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.
Anyone who is not greedy and happy with what he has will never fall into a scammer trap because they offer him a huge amount, no one in their right senses will do such a thing, if you are not greedy you will never get scammed unless the scammers use another method to scam you because there is the different way they scam people, someone can not just message me to give me a gift or offer me a coin and ask me to drop my passphrase and I will do so, that will never happen.
I know that that people who get scammed mostly are newbies because I don’t as a person who knows much about crypto and knows that scammers are everywhere will fall into that trap, no one is above mistakes but the mistakes that will make a human being like you ask you for something and you do what he said is not a mistake, it is greedy and ignorance because I don’t think someone who is thinking normal will do that.