Sometimes you don't get to blame them for thinking such because they might have been probably told the wonderful news that follows a bitcoin investment by a friend and all they could imagine is the huge profit they calculate will be there if they invested. Most times these advice are from people who have benefited a lot from bitcoin but the major issue is they don't actually explain to these newbies the risks that follows when you invest in bitcoin and again most of the newbie are just lazy to their own research they prefer going through shortcuts in life thats wanting to have huge earnings without probably taking big risks.
This is the reason why some newbies really fall for most ponzi schemes: they are always looking for shortcuts to earn quick money, and they land themselves in some huge losses of assets. The worst mistake that some of them even make is to get convinced into believing that Altcoin is just the same thing as Bitcoin, and by the time they also hear the 1000x profit story of some alt, they will just sell their minds to greed and buy shitcoins, thinking they are Investing in Bitcoin.
Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_Strange 👺👺