"Ray fails, he is packing groceries at Wal-Mart or selling used cars for a living."
Nah.
When EGOC fades to No Bid when all the marks finally run out of patience, the boys will set Raymond up with another pump and dump scam to run, just like they did when the CAK scam ran its course.
Milking the punters for a few hundred thousand dollars is not viewed as a failure by Raymond T Brown II's employers. It's a nice little revenue stream.
Rinse and repeat, that how these Pink Sheet scams work.