I think that in general, of course, it can, because a scam can be anybody, like a regular scam project that many projects today show and there can also be a project that today still distributes tokens for free in the hope of selling tokens more expensive.
very possible because paid ones can cheat especially free. it's just that if it's free we are not too disadvantaged so we don't need to be too sorry. in crypto this kind of thing is not foreign.