It's easy to detect their scam if you have spent quite a while a while in crypto space. Aside that, traders will fall for them because of their name and how cheap the prices are.
I fell victim of two different scam altcoins, that I thought were cheap and that was how til now, I lost my money. I invested in the two on the same day.
Since, I have always been careful of what to invest in.
The funny part then was that, I sold a valuable coin, to buy them.
Sad to read such a bad experience. Why did you invest, just because of the low price of an altcoin? Did you research of those project before taking such decision?