Article on the BBC web site this morning about people falling for scams.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32705024
Sometimes on these and other forums people ask why the scammers bother when it seems so obvious it is a scam.
But this couple BOTH fell for a scam, but two different scams.
He lost £25,000 on a property scam, even though his financial advisor told him not to go ahead with it (are people really that stupid !)
And she lost money on a "fake lottery" scam where she had to pay money to release the winnings (again, was she really stupid enough to think she had won a lottery in another country !)
Trouble is you can warn people over and over again about scams, but as long as there are gullible people like this the scammers will carry on.