Many of them who are scamming its for them easy to make money with it thats why they are doing it. My friends all got scammed with using bitcoins scammers have now a paradise.
Because they can steal their money and the coins are now for them you can't get them back.
i think that people scam because they need money and it is a easy way to earn money because there are a lot of people who get scammed all the time.
So it is a form of income but it is really annoying for the people who get scammed.
One day I went to a small local restaurant, and some guys who were sitting next to me at the left table started a conversation on reasons why people scam, some scam related stories, with some of them telling others how they got scammed and it goes on. I just kept quiet through out the time of their conversation and never said a word. They were actually saying that people getting involved in scam should be blamed on the government, but I dont really believe that. Some get into scam because they are lazy a$$hølés.