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Do you give money to scammers, then? After all, they're probably just trying to make a living....

No, bu why actively screw with the file and rank employee? Assuming he just gets a salary, cool, waste all his time (which costs the scamming company). But if he works on commission then why bother?

I would put my efforts in bringing down the company itself. (In fact I am actively fighting a company that tried to scam me. But their low-level employees? I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt).

Maybe wasting his time will get him fired, and he can go get a real job instead. It's not like he wouldn't know he was working in a scam operation.

Because he is actively harming people, most of whom are honest, and by screwing with him you are reducing the amount of harm he is able to do.

ok. I think it's more worthwhile to spend that time trying to bring the company down, not wasting 1 guy's time, out of hundreds or perhaps thousands.

If everybody tied these people up uselessly, then their business model would become untenable and they'd have to think of some other scam.

That's entirely fair (and I think you're right, if your goal is to mitigate their harm as much as possible), but you were previously arguing that it was actually bad to screw with these people, not just a sub-optimal use of time.

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