[busterarm]

I hate online scammers to my core -- weird reason too.

A guy I knew back in high school was notorious for falling for 419 type scams all the time. His brothers would constantly dunk on him for being scammed online. It was like 7, 8, 9 times...

Years later he was caught on TV by Chris Hansen and charged. Went to prison. That recontextualized everything. He wasn't falling for scams -- that was a fiction to cover the fact that he was being repeatedly blackmailed by people who caught on to his activities online.

It makes me extremely angry to think that people knew what he was up to and let him continue just so they could keep getting evidence against him to blackmail him again and again. Fucking furious, honestly.

[dghlsakjg]

Its far more concerning that online scammers are more effective than police at finding pedophiles, and in fact the only reason the dude did get caught by the police was as part of a copaganda collaboration with a major media company.

Policing in the US is pretty highly paid profession. We should expect more competent results from them

[busterarm]

Truly agree with you, especially with all the details that came out in his case.

His fucking email was pied_piper<local area code>@aol.com for fucks sake.