Same, and I am probably younger than this guy. My really basic understanding after reading very slowly is he got some crypto asset from scammer, and he needed

Same, and I am probably younger than this guy. My really basic understanding after reading very slowly is he got some crypto asset from scammer, and he needed to approve lending it out to get some sort of crypto interest on it. But approving the "lending X out" action apparently looks exactly like the same as the "give Y away" action if you don't look closely at the contract. Maybe it's just ignorance, but the whole system seems like a mess to me.