This experience is very interesting, although it is not a happy one. I'm curious though if you deposited that $ 100 that you didn't say.
Anyway, an ingenious way to fool people, but all of us, we have to start from the idea that nothing is free in this world and no one gives us anything without working. Whoever wants to do a 50/50 business chooses to do it with a friend of his, not with someone on the telegram.