OP may be joking but most street guys who are older than 2010s era are gonna feel this way. First of all "scamming" pre-2010s wasn't widespread in street culture, and to the extent that it did exist, it wasn't viewed as a respectable hustle, and wasnt considered a "street" activity...
It just wasn't and anyone who came of age before the 2010s can attest to this...
The game evolves and moves forward, it is what it is now. It's hard for me to relate to scammers in the sense that they were largely a separate lane during my run, but at this point it appears to be intertwined with all the other street activities, in the sense that many guys who do other shyt outside now fukk around with scamming, too. The people I encountered over time who were into the scams really weren't street dudes, so my perception is colored off my experiences. They were hustlers and go-getters but they weren't what we'd consider "street nikkas". I'm not sure how much that's actually changed, I'm just pointing out there is a distinction in how we viewed those types...
I can't really salute robbing innocent people in any fashion. As long as the scam isn't doing that I guess it's alright, these big corporations that print money I don't really care if someone gets them. The government, if you can play them more power to you. Doing the shyt that makes victims out of innocent, every day people is wack, though...