My wife runs her own business and got a fairly large work/job client offer. Went all the way through the on-boarding process, they even sent 20% down but the check bounced and their "english is my second language so apologies if my emails come off weird" started to fall apart. Was just a big scam. Reported to the police and state fraud center. It's scary how good these scammers are getting with help from AI and such. Really frustrating. I'm sorry that happened to her.