That's fucked up! I can't fathom the mindset required to scam people like that, let alone do it at an institutional scale. Good on you for taking a stand, that

That's fucked up! I can't fathom the mindset required to scam people like that, let alone do it at an institutional scale. Good on you for taking a stand, that helps everyone in the long run. My default reaction to being scammed is to feel ashamed. A cashier took a $10 out my change as a kid, my dad finding out and going back and confronting the clerk was painful. With experience I've gotten more (maybe too much so!) alert to scams, confidence schemes and dark patterns. A lot of them operate at a level of plausible deniability, or even subconscious action, where the person profiting doesn't have to know what's going on. Last winter the game EFT had a winter marketing blitz, which they paired with authentication servers being down for old accounts ... as a returning player I had to buy a new account to participate.