That thread perfectly demonstrates why any reasonable person would think it's a scam. ANYTIME ANYONE ANYWHERE begins to ask reasonable questions about the MONEY, this is the response they get from the Cult of Andy Stephenson at DU.
Amazona makes a plea for no more fund-raisers (gee, now why would she ever do that?) and Malva Zebrina agrees and asks the same questions that have never been answered. And look who shows up to beat her into submission, the usual suspects:
benburch
sfexpat2000
Stephanie
merh
noiretblu
greatauntoftriplets
bettyellen
Demgirl
goodboy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3984810&mesg_id=3989013
At least 9 DUers gang up on Malve. Now why be so defensive if they have nothing to hide and the whole thing is on the up and up? Go read it yourself and see what they do to Malve. They seem more like members of some street gang than generous and helpful people who kindly raised money to help a sick friend.
This type of behavior has happened time and time again in many forums, not only DU.
But we are the villains. Yeah, right.
Has anyone submitted this to Snopes yet for inclusion in their database?
I can see it a year from now, when "Andy Needs Your Help" emails have been passed from person to person in an never ending chain, people will go to Snopes to see whether this is a scam or not and there, waiting for them, will be the perp walk photo of Andy and the original complaint that started the investigation.
I just don't see why someone would offer to send money back in order to shut down discussion, rather than just answering the questions and posting the proof that would stop this in its tracks.