[leobg]

What country are you in?

I’m in DE and have filed a criminal complaint about a company that runs fake personal ads targeting the elderly:

When an elderly person calls, they schedule an appointment at the person’s home. Then, over several hours, they talk them into signing a 3,000 EUR contract for an objectively useless service (getting contact data of 7 or so random people over a period of several weeks).

The guy running this scheme has been doing it since the 1990s. We know they did > 40 Million Euros in the last 10 years alone.

We filed the complaint a year ago and police and district attorney have done nothing so far. At the same time, the criminal himself has sued journalists who have covered the story multiple times.

Seems like the criminals are more resourceful than those who are getting paid to stop them.