This is just heartless and incredibly horrible. What in the world is the matter with the people who would rip another person off like this? I hope that somehow he is given some compensation or something.
You know, if everyone who read this and sent it on could just send the guy $1, he might be just fine.
When I was young, a person put an add in a big time newspaper and asked everyone who read it to send him $1. He received several thousands of dollars. $1 is something everyone could do and if we did it as a group of people, we could make a difference.