What an expensive price that you've learned there. A couple of hundreds is already hurting but yours is that much.
It is because he might be richer than us and then like he said, the total price that he invested in the past is only 3k dollars which might still be within his reach. The only thing that haunts him is the fact that BNB price have sky rocketed a lot over the past years and it could made him a millionaire now just in case he still have access to the coin.
And what they can do upon being busted, they will just going to make a new one - a new face, name and theme. While the tactic they'd do is still the same and that's why you're right, we always tell everybody to DYOR.
But at least they got busted and that is better than nothing at all. Also, if possible, we can send them into jail. Now, will they still have the chance to roam around and do the same shit? Maybe yes, if there is a bail but it would be better for the court to set a crime like this to no bail. That way, criminals will now think twice and they can end up of not doing the crime at all for the said consequence that they can face, just in case they insisted and got busted out.