Let's say you found out that someone was willing to give you $50 back if you give them $100, but then you also found out that there was a $100,000 reward for te

Let's say you found out that someone was willing to give you $50 back if you give them $100, but then you also found out that there was a $100,000 reward for telling authorities about this scheme: don't you think at least someone will tell authorities about that scheme to get the $100,000 reward? Along with a sufficient jail time for the person/"journalist" running this scheme. And that's not even taking into account that we'd likely require a trail for accounting to know exactly where money went, so that it can't simply be "cash spent" to give back $50 untraceable to a bunch of people. Why don't you think that would work?