Yup, he is built for this: lying and deceitful manipulative tactics to get suckers in to a low value/no value (to them) and ultra-high value (to himself) schemes. This is the essence of scamming. Yet he somehow rationalizes it in his mind, probably due to his low empathy from whatever kind of "-opath" he is...
Like Spencer said, CM preaches "see whatever everyone else does" - for example, not scamming, "and do the exact opposite": SCAM HARD! This makes a shit ton of sense to him, because he is morally bankrupt. Whereas for society as a whole, as screwed up as we are, we still have this morality trumps get-rich-quick-at-the-expense-of-the-vulnerable mindset.
You can prove that in studies that see if people try to return wallets with $$$ in them that they've found (I think 80-90% of people do). You know if Chrissy ever found a wallet with even a 5'er in it, he'd chastise the person for not properly taking care of their possessions while he went out and bought two Monsters. One for him and one for Sta ---- ah, no, both for him.