There are lots of high-trust interfaces like this in the legacy businesses that make up most of world commerce. It might not be feasible to do much more in the way of background checks.

They get paid good money to do all of this, scammers have reaised that the king has no clothes and are profiteering on them, which I think is fair.

He took $13,000 to post an ad on “Craigslist for truckers”.

Why couldn’t Bokksu skip him and do that directly?

I mean, how is there no way to authenticate the truckers you charter on that platform, or when they arrive to pick up the load. Presumably the least they can do is identify the person.