I don't know what's going on here, or why I'm being dragged into this, but no one contacted me for escrow. If elmanchez had contacted me for escrow for a currency exchange, I would have happily obliged. Yeah, I said I like him, and I still do, so why wouldn't I help him trade safely?
He gets entangled in an extraordinary number of shady deals though. That's either very bad luck or perhaps some actual correlation.