This also remind me of the Russia-Ukraine war where scamners created several fake donation avenues. Some even launched cryptocurrency token whereby anyone who buys into the ICO will be supporting the people of Ukraine. A lot of people actually fell for them before they realized it was all scam.
Not only that, even the pandemic and disasters like earthquakes, this scammers are going to create fake donation websites to lure people who at heart wanted to help. So this scammers are taking advantage of the psychology about empathy.
Scammers will not stop at anything when they know they can get money easily without doing anything other than writing fictional stories.
There are these low scammers with fake websites and there are others who go live on TV and gather support with fake stories about their life or their fight against some abuse. Somaly Mam is one such case, and she even managed to get a discourse at the UN :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaly_Mam.
Her husband's slipup is pretty telling:
When you work in this world, you know fabricated stories are used by everyone to get funding
You will never get rid of them, as most donors will say, even if maybe it's a scam I'm planning on giving away the money anyhow, so if there's a 50% chance it's legit then it's good, if not, I'm not losing anything anyhow.
Maybe they will have money from this scam attempts, but who knows, maybe karma will come and get them.
If some godly power like karma existed in the first place then we would not have a need for donation at all.
And you can see even in the crypto world, from Mark Karpeles to the lowest $10 scammer on the forum, karma is taking a lot of time to go into action.
