It was free, and can be found easily on reddit thread anyway. But like the facebook ads method, this will only download 1000px image in width.

The problem is unregistered user cannot see the trust level of the user on the forum..
Most probably he scammed many unregistered user with his method of locking the thread so scammed user can't leave negative post there and unregistered user forced to add the skype to ask for details..

So yeah, he cannot scammed bitcoin forum member but he got load of profit scamming the non-user (which most traffic on the forum are)

Mod should ban this kind of locking thread behaviour