If you walked into a store on Main Street and got scammed for $50, would you just throw up your hands? Or would you call the cops? If you did call the cops, the

If you walked into a store on Main Street and got scammed for $50, would you just throw up your hands? Or would you call the cops? If you did call the cops, they would have the address of the store to start their investigation. And aside from maybe getting you your $50 back, the state might prosecute the scammer for committing a crime. EV and OV certs are intended to provide similar information. If you report a scam by a website with an EV or OV cert, the police can use the information in the cert to start their investigations. There's more to accountability than small claims court. Setting aside the cert issue, it's just striking how many people take it for granted that there are no consequences and no recourse for online crimes. How did we come to accept this as normal, as a society?