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This is the key. Like a lot of other such scams and conspiracies they are either by design or just “evolution” geared towards exploiting desperate and or uncritical people for the profit of snake oil salesmen.
Like a lot of e-mail scams it actually helps if you can weed out any person that could waste your time or spread knowledge to others early in the process.
You only spray poop on someone once.
Then you get told, and never do it again.