He accepted Skrill or BTC I chose BTC.
After making payment to his address 12ttdVWcPWGWKFxQLNZS41iSqG88ca2C8g, he asked for my bitmaintech id, i gave it and then he immediately deleted me off Skype and went offline on both bitcointalk and Skype.
https://blockchain.info/tx/a77d2d5f8ecbe5a8cd07290d03f49ad5d6fb8d7056803905c9afc8fdd49edf6c
I will be checking my bitmain account throughout today and if I don't receive it will be posting further info.
Claims to be a 'coin static dev' for Monero and claims to have worked a lot for Monero development and then proceeded to offer to sell me Monero (which I didn't take up).
Good luck !