swindled

i have been swindled. victim of fraud and identity theft. watched matchstick men? i'm like those old people nicholas cage takes advantage of. and really, there's nothing much that i can do about it or anything that will protect me. according to the police, what has happened to me is not yet a crime because i gave out my information over the phone to those fuckers. this is my coming of age. this is how i know i have reached "grown up". i don't know what scares me more, the fact that i have been victimized and am really quite hapless in this society, or that from now on, i will have to deal with all these "grown up" problems life throws at me. help!