Might or might not be stolen. Except he says "cracked." But why use a
crack to an outdated version if it is not necessary?  The poster has
all the signs of a rank pretender who has probably been overhauled at
one of the sites used to snare the unaware.

Yup, typical scam - offer illegal program, get money from sucker,
disappear.  Sucker feels they cannot go to police and complain so
end of story.  I figured anyone reading my post might have been
reminded of this scam if they were seriously contemplating
e-mailing this guy.

Actually, it is surprisingly difficult to get usable cracks to programs.
Most of what comes up in search engines or on irc chatting channels
simply don't work or is virus-laden, but the posters don't have the
program in question so can't test.  There's a lot of wanna-be crackers
on the Internet that collect and repost stuff they get from other wannabes,
but
very few real crackers by comparison.  Also, most software companies
have at least 1 or 2 employees that regularly follow the crack forums
and when they see something posted that works they will patch for it in
their
product.

For example, try finding a usable crack for Windows Product Activation
for Windows XP service pack 2 that doesen't massively cock-up
the machine (such as resetting the system clock to the same date every
day)

Ted