#2 is quite common reasons these days as an announcement. Either it is done in a Telegram channel or here in the forum.
This is why I don't do them before.
The 3 month work you made could just be destroyed in just a blink of an eye by a single announcement and there's not even a dang thing that you can do about it even if you make a Scam Accusation because they pretty much just did their exit scam as well.