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Has anyone considered opening a criminal case against such people? Evidence of fraud shouldn't be too hard to collect.
by H8crilA 4y ago
Has anyone considered opening a criminal case against such people? Evidence of fraud shouldn't be too hard to collect.
- Nextgrid 4y agoIs fraud actually being prosecuted reliably? My observation given the vast amount of financial fraud occurring everywhere (with a paper trail), fraud is one of those things that's only selectively prosecuted when you piss off someone powerful enough or with the right connections. Even if we assume fraud actually starts being prosecuted seriously, I'd assume the astronomical quantity of financial fraud out there would take priority over a relatively little amount of employment/candidate fraud.
- H8crilA 4y agoI don't think there is a massive problem with financial fraud. What would be an example?
- criticas 4y agoWage Theft? A 2017 report claimed that US wage theft (by companies against employees) was 100 times the size of reported robberies ($50 B vs $438M). https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/ https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-bil...
- H8crilA 4y agoUS GDP is about $21T, so about 420 times bigger. Or to put it differently, about 0.2% of the GDP. Also, wage theft isn't fraud exactly.
- Nextgrid 4y agoUK has a massive problem with phone scams pretending to be tech support or our tax office for example. They get victims to wire money to the account of a money mule who then cashes it out. This all happens over the normal banking system - enforcement is so bad that they're not even trying to cover their tracks by using gift cards or crypto.
- H8crilA 4y agoHow does that compare to UK's GDP, for the problem to be massive?