Stuff like this is really demoralizing since it takes advantage of the best part of our humanity- empathy for those in need.
Web of trust is probably the best solution but intuition is always key.
I saw this and the skeptical part of me said nah. Too many reposts of the same things in a loop, and too many likes and small zaps of my mediocre notes.
Scammers will probably read these threads and iterate, so maybe be extra generous to those in your real life to compensate for not donating to things on here?