A long time ago I found a web page from someone that advertised his infallible method to turn successful any internet-based business. There was a postal address, a link to the page where such method was explained, and a requirement to send a one million dollar check before clicking the link.
Behind the link (no, I did not send the money) there was the promised method: "to turn successful any internet-based business you must make your incomes larger than your expenses". The page also explained the number of times such link had been clicked, that he had never received any check, and the amount of money he had already lost due to piracy.
The whole national debt, of all of the countries of this world put together, could have been paid with the money he had lost; yet, surprisingly, no government ever took his business seriously, and he kept losing money due to piracy.