Hacked story will be complete and total bullshit
Impossible,he made a periodic payment to me on Sun Dec 22nd and asked for a loan extension the day after. Both using the same email address.
I still hope this is all a misunderstanding and he's just AWOL for new years, but I'm beginning to feel increasingly naive about that though.
I will give this a little more time (but not much). I have his full name and bank account number (he did a SEPA wire to me once). His name is quite common though in the UK. A helpful forum member also send me his cell phone number and I tried texting.