Civil forfeiture is the only way to recover funds from scammers overseas. They will never be in US court or if they are it will be many years later. Go on REC

Civil forfeiture is the only way to recover funds from scammers overseas. They will never be in US court or if they are it will be many years later. Go on RECAP and you can constantly see multi million dollar seizures for business email compromise, investment scams, etc. If it was only seized at time of conviction there would be basically no justice for victims. Yes, I agree that the typical case (median forfeiture is only a few thousand dollars) has more elements of government overreach in it than we should be comfortable with. But I don't think the practice should be eliminated entirely.