Jeez. It's really sad to see how fraud can really ruin the environment for everyone. Your story sounds quite plausible, so I suppose it's good to know that the reasons for seeking an anonymous account(s) are legit. Steemit is an experiment and in its infancy. A lot of these issues will be hashed out over and over again, privacy, anonymity, reputation and fraud. This is literally the melting pot for such matters and you got caught up in it. I think if the Msgivings fraud hadn't happened, you would have had an entirely different experience.
I'm very sorry that you had a bad experience, but you obviously have enough insight to understand why many of us feel uneasy about such things, especially when someone is given an account by a whale. In fact, I cannot think of another example of this. Regular users just open their own account, so any deviation from that is uncommon and usually breeds suspicion.
Thank you for telling your side of the events.