Clearly a scammer. A very clever scammer, by the way.
• If he has been hacked:
- why didn't he send an email or ask the moderators for help?
- Why didn't he create another account to explain the situation?
- a JR Vip account that has no 2FA? Were all his devices compromised? very unlikely
- why did he disappear from contact circles outside of BHW? the guy apparently lives and makes money from the internet, it's like you stopping going to work at the office for months without explanation.
Other indications of something sketchy:
• The websites involving his name have fake addresses, these supposed agencies, consultancies and real estate agents don't exist in real life
• Here is this photo:
http://web.archive.org/web/20220626155157/https://whiletruecode.com/
If you search for the origin of the photo, you will arrive at this site:
https://bokkuren.com/
If you click on HOME, you will see an unfinished project of a digital marketing agency saying that his name is Ben Arthur and not Jacob Swift. By the way, both names are quite strange, not at all common in Spain, where he claims to be from.
• All his websites can be created in less than an hour using Elementor. They are really very basic and easy to do. Some are even incomplete.Which is really strange for companies that charge 10K USD for a service.
Oh, and don't blindly believe that he is telling the whole truth about moving to Portugal or that he bought dogecoins in 2013 and luckily got them to sell for 5000X ROI eight years later.
The vast majority of kidnappers are not knowledgeable enough to impersonate him and this is a very Hollywoodian theory. It is much easier to believe an exit scam than crazy theories and that OPEN AI hired a hit man for him.
