can confirm that this happened and user lolwar is now banned on the subreddit
sorry for your bad experience, hopefully you find better people to trade with or more to the point, an exchange gets opened =)
Man that really sucks indeed! I think i have been pretty lucky and have had some pretty smooth experiences. Yeah gotta be really careful and try to see if anyone can vouch for the other trader. Dont trade with people that just signed up yesterday so to speak.
Good luck in the future.