Scam or not does not matter to me. I will take the free coins from the fork and dump them for good old BTC.
Free money is free money for me. No need to worry.
Yes, so many people want to do the same thing. You are not alone, after the hard fork, we will buy alts again, altcoins will go to moon again.
It is bad to buy BTC now because people think that they will get free BTG. But if you buy BTC at $5800 and after hard fork it dropped to $5000 then you lose... unless btg is priced at $800 a BTG