I had exactly the same experience - contact website, nice quick response, deposit into some other named (in this case a Thai) bank account, and then a long drawn out list of excuses as to why the work hasn't been done.
I reported this con artist to the moderators of the largest expat forum here in Thailand and was told I couldn't name thieves on the forum unless, I had 'proveable proof'! Never mind they didn't take the trouble to just click a couple of net searches exactly as I had done.
I'm aghast that this man is still running his fraudulant schemes, I see the report from the US was as early as 2003! And so he's been cheating people out of their money for AT LEAST six years now.
It should surely behove at least the moderators of these forums allowing advertising to these people to deal with them as rigorously as they do their members!
Carrie
phuket
Thailand
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