I'm sorry this happened to you Steve...
But, I did send out a PM not too long ago explaining there is a scammer preying on forums, including ours and explained the things to look for, which are all the things that you say happened.
I also posted a thread and made it a sticky in the wanted forum.
I did these things to make our members aware of the problem. What can be done about it? Not much. These guys pull this on many sites. It could have been prevented had you paid attention to and heeded my warnings.
