This person friended me from an online game I played asking if I wanted to be paid to be a penpal. I’m familiar with a lot of phishing scams and other sorts of scams but I’ve never seen a scam like this one. What exactly is this person trying to get from me, are they hoping to infect my device with something sinister or are they trying to phish information from me without me knowing it? They seem to put a lotta emphasis on me VIEWING this photo they’re gonna send me and it makes me think that whatever they’re gonna send me must be infected with some sort of trojan. Can someone explain to me what’s going on here?
Open a new banking account. . Deposit the check digitally, block the scammer, deposit into the new empty account. Let it sit for a few months. If the money is still there. You have won.
Most likely the check will will be fraudulent and revoked within 1 or 2 weeks.