> the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication Some scams, sure, but those really baffle me. If you are kind of smart and you know that you are scammi

> the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication Some scams, sure, but those really baffle me. If you are kind of smart and you know that you are scamming people and these people know who you are, while you are in a country that prosecutes scammers, I would think that at the very least, you'd want some plausible deniability in the form of "We tried our best, but our goals were too ambitious and unfortunately the market decided against us". I suspect that many other scams tried to construct this form of plausible deniability. The Bitconnect scam for example was pretty straight-forward, but these guys at least were smart enough to be anonymous when they forwent plausible deniability.