I am truly sorry to hear about your encounter. Getting ripped off is such a drag. I once lent a guy twenty-five thousand dollars against a piece of agricultural land in Alberta which turned out to be a ranch version of a toxic waste dump… It was adjacent to a natural gas collection/tanking farm and could only be used as a prop in a Mad Max movie. I eventually recovered the dough but since that time I have kept his business card on the fridge to remind me every day that a) I am an idiot and b) the riskiest deal I ever want to undertake is deciding whether to upgrade to a new version of Cubase.