UPDATE: I ended up blocking the user. I was planning to beforehand, but just wanted to check.
Someone contacted me roughly a year ago to try and pay me (this convo specifically took place on Discord after first contact via another site). I'm concerned this may be a scam, although the conversation itself was a bit uncomfortable and felt like it raised a few red flags.
They said that they were offering to pay me money because an art piece of mine had apparently inspired them and their work was going to be (supposedly) posted in a museum. They said I was going to be labelled as collaboration (I'd argue that inspiration and collaboration are different things, but I wasn't shown any of the art they spoke of so for now I'm unsure).
The story I was given by this person felt inconsistent - first, they wanted to pay me. Then, they say that a client wants to pay me. Then that they're going to pay me. They even offered to pay someone else to give me the money (they would give that person the payment, and that person would give the payment to me while being paid for helping out).
Their writing was a bit messy and inconsistent, and I'm somewhat assuming they're using google translate for English or aren't 100% with English (which is understandable).
I told them I wouldn't be taking the payment and didn't offer any information regarding Cashapp, Paypal, Apple Pay, etc. They offered to pay me through a check that would be sent to my email that I could deposit at my own bank at my own time.
They kept offering me money and eventually our conversation was randomly cut off right as I asked about how my art was supposedly being used as a "muse".
They tried to approach me again today and mentioned paying me was part of the project. When I didn't give them any information regarding what bank I worked with, they asked for my location and my age. I asked them why they'd need that information (pretty obvious you don't wanna give away personal info with strangers), and the conversation stopped there.
I don't plan to get paid by this person, and I don't care much about what they're talking about. I just wanna know if this is a scam.