The bond system does not protect against long term scam opportunities and it was not designed nor advertised to do such a thing as there is nothing short of storing vendor dox that we can do to stop such things happening except proactively policing the resolution center. What it does do is prevent people starting scam schemes without the initial startup capital since we have found a lot of people who scammed in the days of no bonds are the people who do not have the money to anyway and have resorted to scamming to gain any money at all. Those are the people the bond system tries to protect against and as long term users will testify, higher bonds result is lower quantities of opportunistic scammers. The bond system however should not be seen as any means by which to verify if anyone is trustworthy or not, that is left to the judgement and gut instinct of individuals and collected intelligence from trends in the resolution center by staff.