It would be unwise of a newbie not having knowledge about backing up of seed phrase and private keys.When I got into the cryptocurrency space newly I was told never to disclose my seed phrase to people and not to store them online,and that information got into my brain, that's the reason why newbies should be careful about the information they read online,some information could affect them positively or negatively.
Desiring to know about the security measures on how to keep your holdings safe from scammers it's actually a nice move anyone could take most especially the newbies.Lastly,backup your seed phrase and private keys offline and have duplicates of them in case they got destroyed or lost.