[vinceguidry]

Good Lord, you're right. This sort of marketing could work, if Americans were more vigilant about punishing bad actors.

If someone in Germany tried an American-style scam, the sheer tangibility of the vision I have of angry Germans not effing stopping until the perps are put in jail is palpable.

Sadly, this seems to be a national attitude and those just don't seem to be transmissable.

Now I'm wondering whether Germany is the exception or the rule. I darn sure wouldn't want to trust anyone, say, in Russia. Not sure about Latin America though. Argentina might seem safe, but Mexico? Africa, mostly probably not.