Well that's what newbie who doesn't know to ask before they go into something gets, Sam simply got swayed by the scammer thinking that it would be good if he invest there and he ask no opinion about it and keep sending and sending money without even being able to withdraw some of his "profit",
Most of the time, newbies become the victim of scam, they were targeted by the scammers since the limit of their knowledge about cryptocurrency is limited. They can be an easy target as long as they were promise a big return, they will blinding an individual with having a huge profit in a short period of time which is actually impossible, there is no such investment as that.
Thats right! These cases happen a lot. We are here in this forum to help others specially newbies to avoid these kind of cases. Newbie easily fall from sweet talks, We can help them about the investment that they are doing and the things they do that involves money and crypto.