Robert
Irvine,#2Consumer Comment
Thu, March 08, 2012
You don't want to hear this but your money is gone and you have gone as far as you can. You fell for a very old scam known as the Advanced Loan Fee Scam. It is illegal to ask for money up front to guarantee a loan.
These people do everything they can to be anonymous. The phone number was a "Throw-Away" cell phone that they paid for with cash or a stolen credit card. Any address they gave you was fake, it is either a "Drop Box"(such as a UPS Store), a vacant lot, or a business that has nothing to do with them. Any names they gave you are fake. You didn't say it but I bet you sent them the money either by Western Union or a series of Pre-Paid Debit cards. Both of those are untraceable. Oh and the biggest thing they are in a foreign country.
In other words even if you went to the police, they may take a report but that is as far as it would go as they have nothing real to investigate.
For the future, if someone you do not personally know asks you to send money through Western Union you can pretty much guarantee it is some sort of scam..regardless of the reason they give you.