23 Mar 2025 - AJ
The scam I cover this week - a scam that targets specifically artists - was something I’d seen before, but not this particular version.
It is, at its heart, a pretty standard fake check scam - a very old technique that shows up a lot because it works, unfortunately. People just don’t think about the fact that person 1 could send the money to person 2 without asking person 3 (the potential victim) to do it. I don’t get why people fail to think about that, but it happens.
These kinds of scams are endlessly fascinating to me. The sheer amount of variations of this scam seem innumberable. They’re the tip of the iceberg in terms of scams and yet they’re the ones where I shake my head in horror that people keep falling for them.