I also have not heard of the scam factory mechanism and am shocked.

I dug a little through sources and this document with more substance:

https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/assets.baliprocess.n...

It's misleading to call all of these "crypto" scams. A lot of them are romance / fake investment scams, but the method of payment is crypto. A crypto scam would be a scam that's more native to crypto in my opinion.