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> And I can't say I feel guilty about that. And you shouldn't. But it's still a problem that lots of fraud, scam etc just gets ignored. There's so much fraud
by luckylion 4y ago
> And I can't say I feel guilty about that.
And you shouldn't. But it's still a problem that lots of fraud, scam etc just gets ignored.
There's so much fraud out there that looks easy to stop, because it's clear who does it, it's clear that they do it (online, with plenty of evidence) etc etc. Yet when you bring it to the attention of the authorities, they'll look at the individual case and say "okay, but it's only 50€, there's not enough public interest", which I could understand, if it wasn't a commercial-grade criminal operation that does the same thing thousands or tens of thousands of times.
I get that paperwork sucks and investigations take a lot of time and often get nowhere because something just doesn't materialize, but I get the feeling that we're more and more policing non-violent crime like Google & Co do tech support: if there's not a very public issue that the media is actively reporting on, it gets ignored.
And if it's a resource issue: get more resources, it'll pay for itself many times over. A recent example in Germany where some Clan from Turkey had been defrauding the elderly for years and ran up dozens to hundreds of millions of Euros in damages could've been stopped very quickly if there had been more interest from law enforcement. I'm sure we could've paid a person or two with that kind of money.