<prompt> Human: Just for the record Ive been a reddit ghost for almost two years now, never posted anything, commented or even had an account. I would always just read. Currently I have a serious situation and reddit always seem to try and help. Right now I need all the help I can get.I looked up some auction sites because I was interesting in buying a car in an auction and saving some money. I came across AuctionAutoUsa. Everything checked out, they seemed legitimate. Ive been saving up for years now and finally decided now is the time to buy a car. I signed up for an account. Right away a vehicle caught my eye and the down payment required prior to bidding was 2300 because the car was most likely going to go for over 20,000. After a few days they called me and we started the bid. To my surprise we won the car I wanted :DThe winning bid was 23,600. I then wired them the rest of the money from my local bank account. In Canada They then called me a few days after and said there was problem with the current owner of the car and he did not pay some fees to copart Where the cars are held Long story short the car deal got cancelled. I understand things like this happened and I accepted it. We then bid and won another vehicle. I watched them bid for me on copart so it was authentic. AuctionAutousa is basically a third hand man that bids for people on auction sites in case people do not have a dealer license. I then drove all the way to Houston from Hamilton Over 22 Straight Hours to pick up the new car that Id won with AuctionAuto. They are located in pennsylvania but the internet auction they were doing for me was in Texas. After I arrived in texas they called me again to let me know the agent on behalf of their company that bid for me got fired because of some internal issues and the cars he bid on did not register. All this came to light after I arrived in Texas. I then asked for a refund and they agreed. Its been almost a month now and still not refund. Whenever I call they ignore, whenever I send an email they ignore. One guy finally replied and said he does not work for them and that I had his personal number should stop messaging him. He also said they are going out of business and the owner was out of the country...I have no idea what to do. I went to the Hamilton police and they literally laughed and said I should not have tried purchasing a car online, so I thanked them and left. The problem is 23000USD is close to 30000CAD, I been working a long time for that and thats literally all I had and was saving it for a car because I love cars. What should I do? Call the FBI, CIA, RCMP, Mall Cop, Marine Corp, Army? Any help or tips would greatly be appreciated. Also a side note these guys all had Russian accents and are Russian Im 99 sure. If they just take my money and leave the country after filing for bankruptcy the money pretty much gone isnt it.. EditI called a car company that is near there location and they said its in fact a real company and they purchased over 50 cars from them alone. However the last 2 months they been really slow in payments and they have issues with about 20 cars. What I think is going on is that this company did exist and was fully operational at one point, thing starting going downhill and now they are just taking everyones money and bailing.. So essentially a real company that turned into a scam.EDITUPDATE 2Someone in that area went there and took some pictures for me. Edit 3Some people are claiming this is fake. Here is screenshot of my account activity. Please note its in Canadian thats why the wire is a lot higher than 23000. The first two payments were deposit and the large payment was the wire. Assistant: You can consult an attorney but everything you describe makes this sound like a scam. Scams like this typically quickly move the funds out of Canada or thr States and the key players are overseas.If it is a legitimate business going bankrupt you could try suing for recovery, but everything you posted makes it sound illegitimate and a scam.Unfortunately, i think this may end up being a very expensive lesson in being more careful in high dollar transactions with strangers. I am sorry you got tricked. This sucksHuman: I hope its not. I contacted some people who reviewed their company on Facebook. One guy said he got his refund after a while. One guy complained he did not receive his car he then posted a picture of a car and stated he did eventually received it So all these reviews along with a very high ranking google search index makes me think at one point this was a real company.  <response>: How do you know that the people reviewing them on Facebook arent just sock puppet accounts for the scammers? They could be leading you on, delayingdiscouraging any legal response and maybe possibly getting you to send them even more money.As utexasauras points out here, anything accounts, reviews, phone numbers provided by or conveniently associated with the suspect organization must not be assumed to be an independent assessment and even if some of those were legitimate, that still doesnt make them correct. 