For newbies in the cryptoworld it is really hard to decide what coin to invest in. There are more than 1500 of those. Some with added value and backed up with a great technology and a great team. Other have nothing.
Of course there are people who want to profit from this. Trying to create a FOMO, which is one of the biggest pitfall in the cryptoworld.
Even for the more wintered investors it is difficult to separate to good coins from the garbage coins. Even sometimes a white paper can give you the idea that a garbage coin, will have added value and technology.
When you do an investigation before bying a coin. I will bet that you will find a least a dozen of website of posting in which even the worst coin will go to the moon!