Many newbies wish to buy bitcoin but most at times we buy in a wrong place
I dont believe this has anything to do with being a newbie, its really about how one authenticates a service about being genuine or not..
Personally if am not sure of a service, I look at the trustpilot page if any, look at the social media pages and how active they are and if there is any engagement from their community.
He went and meet some crypto vendors to buy bitcoin of $700 without my knowledge, which they actually create a wallet for him and buy bitcoin, lately to him, it was increasing in price because of recent bulls.
But unfortunately it was a scam site, he can not access the site again, he can't find the guy the create the wallet.
But how did he trust a stranger to do all this for him?
And on the part of him having to tell you that he wants to buy crypto, i dont think that was necessary and for people new to the crypto world I think peer2peer platforms are better options
I suggest newbies to visit bitcoin.com and buy any cryptocurrency.
Today we have so many ways of buying crypto and if not using a decentralized platform get ready for KYC before you buy your crypto.