Thanks for the heads up! Scammers are always coming up with new tricks. It's essential to stay vigilant and verify the authenticity of any airdrop or website.
It's not a new trick, in my opinion, it's trick that has been known already. However, there are still many gullible crypto newbies who still fall for this kind of trick that's why scammers are just rehearsing everything.
They are picking up the hottest trend on crypto world and then try to copy that website at best spread the world thru different forums or even they are willing to pay ads on Google so that their fake and phishing website are on top. So once someone search for it, they will be on page 1 and everyone thought it is the legit once since it is appearing on the very top of big G.