Blaming the victim of a con is just intellectual elitism. Everyone, literally everyone is vulnerable to a con that's obvious to someone else.

Sure, tech cons are more obvious to us technical folk, but we have our own blind spots in other industries we are vulnerable to. (I cannot be as sure I I'm not being conned by construction, automotive, medical, or education industries, for example.)

Continue to hold the con artists in contempt, not their victims.