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danarislast Thursday at 1:05 PM1 replyview on HN

But this is part of the problem with crimes and enforcement in the modern age: sure, I might have only wasted a few minutes of my time. But I'm just one of hundreds or thousands of people who were tricked into wasting that time, by this one act.

Multiply this across all the fraudulent job postings, and it really starts to add up.

It's clear (to me, at least) that we need better laws to handle this sort of wide-but-shallow attack on people. It's analogous to spam.


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moralestapialast Thursday at 1:34 PM

I recently learned of [1], which is a good example of "too small for me to sue" but still worth going through it collectively.

1: https://www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca/