there are different answers for all of you with different understandings and questions.
Ignoring communication with @matt-a really doesn't help you.
I'm not sure if someone was waiting for this post, but it looks like he's waiting for some answers.
That's the thing that outright gets under my skin. He gets, opens, and reads my messages and wont reply. He talked to me just fine up until the exact day that he was supposed to pay me, then went totally silent. I didn't start getting disgruntled with him until he flat out ignored for over a week and I found out he had been home and had left for the casino. That's when things started to add up, he lied about his situation and gambled my money away, AKA he's a con artist who betrays his "friends."