This is the reason why you need to avoid shitcoins and pick only Bitcoin if you want to start to invest on crypto space. After 13 years created, Bitcoin never ever scam anyone until now.
People who know well crypto investment must follow what you stated. Unfortunately, many beginners who don't have enough knowledge of crypto, are interested in the promotion of those shitcoins on varied social media. Sweet promises from shitcoins armies, lead many amateurs to buy at a nonsense rate. They always said that investing in those shitcoins will make you rich quickly, investing in Bitcoin needs a lot of time to gain profits.
Because a lot of these people are hoping that their initial investments will increase many folds. This is why they want to invest in like pump and dump coins. But the risk is very high in this type of coin. If you want an assurance that your money won't disappear, better opt for bitcoin. These fraudsters are the reasons why noncrypto users have negative connotation when it comes to bitcoin or crypto. But for example, bitcoin itself is not a scam. It is the people who are using it to their own gain are scammers.
Where money is involved, the evil minded people will always be there to scam the innocent people.
Bitcoin and crypto is not a scam in themselves. People come out with attractive investment schemes and those scheme with unrealistic ROI tends to scam. If you are cautious, you can be saved from many crypto scams.
In 2021 when everything related to NFT games was in full swing, there was a reckless YouTuber who was looking only for 100% scam projects, he said that those projects pay very well at the beginning, but in the short or medium term they become scam, and he took advantage of the early days to make and extract money, the worst thing is that he told how to do it, he taught how to do it and he really extracted the money, of course those who followed the video and his advice did it, those who did not have much knowledge and they did not know that it was like that because they lost, but such was the nerve of this that they took advantage of the same bugs of the scam projects, this was something that seemed crazy to me, however the NFTs changed many things, for many they lost almost everything and others Finally, they confirmed that the safe investment that does not fail is that of BTC, any other crypto can fall into default and never recover.