Just because you've talked to someone directly and they seem nice does not mean they aren't a scammer. Scam farms give their "workers" (slaves and victims) personas, stories, and scripts to follow and there is a whole scam system called pig butchering, where a scammer spends time building trust and a relationship with their target to exploit them for more and more money over time. "I talked to them for days/weeks and they were so genuine between the requests for more money, they can't be a scammer," is not a vetting process.

I really think we should've all learned this already from how many popular bloggers were exposed for faking their situations after years of collecting donations and building friendships, only to just completely vanish with the money they were given. Social media has made pig butchering extremely easy because scammers don't even need to build a fake romantic relationship anymore, they just need to become "friends" with their victims and take advantage of their compassion and desire to help (and their unwillingness to question what they're being told).

Pig butchering scams also involve escalating requests, that's why they're called what they are. The scammer is "fattening" you up and preparing you for slaughter by easing you into not only trusting them as an individual but also not questioning them when they ask for money. It's a frog boiling method.

I haven't eaten for a week, can you give me $20 to buy groceries? My mom is very sick, can you send me $50 for medicine? I'm going to get evicted tomorrow, can you give me $300 right now so that I'm not homeless? My daughter is sick, can you send me $1000 for her surgery? You can't afford it? But I NEED it, ask your friends for the money, ask your family for the money, my daughter is going to die and it'll be your fault if you don't send me that money today, I thought you were my friend, I thought you cared about me, how could you abandon me like this?