These kinds of scams are a stochastic process. They don't work on your average person, they only work on vulnerable people. Heres the catch though, everyone is

These kinds of scams are a stochastic process. They don't work on your average person, they only work on vulnerable people. Heres the catch though, everyone is vulnerable at some point in their lives. This is where the stochastic process comes in, they don't need to get you when you're strong, they just need to test enough people enough times to catch them in a vulnerable moment.