[Barrin92]

To be fair you can be a scammer without necessarily being aware of it, like the hordes of MLM people who run around and actually think it's a business.

has the same dynamics like the crypto world even, with it promising in a sense to create value out of nothing by just holding on long enough and spreading the gospel

[smt88]

You're absolutely right. I just think of these "unwitting scammers" as victims, because they lose money from their participation. But I admit that they could certainly be considered both scammers and victims, as the two are not mutually exclusive.