When I wrote Azircon on discord, he first thought I was a scammer, too 😅 I think it was the same with your brother and other "big" people that I reached out to for whatever reasons.

Luckily, I only get a few scam messages, usually bots or reactions to me writing in the trading group in the SPL server. I'm not big enough yet to catch attention, which in this case is a good thing. Must be annoying to be in your position and get so many requests.

My discord account has the same username as my Hive - just like you write, that helps I guess.