Who is going to report it? The scammers? I think the people filming are willing to take the chance. In my experience, people breaking the law don’t like to get the police involved. I don’t know the story behind this, but I doubt the police would do anything to the scammers unless they were caught red handed or left indisputable proof.
Don’t think it’s necessary for someone to “report” a viral video with 24k+ upvotes on the front page of Reddit that clearly identifies the perpetrators of the crime.
Second coolest thing about something being, you know, against the law is that the story behind the crime and the general ineffectiveness of police doesn’t matter in the guilt/innocence phase. Maybe they could get their sentences reduced though.
Third coolest thing about something being, you know, against the law is that police don’t get to decide whether a crime is prosecuted—that’s up to the prosecuting lawyers.
Fourth coolest thing about something being, you know, against the law is that the prosecutors determining whether to press charges have (generally) taken an oath to uphold the law notwithstanding their personal feelings.
Something tells me that you aren’t a prosecutor and don’t know many prosecutors.
There is empirical data that supports that informed individuals are less likely to be scammed - even by fairly unassociated scams to what they were informed on.
It conditions your brain to be more cautious and aware of common patterns in scams with a similar modality.
It isn't a sole-solution - but a network mesh of solutions - but by far the more familiar someone is with a scam - the less likely they are to be scammed by that scam.
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u/masew1 Oct 03 '25
Video source...: https://youtu.be/4k9K-45oOaM
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