Do I Have Anything To Worry About.

location: New Jersey

hello I’m 19 female and I just opened my first commissions on TikTok. I’ve set up payment on ko-fi and Stripe.

now ive been posting my art for about a month now. and today I noticed that this lady messaged me about a commission. the message was sent on the 15th of this month. so I accepted it. she was wanted a commission of her daughter. she isn’t from the US so she couldn’t send me photos. so we moved our conversation to discord.

she said she didn’t have access??? to ko-fi so to use wise. I never heard of it but it looked legit. so I signed up and made my account. at the time I didn’t know that stripe does international invoices. I wouldve wanted her to send the money (25$) after I finished for the both of is. but she wanted to send TODAY. I’m not going to turn down 25$.

so then messages me about an email confirmatio. I didn’t see one. so she said to check my spam. there’s on. and it asked for me to ask her for 200 to upgrade my account. it looked suspicious so I told her not to. but she sent anyways. I was starting to feel uncomfortabl, but she said she can help me get her refund.

k never received any money. so idk where she was going to it from. we were going on in circles. and then she mentioned gift cards??? I then got an email from wise again, a mother legit looking email. and I screenshotted and sent it to her. again she goes on about buying gift cards. like how can I buy it when I gots no money? she said ask family for 200$

during this whole thing I’m telling her reach back out to get your money back. you don’t have to pay for he commission. but no they wanted to through with it. we were getting no where so I search it up and it’s a scam. I tell her and she’s mad with me? when I told her not to send 200$. she drones on about a lawyer and such.

recounting this, they sound like the scammer. but do I have to worry about getting into any legal trouble?