I see people relating crypto scams to newbies only but the honest truth is that scammers feed on people's ignorance, not only that but greed as well, therefore anyone can be a victim, not only newbie. Well, newbies are their easiest targets cause their ignorance makes them very vulnerable but their are some newbies that are very smart and careful online not to lose money to scammers.
Although some can easily be fooled online. For instance, someone was scammed through releasing his passphrase, the scammer told him that he'll be gifted free coins but he'll have to drop his passpharse and out of ignorance he released it to the scammers and the rest of his coin in his wallet was history you'll be suprised how easily such person got scammed but think about it greed could play a role to that.
Maybe the free money he was offered was very huge that he couldn't decline, maybe he might be ignorant but their are people even those with better understanding of the implications of releasing their passphrase that would overlook the implications and release their phrase to the scammer out of greed, everyone just needs to be more careful and avoid being greedy cause many have been scammed due to greed both ignorant and experienced crypto enthusiast.
I was once a victim of a crypto scam. Some of you might not consider this a scam, but it was someone taking advantage of a person who didn’t really understand how crypto works. I will never forget this: someone offered to buy my ETH address/private key for $200. After giving the buyer my ETH private key, I saw a transaction from that address where the wallet received 400 UNI and then immediately sent it out. I was shocked to find out that there was an unclaimed bounty for those who used Uniswap. At that time, those 400 UNI were worth around $10,000 and all I got was $200 for buying the ETH address private key. I'm not totally newbie that time I just don't know that you can be rewarded by just using DEX on their early stage.