Before my move to a smartphone, I never knew I’d be subject to scams from crooks who strictly text.
Who hires someone without talking to them in person?
Apparently the scam artist will say he/she is hearing impaired so they get you to drop your guard because as a business owner you wouldn’t want to be perceived as prejudiced.
I usually dismiss texts from strangers or numbers I don’t recognize.

Since I wasn’t too busy doing anything critical I decided to play along.

But it soon got tiring after a while.

So I went online to see if I could figure out what might have happened if I had believed ‘James’.
Proabably this: he was going to use a stolen credit card number to pay me then he would intentionally overpay me and ask for a refund either by Western Union or some other form of payment which can’t be traced to him.
If any of you have other ideas of how else they might cheat you, please let me know via comments.
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