Either OP's friend is getting scammed with something along the lines of the good old "Hey, this exchange offers X amount of money for you to withdraw, but you need to deposit Y $ yourself first" by someone who PM'd him the link of the exchange on a social media such as reddit,
or OP and his friend are the owner of said site.
It's big brain time anyway.
Correct,neither of both things and i do rather see this as a shilling thing than on having a question.Slow death already revealed already those fake sites using up the same
team+template of the site which already 100% signifies that this fraud.Dont know yet on where's the origin but well it doesnt matter though.
People or Newbies does really have fun on finding weird stuffs.lol