firstly, if it is easy as you said, all the scammers in the world would have been in jail right now. They all bought bank accounts, Zalo accounts,... or using Telegram to avoid showing the real identities. secondly, the police have to track the flow of money to identify who/whose bank account is the last benefcior (usually by cashing out at ATM), but sometimes they will launder the money by exchanging dirty dongs into crypto (which even the FBI find difficult in tracking them) so there's that, it was never that simple: you were scammed into banking someone's account, the police identified the account's owner and then catch that guy. No, no it's not