This is an old trick that has existed for such a long time and shouldn’t even work on dumb folks but no, it would surprise you that some people still do fall for this kind of tricks, mainly motivated by greed, greed pushes them until you make the mistake of believing that there could be any good come out of this.
I wouldn't call greed the reason behind someone falling victim to such a scam, I know that you only go ahead with something like that if you are greedy, but it's mainly due to a lack of knowledge that makes people, mostly newbies, fall into such traps. The reason is that when a newbie comes to know about cryptocurrencies and this industry, they build a mindset that cryptocurrencies are a get-rich-quick scheme and one can earn a lot of money from them very easily.
To be honest, enlightenment doesn't work for people. The reason why I am saying this is because there are a lot of people who have knowledge of these scams or have been taught about possible ways of scams. Yet, they still get ignorant and fall victim. I think experience should be what would teach them to take security seriously.
Those who fall victim to such scams are the ones who aren't enlightened enough, however, I do agree that some people would still fall for it even if they have previously heard about such scams but they either don't remember or just ignore it because of the money offered.