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.
There are stats I saw last time and there are so many ICO scams too. Maybe you think like that because ICOs are done in a process but meme coins right now are more instant. IEO on the other hand is a more secure way to sell tokens than an ICO.
This is incorrect, almost all IEOs are scams too. What they prevent is from the founders from running away quickly with the money, but those types of scams are more rare these days. The real scam is making a stupid project that nobody needs, printing tokens and then doing very little and letting the project die. Almost all altcoins are scams.