(US) If you try to buy a house but it's a scam and you actually give a cash downpayment to a scammer, is your realtor legally responsible?

say you make an offer through your realtor and go through all the paperwork and think you're sending your cash downpayment to a real homeowner only to find out that you got scammed and just sent the downpayment to a scammer.

how are you meant to recover your money in this case? is your money just gone? is your realtor responsible to pay you the downpayment money back?

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