Poorer by Rs 70000

This has never happened in my life. Life has been teaching me with important lessons. The latest lesson costed me Rs 70000. I have been cheated by a expert. Master of words. Last year I started a project with the respected person. It was decided that we will make a world famous website (his words) and he will do the coding for the project. I gave him Rs 70000 upfront and it was decided he will start the work. He has some home cum office in city. I came back to Mumbai. He was supposed to send me a demo and we were supposed to do change in that. The work never started. He said he had some work and he will do it next month. The next month came and then the next. I constantly called him up and he came up with excuses. Six months passed. Then i realised this cheater was working on something else i.e some personal stuff. He told me abt the site and told me it was being made and i will be part of it. I asked please clear the terms.and conditions and ownership issues abt the new site, he never cleared the stuff nor told me anything else. Then one year passed. I gave him ultimatum that give money back or make the site that you promised. Now here comes the funny part. he said he had bought computers with my money and he has been using them for personal use. Then 1 month passed he gave me some lame code which was 200kb file and never ran on any of servers. I asked for my money and he stopped replying then posted to his orkut and he sends me a invoice with Rs 92000 with US Rates (funny). I was discussing the issue with his partner who used to live with him at that point of time, he told me that he was also cheated. So what do i get in return

• A lesson in life, Never pay 100 percent in advance.
• Dont Trust such people.
• People who showoff that is talk more work less can deceive you.
• Clear out everything and do proper paper work.

I could have easily busted that guy, there are 1000 ways, like i have all messenger chats and mails or i could easily name that guy, mail this to all his friends in Orkut or make a site, blog on any site and paste the real chat contents but I just want to conside it as price of lesson that life teaches you. May be this lesson savesl me 100 times in future. I wish that guy all the best in his life and lots of progress and a small message for hime

Don’t worry about the money, keep it as a gift from your elder brother and ask for more if you need but dont cheat anyone.