Agreed OP. The problem is that these scams will be around as long as people aren't clever enough to see through them, and throw ridiculous money at hot air.
Market needs to mature, and some regulation wouldn't hurt either - prosecution of scammers would help a little.
I mean offcourse, there are allready prosecution of scammers, but what then if they allready so rich that those fines, that they get are nothing compared to what they have, and if they even have to pay anything... Don't know don't care, but I heard a lot recently about OneCoin, that it hasn't even on blockchain also not on cryptomarket cap, and they allready stole over 300M$ and also I heard that they do this now for 15 years, but how is that even possible, if bitcoin doesn't even exist for 10 years...
anyways, I heard for one family that they work I mean, are putting money in this OneCoin and that they are doing this now for 15years, I mean WTF, how can you be that stupid? Also founder of this OneCoin, she has been in hiding, and reports on internet were that italy has fined to onecoin 2,5M EUR and when she got out of hiding you know what she told her folowers of onecoin and investors, that she had a baby and she was hiding to have a safe birth, I mean, WTF, all over internet that Onecoin is scam, but this family is still on onecoin, and they have a comeback like this, she was having a baby, STFU, scammers will scam till the very end...
So the conclusion is this, whoever wants to be fooled, he will be, so: read read read, dodge dodge dodge, be smart, for now we only have this... whatever on internet is unbelievable to be true, like good profit or just the price of a coin or even slythiest thing about currency, then it's a high probability that this coin is a scam... (also don't confuse, in cryptoworld is everything allmost to good to be true, but you get used to it...)