I'm a firm believer that business matters should be kept private, this would just encourage people to post every minor blip in a transaction - it'd be worse than it is now!

That, however, doesn't mean that TalkFreelance will tolerate scammers. Proven scammers have, and will continue to be, banned from TalkFreelance and that for me is good enough. TF will do everything to protect buyers and sellers alike but personally I think things like this just threaten to wrongly tarnish peoples reputations as it will always be abused.