That is true. Newbies are very courageous when it comes to joining in new projects and trends. They are driven with their desires of gaining profits that is why they are willing to take that risk. After all, even if they lose profit, they will gain lessons at least.
While it is true that you can learn an important lesson even when you lose, the value of those lessons is what it is important, if the only thing a newbie learns from investing in a scam project is to do their due diligence that is without a doubt a valuable lesson but that lesson could have also be learned by reading a cheap book about investing, saving you time, money, emotional turmoil and all kind of future trouble, so while the lesson will be valuable at the same time the cost you paid for it is simply too big in my opinion.