However, there's also the potential risk of encountering numerous scams.

BIGGEST scam in America 

Nothing to be offended by or feel scammed by.My contracts say 30 days notice but most of the time I will enforce a 2 week "paid notice" minimum.

I'm all for calling out scam artists and criminal and holding people accountable to ripping people off.... but tread lightly and be sure you are sticking up for the right person.

The FIRE movement is the biggest fallacy in existence and like you said, a giant echo chamber that will implode and then everyone will say they were scammed when they were just looking for a hack to retire early.

Definitely check their ID (FB is full of fake profiles) and screen thoroughly.... many, many scams out there right now. 

When the smoooooooth talking salesman calls you after you listen to the podcast with all the pitch perfect questions I say SCAM.  

most likely its a scam .. 

I am just curious if its worth messaging these people and if I do should be worried about potential scams? 

Freedom to fail. '08' could have been one of the greatest cleansings of our nation in generations but instead we got scammed and then force feed the kool-aid of how good it was that wall-street won out over main-street.