It happens a lot, and isolation can help keep scams going. In case anyone has any illusions about how bad financial scamming can get, pyramid schemes famously

It happens a lot, and isolation can help keep scams going. In case anyone has any illusions about how bad financial scamming can get, pyramid schemes famously led to civil war in Albania not that long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania