Am I being scammed?

[Mitul Gandhi]

Hi,

I get myself into a situation knowing I was taking a risk. So I met this guy on reddit who said that I could get into wholesaling for 10k.  There were a lot of red flags that I won't get into.  He said the he has a birddog that is selling leads for homeowners for .95 center per lead and. I need 5000 leads to get started.   I bought into it .  So now I have 5000 leads. The Birddog sent them in an excel sheet. It took a while because he was skip tracing them. 

So my first set of questions is 

1. Do you have to have license to be a birddog?  Is there credentialing involved? 

2. How can you verify the that the list he sent is not used already ? 

3. Is .95 cents per lead the going rate for home owners ? 

4. Does anyone know any reliable birddogs? 

5. If this is a scam is there a way to get your money back.

6. If I do truly have a list of 5000 leads for homeowners who want to sell can I resell that list if I haven't used it at all. 

So thats the first step. Now the guy who is teaching me is asking me to buy a cash buyers list.  This is $13-14/lead.  He says I need 500 but if I don't have the money I can start with 350 leads.  

So my questions to follow this 

1. Are these the going rates for cash buyers list 

2. Does anyone know of any reliable birddogs? 

thanks for your help In advanced