the link he sent is a fake miner website, to track my hardware model, OS\network envirment
This is the "benefit" of doing this kind of things privately, on telegram, instead of publicly, on the forum.
If done publicly, others could have been seeing the links and the story and tell you from start that it all stinks.
PS. Scammers were around in 2014 too. Even more, since then the account could have easily change hands too (hack, selling, ...)