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I own a company and get contacted daily by tons of applicants who scammers took advantage of using fake similar domains and such. My opinion is that scammers, wherever they are in the world, should get bombed. Criminals only stop when the risks are higher than the rewards. And we need to stop victim blaming companies and individuals.

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Scams are de facto legal. In many countries the economy is dependent on scamming.

Hence bombing scammers wherever they are.

Fumigation would be more effective.

>> Criminals only stop when the risks are higher than the rewards.

I would say they just transition to something else where there is a lower risk with the same reward.

Transition to lower risk, lower reward pursuits like a real job that performs a service or creates a good and thus helps others.

More Jim Browning type people needed or Kit Boga

I read somewhere that if all of online scamming was calculated as a country's production, it'd have the 3rd largest GDP in the world. Edit, link: https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/quicksight/check-point/the-w...

But then again, aren't there obviously scams, and scams that are deemed legal? Like promising a car today that will be updated "next year" to be able to drive itself? Or all the enshittified industry's dark patterns, preying on you to click the wrong button?

You're making a "perfection" kind of fallacy. If we extend the term "scammer" to mean "anyone who didn't 100.0% deliver on every statement they ever made", congrats: EVERYONE is a scammer.

Actually they are right, while "a car today that will be updated 'next year' to be able to drive itself" is not a scam it is actually "deception" which can lead to legal consequences. And if the company knew in advance that they would not be able to deliver such updates while advertising that, we would indeed be in the scam territory.

Let's not downplay dark pattern strategies of some companies that actually do not benefit anyone in society.

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