My best advice is:
Not your Keys - not your Coins
Because storing your coins when you have your own access is always very important if you want to keep control of your coins.
Very solid advice and one that we have encountered numerous times but yet we keep deaf ear to, keeping our crypto in centralized platform is a no because of the so many cons of centralized platform. Exchanges are one of the platforms that newbies use in storing their crypto and that's a wrong move by thm but they won't learn their lesson until they lose accessibility to their crypto. My best advice is " if it seems unrealistic then it is, when it looks like a scam, it usually is a scam. I have used this advice to avoid several scams that I would have fallen victim too if I hadn't known to be watchful of the projects that I get introduced too.
Although, we no fit totally avoid exchange as far as cryptocurrency is concerned because we go need am to do one or two things but na very big mistake for person to use exchange as their primary storage for their digital asset. Presently, I dey experience the same thing with Bitget as dem denied me access to log in to my account after I changed device. My account is already KYCed but they are requesting for a new KYC documents whenever I try to retrieve my account as if it is a new and fresh account I want to register. The good thing here be say I no get reasonable asset inside that worth much if not my own Don finish be that. Tru tru, we joke too much with this "Not your Keys, not your coins" until we fall victim before our eyes dey open.