I'm concerned I'm about to be scammed on ACX by a narrator
So this is my first time as an author looking for a narrator. I write dark romantasy and was looking for a gravel-y deep voice for the Devil. Everything seemed fine as we conversed. His audition had the exact voice I was looking for. But he's offered to go off ACX because of all the "restrictions." I ignored that.
I think my mistake may have been saying I'm new to this. But I haven't even sent him the contract yet, we were still agreeing to the terms and then he messaged me all his personal banking information. So that.... made me feel a bit weird.
I asked him if he used AI in any of his production, and he told me he didn't really know what AI was. Is he living under a rock?
So at that point, I started looking up his information in his profile. All the books he's listed as working on do not exist. EVERY SINGLE ONE I cannot find anywhere. And his profile picture is a photo stolen off the internet that is frequently used by a lot of people.
This has to be a scam. He also keeps saying "my American...." and no one talks like that unless they're from another country, which it doesn't list him as from somewhere else. He also mentioned he had trouble with other people sending ACH payments to his "American" account.
Is there anyway this is legitimate? Am I missing something? What kind of scam is this? He just takes the fee and runs?