Thank you for the heads up.
These more complex scams can really get newbies. This has already been done on the forum, with a well known scammer (can't remember his name) posting a honeypot private key and told people to send coins to the address as transaction fees in order to withdraw tokens within it.
Obviously, this is never going to work. The scammer has everything planned out and whatever you send to the address is lost.
You were trying to steal tokens and then you complain that its a scam?
Thieves deserved to get scammed.
I don't think OP tried to steal anything. he said he did his research and found that it's a scam.