Hello,
sorry for your experience. Unfortunately working with non-western countries is always very risky, specially regarding IPs and scams.
I'm a senior consultant for ascendanti dot com . We do engineering work for US and European companies.
Now, it would be impossible for me to quote you on this work without knowing what you managed to salvage from the project. I can take a look at it free of charge if you'd like (set 1 symbolic dollar for that task) and I would then quote you accordingly if you actually have enough for me to pick work on. From your description is seems unlikely you will be able to salvage this one, but one never knows without looking to confirm.
Anyway, best of luck.
Telmo Amaro