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This is probably why scamming, degeneracy-mongering, and blackmail have a long historical evolutionary niche, whereas more overt crime like ransom and extortion tend to exist only on the margins.

When the fight to protect the victim is against the victim himself, nobody is particularly motivated to take up that fight, and so the criminal is able to act with relative impunity.