At most this Odesk based dispute will go into arbitration, Net-Arb is the service used by Odesk. The price of the arbitration is $300 last time I checked (I ha

At most this Odesk based dispute will go into arbitration, Net-Arb is the service used by Odesk. The price of the arbitration is $300 last time I checked (I had a competing service to Net-Arb a few years ago). The arbitration is ex aequo et bono, meaning "according to the right and good" or "from equity" i.e. it's the opinion of the arbitrator that counts, not any specific law. Even if you get some foolish arbitrator that writes an arbitral award in favor of this scammer, they'll still need to have it recognized and enforced in courts that have jurisdiction where you have assets. All of this will never happen for a petty amount of $175. Just ignore this and move on.