I assume it's like Nigerian Prince emails - if they were believable, they might have appealed to buyers who would have done something like purchasing one and testing it, instead of spending millions of dollars on garbage.
This is it exactly. All of the serious people left before they finished the sales pitch. If they had sold one to someone competent that would be grounds for a lawsuit or fraud charges. They had to filter out the customer base to just two kinds of buyers:
1. The people who fail to realize that it's a big scam and will be fat dumb and happy forever.
2. The people who don't want something functional, they want a "probable cause" generator they can pull out when there isn't any evidence to go on.
