I don't think that there would really be someone who would fall for this trick.
8K retweet and 9K likes doesn't really seem's big if you'll ask me there are so many fake accounts so this could easily be done by them.
And for newbie's I don't really think that they would easily be tricked by that who would even believe it?
Believed me, many have already fallen into this net set by these scammers to the look of things. I saw their airdrop but never participated in the airdrop because I looked into their social medias handles and fond they are inactive then, but currently their social medias handles have been boosted by these same newbies. Their are obvious projects out there which are very clear that they are potential scam projects but yet investors still fall for their scam project. Though, fallen today for these scammers are lessons against tomorrow.