[m463]

this seems to fit the definition.

In many cases, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, but that fact may be concealed, with the intent to engender continual patronage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering

[throwaway2474]

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin

[andirk]

Lol those orbs! Oddly, Worldcoin's main exchange is Binance which stopped doing business in USA so I couldn't get a bag. Up almost 10x. Not bad for a sphere that proves "personhood". With AI making actual people vs machine created more difficult to discern, it may have evermore applications.