I have a friend that got a message from a "girl" over the summer. It was like "Hello Dear Joseph, I would like to no if you can help me with to practice English. I find you profile today and I have a work visas starting in 90 days to come to your city for work and I am wanting to make new friends and practice my english!! Sorry if this bothered to you. ~~EMOJIS~~~ - Signed Brazilian Model.
So far I think he's 8 grand into helping her. I'm sure it's more now because that was like before Halloween and it's impossible to convince him that it's a scam.
Scams work, because people want to believe in them.
The email was really good (not in junk), the domain was close, pixel perfect UI and is just finished a reformat so entering in my feeds again made sense. Unfortunately for them, they sent the email out prematurely because after pressing the button I got a JS error.
Got an email shortly afterwards about a login from Russia, however I was able to change my password and kick out all other sessions before any damage was done.
The worst part was that I was doing a favour to a Steam "friend" who asked me to vote for his clan in some kind of competition. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it wasn't really him, but someone who had hacked his account, but either way, Steam support were utterly disinterested in doing anything about it when I reported it. As were Cloudflare. I checked on the site a few days later and the safe browsing list had flagged it, so at least those maintainers still seem to give a shit.