If people will avoid anything that just comes without you doing anything at all, most of these scam stories will reduce. nothing good comes on a platter of gold, before you get something, you have to work for it and crypto is not an exception. maybe it is because some still see crypto as one Ponzi scheme that the smart earns from that gives them the impression that all those sort of fake promise can yield them any returns even when they have done literally nothing.
No matter the hype around any coin, and no matter how much coin one has, it is very rare before you see someone just throwing it into thine air as a way of doing giveaway or anything of such. free money is not impossible to come across sometimes but it is mostly a trick that gets you to pay even for more.