How I got scammed for $1700 on Upwork

*Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

I have shied away from telling the story of how I was scammed because I was ashamed. How did I get fooled that easily when I pride myself on being a digital native, having worked in digital communications since the mid-nineties?

Shouldn’t I have been immune to the same old tricks of the online scammers? Shouldn’t I have known better?