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 got to learn a lot of things that come to visit who's making scam accusation thread. Newbie's hunter can not find which is scam projects, they do not research enough regarding scam ico projects. Scam thread is always updated if new project coming.
At this point investment is risky dose not matter ico or ieo projects. Newbie members have no good idea of these things. So they have to be very careful in large or small scale investment.