I don't think that Jon is lying about the $16m. It's the dude at the other end that I don't find to be so credible. Yes, he might be good for it and all that. But I know others, who are in the business broking biz. And they hype up a small business owner to get them to talk about the business' internal numbers. They make the small business owners jump through hoops and do backflips. Once they got whatever information they needed, they simply come up with some bullshit reason as to why the deal can't go through. So it's not Jon that I question, it's more of the other dude at the other end.
Very good point! I had a guy try do this for one of my real estate sites. Looked up his company and found out his company wasn't even worth the amount of his offer.