Last Spring a fetish porn producer emailed me that it was opportune to have a custom video made according to my script. So I sent her a script and she quoted me a figure. I asked how to pay for it and she said to use her Tribute page.

It wasn't until December that she got back to me that she was ready to start filming. Two weeks ago she sent me a screen shot of the iMovie project and said that because of the multiple camera angles shot, editing would take a little while.

Over the past week her web site and Twitter box came alive with all sorts of partying activity. I wonder if I will ever see the video I paid for.

Is she doing something illegal making the video in the first place, leaving me no more recourse than if I''d been ripped of by a ROB? Since I sent the funds to her Tribute box, could she legally claim that I had gifted her the money and have no legal claim to expect something in return? Have I any traction at all?

I don't know how much you paid, if it was short money, just let it go and don't send money to strangers in the future no matter what the reason.

If it is serious dough, cobble together whatever little evidence you have and bring it to a lawyer and see if he thinks there's any shot of retrieving your dough.

Is this person even in the US?

It doesn't sound like you've broken any laws if you were simply paying to receive pornography, as long as it is not child porn, of course.

(still not a lawyer)

The money was about what you'd pay for a modest hour with a provider.

The person seems to be in Orlando, FL.

turns out she had been waiting for a follow-up through an edress different from the one she'd used to send the screen shot. Now the content I'm waiting for is in the hands of an ex-employer and she's going to plead with them to deliver it up to me.

We'll see. Not such a ROB after all.