I don't know if it's only me, but I don't find these scammers creative. In fact, they're using the same tricks over and over again for the past few years.
I don't find these scammers to be creative. You know what's the problem? Investors are too gullible to fall for these free money tricks by these scammers. Scammers are evolving, but investors aren't.
Scammers are pretty stupid but their reused scam methods can work and help them to scam money of many people. It's not because scammers are smart and clever but because victims of scammers are more stupid than scammers.
You post says all about fact of scammers and their victims. Scammers can evolve but their scam methods are nearly the same, with little changes but victims got scammed because they failed to prepare basic knowledge and could not control their action to be carefully and could not control their greed. If people can do these basic things, they will not be trapped by scammers.