u/Story-Teller_Star

I just learned the phrase "il s'est fait arnaqué" and trying to understand the set up of it is racking my brain as an English speaker. In the English, its "he got scammed" as in "someone scammed him" I thought the set up would be similar to "someone hit him/he got hit" (il a été frappé) or "someone attacked him/ he got attacked" (il a été attaqué). Can someone explain why this literally translates to "he made himself scammed"?