This is a bit uncomfortable to say as someone also resorting to ebegging to help pay my bills, but I've ran across some posts accusing a well known person in the lgbt community of being a scammer, pointing to the number of donations they're getting not corresponding to the situation they're in and like...
I would want to believe, always, that they're telling the truth, all I've seen from them makes them sound cool and I don't necessarily think someone should expose every detail about their life to be believed of being in need of help (lol @ people being like 'x's country has universal healthcare so why are the expenses going to healthcare?' Bc it's so clear that these people have NO clue that universal healthcare systems can be flawed and at times unreliable- I myself had to incur medical debt in a country with such a system because I needed the results faster than the free version could give me/partially not by choice) but...
I did do what people who noticed the suspicious activity said and went looking for the numbers in their linked kofi page and... over a hundred donations just today at a minimum of a dollar and pretty on average for a daily amount as far as I can check on the platform. Yeah I can see how that looks fishy wrt the amount they keep posting about needing, sadly.
Maybe they just went into huge, huge amounts of debt but it is a lot more tough to believe than I would like.
Nothing can be proved atm and I don't agree with people acting like something being suspicious = this being a scam, and people in the comments of their post are Beyond disgusting to them + provably know nothing about the realities of being unhoused, unemployed and sick, but I do think I'll also not reblog their posts further until we know for sure.