Steps to Take
Immediately cease all contact with the scammer! Block their email address, ignore their instant messages, ignore their phone calls
Contact Western Union to see if the payment has not been picked up yet
Make copies if your email conversations, and instant messages. Keep originals for yourself, give copies to the various reporting agencies, and keep all receipts anything that can be used as evidence
Report scammer to dating site you were contacted on, Yahoo Profiles, the FBI IC3, police department (make a report) and our Database
Contact the bank fraud department and make payment arraignments if a check/money order has been found fraudulent and you owe money to them
Contact the bank fraud department if you suspect a check you deposited will come back fraudulent
Contact your Postal Carrier/Post Office and ask that no packages to be delivered at your home/ work. Also bring checks and Money orders that you received to the Post Office to make a report and turned them over
Contact your Postal Carrier/Post Office if you have been sent packages or letters to forward for a scammer. Keep the envelopes or shipping package for evidence
Contact any companies that have sent you gifts or merchandise and inform them that they were purchased on a stolen credit card and make arraignments to have the items returned
Contact your local Police Department, they may not do anything but it will help you to create a paper trail