Tender scams

Early this month my mother received a request for quote from a lady called Pamela claiming to be making a request from" Prasa rail" I and my partner then assisted my mom with it, we went on Google to search for campanies/ factories selling this requested machines and we were provided with a quote, so yearsterday we made a deposit to the company called" VicPowertools" so that we can get the delivery as was expected at Prassa rail. We then contacted the company and only to find out that we have been scammed because the person we talking to from Prassa by the name of Pamela is the very same person pretenting to be Ayanda from VicPowertools