They just say that about newbies because most scams are done by scammers whomuse new account and freshly created for that certain use
it's not really scammers because it's not new in the community that a newbies wants to do some transaction, thats an obvious scam. unless they are just an obvious alt accounts from higher rank with the same name. some would mean that they just used it for communication because there orig account is being held by someone else.