If there were a few more PM, it could be considered a scam. Five bucks is not such a sum that it can be noticed; asking several could get a good amount. Russians have a saying, "From the world on a thread, the naked will get clothes." As far as I understand, on the topic of loans, there was another open topic about 15 bucks. Do people who have been on the forum since 2018 need to know the rules about such PMs? If I were Jolie, I would leave a neutral tag about the unsolicited PM. There is another person who can tell how a random and innocent PM was turned into a negative tag, fortunately removed in time.