Yes every cryptocurrency wave comes with it own unique scams,.just as we experience it during the ICO, IEO and metaverse, eras all witnessed alot of scam, fraudulent projects all flowing with the hype's to get hands on the hard earn investment of gullible investors, so not only.emecoins I agree with you, cryptocurrency space have been plague with so much scams since cryptocurrency market is highly technical and volatile with many investors getting carried away with the hypes and promises of high returns for their investments with promise short term returns.
The meme coin scams are different, they are getting deployed by every second whereas ICO at the very least not being deployed that often.
It's happening in obviously larger scale and more frequent too, on the other hand the IEO scene are being tightly regulated right now and there's complicated selection process.