> What a crappy worldview that is, and while it may have been true in the past, times have changed, and it no longer is the case. People can and will expose and

> What a crappy worldview that is, and while it may have been true in the past, times have changed, and it no longer is the case. People can and will expose and report fraud rather immediately. Of course if one is demented or just not interested in fact-finding, then it makes no difference. Whether choosing to seek truth or ignore it, either way it is a choice. Sadly, I think the world has moved in the opposite direction. I must assume that honesty was very important in the ancient world, in order for it to be listed in the Ten Commandments. Today? Today I'm on a shared network with more humans than there are heartbeats in a lifetime. Even if a fraudster used their real names and not a fake ID, even when they're in the same country and it's not an international scam, even when a fraudster does time in prison, even when you're sure the fraud database itself isn't being gamed (e.g. getting legal threats for libel from listed real fraudsters, or the actual literal president uses their executive powers to pardon them), there's too many other people with the same names to just rely on looking everyone up.