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Originally Posted by Throttlesteer
I apologize for yet another thread about this scandal. But as I read the names of the folks involved, many of them seemed familiar from my past life on Net54. I went and did a little digging and these same bad actors are the ones that were discussed back in the early 2000s. If high-profile card doctoring has been going on with the same well-known group of people, why hasn't anything been done in nearly 20 years?
i realize it's hard to prove, but I can't believe they've managed to fly under the criminal justice radar for so long. No wonder they've become so bold and pervasive. It's beyond disgusting.
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Dealers and auction houses either have been complicit or the honest ones, in large part, have just done nothing and enjoyed the price umbrella. The people protesting have mostly been shouted down. Law enforcement has, for reasons of its own, not viewed it as a priority at least in the past. It's the perfect storm.
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