Flutterby™! : I have a US acquaintance who has

I have a US acquaintance who has apparently been taken for a ride by a Canadian company by way of some gobbledygook promises of a software system being developed.

I strongly suspect that not a single line of code has been written, but at this point there's concern that the contracts in place thus far give no real leverage.

Does anyone have experience with getting law enforcement or civil suits initiated over a few hundred thousand across borders?