To tell you to be really vary of...

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... all the "please donate and help" posts and pages?

There are just so many, especially around Christmas time so be careful who you give the money to. It's a shame because there are causes which deserve every penny, but then there are people like this. And lots of them.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/scam-crowdfunding-page-claimed-mum-15540983?fbclid=IwAR0yGzmnh_kNIFAQC_qVE67bDITRBFbdnrFR2bu8ES_Gsb3xnLOoRQzaTKU

And I've spotted the terminally ill child posts on facebook again. Picture taken from google....

YANBU.
I'm not naive, I do know there's scams out there, it just wouldn't occur to me to doubt the authenticity of a crowdfunding page. Thank you for sharing this. People are vile for even considering scamming people.

I don't believe any of them and won't give a penny.

It is ridiculous. I have stopped giving like this a long time ago.
Bit sickening.

including on MN - be wary of the sob stories on here