Usually when fraud is involved, people don't care about justice, they care about getting their money back, which means often the less legally competent party (who are often victims themselves) have to pay up, and good luck getting your money back.

The story sounds like CashApp didn't do proper KYC, so they should be held liable. Also I very much doubt that someone built up a sophisticated operation just for 1 victim, so there must be others. Why doesn't the police connect the dots?

> Why doesn't the police connect the dots?

They don't care. My iPhone was stolen. Through a circuitous route, I was able to get the details of the eBay seller, someone who lived near me, and whose listing pages couldn't have been more blatant if it had a neon sign on it: 100+ laptops, mostly Macs, "no chargers, no accessories", often activation locked. Same with phones.

So I went to my PD, with the buyer information, the seller, all of this. Their response:

"Well, he probably didn't steal it himself."

Huh, "Isn't it still a crime to knowingly sell stolen property?"

"..."

"..."

Nothing done. As of a year later he was still steadily adding multiple phones and laptops a week to his listings.