Like the OP I'm a crypto-noob living in Melbourne. A little less nooby as I did open a Binance account last year to help my son retrieve profits from some staking he'd done late 2021 when we were in what retired futures traders like moi call a dead cat bounce.
I said before and I will say it again, but first time to you, report this case to police investigators or at least contact some newspaper and tell them to write a story about this.
Maybe you will connect with all the people and look security cameras for idiots who are putting this paper around your area.
If this scammers are not stopped they are going to scam more people and people will again blame Bitcoin for being scammed.
You didn't lose a lot of money, but someone send them much more.
Anyhoo, the upshot is I end up with this message on the Paymetic transaction page:
I knew it scammers are using this stupid system they used to scam people in discord for years, and I said the same thing in this topic.
Cheap looking website that imitates exchange and wallet, and domain registered not so long ago, this are all red alerts.
Domain Name: PAYMETIC.ONLINE
Registry Domain ID: D326122348-CNIC
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.hostinger.com
Registrar URL:
https://www.hostinger.com/Updated Date: 2022-10-10T07:17:11.0Z
Creation Date: 2022-10-05T07:12:54.0Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2023-10-05T23:59:59.0Z
Registrar: Hostinger, UAB