Do not risk your money to early without consulting some experts and reading a lot of things regarding the cryptocurrencies. You should first expand your knowledge out of the box. Through that, you can filter out scam projects. Learn from the mistakes of others, read their sentiments.
Though it helps to learn from the mistakes of others but still it would be nice to experienced such thing. I know that being a being of a scam project could be frustrating but on the lighter side it could harden yourself, meaning that you will now be more matured on selecting projects to avoid yourself being victimized again to scam.