Personally am surprised!
Thought at most we could have roughly about 10, which is the original Bitcoin(BTC) and ~ 9 bitcoin altcoins. I guess this explains why bitcoin has failed to break a new all time high because even when bitcoin depend is there people are duped into buying the wrong cryptocurrency.
That might probably happen but i think the possibility that happened is 1:1million because the person who did that are so so newbie with cryptocurrency even they cannot make a difference between bitcoin and the forked coins, because in terms of price it's different and the name is also different and ofcourse the volume is also different. So i think the people who wrong bought are drunk