A more general believable story: "I will die without carT therapy and the only immunotherapy center that takes Medicaid is 300 miles away. Immediately need money for transportation hotels etc" (but this requires saying USA. A problem when hospital is Spanish. ( It was in Barcelona)
Or I'll need a transplant and it's not fully covered.
For this specific scammer, yes. It was partly the posting clues but the giveaway is the photo. Where it came from, original poster's story and all.
Using the original name and id would open them up to extra fraud charges. Not using made it easy to check for fraud. But the PayPal is still up using her pictures. There's probably other places she is using it.
Yes, but that's how you discovered it. When I know someone's using someone else's photo to raise funds (for themself, not for the person who's photo it is). I block them so I don't accidentally boost them again.