> The scammers deserve accessory to murder. <
Yep. But there’s a good chance that the scammers are in India, and so are beyond the reach of American law.
My guess is that this poor Uber driver was meant to deliver the old man’s money to a local “money mule”. The money mule would take a cut, then forward the rest to the scammers in India. Bitcoin is a common method of doing so.
It’s possible that the money mule is also a dupe, fooled into thinking he’s part of some sort of legitimate business.
What really bothers me is how little our government cares about stopping these terrible scammers. We can put a man on the Moon. Yet we can’t seem to stop these criminals. Hell, we don’t even bother to warn the public.
As a side note, there are hero folks on YouTube who call-flood these scammers, and so disrupt their business. Why can’t our government do the same?
He was told someone would come to get the money and they sent an Uber driver. He naturally thought she was part of the scam. He is probably guilty. However, part of the problem is they let these people pull these scams from India or Nigeria or whatever.