Dateline: To Let a Con Artist Go
Dateline ran a piece tonight, To Catch a Con Man. They didn't catch him, however, they just videotaped the guys, outted themselves and let the guys go. Never got the cops involved. Who needs law enforcement when you can broadcast video and hope the guys stop trying to steal money?Oh, and Dateline paid these guys small amounts as "incentive" to maintain the scam.
It's exceptional that Dateline has taken up a scam that started in the early '80s and hit the internet in 2000. They're picking up the mantle that geeks have been holding for years--geeks who never needed to pay money to out these thieves.
Dateline isn't journalism. It's reality TV.
Maybe next week they'll discover that criminals are cold-calling senior citizens and obtaining personal information and credit card numbers over the phone.
posted by Lachlan @ 8:09 PM
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