Yes its a good reminded that people are not who they say but that is not why members are angry.
They are angry because they pointed these threads out in April, when they first started, and reported and reported, when mentioning on the thread that this person might be not be all they say, they were met with a shitstorm, which made others, such as myself, not want to keep pointing out things were not adding up. Then when MN's put up a message and moved the just giving page to the charity board and more or less said that they had validated who a certain poster was, that gave it a sense of right people are being dickheads.
The people that gave their time or money should not be blamed, alot of them on this thread and others are on those boards because they have personal experience, I assume for some of those posters it was probably recent, making them the perfect target for a scam.
I will say a few posters might have more responsibiliy than all the rest for also giving the suggestion that all was alright. But the fact is, it came across as clear that MNs seemed to have said we have additional checks on this person and it all checks out and now seem to be saying its all those posters fault.
Things have changed on MNs and as a business, its main role is to make money, however they make money off its users, and this has bought to light certain things that have failed to protect the more vulnerable members.
I personally think it needs to be clear on all boards, that at any point your thread could be lifted and used in the national press and at worse this place is not a community like it use to be.