As you can imagine, given how easily identifiable these rich people were, they would be targeted by thieves and people seeking to trick them out of their money.
In other words, we can trick ourselves out of our irrational disgust by doing irrational things like letting recycled water sit in tank for a while before we drink it.
If you watch hours of content about how to improve the plumbing in your home, and then try all the new tricks out yourself, you are probably going to make things worse.
More has been lost to fraudulent activity that falls outside their narrow definition, and much more even still just goes unreported because people would rather not say that they got tricked out of their money.