If this kind of thing was acceptible on boards, I'm sure we'd see plenty of "Please Help" threads along with the Paypal email.. There's simply no way to verify the validity of this and if you are naive enough to send money to some random person's paypal email, then this will not be the first time you will be taken advantage of during these holidays
You want to help? Those of you living in a city, next time you go downtown, don't give a beggar money, they will only most likely go and buy alcohol and drugs..Instead take them to go get a hot meal, and pay for a night or two at a motel... That's my two
