How can we protect ourselves now?
I mean, those who have sent the kyc docs, what can we do?
If you are coming from EU and you have GDPR that give guarantee to your personal data and you can take it to the court if the team was doing something with your data without your permission but if you are not from a country that used GDPR and then you can do nothing.
Any participant who is not from the EU and have no GDPR are basically screwed then, this con artist are in hold of thousands of personal information which they can sell in the black market for illegal activities, this are the worst kind of scammers, there was no need to request for kyc just to look legit, already the intention was not to pay, so it would have been lot better if they had disappear without paying instead of requesting kyc and still disappear.