they worry me too if they're parents, as if they're that naïve, I fail to see how they can teach their kids about internet safety.

Screamingabdabz · 14/08/2025 18:24

x2boys · 14/08/2025 16:05

No but if people are foolish enough to give money to random strangers on line I have no sympathy for them.

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Yeah they will have probably targeted the ones they see as ‘empathetic’.

chunkybear · 14/08/2025 18:16

Bloody CF scammers no doubt - ignore the comments, scumbag springs to mind about such people!

x2boys · 14/08/2025 16:05

SnackAckerTack · 14/08/2025 16:01

Wow - did you miss the day they handed out empathy?

I got a (now deleted) message from them too

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No but if people are foolish enough to give money to random strangers on line I have no sympathy for them.

SnackAckerTack · 14/08/2025 16:01

x2boys · 14/08/2025 15:12

More fool them tbh.

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Wow - did you miss the day they handed out empathy?

I got a (now deleted) message from them too

Cherrysoup · 14/08/2025 15:57

Also got a dm, was overexcited, I hardly ever get messages on here!

Darragon · 14/08/2025 15:20

ClunkyPigeon · 14/08/2025 15:14

Left it a bit late for poor old Rose if her birthday is tomorrow, Emily. Luckily she’s fictional so she shouldn’t suffer too much.

🤣 Given that it's pure fantasy, Emily should climb the Faraway Tree to the land of Take What You Want and get Rose a present that way.

Beeinalily · 14/08/2025 15:16

TaupeMember · 14/08/2025 14:34

That's hilarious- such a well written begging post, followed swiftly by that thuggish ok karen remark

What a plonker!

Do people really fall for these things

Well I think they do sometimes, my local Facebook page has a similar thing regularly. Sadly kindness gets taken advantage of.

ClunkyPigeon · 14/08/2025 15:14

Left it a bit late for poor old Rose if her birthday is tomorrow, Emily. Luckily she’s fictional so she shouldn’t suffer too much.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 14/08/2025 15:13

Cheeky bastard!

x2boys · 14/08/2025 15:12

Fandango52 · 14/08/2025 13:41

I agree about deleting the message and forgetting about it, but I wanted to make it public to warn anyone who might get taken in and might actually donate money.

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More fool them tbh.

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Fandango52 · 14/08/2025 15:11

Luckily, I don’t think scams are a common thing on here, but it makes me angry to think of the money that Cheesecakemc could have potentially made from posters donating via that PM.

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Bleublancrouge · 14/08/2025 15:09

BoleynMemories13 · 14/08/2025 14:19

I had one too. By the time I saw I had a private message just now, the content had already been deleted by Mumsnet. I was intrigued so searched the user name and came across this. Thanks for flagging 👍🏻

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Exactly this. Thanks for letting us know what wasgoing on as I was curious.

TaupeMember · 14/08/2025 14:34

That's hilarious- such a well written begging post, followed swiftly by that thuggish ok karen remark

What a plonker!

Do people really fall for these things

ChangeOfTheName675274 · 14/08/2025 14:32

I didn’t even know you could send/receive messages on here?! on the app. ?

upandleftthenright · 14/08/2025 14:31

Fandango52 · 14/08/2025 13:41

I agree about deleting the message and forgetting about it, but I wanted to make it public to warn anyone who might get taken in and might actually donate money.

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Thanks for flagging this

Balloonhearts · 14/08/2025 14:29

Just a scammer trying it on.