They are not stupid but wicked, stupid are someone who lack intelligence or common sense while wicked use their wit to do evil things.
Stupid or wicked, it's only chosen word to say about scammers and I don't argue with you about words because it won't end with an agreement.
It could be an old trick, but a lot of users are still falling for it, and I so much believe there are Others in this forum who don’t even know about the trick.
You don't need to know everything in all areas, know everything about scam methods, to avoid scammers.
What you need, most important thing you need, to avoid scam, are very simple: carefulness and don't be greed. Scammers can use simple or complicated scam methods to find victims but they aim at careless and greed people. If you are not people like this, no scammer can touch you and your money.
I agree but it's funny how they always get people. That means the people are even more stupid? I see a lot of lame scams and I wonder how people fall for it. I just can't explain it.
Because human instinct is always there and the same, and new victims are who repeat same mistakes like past victims. They are either careless or greed or both.
If you call a scammer stupid then you have underestimated them because you would not be expecting much from someone who you have called stupid because of their actions, but some of this scammers these days are very intelligent that they can even still fool someone who knows about their existence. Better not to assume their stupidity and pay attention to details because some scams can be really sophisticated.
I don't underestimate scammers because they can code, can do things I can not do, but to say they are smart, I don't say it.
They can code, make website, smart contract, or hire some staffs to do this for them. They only need idea and pass it to staffs for coding later steps. We don't know what a founder of a scam project actually does. Maybe the founder only has idea, other things completed by his staffs or collaborators.
