When I first heard of Bitconnect I immediately felt like something is not right with it. Sounded really scammy and I didn't want to get involved with that at all. I'm happy I didn't get involved, but it's also saddening how many people actually fell for it and then lost huge amounts of money in the end...
It would definitely be smarter if people were educated about such things. If someone would teach the masses how to NOT fall for these kinds of things, then people wouldn't need to depend on the governments to save or retrieve their money...