I'd think it's more likely that the person asking for donations wasn't actually Bruno, but the same scammer.
If you look at the stilted text of Bruno's Plead it does look as though someone else is typing (not just a "google did it for me")
Perhaps Bruno's phone was taken a while ago, and, being in hospital, never needed it. A scammer set the "Plead" up, waited a while then came back and said he was cured.