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Not only in your country there are such scammers who make money on people's passion for gambling. These scammers are in general in any country. It's just that somewhere the police work better and catch them. And in other countries, on the contrary, the police are in collusion with scammers and receive bribes from them and part of the money won in an unfair way.
As for some hypnotic effect on the victim of such a game, I believe that indeed scammers feel that a person is succumbing to an attraction to an easy win and subtly psychologically process him, one might say, urge him to bet more and more, and try to win back after the first loss. This technique is used by almost all scammers in street games. But of course, not all people give in to such psychological treatment and stop playing on time. Then the criminals are looking for a new victim, a gambler. And they will definitely find it because there are a lot of such people. And this deception pipeline is constantly running.
This is the case everywhere in the world.
True, in developed countries this is almost invisible, but in some problem areas there are still such scammers.
You present an undeniable truth - the pervasiveness of fraudsters is universal. We cant skirt this reality. Isn't it striking, though, how varied the responses to this common problem are, hinged on a country' law muscle and political drive?
The method you point out, the quiet mental persuasion of victims, stands as a powerful tool for scammers, exploiting human's penchant for instant wealth.
Casting our eyes on the crypto world, one must question - have we strayed off Bitcoin' founding course? Conceived to liberate finance from corruption, now, we see the same maladies creeping into our crypto space.
Are we failing Bitcoin's essence, or yielding to our old financial systems' traps? This, I believe, requires our introspection and a firm recommitment to a fair, open monetary system.