If I came across the wrong way, then for that I apologize. This vendor has had issues with scamers posing as him and it has become more of a problem recently.
I hate to see people get scammed, but last time someone bough from a scammer, got scammed. Then found his legit email and reported it as a scam and his provider disabled his email account and I have no doubt he had to go through a bunch of bullshit behind the scenes to get them to reinstate it. I am sure this was quite expensive as I have no doubt he is filling several dozen orders, if not more a day and you can do the math. Plus preventing legit users from emailing him and possibly costing him permant business from new customers.
General rule to use 100% of the time. For god's sake don't google shit. Go to the sources thread, and find where the source post their legit email/TG/WA whatever and use that for inital contact. Cut and past it, double check it 10x and then contact them. This keeps everyone and the source as safe as possible and happy.