A warning to not send money to people you met on an open internet forum? Really? If someone can help lrm242 great, but I don't think anyone else has delusions

A warning to not send money to people you met on an open internet forum? Really? If someone can help lrm242 great, but I don't think anyone else has delusions that HN is anything but an open forum on the web and therefore entails the most basic precautions. There are thousands of other bad-actors waiting even if you manage to round up a posse to track this guy down. So lrm242 has my sympathies but this is definitely a personal problem because making any assumptions based on the fact that someone entered news.ycombinator.com into their address bar (which is the only barrier to membership) is frankly, stupid.