As a seasoned senior, instead of a young narcissistic millennial, I would never have fallen for this fraud for a minute.
My rule is that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. These young people with too much time, money and egos on their hands never stopped to consider that they were being offered so much with no verification and confirmation of what they were actually paying for.
Sometime being young and stupid and getting burnt real bad, is the only way for some people to ever learn the lessons of life.
Spent some money, experienced some inconvenience, felt like a fool. That's not "burnt real bad."
Yea, I don’t think they were “burnt real bad”..
Paid a stupid tax and endured some humiliation...
That’s a life lesson, not really a burn.
Most of them didn’t even feel the money loss personally... because to have paid it they weren’t the people who worked (more often than not) for the cash they wasted.