Many are living their businesses to turn to crypto with the mind of joining the trend and with the way crypto investment is been hyped lately many just feel its actually one of those easiest way to make money online and the funny part is most of them dive into this opportunity without any formal knowledge about how the system works.
It is to say that many people got stupid and this implies that people are too greedy. Then, they lose and make blame others, not themselves.
There is a saying from scammers "I have never scammed anyone who didn't want to scam me" and that's true for most cases. If you are looking to scam people and you found someone who believes that they could get something very valuable from you for very cheap, they are trying to scam you as well. Why would you be able to pay 1k dollars to someone and get 100 dollars each month forever? That's a very believable scam because the amount is low and yet people still fall for it.
All in all I have to say there are some cases of scamming that was deservedly done, I know I should not be victim shaming, but it is not like stealing money from old lady situation, we are talking about young and smart people who got too greedy and went into risky stuff just because they wanted to get rich quick and ended up getting scammed, that's a bit of their fault as well isn't it?