Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Okay, so someone had an add on the Craigslist Local Listing Web Site advertising tickets for the sold out event, Coachella. These advertised tickets were even cheaper than the original general admission price when there were still tickets available (I should have applied the old common knowledge saying to this instance, "If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is." But my friends and I were overtaken by the excitement of receiving admittance to this completely sold out, world famous, musical event. The only thing was, that what this was, was more of an advertisement for "Guest List Slots" to the event. So i ended up getting a hold of the contact guy. This guy seemed like he was a real stand up guy, he seemed completely legit. So long story short, he convinced us that this whole thing was 100% legit & full-proof. So we ended up buying a couple slots to start off with, and once he continued to stay in contact with us after we had already payed for a few of these "Guest List Slots" we met back up with him about 5 more times, purchasing in total of about 25 of these "Slots", and at 200$ for each of these "Slots" this totaled out to be about $5,000 spent, all payed in CASH to this one individual, at different times. So, yeah you guessed it, the whole thing ended up crashing to the ground, this individual stopped answering phone calls, we later came to find out that his e-mail and name given to us were fake, but we ended up finding out what his real name was, where he lived, and what he does, all because we remembered one of the times he had met up with us, he was wearing a sweatshirt from the high school he had really gone to. So we estimated his age, and went down to that school to look through yearbooks and we both instantly recognized him when we had seen his yearbook photograph. Anyway, it's been just about 3 months since this whole thing started, and it's been almost exactly 2 months post concert. So basically what I'm asking is if we even have a case at all, since we only stupidly used cash. We have absolutely nothing tying him to this, but we got taken for a lot of cash, and we want some sort of justice on this matter. Thank you in advance for answering my question.

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