I hate it when this happens, my sister went through one of those Nigeria check scams.
she was selling an item on Craigslist for $400. they sent her a check for 10k she cashed it she withdrew x amount of money wired it back to them, and she never saw it again the odd thing is chase bank cleared the check in the first place why?
it was sitting there for three days too, they should have known it was fake by that time.
I feel your pain this makes me sick to my stomach whenever I hear this kinda thing happen.
man the most I ever got scammed out of was $300 dollars I guess i got lucky.
as you could imagine my sister learned a hard expensive lesson.
I hope they make the offenders give you double the amount of money they took from you
if I were the judge, I'd make them pay double the amount back
I mean most of these jerk criminals don't understand how lucky they are to be in the US, if they try this over seas in a third world country, and are convicted
you know they're in for a world of pain.
hope your issues get all sorted out man.