Jer - it isn't necessarily an obvious scam, but many of those who hook in MLCers make a lot of money out of it. The OW I mentioned in my earlier email got a lot of money and a house . . . . And it wasn't an on-line pick either.
My xh's first OW did very very well out of my xh in spite of him assuring me that she wasn't at all materialistic (unlike little old bourgeois me, ha ha)