It may not be as popular as it was or used to be but one thing I know is that as long as there are still some few individuals interested in it which there certainly is, there are still other people who are scammers waiting to make victims of this few individuals.
Cloud mining and MLM are still running well among specific groups. These groups are created with the purpose of making downlines - the starters make the most profit and the enders lose it all.
They have moved away from this forum because of the flag system being shown to non-logged in users too making their scam too obvious. But on places like social media and messenger apps like telegram they run rampantly and nobody cares.
As long as people thing that magically money can be made, scams will run.