What do you expect this newbies to do. You must have heard of new preaching for newbies to be careful of YouTube influencers not believing every information they see online. It is almost impossible to see where to get real and legit information nowadays. The real ones are rare to find so it is on the internet. I suggest everyone should be careful. Both online and physcial meeting we should always be vigilant because these scammers can in any form. Only when we pay more attention to details then we can identify them to be scam.
The first mistake to make sometimes is to search for investment information on YouTube or on Google; they will always lead you to mostly misleading information, and the second mistake a newbie can make is to believe everything that they read and see on the internet and the third one is even after believing, not trying to run some background check and ask questions about what they are trying to convince themselves that it's real. I mean, asking an outsider before approaching to trusting that information. Being a newbie doesn't mean the person should be selfish; not everything is being thought. Sometimes if we are very vigilant, we can identify scams without being told.