Most likely the numbers will come back to a drop phone or phone purchased with a stolen CC and the guy was never even near GA. He was a local, NY, NJ, CT scammer or part of a network of scammers if he was that smart. If he was stupid and wants to get caught he would call from a phone in his name, which I doubt he would.
The key to catch this fucker would have been the woman with the temp tag over the real tag. Where Im from we usually have outbreaks of this type of stuff for a few weeks or months and then they move on to the next area.
There actually is a new scam where they are washing titles for cars and taking deposits for cars and giving people reworked titles that are not for the car they think they are buying. What gets me is what idiot would give an $8000 deposit for a car from Craigs list and take the title with them, and agree to pick the car up with the rest of the money??