Personally never got the whole thing - I mean I get it, buying a lotto ticket hoping for a big hit - but I’d just as well rely on my ability to pick a winner and get lucky - win cash and buy exactly what I want than getting lucky solely and the universe delivering me something I want when I get lucky - but hey, I think the fastest route to happiness is the shortest path possible. To those who like taking a longer path - more power to you.
There’s fraud out there / but always has been and always will be. It’s like finding a fraud in sportsbetting or poker and suggesting the industry is all like that. There have been frauds in sports cards for as long as I can remember and that starts for me in the mid 1980s. From searching rack packs in K-mart aisles using collation list checklist to paying off shipping clerks and opening/resealing wax packs - it’s happened. Progressed to trimming cards - paying off grading companies and forged autographs.
Sports and scammers are just a natural combination.