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Can someone from US answer why did US legal system fail to punish the people who created a scam app in three months?



They are far, far from US jurisdiction and the scale of these scams is massive. Right not there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of scam websites and apps fun by these groups. Google "asian pig butchering centers" for some insight.


Thanks. First time I heard of this. Without knowing all the details, at first sight I thought pig butchering had something to so with manufacturing pork. Dang. It’s something else entirely.


When it comes to IP law punishments pretty much whole world is within US juristiction. So why can't US legal system protect its citizens and needs Google to be the private police for them?


Probably because they aren't even US citizens to begin with.


Nor is that Dotcom fella.




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