So I wanted to make everyone aware of the user "Joshua". He has some impressive work in his resume so I decided to contact him for work on my game. He contacted me via Skype and sent me a very good mock up of the sprite character I wanted. I wanted to continue with him so we agreed on a price for the sprite sheets I needed, however he said that his bank account connected to his Paypal was overdrawn so wanted to be paid via Western Union. This was the first red-flag for me but he told me he was broke, provided me his facebook profile and said he needed groceries for his son, so I agreed to sending him an Egift card via Walmart for half of the amount. All was good, he worked on a couple of other poses (mockups) and so I paid him the rest of the money via Western Union.
Since then I've heard nothing, I haven't recieved one sprite sheet and I've contacted him both via email and Skype with no response. It has been over 2 weeks since contact so I googled his name and address and this showed up:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/joshua-astorian/collinsville-illinois-/joshua-astorian-scammed-money-from-me-this-year-and-others-in-2009-for-artistic-word-that-961843#Turns out I'm not the only person he has done this to. So now I'm out of the money I've sent him and a huge delay on my game.
