Scamming is partly intense psychological violence, and its financial and psychological consequences are far reaching, and here at an unfathomable scale - an entire city of people! In this sense they terrorize people. And they should likewise be relentlessly pursued and sentenced as a consequence. That city would go to war against them if they were one.
But yeah, i don't know, maybe we need a new word for such criminals. The superlative for murderers is "mass murderers". "Mass scammers?"
It's much more than people "just losing some money", anyone who ever had anything stolen from them, or have been broken into can tell you that.
I'm speechless that they were able to reach that number of victims without consequences. Reeks of a lack of oversight, will, power or coordination on behalf of the investigators. I wonder which reasons they give.
Gifting a bit of existential fear to those scammers might not hurt, since they force it on thousands of others.
Electric cars do not make sense to own if you are not also owning a garage where you can charge them overnight. Also, if you are unwilling to add 1+ hour(s) to your travel time on longer distances.
For me it was this, generalized to "Ultimately, no one, nobody else, will be able to or willing to care about your best interests except yourself."
People, families, groups, systems and institutions act primarily through their own structures and in their own best interests, are able to forget, misinterpret or simply not care about what you want/need/desire/expect/(feel you) deserve from them, and can never care about you as an individual as much as you can care about yourself.
This can apply to small or big things. This even applies to formal, specific, contractual obligations others have to you. That's just paper. It can be at best ineffective to expect others to act in your (best) interest while you are not there supervising and understanding everything they are doing. Trust, but verify, and be ready to protest for and enforce your rights.
The world is full of minor and major bullshit many have given up on to change, to care about, or feel powerless to change anything about. If anything moves in this world it is through the stubbornness of dedicated individuals. Since you yourself have only limited time and energy, be ready to endure this bullshit which makes life seem insufferable and unfair.
Also, today's society has no effective mechanisms to punish misbehavior at small scales, and repeat offenders who move between communities.
I may have been childish, naive, too hopeful or entitled to expect otherwise, but nowadays I know that at any time, people or the universe can metaphorically say "fuck you, i don't owe you anything" and fuck your life and feelings over, regardless of how conscientiously or nice or supposedly selfless you acted. But so must you, if people expect more from you than you can and are willing to give, even if it hurts them, else they will drain your joy and energy and potential out of your life.