The first step to avoid scam is to avoid being greedy. Of course, reading tips on scams or reading other's experience would safe you from being a victim of such scam if you read to learn from them. The reality is that, reading others experience will not completely make you safe from scam but only make you safe from already existing strategies. Unfortunately, new strategies are evolving from time to time that some time affects even the expert.
For tips, keep your wallet seed safe all the time and never click on random links. Don't use your main wallet to participate in giveaways, airdrops and any form of promotions especially if they require you to connect your wallet to their platform. In case you're being scammed, never make attempts to recover the stolen assets, you risk losing more. Always stay SAFU.
Particularly true is the central claim that scams are a game of cat and mouse in which new strategies are constantly being developed. As you correctly point out with research alone cannot guarantee your safety. Scammers use psychological traps to target victims and then double scam them so your advice to be less greedy and to never try to recover stolen assets is essential.