The first time I came across a pyramid scheme was in my late teens - where the game was literally: "you give money to me and they'll give money to you". A lot

The first time I came across a pyramid scheme was in my late teens - where the game was literally: "you give money to me and they'll give money to you". A lot of friends of mine were "playing" it. Regular people. I didn't play not because I was smarter then them, but because I didn't care and I didn't have much money to play around with, but in the end it's all about mixing: - how you're introduced to the game by people you trust (like friends); - the prospect of wins; - naivety; I'm sure the large majority of the people that bought NFTs didn't even thought about the technical part of the game. And you just need to attend some communities on discord and reddit to understand the level a lot of people were playing. Some people actually believed that complex games were going to be created, that would bring NFTs ingame - similar to Ready Player One movie - and everything would interact with that world. Everyone was having fun, and some even made money, how can kids understand it was all a scam? So the question might even be, how didn't more people get scammed? Like, what stopped people from hopping in this frenzy? Maybe the reality was that they were just busy with other stuff. Social engineering alone was enough to perform criminal activities with little to no repercussions.