While most of you already know this, you should definitely file an FBI Internet Fraud report here:
http://www.ic3.gov/
I was very skeptical, but they have worked for me twice! Keep any direct emails you get from ther person, especially check under the properties and view the IP address info and dates and times. Then be factual in your report with as much info as you can.
One time I paid for a Casio EM500 via eBay using Western Union. Turned out it was some Russian guy in Las Vegas using an alias who took my Western Union moneygram and ran. He got picked up on some other crime 3 years later, but because of my report, when they confiscated his goods I later got a check for the $85 I lost. I was surprised.
Another guy who scammed was someone in Alabama who sent me a bounced check in the mail for something I sent him. By his using the US Mail it constituted interstate theft and the FBI kept it on file. Eventually he got picked up for something else as well and again I got back most of my money
(lost $10 in that deal for the shipping I paid
).
But the point is everyone gets their just deserves sooner or later, and you never know what might happen.
Rich
p.s. I would have been happier breaking his legs...but money was okay...