mouseonmoon wrote:
stedman1,
I'm wondering why they can't be tracked down ...
And why wouldn't Apple have someone able to scam them !!
track 'em down ( fake bank accounts ) and then tell 'em they've been discovered
by the Apple Cider Squad = surely Apple can operate a 'force' of computers that
could be used as 'bait'- and make it known far and wide where the criminals will end up .....
With billions of users and many billions of devices, servers, and computers connected, with myriad operating systems and vendors involved, with zillions of embedded and connected devices, and inevitably with some large chunk of all those down revision or otherwise exploited or compromised, and with nearly two hundred recognized governments and many more de facto if not de jure governments, each with differing and often competing agendas and each with differing laws and differing enforcement policies, well, the scale and scope of the effort here is well past what any government can address, much less any private.
Put differently, scams are a very big business and profitable business, and many of the the organizations competing here are actively protecting their own ability to profit from these scams, whether that means operating in places with governments that will tolerate these business activities, or in areas with ineffective governments, and preferably for the perpetrators areas without enforcement treaties and without extradition treaties, or through compromised devices and at a remove or two, or through payoffs and other sorts of corruption.
If you would like to foment changes, your government can look into reducing the cash flowing into these scams. Contact your representatives. Or probably better and more likely to have near-term benefits, help educate those around you about these and other common scams. Older folks are commonly targeted and are at risk from these and other scams, and most groups—pretty much anybody with money—can be targeted.
The “cider squad” can ferment change at best, albeit that can be quite tasty if done right.
