Its still one of the worst, most lazy and pathetic scams I've ever seen. You could earn the $5 in cash (working for less than an hour in a legit job) and turn it into 0.04BTC. Its still only $5 today.

If you have hours to to spend scamming people out of a dollar here and a dollar there then your probably making a dollar or two an hour doing this. This small time hustling probably makes the scammer $20 a day or less, not enough to afford rent/bills or much of anything.

This leads me to beleive whoever is behind anything like this is a punk kid still living with mom. And their lack of creativity and work ethic will keep them there. Alone, and lonely, till they die.