Scam or what

I've had two different people so far message me something like this;

"Hello. May I ask you a question. It's job related but I don't want to post it publicly in case people make fun of me...."

Both of these people I ignored as it seems a bit strange but does anyone know what's the purpose of that message?

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robb65 · 56-60, M

They're fishing for something. I've received odd messages on Quora and usually it takes a few messages back and forth to get to what they were wanting. "So what are your interest?" If you really wanted to know you would have looked at the questions I was answering, but ok, I'll play along. One suggested that because I had the same first name as her father or grandfather we might be related. Eventually she got around to asking for money. There's been a few others wanting to tell me about some real estate deal that we could make lots of money from.