> Do you expect them to go unpunished simply because it was all talk? Should they? If there was no house to be sold, and the agent wasn't even an agent, and t

> Do you expect them to go unpunished simply because it was all talk? Should they? If there was no house to be sold, and the agent wasn't even an agent, and they had no way of accepting that money, then of course they should not be punished. As an example, lets say it was a youtuber who did this, and they recorded the video as a funny prank to post on the internet. This would not be illegal and they would not be punished.