Having a proper knowledge of cryptocurrency helps you avoid unnecessary losses by being victim of scams, notwithstanding if the scammers are passing through a close friend or relative of yours in introducing it (investment project) to you, by your common enlightenment of cryptocurrency you will be able to quickly discern they are fraud despite whatever buzzwords they may use in their bid to deceive you. In that scenario you don't only help yourself escape from falling victim but also exhume such a friend or relative too. In extension, your knowledge of cryptocurrency equips you to avoid platforms that promises offers that are too good to be true as return on your investments.
You are correct. Recently, I had this thought to myself: "It's very possible to be a real Bitcoiner, but a very skeptical person about every other cryptocurrency." Majority of Altcoins are scam so if one has more knowledge about Bitcoin, they will be on the safer side.
If one really has that' true knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology generally, they would hardly get scammed, and that's when they've really been enlightened. In as much as there are thousands of cryptocurrencies in the space, most are fake, and some are just coming up with the idea of using cryptocurrencies to scam Newbies in the real world.
I still remember that about six years ago, there was a group of people going around the whole city of my residence with fliers and advertising a nonsensical token called Blue Coin. They were convincing people to invest in the coin, and if one did, they would give you an ID card that contained your wallet address and private key. After which, you would download Meta Mask and log your wallet in, and they would deposit the amount of Blue Coin you had invested. A lot of people fall victim to that process; even I almost invested because I was not yet into the crypto currency space, which means I was still a novice.
But after I got into the crypto currency space, I started with altcoins, got scammed, got rubbed off the little I tried to invest, and had a lot of bad experiences, but it was all a good lesson for me. Which makes me more happy because any time I talk to a crypto newbie, i speak with full experience, setting an instance with the bad situations I have encountered in the space before.
So, when one is really enlightened about cryptocurrency, they will not easily get scammed, and they will also illuminate others and prevent them from getting scammed too.