Being a newbie is not all about having activities below 30 and having merit below one here on the forum. You can still have requirements above that an still be a newbie. We don't just need to develop your bitcointalk account to increase but you ought to develop your knowledge personally as well.
What can be considered as a scam project: this are project that mimic the features of a good, legit project in order to deceive people and make away with there funds.
Scam project are numerous it can be a gambling site, exchange, ico, bitcoin mixer e.t.c.
This project can not just work alone they need publication that's why they also organise bounty campaigns.
As a user of this forum you need to know it's unethical to promote or support a scam project.
One can support scam project through various medium from
1. ignorance: unknowingly promoting a scam project
2. Greed and share scam intentions: knowing its a scam project and still partaking in it probably because of they offer enticing packages and some scam project doesn't pay much attention to rules of the forum. like some also allow users with negative trust to partake.
It's very important not to promote a scam project so before joining any project do some needed check on it and there are already various ways to go about it already discussed on the forum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125435.0 Going through this link above you would have a good view about scam project.
Reason why you should not partake in scam project
Scam project has in a negative way effected investors, bounty hunters, potential investors and cryptocurrency in general
Also it can stain your status and reputation and if it's very bad you can get negative tag for it
Yes it's true you can make money on the forum just carry it out in a clean and legit manner