I said they gave me the initial 5000 coins for free -- "after an airdrop" in the first post of the thread.
It's not free, it will cost you $4, or whatever. You have no confirmation or guarantee that those 5000 coins will be worth anything, nor that you will ever be able to sell them anywhere.Based on the first batch from their pre-launch, their token 50bil. was sold for 0.0000001, so the value of your 5000 free tokens was $0.005. Not bad for a $4 investment.
Even at the current Stage 3 and price of $0.0001, your 5000 AiETF tokens are worth $0.5.
Since when the scammers are showing some humanity? They would scam any amount if they understand that you will send the money. But, since people will start doubting them if they ask for bigger amounts, putting small amount the good idea for them but I am not sure if it's working.
I think its just enough for people to think exactly that: "what's $4 anyway, doesn't matter if its a scam." Then after you're there, they work on how to get you to deposit more funds. And if you don't do that, then try to get you to download seed-stealing malware and such. Just going by different reviews I read of the website.