Why is nothing done about scamming?

[backfist]

Originally Posted by Travel'r

Jails and court systems are too overflowing already. Probably no where and no time for these "small potatos".

So if some common street thug cleanly picks $50 from your pocket, then you're OK with jail time. But if you make a $50 payment on a phony website that looks just like the one you always use, then the jails are suddenly too full for the hacker that ripped you off?

[ZugZub]

Originally Posted by subsound

Say your bank/brokerage/financial institution loses a laptop with your account info on it...the person sells all your stocks and takes off and you don't know. Your money is gone, they spent it and the bank is not responsible. Are you gullible?

Scamming is not the same as identity theft.

[subsound]

Originally Posted by ZugZub

Scamming is not the same as identity theft.

It's pretty related, it is one way to get some one's identity and take their money...though it's not necessarily the other way around. Either by spamming bad websites, tricking reps from your bank into providing information, calling people and pretending to be from their financial institution, etc...

I don't think it's just pretending to be another person to take out loans, but pretending to be that person and liquidating their accounts as well. How one gets the info is pretty important, like a prologue to a story.

[elvislives]

The biggest scammers in America are the so called "preachers" making millions of dollars tax free every year. I know Bernie Nadoff ripped off and destroyed thousands of lives but lets also go after the Binny Hinns and Joel Olsteens too, these are the real dirtbags.