I'm sorry, but this scam has nothing to do with AI or the dark side of it, this is just the classic scammers preying on your lack of knowledge on things like this, good that you have learnt from this though. You can try reporting it to the authorities, but to me honest i don't think they will want to spend time and money on this. The scammers must have also used a lot of fake details and impersonated people as well, so getting them would be too difficult.