It's really so awful! I try to not write out a check but there is one company that I deal with (my trash carrier) that still wants a check!
I saw another story not too long ago about a woman who lost over $160K from her bank account!
She had gotten a text from "Chase" asking about a transaction and the woman responded by saying no, she didn't buy anything.
Well one thing led to another and the scammer called to speak with her to tell her that they needed some code on her card (I don't remember the details) but she gave it to them and they called several more times.
After a while she looked and saw money being taken out of her account. She went to a branch in person to get it straightened out but she was told that they couldn't help her. She was told that basically she let scammers steal from her account and it wasn't Chase's fault!
Yes she was ignorant but I felt so badly for her! It could happen to a lot of naive people!