Ah. The ones I’ve gotten have a very similar background for the projects they email about, but there’s never been an outright request for any payment. Maybe if I’d responded there would have been, or it might be a different person. The email never sat right, so I deleted. But then later the same exact thing comes through. If you’re using a form email about a freelance project over months or years, nah man. Blocked.

Common sense, right? Thank you.

Lori, right?

Overpayment and sending money back to the payor. How can you be running your own business and not know that’s a scam method??!

Oh, he’s been circulating for a while. Transparent attempt to steal money, too. I would like to think no one was taken in, Jenn, but there were a few writers who were asking if it was for real. If you have to ask, you’re the target.

Sheesh. I mean, as scams go, this isn’t even a good one.

LOL You are prime rib, sister. Give him time — he’ll get to you. 😉

Haha!

All excellent points, Lori. And there’s that rush to act we were just talking about in the last post that should give anybody pause:

“then ask for the writer to just wire back the overpayment right away. That “right away” part is so the writer doesn’t realize that the deposited funds aren’t really there.”