I still think the public award idea might be a bit too harsh. In my head, a "top donor" is a deeply Catholic Irish grandma who somehow joined Nostr because her maxi grandson Seamus (that lives in her basement; but is definitely buying a Lambo with all his holdings) told her to. Nostr Grandma who falls for scams must be protected at all costs. 🤣

I'm worried that publicly calling victims out might drive people away from Nostr instead of correcting their behaviour. Maybe we could post a public message with a meme, without outing the donor. Something like: "Oh crap, another anon fell for a scam on Nostr" (random meme) – Top zap to scammers of the month: 12k. Kind of like what the UTXO bots do.

And the DM can be exactly as you said. Agreed. Well, NIP-17 is still there, even though lots of GiftWrapped messages never get read by anyone, lol.