Alex you will find some real jokers in aviation, if it's not the prick colleague that wants to stab your back to get more hours or move ahead in the company faster than you, to the idiot boss that wants to hold back your progression onto better aircraft. Unfortunately the industry if full of these disgruntled morons with chips on thier shoulders and hero's with something to prove, and then there are also the parasite scammers wanting to cash in on your desperation for a job, which you seem to have run into, cheer up mate you will run into more of these
's on our journey within aviation just keep your wits about you and don't let yourself be suckered in...