I was about to send you a PM to warn you about this when I realized you were one of the potential targets of the scammer. Anyway, glad you didn't fall it and noticed the phishing link.
Here are more details about how he was going to carry out this scam:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379685.msg58911194#msg58911194The reason why he insisted to use minerjones as escrow is because he's already created a fake page with what looks like a message from him (minerjones).