The problem is corruption, and that's not easy to fix.

I know about corruption; anyone who lives in a third-world country understands it. However, as an engineer who built the technical solution, I feel hopeless. Even though my team has strong technical skills and worked extremely hard, with very little sleep for six months, to create something for the greater good, situations like this still happen. In fact, they are becoming worse and more frequent.

As an engineer, I hope that I can gain more knowledge, connect with more people, and do more to help those who have no one to protect them.

Sometimes, I think some aspects of "the old west" in the US might be worth considering a return to... such as "outlaw" and "dead or alive"

I realize that in society we don't typically care for these kinds of approaches, but how else do you actually deal with literal evil that sits safely on the other side of the globe, when their own governments won't do anything to stop it?

The problem is, in reality any such activity would largely be indistinguishable from terrorism.

Ah yes the old west. A time of peace and low crime.

You mean like today?

When’s the last time your horse got rustled?

I've had two cars stolen, and many people I know have had at least one stolen... so analogously it's still an issue... beyond this, there have literally been dozens of shootings in most major US cities alone every week. And even in those places with strict gun laws, there are regularly violent crimes with bladed weapons.

Crypto

It's actually more complicated, but the draining of scam money at scale (ie: billions) is done with the help of collaboration of the Triads and Mexican cartels. IE: Chinese scammers rob the world of billions. They ultimately end up with tons of crypto but still need to launder it. They collaborate with the Mexican cartels to buy USD cash from them paid via crypto. Then the Triads re-launder that cash or sell it to other Chinese nationals in the USA.

The big banks also get a cut when they launder these funds. There are more profits to be made by enabling (or at least not stopping) scams then there is in preventing them. Market forces at work.