@lukeplyr83 I love these posts and I love scams (learning about them not scamming people
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Firstly, as others have mentioned, scams are a numbers game. You send out 1 billion baits and only need 10 or 20 suckers to bite. They operate this like a business with expenses and profits. Some scams might be low profit, so they need high ratios, some might only need 1 sucker out of 1 billion (think the term deposit scam where someone lost 1 mil).
Secondly, you are only thinking of investment scams. Scams come in all shapes and sizes. Not all scams involve crypto or stock market investments. A scam can be as simple as offering an item on TradeMe for sale, once buyer pays, I don't send the item.
Thirdly, you are making the assumption that humans are 100% rational 100% of the time. If that was the case then none of us would fall victim. People are irrational. I once had a friend tell me about a great investment opportunity he was pursuing. I did some research and found conclusive evidence the person he was dealing with was a scammer. I told him and he even agreed with me this was a scam. A week later he still fell for it. You might be thinking, WHAT? Your friend is a dumbass then. Well no, (maybe) but the scammers are masters of manipulation. They convinced him it wasn't a scam even after I convinced him it was a scam. Now in hindsight it was obvious he was being irrational. But hindsight is always 20 20.
Scams are like businesses, they market their products in different ways purposefully to serve different audiences. The super obvious scams you gave as examples were never targeted at you anyway. People stupid enough to click on those are their ideal customer.