All i have seen preying on noobs is Viper pilots. The trend for some seems to be bounty hunt to get a Viper, go back to the noob sector, proceed to only engage then kill unshielded and unarmed Haulers and Adders. When someone calls you a loser for what amount to kicking a puppy, proceed to flame the, for "being in Open and not prepared to accept PvP". Like seeking out those types of targets for "combat" could even be called PvP. If they wanted PvP action, they would engage evenly matched targets. Seems there are far to many pilots out there from the "everyone is a winner" generation where all the games have God mode that fear an actual fair matchup and seem to enjoy having no challenge or chance of failure. I am sad for them. For they will not know the true feeling of winning.
like seriously, even EVE has both spoken/enforced and unspoken "your a (meanie)" rules about fighting people under a certain age
(ok seriously, some of the words in the filter are absolutely silly, Frontier you made a game primarily purchased and enjoyed by people who played the original in the 80's, i think were old enough for not-exactly-"curse" words)