I'm worried about the future regarding scams and just being able to identify if that's actually a women behind it, because the AI stuff is really getting crazy with how realistic it is, and moving into also being able to make real time avatars. So for example google image search doesn't work there anymore, and even real time cam calls will be possible to fake. Gonna need to have some counter-AI to avoid scams like it.
But yeah, cash, in-hand, only. Other methods can be tracked and can be scammed with. With cash at least, when you are getting scammed, you are already in the shit one way or another, or at least get a chance to bolt if something smell fishy.