>Can we just say "Darwins law" and let it be?

Only if we are willing to say the same once someone decides to fight back with actual force. If someone outright kills a scammer doing this, are you willing to write it off as "Darwin's law" and let it be?

Wouldn't bother me too much.

At least with conventional scams it’s up to the victim to voluntarily hand over the money to the scammer. In this case it’s different because the government is complicit in the scam and forcefully takes the money from the victim to give to the scammer.

> In all seriousness... how do you protect naive people from scams like this?

In this case, you stop government enforcing the scam.

Confession of judgement should obviously be illegal.

So imagine instead of scammers you had hyenas who lived around a particular stretch of road and ate anyone who wandered by.

You could say "Darwin", anyone dumb enough to get eaten deserves it.

But you could also say "anything that eats people is gonna get shut down hard", because you don't get to be at the top of the food chain if you let things keep eating you.