What about scamming the scammers?

Don't you think that makes you are scammer yourself? Really if you have scam intentions no matter what is creating such intentions you are automatically a scammer yourself. I would say there are very effective several other ways to punish a scammer rather than being a scammer yourself. One big way to do that is to report the scammer. Regardless of the platform you can always report a scammer, another way to frustrate a scammer is being wise, not greedy and informing as many people as you can about potential scams.