This is really sad, unfortunately I've had similar experiences involving loss's of thousands of dollars and it is out right disgusting and sad to see this continue to happen to people. I had recently published a post on Publish0x about scams,scammers and how to avoid this and it was pretty much a cautionary post about me being scammed and losing a lot of money that i really couldn't afford to lose, but I hope that my article would shed light on all shit ignorant shit that people do to one another all because greedy people who would rather put their talents to stealing and making easy money instead of using their talents for good and to make honest money. Because face it they would rather steal money that's easy money then put in the work to earn their own money. society now and days has become lazy I see it all the time and the lure of easy money brings the darkest of people out, Luckily for mad runner and the others you have some one who actually cares and considers you a friend who is willing to help at least in some way try and help get some of what you lost back in my case i lost everything that I had been saving and investing for my wife and kids and i. more people need to be careful and there needs to be more people like you out there that are good people.