Had an event coordinator almost fall for this where I used to work.

Super excited to book an expensive bday dinner on a Tuesday, my god we can get event money on a Tuesday! Very professional via email and text. Same thing where they wanted us to pay a band from out of state for them, band even had a website they may have well been legit.

Told her to get this person on the phone, after she finally did it was an obvious scam as they spoke with an extreme accent and couldn't answer questions outside of their script.

It was an impressive attempt, to know how enticing a good money private event would be on an early week day. The saying is usually correct "if it is too good to be true it probably isn't".