system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How do all the scams promising you six figures, just by sitting at your computer and clicking you finger actually work? What are their purpose? How people allowed to get a way with such malicious activity?
gpt
Their purpose is to trick the greedy and the easily fooled into sending the scammer money, giving the scammer bank details, or simply performing work for which they will never be paid.

People get away with it because the scammers are usually based in countries with incompetent or corrupt law enforcement.