Ever since Xi0s joined the forum I had a feeling he was a charlatan, this was later reinforced when he showed me his coding. It was never my place to say anything, though.

I don't mind at all people attempting to acquire jobs that are slightly above their expertise and then learning as they go along. As long as they're aware of the fundamentals of security - this was shattered in a thread he posted about finding bugs in his site, to which I found an XSS vulnerability. Although, I'm sure he learned from that.

...But scamming people, this takes it to a whole new level. Over the Internet as well which is just damn right cowardly. At least be a man about it, if there's problems, admit it and refund the $125. There's just no 2 ways about it.