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by corpdronejuly 1710 days ago
Which is why we never hear these horror stories about phishing attacks trying to get people to send things to the wrong account.

The fact is that in many, perhaps most cases of theft the Government isn't able to do much more than punish someone they think did the crime, maybe they can recover the assets, just as often those assets are evidence and you don't get them back for years.