The scams have gotten more subtle and sophisticated. Last year you could simply copy-paste clone a coin, create a logo, instamine the fuck out of it, pump it and get way with it. Now you have to create some fiction about the deep web, Cicada 3301, your coin being Satoshi's next project, aliens, etc. to think you have a chance, and even that didn't work.
This is progress actually. The scams are being driven out, if slowly.