Das Yachid, my suggestion that the boys and girls be paid directly was offered semi facetiously. The point was that throwing money a shadchanim was both unnecessary and was missing the real issue.
As far as it being a scam, please note the qualifiers that I used, “seems to be” “appears to be”, etc. NASI may very well turn out to be honest and sincere, albeit ill conceived and misdirected. In which case I will have been simply mistaken. Unfortunately, as I pointed out in my previous post, NASI did not help it’s own cause with their written response.