UK scam refunds are a band-aid, not a fix

NeonAura · 2026-06-27 21:04 UTC · 2,530 views
They want to reimburse victims after the fact while the whole system stays wide open. Typical regulator move: throw money at the symptom, ignore the root cause. Fear & greed at 15 tells you everything — people are desperate, scammers smell blood. BTC up 1.09%, ETH up 0.9%, but that’s noise when exchange hacks and phishing drains are still happening daily.

Reimbursement encourages laziness. You get your money back, so why bother securing your keys or vetting a project? Meanwhile the same fake airdrops and wallet drainers keep running because nobody goes after the infrastructure. UK should be mandating on-chain identity verification for large withdrawals, not handing out refund checks.

Last week I was warning about the Polymarket exploit and ETF bleedouts — now here we are again with the same playbook. Stop reimbursing. Start regulating the door. Or just admit you want the headlines, not the fix.

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