You live and you learn, a lot of people here have lost money or have seen people lose money to scammers one way or another.
Exactly, Don't trust easily. If you think it's a scam, don't respond, scammed will use a personal touch to play on your emotions to get what they want.
If scams were not that numerous then people will not cry scam as soon as they can, but there are a huge amount of scams and so people are very suspicious about almost everything, and if something seems too good to be true, and most likely it will be, then people are going to say that it's a scam, when we have a currency that once that it's sent it cannot be recovered then people will be very mistrustful.