Newbies needs to be prepared for this coming new year, scammers will try to take advantage of that year because bitcoin halving is already dropping the HYPE in crypto space already, Learn to do research better, not all bad results in crypto are because a project failed, mostly are because of lack of research, with no good research you can easily fall for scam projects.
1) Do better research on new projects before promoting them or investing a penny on them
2) Visit scam accusation thread on the forum time to time, it will safe you a lot too
3) If you you have to invest always invest what you can afford to lose.
I agree. Since there are lots of newbies who wish to get engage into the cryptocurrency community, they must need to know certain precautionary measures so that they can enjoy their whole journey getting into the path of working and adapting into using varieties of cryptocurrencies existing within the market. Doing thorough research about a certain thing you wish to get engage whether it is a site, wallet or project, having enough information about it will be the first thing you must acquire to check its legibility so that you can avoid getting scammed. Being knowledgeable nowadays is the most important weapon you must have so that you will not be easily fooled by other people who tooks advantage of your weakness as a newbie. When investing, indeed do not go all out, just invest those only you can afford to loose so that when something wrong happens, you will not be regretful and can easily move forward into seeking for new opportunities to come.
That's the main reason why we do have forum too, why we are here for them to remind them always, all the time, we should always warn the users for these.
We also once become newbie, and we also need help from other members so it's time to get back to the community especially to the newbies out there.