A woman calling herself Megan Hooke contacted me about writing a 2700-word article for a workshop in Boise, ID, aimed at high school students. The e-mail was titled “Need a Writer” and went on to promise a payment of $4050 for the article. I suspected it was a scam, but nothing came up when searching “Need a Writer Scam”, or the name Megan Hooke, so of course I went along with it to get the whole story! I am not even sure what to put in this post so that people who run across this scam will be able to…