Pretty ridiculous statement there. Not many places on earth can a person earn that for simply being smart.
Running these scams doesn't require any kind of above average intelligence or rhetorical and technological skills. All this guy is doing is browsing social media websites for lonely men and pretend to be a pretty girl from a third world country to them. It's a no-brainer. I strongly doubt Omar has any skills that would get him an above average job.
I mean, this simple scam does not show much of a person. 1. You can use facebook 2. You know a weak spot in men that everyone knows about, and in countries that are more developed laws prevent companies to abuse men. 3. You know how to match when you type with a video recording that you are showing a person/victim.
Edit: on a social engineering level this doesn't score that high.
And I'm not going to list the negatives that this shows right now.
Let's not glamorize it.