I never for one day believe the stories of Bitcoin been a scam, I even got to know about bitcoin from a ponzi scheme (called MMM) that took over my country and every young and old then was caught in the fever. Before then I never knew anything like investing so Bitcoin caught my interest and I to this day, it has had many impact in my life. I don't regret any decisions I have taken upto this day because they all taught me a lesson and all part of my story. I won't do things exactly the same if I had a second chance to start all over because the experience I have gathered are very valuable and I believe they'll help me in the journey ahead.
Adding up to this, people and the media seemingly have the misconception of Bitcoin itself being a scam. I also blame myself to be fair of thinking Bitcoin to be an illegal coin before but that's quite a different discussion.
News media commonly see Bitcoin as like a scam whether as an investment or even as like a digital money and it is quite sad that they don't realize that even paper money is being used to launder money and do crime activities. :/
They don't know anything about bitcoin and they just base those misconceptions from the news that many has been scam due to investment schemes so they assume that bitcoin is included on scams. If they could just do deep research about it for sure they will never call bitcoin as scam but rather a currency or a technology which us good to adopt.
But we can't force those people to believe on those so maybe let them discover and prove that they are wrong about what they say about it.