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.
The majority of scammers will always target the "low hanging fruit" and simply understand that it is a numbers game. They don't expect to fool everyone, they might not expect to fool more than 1 out of every 1,000 people, but if the one that they do scam is substantial you could call it winning the scammer lottery. The worst and most dangerous are ones who have adapted towards this type of industrial scale and it works much like call center scam operations in many respects. There are so many varieties of scam it can be overwhelming and sometimes the scammers come armed with information gathered before they call you, which can add a level of credibility to their story. Frankly you should ignore anyone unless you have specifically reached out to a company (via phone) or logged into their website to communicate with them. It's important to remember that it is possible to spoof (fake) the sender via email and phone calls, so don't trust that to verify people either.