I see, thanks for the responses! You learn something new every day. That's really clever for a scam, if that's really what's happening.

Here's some more info about counterparty and the go to wallet if your curious:
https://counterparty.io/docs/faq-counterwallet/. Lots of good projects run on it, and, even though it's a smaller and less commonly used one, I've always felt that any platform that can run independent projects has a lot of room for growth.