That's absolutely true. Hard to bankrupt hot air and fairy tales. Yet the hundreds of millions that were transferred were actually real.
Folks like to herald how much money they made off the TNSP/HMBL fraud.
Others lost their ass falling into con artists traps.
What a twisted society we've evolved into, where scamming is lauded and actually working in a value added society is scorned, and avoided at all costs.
It's easy to be a con artist, or complicit in con games.