I wouldn't use the word scam but rather 'delusion' because that's what it really is. The best of people eventually see it for what it is, a transitory short-lived station and return firmly back to their religion, were as the pathetic losers get totally lost in this delusion.
Your either a slave to Allah or a slave to Satan and his minions, there is no third choice here, it's the choice between great comforts and contentment vs a lot of misery, false hopes laced with pain and grief.
The majority of the people are too frightened to reflect over this, hence the perpetual lust for all forms of escapism,
Ali is reported as saying "People are asleep, but once they die, they wake up"
The state at which these clueless people will be in when they are raised from the dead just as they were created from nothing is described in Ayah 3 of Surah Al-Ghasiyah
Labouring, Exhausted with "toil" on their faces, signifying people that had been put to work a great deal in this transitory world and fell for these delusions repeatedly.
Ibn Abbas commented that the word ‘aamila referred to those people who exerted and exhausted themselves in the dunya for things other than Islam and did not fulfil the actions that Allah (swt) demanded of them.
So they will return in this exhausted state.
Umar ibn al Khattab (ra) once came by a monk who had dedicated his life to Christian worship and began to cry. The companions when they saw him crying asked what had made him cry and Umar (ra) answered ‘aamilatu nasiba’ (quoting this verse). This monk had exhausted himself in worship and given up his youth in a labour and worship that Allah (swt) will not accept and this made Umar (ra) feel sad to the extent that he wept.
Another kind of ‘aml that people engage in which the messenger (saw) cursed was being a slave to the Dinar and Dirham. These are silver/Gold coins worth far more then these worthless fiat currencies that loose their values rapidly which we run after making us even worse then those people.
To add further insult to injury no one was a corporate slave back then, most people ran their own businesses and indulged themselves in trade, they had far more freedoms then what we have today.
Just when your about to have sympathy for these delusional clueless worthless pathetic slaves of Satan, the verse that follows is even more striking!
They will enter into the scorching fire!
The humiliation is so bad that they won't even be thrown into it,
they will throw themselves into it once the fire surrounds them, just as they have threw themselves into ruins in this world behaving like moronic cattle, worshipping the satanists and denying their own spirits.