https://worthen.media/tags/scams/Recent content in Scams on Worthen MediaHugoen-usThu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://worthen.media/posts/how-i-almost-got-scammed/Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://worthen.media/posts/how-i-almost-got-scammed/<p>Scammers have evolved well past the old &ldquo;Nigerian prince&rdquo; email. A while back, running Worthen Media, I got what looked at first like a completely normal business inquiry. It wasn&rsquo;t, and it took a few days of poking at the details before I realized how close I&rsquo;d come to getting taken.</p> <h2 id="the-initial-contact">The Initial Contact</h2> <p>The first message came from someone calling himself &ldquo;Paul Bills,&rdquo; who said he was hearing impaired and asked whether I accepted credit cards. That struck me as odd right away — why would being hearing impaired matter for a web design inquiry, and why would payment method be the very first question, before we&rsquo;d even talked about the project?</p>