> become a technical advisor for their web3 project

That by itself should have been the first red flag. I also heard a lot of these stories recently. I think this might be one of the good use cases of GitHub Codespaces.

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ashishb 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Not for someone who get 10-20 such requests a year. None till date were such scams.

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tdeck 4 hours ago | parent [-]

All of them were scams, this was just the first time you were the intended victim.

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ashishb 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Those were real companies. The conversation started online and immediately moved in-person.

I was never asked to install anything. I was not even given code access (without NDA) and I did get paid with equity/money in cases there was a mutual match and we proceeded.

	▲	ccimmergreen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh god, thanks for the heads up. It's a wonder how many people fell for it, definitely non-zero I reckon. I would hate for this to become a thing on LinkedIn.