Upvoted.

May I suggest editing your post with some paragraph breaks so it isn't a giant wall of nigh-unreadable text? Your sentence structure looks OK, but the text body needs to be broken down a bit into separate segments.

Also, bad exchanges should be called out. It sucks that you got scammed. There are always myriad such schemes that pop up when something new is developed online. Good work publicizing it at any rate.