It is likely that the guy was using a community in which he belonged with a culture of generocity in order to manipulate that to fulfilling his own desires and needs. I have always sort of disliked him as a poster, mostly because every single problem was the result of someone else doing something unjust towards him and he played the victim incredibly well (his girlfriend cheated on him, his boss was a jerk, his new employees did something, etc, etc) I just found it to be a very offputting appraoch to life. Then when he was talking about how he needed new furniture and the like, I found that to be awfully irritating, not that I have ever been poor per say but if I was one step away from homelessness relying on the generocity of strangers, I don't think that I would be going out and buying much of anything that wasn't an essential and things like a new mattress and furniture are not essentials. Use kijiji or whatever the Florida version is for that.
Ultimately though, I don't know if it was a scam or really serves as evidence that you can't pay someone out of poverty, there is a reason they are poor and crap choices are a big part of that reason... and this guy had plenty of them. None of which he would admit to.
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