Almost every day I read a topic of someone been scammed out of money. Well, this is a course of life and scams will exist as long as exists human race. What makes me laugh though is methods scammers use lately. Nothing inventive, not even an attempt to make it look legit. "Successful trader will make you 50% in an hour". "BTC refund department". "BTC doubler". And dozens of others so obvious one has to be a newborn baby to fall for. I wouldn't be surprised if soon there will be messages from "BTC Support Department" or anything along these lines. How can anyone sane fall for this?
I received a call from my "bank support line" a while ago. Now these people were real con artists, they had all my data, used correct chat scripts etc. It all sounded so legit I almost missed the moment they asked me for SMS confirmation code, at which point I realized it's a scam. Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.
I don't think does who falls for this scam are in sane, I really don't blame them, but the news outlets, and other real professional who claim to do so much in very small time, these scammers are just seeing what the real professionals are doing and what's on the news, then activate greed in those that are looking on there page, channel or account, the format may look cheap but these guys can really have fake proof, statements to work on those who contact them.
Sophisticated or not, scammers are everywhere and anyone can be scammed, everyone has to bundle away greed and deadly curiosity without research.