...as the written agreement?
No, the written agreement was made over several posts and is quoted in full in the first post of this thread. Please stop wasting my time.
As nothing was taken from you, this is not a scam. You're right in saying this is an easy open-shut case. There is no scam.
It's like saying somebody shouldn't be charged with bank robbery if the guard thwarts them. You are an idiot. Nothing was taken from me because I identified the scam as it was in progress.
This is just an opinionated statement and absolutely not possible to prove in under the best of circumstances.
Neither of those statements are opinions. They are facts.
"I would like for you to do this for me", and he would say "Why yes, I will do this for you by [specified date]". THAT is the most basic verbal (written in this case) contract you can have.
We had an agreement, and this is all spelled out in writing, that if he played Mary Had A Little Lamb (and was given a tab to show what song I meant) I would agree to perform certain actions. There is no need for dates or "Why Yes" since it was conditional on Dank making the effort. I later asked him to post the song in accordance to our agreement, and he claimed he was doing so with the posted song. This is when the scam occurred, had he simply never claimed to have played it there would be no complaint. The agreement did not require him to. The scam is in claiming to have fulfilled the agreement when he did not in an attempt to falsely claim payment.