I guess and I hope they were all sockpuppets, but if someone really sent money to such a sloppy and obvious scam that makes me really uncomfortable. Scammers are going to target these forums intensively if people in here is willing to part with their hard earned money so easily.
Yea, kind of surprises me too. No one ever asked me about ID verification, even after I posted the details in the thread.
I think there is a good chance they were all sockpuppets. I checked a couple of them and what a coincidence, they all speak german and stopped their activity after the stunt...