Scam has been around for so long even back when we are still using gold as currency or to pay for everything.
You could see some from the old movies that scams has always been around as long as they could use anything that have a value.
Agreed. Even before the creation of Bitcoin, the scammers were fooling people and stealing their money. Bitcoin is an attractive medium for the scammers, because it can be extremely hard to track these criminals once they vanish with someone else's coins. It can be especially hard, if they moves the coins from one country to the other.