I've learned over the years (even doing business with people) if they don't give you straight answers of say things that sound iffy, they are scamming & it's time to call them on it rather than continue with the lies.

Even my H was a jerk.......he got a letter from the IRS about back taxes that he never told me about just at the time I was taking my inheritance money & buying a farm in another state. Initially it wasn't with the intention of leaving him, but just before I got the 2nd letter from them 10 months later, I had already kicked him out of my farm I had allowed him to come to to visit to see if we could work things out.

His philosophy was, that if he didn't say anything then he wasn't lying....had absolutely no concept that withholding information was as much of a lie as blatantly saying something. I had lived with him for 33 years & fought the whole time........such a relief to get away from him....life is so peaceful now.........so now anytime I get the least bit of a shady feeling from someone, I drop them immediately & have nothing more to do with them.