They encouraged me to message Ms. Smith and when she responded in 20 minutes with glowing praise and multiple grammatical errors I knew this was quite the ambitious scam. I sent them a message saying I hoped they didn’t mind if I reached out to her US media contact to verify with a smiley face.
A few minutes later all the messages were unsent and the profile all but vanished. Here’s what’s left…I’m posting this because it was more convincing than typical scams.