Well if you look at Wright, he went from being a recently laid off surprisingly poorly paid firewall installer to living a blinged out multimillionaire lifestyle for over a decade.  Perhaps he'll have to spend the rest of his life in places that don't extradite to the UK but I bet he's still living a lifestyle much nicer than he could have afforded from his original condition.

So how stupid is he?

Maybe we're all the stupid ones.  This seems to be the lesson that so many shitcoiners have learned:  The general public is dumb and will shovel money on people that loudly make impossible promises, and actual punishment for this fraud will be delayed at best but most often non-existent.