This seems like a very elaborate way to not get much. I think most people should and would realise this was a scam in some way before they gave away their details. The saving grace even if they didn't is that most people usually have the smarts to use different usernames and passwords for different things. Even still, if you spare one person then that's your good dead for the day done.
Yeah there is no way that many people here in the forum could be outsmarted with low balls scam. This is really basic scamming activities and we can identify this one. Maybe the one who posted this thread was a victim of getting scam and after he was being scam he posted it here basing on his experience.