Yes your right but we can blame all the ICO'S that are being launched because some ICO'S are really profitable in the past year. We just need to be more careful in investing our money to prevent from losing it in those scammers that really want to earn a big amount of money in just a quick click like in a email.
The more famous certain technologies, everyone can use it for bad thing like scamming and phising. It also does happen on cryptocurrency because we had seen in last year that crypto gained the popularity and probably those scammers thought to use this benefit to rob your money.