There's a picture of the guy who's been arrested here: https://littlemowbray.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/beware-this-conman-picture/
He is know not-so-fondly as "Eric". Hope he's the same one who conned you - you'll get at least the thin satisfaction of seeing the book thrown at him, and since he was arrested a couple of days afterwards he may still have had the drivers' licence, or know where he threw it?