This time it was a scammer pretending to be the associate producer of a film studio company.  It drains me.

I was uplifted from Thursday thinking that I was going to have a film adaptation of my book.  The producer needed a screenplay and it had to be WGA certified.  I did not ask him what this meant for fear of sounding out of place.  So, after getting off the phone, I googled it.

WGA screenplays were written for a price which is around $50K.  I supposed I could write my own screenplay I thought and have it certified by them.  I wrote for 2 days.  My thumb was bruised.

The next day my agent called and told me what I had hoped for at the same time had not hoped for.  There was good news and bad news . . . the good news was that the screenplay had to be written by WGA . . . the bad news was that it would cost me $30K.

For 3 days, I tried to qualify for loans, and other financing options like startup business loans, and business credit cards.  I finally asked my uncle for help and he said, “Let’s do it!”

Then came the bad news that the film adaptation offer was a scam.  I had others look at the contract and everything seemed legitimate on the surface.

Should you ransom the captive in situations like this?  Yes, I would say.  Tell others what the scammers do especially when you know you make a positive difference to the world.