[US] Are these real people trying to commission me?

I have been getting a big popular with my art lately and came across 2 people asking for my commission. One of them offering $1000 dollars for a portrait of their pet and son realistically as well as a background and the other offering $200 for 3 portraits of their son (which I was going to get them to my right prices first but yeah,) I’m a fairly new artist so I’m definitely not familiar with commissions but these people coincidentally texted me in the same night with almost the same prompts, and both asking and sounding a bit desperate for my PayPal email which is find this extremely suspicious, though, I would feel bad if these people were real.