Many scammers operate out of groups. I believe scammers attract negativity in some way either externally or internally, they often end up hurting themselves in the end, it may take a decade or longer when they realize or they attract that negativity externally. If they are too cold to ever care they are not the type of miserable person you would ever want to be or to ever be associated with. They are scum they know it, they may try to justify it at times but they know. Just talking in general because your comment was innocent sarcasm that some will see inappropriate due to the situation