If you are thinking about taking up a life of crime, online and phone scams are definitely the way to go.
A couple years back, my 90 some year old mother was almost scammed out of $10,000.00. She had drawn out the money, put it in an envelope and put an address on it. It was only because of an alert and caring bank teller that kept her from driving to the Post Office and mailing the envelope, she was 15 minutes away from kissing her money goodbye.
Someone had called her claiming to be my son, telling grandma that he was in trouble, needed the money, and didn't want his dad (me) to find out.
Since my mother was so close to sending the money, she had a fair amount of information. She was to send the money to Mr. Wilson. She had his phone number and mailing address. I started to do some searches and found out that Mr Wilson had been using the same name, phone number and address to scam people for at least 7 years before he tried to cheat my Mom.
Problem is, absolutely no one is interested in going after these scammers. Local police either don't care or can't do anything. State officials tell the victim to contact authorities in the State where the scammer lives, the officials in that State tell the victim to contact the victim's State.
For all I know, Mr Wilson is still scamming people. He seems very comfortable and confident, he doesn't need to cover his tracks, he knows no one is coming after him.