Then I suggest seeing a very qualified local tax preparer to help with this. For tax year 2017 you could still enter theft losses on a federal return. It would have been an itemized deduction ---so it *might* increase your 2017 tax refund. Not a chance you can recover your enormous loss from a tax return. But amending a 2017 return to include the theft might make a small dent. And of course you should be pursuing legal action to recover this from the scammer.
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