I have a thing where I made a "bunch" (not a lot for Westerners, but people in other countries can do it too) of money online and a couple blogs publicized it. It is not something I could hide as it is very public if you look correctly.

I get an absurd number of scam attempts, some of them very customized. Someone tried to fake a family stamp collection (I collect stamps). Also, random people who looked me up would introduce me when I met them with other people as "the guy who [did $thing to get $amount). Even people in North America. And we are talking about 30K ish here.