If someone with a large following that I haven't talked to before tries talking to me I just assume scam. It's worked for me on traditional social.
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A good heuristic
Generally a good rule of thumb.
But that's assuming that it is always the scammer who will be trying to reach out to you.
Scammers also get some hits from users who are looking for the legit profile and end up finding their fake instead. Or they find both the real and fake profile, but they don't know which is real, so they follow both.