Scammers can really be so creative and they are watching current events to see potential personalities whom they use to victimize people. I think same strategy was successfully deployed in the past using famous names and celebrities to get the attention of many who can be influenced either to buy something or to share their private keys with the promise of airdrops.
You are 100% right scammers have become so smart sometimes I wonder why they chose this field of work, why did they not become something else, well then I realize if there are whitehat hackers, then there have to be blackhat hackers, its the circle of life. So, considering there smartness, they somehow come up with a unique idea, like the one you said about airdrop, same happened with the CEO of Ethereum as when his account got compromised, hackers made a tweet where they ask people to connect there wallet to it in order to get an NFT, and many people thought they might get huge airdrop after mining this NFT but they lost all of there funds, if I am not wrong, the amount that was stolen that day was around $900K.
Sadly, there can still be some to fall victims to this scheme as everyday new people are entering the cryptocurrency industry and many of them are still starting in their learning curve on how to stay safe and secure navigating the many ins and outs of cryptocurrency. Were you once a victim of a similar-looking scheme to defraud you of your hard-earned money?
No fortunately I never become a victim of such a thing and I want to keep it that way, for me and for everyone. But still when I hear news like these that people got scammed and lost there hardly earned money I fear the crypto industry but then I thoughts of precautions that we all should take in order to safe ourselves. My single rule is keep your crypto and normal life data separate and try new things with new wallets.