Because if these rich can get scammed, your lovely retired grandparents/parents can get scammed too, and have no way of making that money back. They might literally have their lives ended early by scammed reducing their quality of living.

Rich =/= evil. But we also know that rich people, ironically, can be incredibly guarding of their money; not eager to part with it. So if those particular rich people are tricked into parting either money, it is bad for the rest of us.

And let’s be honest: ordinary people imitate the rich, including following them off a cliff of bad investment, e.g into AI or cryptocurrency

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Scammers usually have no idea if the person they’re scamming is rich, poor, young or old. And they don’t care. You can breathe a sigh of relief if the victim turns out to have more savings, but there’s no point celebrating them having an amount stolen that would devastate you personally.

My mother recently told me that her friend’s daughter, who is still in HIGH SCHOOL, had to take a break from classes to call her bank because of money being taken out of her account. The bank wouldn’t pick up, which i think indicates that multiple people were getting attacked or stolen from. I bring this up because,

• suppose that all started off as an attack targeting known rich people
• Then because of greed, it progresses to ordinary earners as well
• The bank is preoccupied helping its richer customers who called in first/are ultimately more valuable to them, and cannot spare time to help the ordinary people also under attack

This is the principle of scamming. They rarely target the rich in particular.