How about caning. It might seem foreign and extreme, but it works. A fine is just a cost of doing business. Even prison time would usually be spent at a minimum security prison perhaps even with work release. Barely a punishment.
Those are just slaps on the wrist. You know what’s not a slap on the wrist? Caning. Caning would force these scammers to rethink their lives. It is used in Singapore as a punishment, a country widely seen as one of the least corrupt on the planet.
Oh, yes, good idea. Just track down wherever in the world the scammer lives, like Russia or Myanmar or Venezuela or something. Then you fly in a team of Navy Seals in a black helicopter to land at night on the roof of their tenement under cover of darkness. They storm in, restrain the scammer, and cane 'em real good with 39 whacks. Then they beat feet out of there before they can be detected or caught. You could GoPro all of this and then post it to a special "Cane of Shame" website. Exciting!
Caning is barbaric and backwards. It will never happen here in the USA. It would normalize beating people and we already have enough of that illegally via the police
Caning doesn’t normalize beating people any more than fines normalize theft. Far from barbaric, it is a regulated punishment that can effectively deter repeat offenders. And if some portion of prison time were replaced with caning, it would reduce the US’ overflowing prison population. I’m sure you would agree that given how barbaric US prisons are, the less time spent there the better.
And as far as I can tell most of the police beatings are irregular, not regulated, and applied without judicial prescription or medical oversight. American police beatings are also usually legal or at least decriminalized however.
Those are just slaps on the wrist. You know what’s not a slap on the wrist? Caning. Caning would force these scammers to rethink their lives. It is used in Singapore as a punishment, a country widely seen as one of the least corrupt on the planet.