Yes, and all they had to do to make it legal is to verify your identity, which they did.

Probably related to the low quality of your communications

Good. Facebook ads are full of blatantly obvious scammers and criminals.

Fuck going to gas pumps, that shits for boomers

They have protocols for this, setup and manage your own server

Duck.com is what I use, I generate a unique email for every website. I even started changing my old logins recently for old accounts