<prompt> Human: Writing this is extremely painful, not realizing how stupid i was to fall for this. My wife is a musician and plays weddings every once in a while.She got contacted through one of the gig sites she uses by a couple that wanted to hire her. The couple signed a contract said that their wedding planner cancelled because her father died, and asked if we could send the other parties of the wedding money after getting back a check from the planner. They couldnt do it because they are currently abroad.We got a 3600 check, and were asked to cash it, and then buy prepaid Visa cards to pay the caterer and band etc. The check arrived, but the signature was cut off, like it was photocopied. All i thought was, well see if the bank accepts it. Didnt even seem suspicious that the check was from a Lexus dealership and not from a wedding planner. My wife took out money the next day from out account, got the visas, paid everyone, and today I got a letter from the bank saying that the check bounced. We will contact the person, for the off chance that this is somehow not a scam, talk to the bank, and the gig website. But im not very optimistic. Is there anything else I can do?...UPDATE: We were able to potentially save some of the money. Western Union money is lost, but there was also a cashiers check that was mailed that we were able to cancel today at the bank, and should be getting a refund for.Regarding the prepaid cards 4 GreenDot Visas - 500 each, the crooks failed to use 2 of them blocked for suspicious activity, and gave up on the other two. We spoke to someone at GreenDot and started a process to get a refund for all cards. Luckily we have the receipt, and all the physical cards. So, we lost 700 for sure, but being optimistic, theres a good chance we can save 2200. Just in time to use on our honeymoon.. haha.UPDATE 2: We got 1500 back from the prepaid cards company, hopefully the last check is on its way. I cant believe how lucky I am. Learn from my mistake..  <response>: My wife does photography, somebody tried the same thing, I read the email she received, did a couple of google searches and found a bunch of people who had been scammed by it. 99 times out of 100 if a stranger is asking you to do something strange related to money, its a scam. 