This very scam isn’t a new one but don’t be surprised when you see and hear that people are still falling for such scams because everyone definitely want some extra cash and profit’s especially for works they didn’t do but possibly in form of gifts and bonuses.
This type of scam is mostly used for investment and even physically, this type of scam exist and it is good we always try to enlighten people about all of these things as much as we can do people don’t have to easily fall for scans like this because there are people that will definitely still fall for the scams.
These scams are common both online and offline, It is still the same thing. In my neighborhood there was this man that came back from travel and he had with him forms of which he claimed that a non governmental agency is giving out financial grant to people. According to him the grant was over 900k of my local currency. The only condition to get the form is that you will pay 5k to obtain the form. So when someone told me about it, I told them it was a scam, if non governmental organization wants to give grants of that amount of money, why are they demanding for little money to obtain a form. Many people paid to get the form, but since that day till today nobody has heard from the Man neither was he anywhere to be found. We all just need to be careful, these scams are everywhere, not just online alone.