Yes, certainly many are nothing but someone taken for a ride as a mark and fool.
The wacko...and if you will much more demeaning names...would apply (as a generality) to many of those who would be involved suporting SPNG (then and now)in this type of forumn. They would have every reason to be informed as to what was really going on, or alternatively, and this is unfortunately clearly the case of many, so incapable of being informed that they did (and may continue) to act as pawns of those perpetrating the fraud on them and essentially were a part in the defrauding of others.
Again, the well documented Ponzi Syndrome. Like the Stockholm Syndrome attributed to hostages: many of the victims, presumably innocent of anything but a mistaken trust and belief, refused to even take any portion of the small amount that was eventually recovered for them, claiming that was just a trick to have them give up their rights to the fortune that Ponzi was maiing for them. Not a bad definition or exampe of wacko I should think!
