Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
The Morgenstern thing was a much more serious matter, as you showed in your videos.
The FBI gets tonnnnnnnnnnnnns of reports every day about internet "crimes". You'd be shocked if you saw the vast number they get every day. That's why they made it very difficult to even find a phone number for them. If they made a phone number easily available, they would get inundated with phone calls all day.
The FBI would not even bother to touch a case like this, where a guy's social security number is exposed on a paper in a video that's up for 6 hours. It's one of these things which is technically illegal, but the FBI would never touch.
CM's scamming itself would possibly be caseworthy if it occurred on a greater scale. However, right now it's simply not big enough. It's a small-time operation, which is why CM isn't actually rich. The CM "coaching" matter is one which, right now, would best be handled by a civil lawsuit or a report to the local police by actual victims. (Sadly, you and I cannot report this, as we weren't victims of CM.)
There's the other problem that selling a "winning system" by itself isn't illegal, of course. Let's say I were to sell a variation of card counting which I believed gave people an additional edge, but it turned out I made a math mistake, and my system was actually -EV. This wouldn't be a crime -- at worst I could be sued for misrepresentation.
It's only a crime when you're knowingly selling a shit system and claiming it wins. Clearly that's what CM is doing. However, law enforcement could easily get confused by all of this, and simply believe it's a civil matter, like in my example above. A dedicated detective could put together a lot of CM's false claims (such as stories about winning "every time" or "winning $5,000 on average per session"), and connect that to his false claims about his system winning. Still, authorities don't usually touch stuff like this. That's how some of these scammer sportsbetting touts like Vegas Dave get away with it.
With YouTube, it's all about who you know. If I were friends with a middle manager at YouTube, CM's channel would be shut down today. There are plenty of violations he's already committed. Sadly, I'm not friends with a manager at YouTube, but if someone could connect us with one, attention could be brought to his channel, and it could be deleted.
You're correct that, in general, YouTube doesn't like removing controversial channels, especially when copyright issues are not in play. However, it can still be done if you reach the right people.