Can anyone briefly explain the David thing from mumsnet I've not heard of that?
It was a while ago and I'm a bit hazy on it now. It was an extremely tangled web and I never fully got my head around all of it.
Basically, a poster said his wife was dying of cancer and set up a fundraising account to raise money for a charity foundation. Some posters were a bit sceptical about him but were shouted down/deleted/banned if they raised any concerns. MN actively plugged the fundraising account and I think quite a few posters donated money. The final amount raised was just over £3,000.
The charity being fundraised for
does exist but the money account was set up in David's name rather than that of the charity. There was some doubt that David was genuinely her husband. David and Caroline did exist in real life but the poster was suspected of impersonating the husband. He subsequently posted a photo of her in hospital clearly very ill in order to prove who he said he was. Can't remember how that was obtained.
I think it then transpired that he had the mobile numbers of some MN posters and had made sexually inappropriate comments to them?
I can't remember if it was ever proven whether he was a fake. Any references to him were removed immediately and posters banned; it was like North Korea for a while!