Quote - ... but as the tools and information become easier to rip other's people work off, the more 'get rich quick" people try to attempt it.

I suspect it's always been difficult to detect this sort of thing if people flat out lie when they state something is all their own work.
As is often the case these days people doing things in the correct way lose out or are incovenienced in some way (not an excuse for doing things incorrectly, but generates frustration none the less).