only starting from your personal experience you can do it. there are no other options
A wise newbie and inexperience person will learn from the experience of others and this is the reason why some newbies are asking. They have no definite experience about choosing what project is fake, scam and bad at all.
That's why we're here to give some thoughts that they can follow and make it as their standard to avoid those bad projects specially those scammy ones.