Got a fake growth expert DM with a stock photo profile pic, he vanished when I asked a simple question

Last Tuesday I got a DM from someone I'd never interacted with, supposedly a 'growth expert' named Marcus. The profile was 3 days old with exactly 47 followers, all of them random crypto bots. He started with 'Hey, love your pest control posts!' but I've never once posted about my job on that account. Then he pasted a paragraph about how he could teach me to 'scale my online presence' with a link to a $199 course. I asked him one simple question about what specific post he liked and he said 'the one about the customer issue' which could match anything. I reverse searched his profile pic, found it on a stock photo site from 2018. He never replied after that, just deleted his account. Anyone else getting these fake warm-up DMs where they clearly scraped your profile but didn't read a single word you actually wrote? It's getting SO obvious lately.

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terry_carter151mo agoMost Upvoted

the one about the customer issue' could match anything"... yeah that's the tell right there. It's like all these grifters read one book on "social selling" and now everyone's getting the same lazy script, just with different names slapped on it.