I learnt my own lesson about some useless use cases in crypto Projects through Airdrop hunting. I have something against the following use cases like
1. Artificial Intelligence projects
2. Gold backed tokens
3. Deflation tokens
Why? They hardly survives because they are mostly based on lies, these use cases are scammers favorite tools to deceive
Exactly as you said, Buddy, scammers trick is evolving everyday, in 2013-2018 projects were using mining tokens as a trick, nowadays, you can't find new project claiming to be a mining project. Additionally, DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is onboard trick now, members be careful about new projects claiming to be DeFi project because it's booming in the market structure right now. DYOR.