I Was Nearly Scammed With This ‘Writing Opportunity’
What is up with writer’s being scammed these days? Why can’t we just be left in peace to do what we love? Fraudsters will always find a way to scam anyone and they will get the karma they deserve.
Anyway, back to my story.
On Twitter, I had started to promote my stories more which has led to me receiving a lot more followers. One of those followers is called Lucas Bush.
After seeing he was a freelancer, I followed back as this is the correct crowd of following and followers I’m trying to attract. Immediately, he messaged me asking if I was open to writing opportunities. My sixth sense immediately kicked in and I had a strong feeling it was going to be some scam.
Lucas does not have a picture of himself as his profile picture, does not have a link to Medium, has no recent tweets, rarely tweets anyway and barely has any interaction with any accounts.
Nonetheless, I was interested to what he was going to offer me, so I said that I was open to writing opportunities.
He sent me a link to www.energycitizens.org and stated that this is a freelance writing opportunity which specialises in mental health, environment, history, energy, oil and gas. It pays…