It's much more than people "just losing some money", anyone who ever had anything stolen from them, or have been broken into can tell you that.

I'm speechless that they were able to reach that number of victims without consequences. Reeks of a lack of oversight, will, power or coordination on behalf of the investigators. I wonder which reasons they give.

Gifting a bit of existential fear to those scammers might not hurt, since they force it on thousands of others.