Honestly the huge amount of coin involved make a lot of newbies to become greedy and get carried away, if someone who is been involved in crypto for long would know that it's a red flag in my Twitter account I do recieve messages that I had won huge amount of money but expected to send some Ethereum to them as gas fee which I knew is scam unfortunately some newbies would easily fall for this scam, I was also in similar telegram group sometimes ago where links on airdrops were shared on the platform but was cautious of several demand for sending of transaction fee whose value is huge on an Airdrop whose future is not feasibly and without a roadmap by it developers
Newbies mistakenly believe that since bitcoin was able to grow in value so much that any coin will be able to do the same, so they try to claim as many airdrops as possible and they collect them as they see them as their tickets to a new life full of wealth and luxuries, but they do not seem to realize the massive risks they are taking by doing such a thing as they are exposing themselves massively, and a single mistake or a mistaken click can make them to lose whatever holdings they may had at the time as they get hacked or scammed while trying trying to obtain those airdrops.