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@coffeezilla ?? Investigate bootcamp fraud

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
I had the same idea! He's good at digging! One challenge is bootcamps are full of completely independent entities and Coffeezilla is good at digging into individual people/stories. Another challenge is he's good at digging into people who are likely doing illegal things but there isn't enough evidence yet to escalate the issue. Bootcamps aren't clearly violating laws. Fraud is a high bar and involves intentions - which is fuzzy - and hard to factually prove. In civil cases the bar is more likely than not and for criminal.violations it's beyond a reasonable doubt. It's very hard to prove that. So l think you would need to show him a piece of very strong evidence of fraud so he could successfully dig and grow that into something stronger to make a good episode, rather than waste time digging into ambiguity. I was thinking a documentary might be the more appropriate format.

u/incernmentcamp wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

> Bootcamps aren't clearly violating laws isn't installing spyware on your computer and intentionally inflicting emotional distress and conducting a behavioral experiment breaking a law?

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I mean that would be something Coffeezilla would be good at looking into in a specific case behind the general industry wide problems

u/incernmentcamp wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

sorry who tf is coffeezilla? how do I contact them?

u/michaelnovati replied ·
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeezilla