Scam (Internet and Otherwise) Omnibus Thread

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Just linking to another recent scam thread to add to our (sadly) ever-growing database.

What is this scam?

I received this message on Linkedin. Hello David. This is Chun. I found some U.S. software projects. To start project my client wants to send laptop. Can you receive it and turn it on please? So I can work remotely? I can pay some money for this? What he’s saying doesn’t make much sense. Why would he need me to host a laptop for him to work on remotely? He obviously has his own computer. But I can’t figure out the scam. It seems unlikely but could this be someone trying to plant connected l…