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by ChrisMarshallNY 547 days ago
Good work!

As noted, it probably won't change anything, but scammers are a lot more sophisticated, these days, than they used to be.

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From the description, these are rent-a-scammers, who convince people that renting their all in one scam platform is a great deal. It probably isn't, or they'd be doing it themselves. It's a good deal if you place a premium on feeling clever from scamming people, and don't care about the risk of getting hit by the police, or by rival would-be scammers eager to show they're more tough criminals than you.

It's the lifecycle of a scam. Once it really isn't worth the effort anymore, it gets packaged up and sold to stupid kids.

This isn't any different from those seminars that teach you how to make money in real estate, forex, or similar. All you have to do is buy their books and attend their seminars and they teach you how to host your own seminars.
If only there were authorities that would take actions to track down these scammers with as much zeal as they track down pirates...