considering josh, pp and rm are barely posting, i really doubt i'd be logging in here

[Altruist]

I'm sure the US government did all those things because it was super "easy to track down" users 

they did it because it's easier to label the entire thing as a cringe scam than to pretend it's not a cringe scam because it's "legit" for 0.000000000000000001% of users in 0.0000000001% of cases, meaning wasting even more budget money on controlling it. 

you are trying to prove something is legit by emphasizing the core of it is shady business.

dear god.

in case you need it broken down further: it IS easy to track down users; it's just that, "metaphorically" speaking, it's way cheaper and more effective to criminalize fraud than to pretend fraud as a concept doesn't exist and then have to come up with a new formulation of fraud in every single case that occurs and gets labeled as an act with criminal content identical to the one that would have been consumed in a generalized definition of (criminalized) fraud anyway