Legal Question in Criminal Law in North Dakota

I was scammed by a nigerian scammer and I am looking for answers? I meet this person online we met on a dating website and we became very close with one another so close infact that we were going to marry and spend the rest of our lives togeather. Well this person asked me if she borrowed money from a friend that worked for a company in the US if that friend could send the check in my name and when I get the check cash the check and sent it to her. And I told her that i would do that not knowing at the time that the person was a scammer. She told me she was from Nigeria and that she was there trying to settle matters from her late fathers estate. and I thought she was real well she sent me a check for 10,400 dollars that she said she was borrowing from a friend well I signed the check and cashed it and sent the money right away and now the bank wants their money back when they are just as much at falt as i am for the gave me money right away without letting the check clear or with out checking to see if I had the funds to back that large check and now they want their money back and I am on SSI and can not pay them and I am worried that I am going to jail for being a victum of a scammer and at the time I sent to the person almost all the money I sent the 9,000 and some and I kept some not and spent some not knowing at the time that the check was bogus what can I do to get my self out of this mess I seeked legal aid and they told me that the bank can not put claim on my SSI and my vehical cause it is only worth 2,100 dollars and only going down in value. I think the bank is at fault to and I am the one getting the short end of the stick all due to a woman that I thought was real and I was going to spend the rest of my life.

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