Greed is a very powerful motivator to scamming someone. Can't believe how many people follow links and fall for this stuff.
There was a cost to being an asshole back then, often a physical one that ended in bloodied noses. I miss those times as there was an honesty in it.
I remember in 3rd grade changing schools and the 5th grade bully decided that he was going to target me. After a couple weeks I had enough and beat the snot out of him at recess. The rest of the school never even thought of messing with me as this kid was the bully of the school and 2 years older then me. They knew if I could do that they would be in trouble.
Life was simpler then. That fight was just that, a fight and nobody trouble. Today if that happened someone would probably expelled as schools have a zero tolerance rule on fighting. Something like this would have labeled me as a troubled kid instead of it being what it was, a bully getting what he deserved.