There are no victims there are juts people who want free money and think that this is a way to get it.
I called them victims because there's someone who takes advantage of them. That "someone" also wants free money, he's just much better at getting it.
Yeah, be at least the scammer put some effort into it. The took the time and created the scam and the things that were needed to deal with it.
The person who wanted the free magical internet money just treated it like an online shopping experience and sent their money to someone who was going to just send them more free money in return.
When I send my money to Amazon I expect cat food and some toothpaste to show up. [Well it's Amazon I figure it's a 50 / 50 chance] I don't expect to be able to order 500 $10 bills for the cost of 500 $1 bills.
Slightly off topic but kind of on point. As of now ETH staking will get you between 3.5% to 4% if you are sitting there running your own validator.
That is the most you are going to get.
But there are places still offering more because they 'know the secret sauce' but you can't control your keys and everything else you have to send your coins to them for them to control. Sooner or later it's going to end poorly. But people still do it. Instead of doing the research and figuring out it's impossible.
-Dave