If you stupid enough to believe people are going to give money away then you deserve to be scammed I am sorry. This doesn't make crypto look bad at all. All the crypto scams have fiat versions too.
Investments and some banks also scam people and then go under. This happens in the fiat world too. It's almost like some people think scams never existed until bitcoin.
I agree. I've just said something similar in another post.
As for victims of scams, some of them may just be naive people so I fell sorry for them. In many other cases they are greedy people who believe they are very smart so I don't feel sorry at all and I think, like you, that they got what they deserved.