sounds fishy as hell.. i was fooled once using this same keji technique. these days i only send flattened JPEG file in LOW quality.. pixelated. if they want hi res they better pay me first!!

i think its easy to ask money up front once u have a "name". trust me bro when i first started they all say this

"ala baru start wanna ask money. u so good ah wanna ask money first. lemme see sample first then we talk"

then next thing i knew i got my work copied. they just get some runt to copy my design. and they pay a quarter of the quaoted prize to this noob. it all boils down to ethics. will u do comission work based on copying other people's work. unless us designers unite and say tak nak to copypasta then the client will always find a way to steal ideas!