I haven't had many strangers contact me on Discord whom I had never spoken with on chain.
A couple of years ago there was one, begged me for help. She/he had just started following me on Hive and then wrote to me on Discord something along these lines.
Hello, I saw you on Hive and you seem to be a great person and I need help. Can you send me $5 so my family can get fed tonight? Please help me, things are very tough at the moment.
Wording was different but the idea was something like that. Yeah, there is a small chance that this is true but how about a NO😄
Yeah, there have been many of those over the years, and as much as I might want to help, I don't want to make the problem worse, because so many of them, if not nearly all, are just scam. On chain, at least there is some transparency.