Crypto scam are getting advanced but simple to know day by day. Many people have been sent to prison because of hyip scheme scheme in the past, but pump and dump or dump and dump in crypto today is like an advanced hyip scheme which lead to scam in a way the regulators can not do anything.
With more people join this ecosystem, more capital spent there, governments and their authorities will see more benefit there like gaining tax, more need to regulate this ecosystem, there will be stricter Act, laws and regulation on cryptocurrency. Scammers in future will have harder 'jobs' to do their scams but as always, in any space and any industry, there is always space for scammers to do their 'jobs'.
No government, no Act, no law, no regulation can prevent scammers completely. As citizens, people who join this cryptocurrency ecosystem, we need to prepare knowledge for ourselves and know vital principles that if we are not too greed, scammers can not scam us.
Scammers easily make their scam 'jobs' done with greedy people.