Be suspicious… This is a good list of scams. I’ve run across a number of these, recently including recruiters pretending to be working for a company than asking for financial information, the IRS fake scammers, homeless asking for money for a job interview so they can buy booze or drugs, people with pyramid / multilevel marketing schemes, wealthy people pushing crappy investments, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/canjua/have_you_ever_got_scammed_what_happened/
“A fool and his dollar are soon parted.” I have been parted from enough dollars that I hope I am less foolish than I once was!