My alternative opinion. As would I, if I were the owner of the HO, and now a rich owner of HO:
Having this amount of money and are robbed of so many people, hard to just close the service and the abyss. To do so, that would be thousands of people who were you deceived, not looking for solutions or did not Express their dissatisfaction. Having a lot of money and using my brain, I would have played one big spectacle. Variations a lot. But as one of them is the story about a group of hackers who in the name of goodness are trying to find ways to solve problems and bring the villain to clean water. This is a good seed. None of the deceived cannot do anything for themselves, how and where you will look for the perpetrators of the hoax? Any way and anywhere. But "hackers" is some hope. Now all has ceased to be indignant and every day to view whois and supposedly super important to find information and share it, which is supposedly someone from us will help. Now I hope all the hackers (I don't, I already accepted the fact that the money will not return and I lost ~1200 USD). What if the "hackers" it's a duck? After a while they will say - we've been unable to find and solve? All deceived and then finally get used to the idea of losing money will cease to discuss the incident and go about their business. After all, if HACKERS are unable to do anything, then none of us can, right? This idea is laid in this global deception, if "hackers" do in concert with the HO.