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Hey guys, I'm new to the whole ICO world, and BTCtalk as well. I've been reading about a lot of scammy ICOs that take people's money and run away. I'm looking to invest in a couple of ICOs but have no way of knowing if they are good or not. Can anyone tell me how I can go about doing this without losing any money? 

There isn't a sure shot way of knowing whether an ICO is legit or not. But you can definitely follow these things:

1) See if they have a nice and technically sound whitepaper. Whitepaper says a lot about an ICO.
2) Do a background check on the team. If they aren't visible on the internet, they have things to hide.
3) If an ICO has unrealistic expectations out of their token offerings, it means they haven't done their research properly. Shows a lack of dedication and planning.
4) See the advisory board. Big people means good ICO. No big shot advisor would want to be seen as a scammer.

For example, a new ICO is coming up. I stumbled upon them through some site. These guys are trying to make good use of blockchain. If you look at their site, it's clean and clear. Their whitepaper is very descriptive. Also, all the founders can be found on the net. It's a good initiative. Check 'em out here - http://enkidu.io/

As the person the top of me said, there isn't a sure way to define is any ICO is scam or not. But sure you can lower the risk by researching about them. Like, you can check the team is there any real profile anywhere, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. Is the company public or they are below the radar, do they have massive posts and advertising and etc. If they are trying to scam someone, they wont be public

Lots of words cam be said about team,  road map,  plan and so on.  What I'm paying much attention to is how much money an ICO  wants to gain.  If it is too much for their product,  then I stay away.

The key is reading in the whitepaper background of the team and the project plans. Read about every detail. You can tell whether it is a scam. Invest in ICOs like NTOK the one i'm campaigning for.

We cannot directly notice if certain business we entered is a scam, we can notice only in the future transactions, for example if we made a certain transactions and the persons you made a transactions are totally missing after you've done a business payments. There are some few tips on how to know scammers, try to view their business links and profile.

We can not know in advance if an ICO is scam or not scam because often to run successfully the project it lasts over 1 year.

I don't think that it is easy to identify whether a particular ICO is scam or legit.  In actual to be a ICO scam or legit there may be two things . May be the ICO owner may collect money and run away and may be in the starting the mentilty of the team is to scam but due to high collection they they changed Thier mind and are thinking to list Thier coin with the help of money paper at the exchange .
But here now in current times scam from ICOs now decreasing and most of the ICOs are launching Thier coins at the exchange .
Here currently in my opinion the best thing is that to analysis yourself and also make discussion at better better paltforms to make better discussion about that ICO to make sure whether is anything wrong in the ICO or not .

Most of it was said by the first person who commented, GBCrypto1. One more thing you could add to your list is if they are openly promoting themselves. More promotion means more people looking at you. Enkidu is currently not so famous. I did a search on these guys. They were very few places they were listed on. So, you can't be sure if they are good. You can try putting small amounts of money in. And later you can increase your investments if it goes well. I usually do this for most ICOs.

You are righ...
when people doubt about me and my launched ICO I suggest them to search "winspiral" on google...so they can see that i'm not from the last rain...

We cant know an ICO scam or not for sure. But you can checks the team for example, is the team is real person or not. Try to ceck they linkedin page twitter page, official website etc.

Check carefully their documentation and promises... look at the team. Weigh up the promises and feasibility...

The key for that is read and understand the white paper and choose the ico that you invest to avoid scam.

There were useful tips on How to Evaluate ICOs (https://goo.gl/trjGMX)

Many times it's hard to tell whether an ICO project is a hoax.
I think you can judge by the group number of telegram of this ICO project, and then check whether the team has a bad record, whether the ICO project is open source.

If you are good to invest in any ico you will know if the ico is scam or not just read very well and be wise to chooser.

If you see ico's dont invest if you dont read, before you invest read it the white paper look if how many people are included in the project so that you will see if the ico is good or not.

Best to check the information about the whole team, if they are real people and that they have the experience that is relevant to the project they are into. Also, investigate the concept and technicality of the project, if there is a market for that kind and if its not a clone or copy of previous similar projects. You have to dig deeper if you really want to secure your investment.

Investing in ICOs is one of the most difficult decisions. Of course we know that the money we earn depends on it. So should we really be critical to our joining the ICO. My ground to know it is their transparency. And how many people joined their ICO

Welcome to the forum. Read those ICO's very well, nowadays its hard to know what are the legit and real ICO's but you need to research and know almost everything about that ICO that gets your interest. That's the only thing that you do and don't be shy of asking questions about that ICO and get others opinion about it although not all does have that feeling of certainty about ICO's.

everything that the guys said before this is true, but even looking profiles, having studied the relevance of the project, how the developers are working on their child 100 percent confidence does not, the world of crypto currency is not yet committed, such realities)

You can always check the feed backs in their campaign thread or other related thread since most people who gives their opinion there are real and unbiased people. Also I tend to search the net regarding the ICO and its team wether their profiles are real or not.

It is impossible to be 100 % sure if given ICO is a scam or not. The best thing that you can do is to lower the level of uncertainty. For me, when I consider an ICO I check the whitepaper, check the team !!!, also check if there is an opinion in the forum regarding this ICO. Also I check the amount of cash that the ICO has already collect and mostly, I check in the whitepaper how the tokens will be used once the platform of the ICO is life.   

 How to check if ICO is scam or not? Well you should research the  ICO and look for sime projects that are a success. There you would see if the ICO is a scam or not.

For me you should do a lot of studying, researching and analyzing to determine if the ICO your joining is not a scam. Joining ICO's are very risky because even though they have a good white papers and projects, they might look promising, but in the end they will also end up nothing. Experience plays a vital role in determining a good and bad ICO.

Well, there are way to find that the ICO's is one of the scammer or not. In the ico. There are many projects think about if it is really believable or not. Also see if there are many members too and last one you do just do surveying in the ICO you want. Collect some data if it is scam or not so for me this is my way to know if the ICO is scam or not

I agree with you on 200%. In addition, I will say that it is worth checking the marketing plan. Important is the soft cap and hard cap, as it makes it clear that they are pursuing. How much goes on pre-sale, how much to sell, what part of the funds will go to the development and the team, how often they will distribute them, etc. For example, I try not to participate in ICO, in which there is no hard cap and a large percentage of the team. In general, white paper should have a separate chapter on the allocation of funds. But this is not exactly true, as everyone likes to say in the crypto community.

Check the team in social networks it cant be real people without some of them have old social accounts with their faces. After you will be scummed first time you will be very wary) check link to social, check advisors, check their foto in the google search. You might found that on foto there is another people)

Been seeing the same question over and over again. Check the whitepaper, their working product, the team behind it, their roadmap and reviews of critics. Research about that company. That's pretty much all of it in plain terms.

you should check overall of what the developers say. everything must be learned for research in order to make sure the ico is good or leads to a scam.
everything you have to analyze, then you compare with other ico.

There is no universal recipe how to identify scam. We can find excellent projects that turned out to be scam in the end. By the way bitcoin is often called scam and is still called by some persons

For a beginner like you, it is very difficult to distinguish or learn an ico being held. I think you are still far away for that stage. you should first find various knowledge about crypto. try to find various discussions on many threads in this forum

There is no one way of checking it, as many have posted already in response to your query. But risk management would tell you to do a background check of a potential ICO, try to see if they have a lot public profile in a social medias (e.g. twitter, facebook, etc.). If they are not found in those platforms then they are hiding something and must be plotting something not good.
Also try to to check big names in the industry, big shots don't wish their names tarnished and so scam operations is the least of their priorities.

Read the whitepaper! If there no white paper, or they will release it later, wait untill its out. Seriouse project always have their whitepaper before they start or promote for the ICO. Meanwhile you can do some researches about the icio. Look what other people think on telegram or on this forum. Mostly when it is a scam project, you will know it very fast when you lookin at this forum. And at least check the devs and team members. Are they seriouse people with a good background or some seedy peope with questionable past?

There is really no measure how to know if ICO is legit or not. There are of course scammers who are good enough to deceive people. But here's what you should do at least spot one, IMO.

1. Know the team and check them on LinkedIn.
2. Read their White Paper and check for if any:
   2.1 Unrealistic vision/goal
   2.2 Not using real pictures
3. Check if there is source code of their project available on GitHub.

This is my priority for now because i dont know on how can  i detect or check if  one of the ICO is scam  or not. Please help me guy's for this question.for a new members like me. More power to yuo all.

I think the general crypto public are becoming much better at spotting fake ICO's. For me, the whitepaper being well written along with a transparent team are the keys. Can you talk to the team? Are they public figures with long standing careers, or better still, university professors?

An MVP before going to sale always helps also.
 

There is no surest ways to define whether ICO project will be profitable or not. I rely on the people who organized and will develop this project. Their famous names as a guaranties for me. This is one of the ways.

There is a common way to read the roadmap. White paper and developer and investment views. That's the best way to identify phishing scams

actually not many ways to see these ico is a scam or not, the easiest is according to your own belief after reading whitepaper, see the roadmap, team and advisor, and take the time to see official website and telegram their channel

you can read the whitepapper and the roadmap of the project, do not forget also the team composition of the project can be used as the main benchmark to determine whether ico scam or not. so I think a lot of things that we have to study for maximum results and we are not stuck in a scam ico.

you can identified faked ICO by research in many ways. First the team which is behind the project, is technically experienced or not and also available on internet with real name or not. Second by the reading of white paper of the promising ICO, third how much publicity they are supposed in the market, fourth the opinions of people who already involve in ICO.
By doing these things you can find good ICO.

great info but do we need to check who the manager of his,because every person has the manager trust each of them and also most people see the price of tokens to ico,is this the correct way?

Still there are ICO, which immediately offer masternods and immediately promise an income from them. But they do not explain clearly why their community token is needed. It is also better to avoid such projects.

I think the good ICO is the one that there are some peoples from Amazix that manage their ICO.
It is usually a great ICO when they're there. but it doesn't mean other ICO's are scam.

This is a good start for you if you want to end up a responsible ICO investor. Here are the things you need to do first before finally deciding whether or not you will invest in an ICO.

1. Read and understand the Whitepaper. Meaning, you have to know their goals, their plans as to how to meet them, their roadmap, their team, partners, and so on and so forth.
2. Go to their website and check whether they are functioning well.
3. Go to their ANN thread here and know whether the developers are responsive enough to clarify questions and concerns regarding their project.
4. Raise questions to them and wait for their response.

This is also the way I check the ICO and also we should also see their partnership. They say when it's too good to be true then it must be a scam however, sometimes it's actually hard to spot the one because sometimes they pretend to be a legit one from their whitepaper to roadmap, doing all those stuff just to become a good one. That's why investing in an ICO isn't a big joke or if you really want to play safe just wait the ICO to be over and buy when it gets listed in exchanges.

Well it is need experience and hours to learn by doing deep research about the ICO. Start from reading whitepaper, teams background, products, how they do in marketing, how many people interested in this ICO. Choose several ICO is better than invest in one ICO. Good luck

10 keys for evaluating Initial Coin Offering (ICO) investments

Below are the keys for determining whether an ICO is scam or not, in order to make a buying decision, as far as I know:

1: Team Composition (development team and advisory board)

2: Threads on Bitcointalk.org

3: Stage of the project and Venture capital investments

4: Community and Media (check its community on Slack channel, for example)

5: What do they need the token for? Is the blockchain necessary?

6: Unlimited / Hard cap

7: Token distribution – when and how

8: Evaluating the Whitepaper

9: Quality of the code – Meet Github

10: Research more and more

I will focus on a few of the more important factors, the first is whether there is open source code gtihub, second the team have a bad record, third, how much is the ICO project hard hat, fourth, the ICO project from which country (normally I would avoid the ICO project in Europe and Russia)

Niw i know if this ICO is scam or not thanks for this tread  because all new member here  like me i dont know if this ICO is scam or not  now i can check this ICO is great or not scam

You have asked one of the most difficult questions to answer in the digital crypto world. First of all, you are right! There are ICOs that are so scammy. The just dupe money from innocent guys and then run away with the money. Checking for the legitimacy of an ICO is a tricky but very important thing to do before joining them.
First, check when the project started, some projects just starts in a few weeks and then start to sell their coins. Some also start developing for as long as half a year and beyond before they come out with a good plan on how to run the project.
You must perform your background check on project developers and advisors. Follow their community group discussion and it will help you to know what is at stake with the project.
Never forget to be mindful of the nature of the project. Some projects are notably successful so many people like to wait for a project of its kind.
Read their white paper as well to know and have an insight into the project. There are many other ways apart from these so just follow the replies given by other members below

The easiest way to find out if it's a scam is to look at the team members, are they known faces, real people with a linkedin page etc? If not, avoid like the plague.

Another simple metric is to look at whether they have a physical headquarters, indicating that they are a big company, and whether big media outlets are publishing their adverts. Normally only the most trusted ICOs have physical billboard adverts.

Before investing in ICO, you need to carefully study the idea and the team. You also need to ask all the questions of interest and look at the reviews of other experienced investors.   

Believe, check and again believe)

Well im new in Ico but my basis was their website, whitepapern and the team.  No further research i just look if this a professionaly made not rush. This for new but when time passes i think my basis will be much powerfull

Well, then ask the guys will prompt where to invest better, and so open the top 10 of ISO and invest it checked, or if you need specific information, then ask what exactly you need. I can tell you

You need to read all the information about campaign really properly, figure out the goals of the project, team, approaches, who is investing this project, whitepaper, and so on.

You can only make thorough research on an ico and with the basis of your research, you take calculated risk by investing into the project.

Making research consists of

The team
The white paper
The token metrics
The website.

Etc

my first ico investment was Tokenomy.
With 0.5 BTC minimum contribution, this is my biggest investment ever.
why i believe in Tokenomy is just simple
1.Strong team > Tokenomy team consists of people who are behind Bitcoin.co.id , a largest Indonesia and ASEAN crypto exchange with 1 million member and went online since 2013
2.Strong advisor > their have advisors from east ventures VC , waves , and many more
3.Strong products that able to deliver > Tokenomy (TEN) token will goes live at Q2 , and and tokenomy will serve as a  Crypto Exchange platform and Tokenized (ICO) platform . As sister company of Bitcoin.co.id, Tokenomy have potential 1 million member when goes live that comes from Bitcoin.co.id members
4.Solve real problems > Tokenomy try to solve simple problem,  Which is good and able to deliver. As we know, organizing ICO is very painful, you need to invest in tech and legal. and they at least provide it. Why need to solve high tech thing if it needs months or years to develop? are we lack of simple problems to solve?

so with 110 million circulation supply and today prices are 0.4-0.5 USD, they have a lot of rooms to grow

100% of the correct way to identify scammers does not exist. But still you need to study the project to the smallest detail. Read the white paper, monitor the team, read reviews of other participants on the forum.

That's very good question, scams are getting more and more advanced and only intuition and experience can help you.

With 100% probability it is impossible to determine the Scam or not. But to minimize the risk you need to carry out a detailed analysis of the project:

1. To explore the idea of the project, WhitePaper, RoadMap.
2. Is there a prototype of a project or an existing business?
3. To study the project website, learn SoftCap, HardCap.
4. Evaluate the team's activity in the topic of the announcement and in social networks.
5. Was there a Pre-Sale and how successfully?
6. To get acquainted with the project team, with their pages in social networks.
7. Are there any known list of stock exchanges where listing is planned?

I think it's important to know whether the ICO project is trustworthy or not, always see the whitepaper, roadmap and team profile of the ICO project, because in the project whitepaper you can see the idea of the project, if it is plagiarism and team profile also false, then certainly the project is just a scam project

You should take a look at the many posts that deal with this, countless really in the forum they are. Now, if you want a check that will discard 90% of the scams: check the team.

Scammers are easy to find out. First of all they try by all means to hide their true identities. But there are a few things that will always appear sketchy for Scam ICOs;

1. Their whitepaper at most will not by clear or rather the English will not be good as they often do their things in an abrupt way, though some now tend to be more organised.
2. If you do background checks of the teams behind the project as will be listed on the website or their whitepaper, most of them use fake identities or to some extent fictitious characters.
3. They do not often stick to their laid our road map.
4. You will often realize after they run away with your investment ???

agree, you should look carefully at the language they use in their whitepaper and roadmaps. and i would recommend you to look at the team members, maybe to google some extra information about them and check if they are real.

In order to understand what ICO project is in front of you, the first thing you need to take is to read the white sheet. Next, you need to get acquainted with the team that is working on this project. In order to participate in the bounty company of this project, you also need to. view how much interest or what amount is allocated to the bounty company. The most important thing is to understand whether anyone needs this project at all.

In my opinion ICO must have the face! It is the first one. Team must be real.
Also, announcements, they must be, sometimes I find some few information official Twitter/Facebook pages and noname Website, so I wouldn't invest in something like that. Everything must be transparent, remember it. It doesn't mean simple, but it mustn't have underwater rocks.

I think that there is no single way to understand - this project is a scam-project or not. For an experienced person this is not a problem. Trust your intuition. That's all I can say.

A very clear indicator of a successful ICO in the future is its support at the stage of origin by some cult personalities from the world of crypto-currencies. Such as Charlie Lee, Roger Ver and others.

Right now ICO can be a rip-off if the people who's developing the coin or token are nameless or they are hiding their genuine identity, another is while the records regarding their challenge is a replica from different initiatives just like the roadmap, whitepaper, or maybe their website online is similar to a domain that has already been offline.

I agree with some of your points. Among the points that you mentioned, I feel that the points 1 and 3 are the most important ones when compared to the rest.

- Whitepaper: An ICO with a comprehensive whitepaper is usually legitimate
- Roadmap: An ICO that has planned everything in advance through a detailed roadmap is worth checking out
- Softcap and Hardcap: An ICO that has optimal softcap and hardcap requirements(Based on bull or bear market) seems legit in my opinion

Apart from these points, the developer team and their social media interactions also play a big role in determining whether a particular ICO is worth investing into or not.

Doing a research is very important for you to avoid scam ICO's. First you need to research the team of the project if they are real or only using fake identity. Try to search their youtube videos promoting the project like their meetings on their project partners, etc. And next is the product, ask yourself first if the project looks promising and possible to succeed or not? You must need to analyze that because your investment depends on that. Observe first before you decide to invest.

I think ICO risk investment is inevitable but I recommend some guests to avoid scam
1. What is the project you invest in? The purpose of the project!
2. Who is the development team, ICO almost depends on team leader!

 ;D The first thing I look at is whether the world needs this product. So many things have now appeared, and much of this will never really be applied in real life. I would never invest in such projects, no matter how promising the team was.

In my very own opinion on how you will choose a good ico or project better if you read and study the white paper in order for you to avoid scam icos or projects because most of the scam ico have a bad white paper.

i guess the best way to check if an ICO is a scam is to check the number of members in their telegram group. If you seeaybe more than 3000 members it has the chance that it is not a scam. Another way is to see their white paper, if it is clean and well presented then there is a possiblity that it is not a scam.

There are a lot of different factors. I usually look at the community stats, the whitepaper, product development, rating websites. The most useful information you can get from the token sale progress and from the developers of a particular ICO. Just talk to them and you will see it.

No one can guarantee that your investment is 100% safe, because even a legitimate ICO project can fail for a variety of reasons!

I took for the groundwork this subject: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2822896.msg28918031#msg28918031
The author in some detail and competently describes the possible troubles that can occur when you select the project and identifies the points which need focus.

That is why in some investment, we can't use money that we use for daily life, only use free money that we afford to loss. Almost all investment are risky even only holding bitcoin. But if we can analyze, we can minimize that risk.

if you really want to invest, and do not want to be hit by a scam, yes you have to check all the sites that are related to a project, whether the project is clear where it is or only one person is running it, because we have to examine everything in advance.

The first thing you need to look at when choosing a project is the team namely their links in social networks and it is desirable to check whether the information provided on the site is the same as the reality. Some scammers usually take other people's photos and pass them off as their own, it's easy to check

Right. Sometimes it's not entirely the fault of the company. There are many factors that lead to failure, and it's possible that at the beginning it's not a phishing project, but for some reason it has become.

You cannot check it and find out the scam ICO just by checking. You must conduct some research about the ICO company.
The common thing to research is the profile team and the project itself. If it has some red flags, just leave that ICO.

Rating sites and the project site is exactly what will help to determine the quality of the ICO. No other way. also, this can greatly help the public opinion and the documents that the creators provide to potential investors

In order to understand the quality of the project or not enough to study the white paper and the project site. I think that otherwise it is impossible to understand the seriousness of the project. Now I choose on this principle

First, you must distinguish between ICO differences. Second, you need to understand his technology. This is very important. Good technology can be successful, not a package. This is an industry that needs technology to have a future.

In order to determine if ico scum or not i do the following:
1. I read white paper
2. I evaluate the quality of the site
3. It is necessary to evaluate the idea that the team is trying to bring to life
4. Get acquainted with the composition of the team, evaluate their previous experience.
These are basic concepts that you need to read. You can also pay attention to the community, twitter, Facebook, telegram channel. Often the participants of such groups are fake.

Usually choose the bounty activity. I will first analyze the success rate of the product, such as making a cup suitable for drinking water or a swimming pool that provides drinking water for everyone. It's easy to see the true extent of the event!

There are several ways to know whether an ico is a scam or not. The first thing to do is to read the whitepaper and check whether the idea is feasible. Research about the team members and see if they are transparent enough. Check the opinion of other top analyst before you invest in the ico.

but in my opinion that alone is not enough because I myself have followed the bounty that all the founders have even until the white paper is very complete they still disappear after getting money from investors. and that's my own experience.

I am tire to read some replies that says, look at their white paper, or some sort of that, the best thing to figure out a scam ICO is to experience them, join to their bounty and let them show hints that they are scam.

Every ICO has their own projects the platforms and where the coins are going to use etc. and they have their own problem to solve using their project or coins so to check if the ICO is a scam check their whitepaper, check hoq they will solve the problem and see for yourselves.

The team, community, etc. is secondary.

you're right all of that is not enough to prove an ico is a scam or not. the fact is that there are many perfect ones but the reality is a scam. all of this is like returning to luck from ourselves. if we are lucky we will get money, if we are not lucky maybe we will lose money.

When choosing projects, I am guided by the analysis of popular services, such as TokenMarket, ICO Stats, ICO Rating, ICO Tracker, Coinschedule, which publishes ratings of projects based on analytics. If any project is suitable for me, then I start to study whitepaper, the team, the roadmap and other available information.

you should to watch on their offer. what they want to do for your money. learn the development team, find them on social media. and so on.

First look at the team, then find some of persons from team on social and ask then about this projet, if they say you what they hear about it first time ))) you know what need to do.
Then analyze idea, look for altenatives and compare features, find the bestest

Unfortunately, even a very experienced investor will not be able to distinguish a really good ICO, which will be implemented in the market in the future and bring profit. And for beginners, I think it is generally an impossible task. The only advice is to study the market and be careful and cautious when investing your personal money.

at the beginning of the period it is still quite difficult, but if it has been running in the middle of the period, then you can find out whether it is scam or not with a 50% probability level. just check the community in the chat group, if it's not active, then ico is also not active.

really, the strength of the team, the strength of partnerships, functions, needs, and also competition need to be reviewed, and repeatedly to ensure that the team really does work well, and professionally. sometimes a good team has made 70% authentic.

check their team. just by checking the team, we can know whether they are cheats or not. because they include their social media, such as LinkedIn. You can check whether their LinkedIn is appropriate or not. example of zeux bounty. someone checked their team. apparently not in accordance with the original.

Investing in ICO is indeed a very good investment. And all that also depends on the whole ICO project. How to check whether ICO is a scam. Actually that can be said to be difficult, because now many ICO projects are really good but when the sales are finished they disappear and the project is well managed. You must see and analyze the whole project, it can be from the team and others.

There is no strait jacket method for checking a scam project. In fact, some scam projects are carefully planned in such a way that all researches will prove futile. One of the ways to check out for scam projects include the making of extensive research into the profiles of the team members - sometimes what the team members may present as credentials may not be real and this can be ascertained through a follow up on their social media accounts, checking for coherence in information.

A popular team means if there can be defined as a reliable ico. But remember we can take bittorrent as an example of how the ico which was having a real product can give us the best ico. those bittorrent buyers are getting tons of money from ico instantly.

Yes, I am very careful to invest in the ICO now, because many ICOs are cheating Investors, and I want to ask about the ICO MCB project, is the project a SCAM? because I was interested in the project.

I run an airdrop faucet...
you can see that it is not scam because members are paid if they ask payout.
Have a look and you will see from yourself because every thing is open and clear.

Claim few times...sell your tokens and ask a payout.

You can’t be 100% sure of the ICO, but in order to reduce the risks you need to check the team, the project itself and the white paper!

I think that only by experience can people really get something, because otherwise I can’t imagine what happens if people continue to invest in projects that are not going to do anything. The cryptocurrency market will simply miss this opportunity.

The most important is to check credibility of development team whitepaper and all numbers.
To check people behind project i look for theit LinkedIn profils and do their pictures do not belong to someone else. Also very important at the beginning is to check if they didn't use text of whitepaper from other project. To check this things I use this tool: https://www.duplichecker.com/

I still do not see any options to use any generator, which today I can really check the possible options for investors. The analyzer should already exist, but for some reason no one shares it.

Try to look if what project is all about and I think the other factor you should need to do is try to look into developer try to check if the last project of this developer was a scam or if this has negative trust.

it is very difficult to identify, because ico cannot be said to be a scam or not at the beginning of the period. we can conclude when at the end of the ico or in the middle with some irregularities. for example a team that runs away, a project that does not fit the road map and a whitepaper for reasons why they are fooling investors and participants and then they bring the money.

it is very difficult to choose ico at this time but if you want to choose you can use some references from the review site ico the rest do your own research and look for ico that does not have competitors (similar projects) and there is no indication of fake team

actually it is very difficult to determine whether I have a scam or not but maybe with the presence of a few ico ratings and this discussion will help you in doing research https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 and maybe some of your research can avoid losing a lot of money when investing

the simple way to check it by check the biodata of the CEO and all team of that project, mostly scam project copy other database to lure newbie investor, and then rob them.

Here are few: anonymous tean, unbelievable bonuses, Promises that their token will reach this much value, no MVP (minimum viable product).

Basically, you will experience a difficulty when you, your self will be just the one who will going to figure out if the ICO is scam or not. You need some other people that will help you figure it out because it is very hard to know it by just using a method called inspection.

in my opinion to check ICO is scam or not very difficult, because we certainly know the ICO is a scam or not after the ICO is finished, so if we want to invest in ICO it is very difficult to know the ICO is scam or not, therefore I would rather invest on altcoins that are already list in coinmarketcap compared to investing in ICO, because investing in ICO has a big risk.

There are many ways to find out that ICO is a scam. You can see it by checking the background of admins and founders. Here you will see if they are transparent and they are true of their project.

All investment is risky so you should study it carefully so you do not lose the money you earn.

You can check some project ICO scam with using fake data for owner and team, other way to know fake and scam ICO always publish fake document about their coin sell, many time I faced an ICO project give incorrect data about their coin sold,

This is certainly not an easy thing to check whether ico is scam or not, but if you want to invest in ico it is important to do this so that you don't get stuck in the wrong ico, maybe one of them is by looking for the profile of the project, whether the team is involved professional people you can also ask people who are more experienced in ico before, and learn more about the ico

Usually the trusted ICO certainly has a verified team. With that, it is likely that ICO scam is very low. But for a successful and good ICO, of course you have to analyze more deeply to find out whether the ICO is successful or not. So it all depends on our decision. If you want to invest.

From what i know there is no fool proof plan to filter out scam ICO from legit ICO but you can increase the chance of choosing a legit ICO firstly whitepaper team members and MVP.

There are lots of ICOs in the market but it seems hard to find a genuine ICO as there are many fake ICOs going on. It is very important to have knowledge to what we are dealing with and do research in order to be guided accordingly. Read the company whitepaper to know more about their vision, mission, roadmap, team, team’s qualification. Browsing social media pages can also keep us in touch and be aware with their social media pages and keep an eye to the activities like events, and token sale.

I think there are solid guidelines when investing in an ICO. Make sure you research the team and their jurisdiction, to ensure they are not violating any laws. Also, make sure you read the whitepaper and find if the ideas in it make sense. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose, and also realize there are plenty of good coins, making some of the newer coins pointless.

Scammers make almost all ICOs look bad so we must be smart in choosing not to be weak, let's stay strong, stay patient and keep learning so we can better recognize good projects in the future. ;)

Unfortunately checking out the ICO if it is not a scam is not really sure because for some information that given by their projects I also can't tell if it is a scam. What I only do is checking their white papers and team background and the bounty manager for a sure sign that it's not gonna be a scammed projects.

for investment in ICO there is no specific guideline to be able to find out whetherico is a scam or not because many of their cases are only good when in the initial game they are very responsive, and after reaching the softcap target they begin to ignore investors and start to move away, many cases like that .

I will rather advice to stay away from ICO till it got listed on exchange as the bear market still have a very large impact on the price even after listed on exchange to drop and that will even be a change to buy more than what you will buy at ICO stage to have a good start and looking in to the team and what the project is all about is another thing to look out for and how well the community is willing to use or support the project is another significant potential to make it big.

it is difficult to know whether the ICO was scam or not, especially when the ICO took place sometimes it was not according to their plans and some of them stopped. I can't guarantee that but at least we need to examine the overall contents of the project and how the team experiences in managing the project beforehand.

I've wise up now in selecting ICO to invest ,i like ICOs with location address and phone numbers to get in touch with the teams and the most careful part an investor must do this days to avoid getting scammed is doing thoroughly research on the teams ,who knows there might be a fake stolen profile among the teams so you can easily back off

as works on moderation to gives with confirmation investors might put with confidence to leave on spares as reference on limit to gains with the request as collecting numbers of returns to manage as the terms of compliance.

For a beginner, it is best to find an experienced team of investors and join the so-called pool. This will make your investment much safer. To understand the risks, I want to warn you, do not invest more than 10% of your savings. To date, 8 out of 10 projects are scam.

No one will advise 100% successful ico. Of course, you can understand all technical documents for a long time, communicate with the team, pay attention to partners, but there is no 100% guarantee. The only thing I can advise is to see how hardcap quickly assembled. If hardcap meets in a matter of days or even hours, then, in my opinion, this is a worthwhile project.

If I usually read the whitepaper first, and of course the experience from the developer is also important. So if you are afraid of losing your money I suggest investing in ICO, because it is very risky. So if you are ready to invest in ICO that means you are ready to lose your money.

I believe that we must check the white paper and the team behind the project. Team with experience and reputation is am advantage, it is really hard to find a legit ico now a days, I see that there are a lot of scam ICO from the fast few months. So we need to be more careful of choosing ICO specially it involve money we can loss a huge amount of money if we don't be more careful on choosing.

Honestly speaking, we can't check 100% sure if the ICO project is scam or not because many ICO projects before has a good team and good start but at the end of the ICO, it ended up a scam. Some are not typically scam
but stops after not hitting the cap and making the project discontinue.

You can’t check it out. Because most of the fraudsters cheaters. They use advertising tricks, make good websites, show that they have already collected a lot of money.

Now it is too difficult to cure a quality project from fraudsters.

To know a scam project, you will have to make too many Enquiries and ask too many questions about the project. You need to make a lot of research in general

You should check carefully for its team, roadmap and partner. Besides, ICO projects are too ambitious and too hardcap and softcap will not be a reliable project.
Usually scam projects put out very hardcap and softcap. Please check it carefully and go to the Icodrops website for more details.

In any case, you will suffer some losses, without this you can not do, there is no way to 100% determine the scammers or not, but certain parameters are simply necessary to view, and they each have their own.

There is already a posted guidelines to spot a scam ICO's
And here it is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0 by Coolcryptovator
Be sure to read every piece of words that you are going to see in the post,
with these things getting into a consideration you will be more likely to avoid Scam ICO's that you will encounter in the future.

No need to learn and select. Right now I believe that 99% of ICO here is a scam, if you are still interested in investing in ICO, please watch Binance and buy ICOs run there.

I probably think to know an ico scam is too briefly research about the project, see to it that it is a legit project and the members are trustworthy. Visit their site if it is genuine and not a copy paste.

Scammy ICO generally does not provide any information about the development team, or there is very little information. Therefore, first of all it is necessary to study the information about the project team.

If your are very new here then you may need to visit all boards of this forum to get an idea how to do something and also try to use Search on the upper right corner of forum window.

This might help you : Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively. ✔ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0)

To check if ICO project is scam or not, you better check and read every detail in the whitepaper, websites and the team members who are taking part of the project because some of the members in a project is using fake identities.

The only way to know that a project is scam or not is knowledge. You have to know how to detect good ico. For that you have to choose one ico then first you have to check the information like team, project summary, website, total allocation, allocation for team marketing strategy and partnership. Then you have to crosscheck them. There is many website who provide this kind of information. Icoanalyctic is the best for that in my opinion. Then you have to read white paper this is the most important part. You have to read it carefully have to check strategy and the roadmap. And last it is really hard to identify good project sometimes. So just do your own research don't go with others peoples trash talk.

Checking if an ICO is a scam or not does not have a specific guideline or underlining features that categorizing the project to be either scam or not. It will be better to invest into ICO project with workable products backing it. But I will also advice you to spend some time to read about the ICO project and understand the purpose of it before you decide to invest your hard earned income into it. You can easily lose your money within the matter of seconds.

There is no hard and fast rule. All you do is to study the qualification of the team and check their portfolios on Linkedin etc. And if you get any doubt about their qualification, then it means its a scam.

For identifying if ico are scam or not is not difficult if you know how it works, you can have research or have some studies about the project team as well the whole company to insure if it legit or not.

I agree on these points, but I would like to add that not every great project had big people as advisers. It is more about the demand for the product/service the project is going to provide, the quality of the whitepaper and the competence of the team.

I believe it’s BETTER that we check up with the RIGHT options instead of worrying about WRONG options. I am not an expert and neither have I done extreme level of research to put down things with GUARANTEE.

However, I can only SUGGEST checking Cyptolinks, with their Upcoming ICOs sites (https://cryptolinks.com/ico), as that’s where you can find the right options easily. And that pretty much solves the issue most face. Now some may ask I simply want to know status of that said coin, I believe you should NEVER invest into one that’s unknown!

In the event that there no white paper, or they will discharge it later, hold up untill its out. Serious venture dependably have their whitepaper before they begin or advance for the ICO. In the mean time you can do a few investigates about the ICO team. Look what other individuals think on wire or on this gathering. For the most part when it is a trick venture, you will know it quick when you looking at this gathering.

Checking the authenticity of any ICO project is difficult. I believe in ICOs projects that are supported by celebrities or get support from famous exchanges. Choosing these ICOs will help you reduce your risk, and I am sure that these projects are 100% profitable.

Before joining ICO there were several ways to find out the good characteristics of ICO, namely by looking at credibility, website, team, mission vision and distribution of tokens from these elements if they were presented with a very good possibility of ICO. Not only beginners who experience difficulties, even seniors are still many who are trapped, because it is difficult to guess. But if we continue to analyze properly, it is not impossible to find it.

Now it is very difficult to find fraudsters, because they are almost no different from normal projects. I am guided by whether information on the amount of investment collected is freely available, and whether it is possible to check this yourself at the smart contract address.

In my opinion the best option is to check the telegram community and to talk with admins. When everything seems legit, I would switch to the whitepaper and the product development level. If these are great, it should be legit.

It is really not easy to find out individual ICOs legit or scam. In my opinion, you must check their whitepaper, check team members profile info, telegram group or channel activity, see their adviser board.it is a very hard decision in investing ICOs. Do not think about what others people says,do your own research then you can find legit one beside the scam ICOs.

Indeed it is a very difficult task. It is necessary to carry out this study, which takes a lot of time and effort.
The most important thing is not to do rash actions, if there is even the slightest doubt in ico, then it is better to refuse to invest. There are almost no good ico at the moment.

Actually, it is very difficult to understand if the ICO is good or not. Now, even the best road map and the whitepaper will not give you the chance to realize it. Probably, it is better not to risk and to work with alts.

There are such projects in which administrators in telegrams channels do not respond for few weeks. But at the end the project turns out to be fair.

Knowing whether a a particular ICO would be scam or not is a possibility of doubt that everyone investing is going through as no one can deduce or know whether is a scam one or not. Just as that all the criteria for ICO would be followed by them.

In this case, you should need deep analysis. You can check their official website and white paper. You can also check their social media activities. Find out their team members and see how much potential the project is.

despite all checks a certain restriction risk remains. but nevertheless rule no. 1 applies.
never invest without knowing exactly. about team and product ;)

Some ICO teams have devised so many ways to evade detection. Although, if we can be patient enough to make our findings, the better.
A genuine team will only give a guarantee of a fraud free ICO.
While a good product can guarantee the continuity and success of the project.

I think there are many ways to check.First of all, I look in the team to see if they are valid or not.Ico website is also professionally developed.Roadmap & whitepaper also can hive you sign of the ICO.And many experts are there who give review ICO where we can know ICO is scam or valid.       

It's not as easy as it sounds. In any case, sooner or later you will lose your money almost every day. And this is normal, because the course is unstable. Also beware of scam.

Things are very complicated these days even more trusted ICO projects fail, you can check their white paper or roadmap and try researching their sites also social media. Have a look about the team and it's development this will surely give you a clear idea analyze as much as you can and hopefully you will find it.

Investing in ICO is indeed very risky. That's because almost all ICOs are scam and have no uses. Actually it is very difficult to know whether the ICO is good for use or not. But what is usually done to find out is to do deepening in detail such as checking the whitepaper, team, and and the number of followers. But it's usually beyond expectations. There are ICOs that fail before entering the market, but there are also ICOs who can enter the market but cannot compete and eventually die. This is very difficult, if you want to get a better advantage to choose coins that really have good development, this will provide certainty.

Choosing an ICO is hard task nowaday, because number of scam projects is high. But if you can selecting good project you will gain profit. You can check the whitepaper of the project it cointains many information that you need. From the team, goals & product.

Of the many ICOs that cheat a lot, we must avoid it, they just want to get their own benefits and harm many people. The way to avoid this is to analyze several important elements of a project, maybe there are already many people here who say it. In my opinion by looking at the Team, a complete website, products and distribution of tokens, there are still many and you have to find out for yourself more effectively.

yes,at least if we are researched in choosing projects then we can minimize mistakes in choosing even though it will not completely prevent us from fraudsters.
so you should not be lazy to analyze every aspect of the ICO.

Usually I observe the project team, if I find something strange. I will definitely start to be suspicious of the project. whether it's a good project or not as long as their team has original data I don't think it's a scam project. so the first thing you have to observe is the project team.

I think it's easy to identify! If the amount of money they are needing is not justifiable enough for you to distrust and not invest. Failure to meet deadlines can also be another possibility or fraud in your documents or in the people involved.

Few things to analyze; Project, team and their profiles, amount allocated, infrasturcture is in place, partnership and how long they are into their business. Spend enough time in getting these details checked. These would certainly finalyze if the ICO is a scam or a legit. We did and do have scam ICOs as like legit ones.

I think it is very hard to understand the situation of investment on ICO and to find it is good or scam will be the most important and very difficult thing for and investors because we don't know about any ICO in the beginning stage the final result one day will give the complete statement of it.

Due to the current market situation I only trust in projects that can provide a working product before the token sale launch. In this point I have a guarantee that such an ICO is not a scam and I would invest in it.

To begin, enter in Google the query "project name and the word scam," if there is any evidence that the project is a scam, they will appear in the first lines of the search output.

Now even experienced investors find it difficult to distinguish fraudulent projects from good projects. Therefore, it makes sense not to invest in new projects at the ICO stage, but to buy coins immediately after their release on the exchanges.

Actually they are to many ways in how to check or avoid to those ICO scam.
Ill think we are different ways on how, But sometimes even if we checked the ICO in the end they are not totally paid us so we need to be careful always.

This statement is the mission impossible in ICO investments. There is no way it will guarantee that you wont loss a single penny when investing, even if you say that a certain project is legit, it doesnt take away the risks that it may fail at some point and lost all what you have invested. Thats why theres a saying " invest what you can afford to lose" is a popular line here.

Investors are smart people, so falling to traps designed for newbies is not expected. Noone can guarantee the profit or return on the investment if there are accusations against the team or project.

There are many ways in which one can identify whether all this new projects are legitimate or not. There is need for you to conduct a research on the ICO which you want to invest your money a and your research should cover the following areas such as the LinkdIn profile as to whether the name of the team tally with the pictures, are they register company? If yes in which country etc before you invest your money.

It just simple, research much about it and you will see if their mission and vision could be achieved. If not then  never trust such a project since it might be  one of the odd ones out there to take advantage of investors.

This forum provides good service at this time, I can see ico scam in a special thread and I appreciate that some members can quickly provide information about ico scam.
and the moderator can immediately give a warning even redtrust.

The old topic from 2018 but now still very useful for the new member on looking ICO project to invest. And now the market cap of this market is low, and I think there is a lot of scam ICO campaign appear and you should wait until the recovery to continue to investing in ICO. Now you can invest in altcoins and Bitcoin and hold.

I agree that this forum has been the best place to check if an ICO is a scam or not. There are volunteers who are willing to spend their time for the sake of the community, they aren't paid with what they have been doing for busting out scam ICO's. Always look to the trust page of that ICO's profile/account and if there's a negative feedback from a DT1/DT2 it means that project should be avoided. You can also add to search things through googling it for more evidence if the proof provided doesn't satisfy you.

You can also find news about ico scam here:
https://t.me/shitcoinoffering

I was very helped by this channel.
may be useful

At first check the scam accusation section in this forum. I don't think whitepaper can be a good measure to track a scam project, because many scam projects had a very good whitepaper like Hashcard. Try to research about the team background, have a look in the community activity if you see many users are praising continuously than a question, avoid that ICO, they use a bot to praise them  ;D! Try to read and spend some time in research. You are new, please don't invest in ICOs, learn first what is it and how to know about a scam project. If you want to invest then invest in established coin, I suggest the top 20 coins for invest blindly. Good Luck.

It is very difficult to invest in ICO projects without losing money, unless you invest in the top ICO projects, and many people are optimistic, online transactions directly skyrocketed several times.

Read the whitepaper and look at the product development stage. All scam projects do not have a working product and have a bad written whitepaper, and if you invest some time to check these factors you will avoid scammers.

It is difficult for you to predict which projects are scam. So it's best to invest in it and wait, time will give you the most accurate answer about the project you have invested.

You cannot actually say if the ICO is a scam or not, you cannot even wonder whether they wanted to scam you or not, everything cannot be predicted in the crypto world.

it would be very difficult to determine whether or not a scam is an ico. but there are mechanisms and ways to learn it.
in my opinion, experience is the main thing in every investigation to determine whether it is worth investing in an ico or not. especially you have to look for all information and examine it in its entirety before actually speculating.

It depends also how will the website design attracts an investor.  But i might say even if the ICO pays you but the price is shit. They still label as a scam for me. Because sometimes it has a low chance of overpassing the ICO price by the Market price

Look for the project team amd for Ico team if they are legit
do some research about the project and make sure you review the project well so you will earn money not to lose profits.Of the project is attractive there are changes that its good but if its not attractive its npt good.

Check all the information of that project. Check the project team dev and its partners. If all information is true then you can join and you should remember that even if you choose good projects it will still risk fail

There are lot and lot of scam projects in this crypto world. And there are bunch of ways for you to know if a project is a scam.
- Check out their bitcointalk thread, some people might be faster than you in knowing if a project is scam. So just check their btt thread and find out.
- Check their website and see if it looks shady.
- Check their Whitepaper with a plagiarism checker to see if their Whitepaper is just a simple copy and paste.
- Check out the team on LinkedIn and see if the profile is real and engaged.
- Check if the team are willing to do a video review or check if they have already done one.

analyze the ico is scam or not is not easy. the listed ico on the ico website is not guarantee that icos is not scam.
The best analyze the ico is scam or not is by look in the members of tim, then check their real profiles .

Options that would give you 100% answer just do not exist. This is a risk, you need to understand this and decide whether you accept the risks to invest or not. If not, then cryptocurrency is clearly not for you.

Wait what will happen after token sale, wait for the progress. You can't predict it before the end of token sale because team always will promise everything and everything looks so cool at token sale.

well, maybe at the moment it's very difficult to distinguish a new ICO that has seriousness, and no, because everyone has a new team. but it can be known from the background of his team. sometimes ICOs who are really serious about developing have a professional team and have a clear background, and the information is easy to find.

It is difficult to be able to ensure a scam or not an ICO, which surely we must be more careful. To avoid fraud as well as we can, first examine the track record of a team from an ICO, usually we can see after the project has been running for more than one year.

Indeed, now it is very difficult to distinguish a scam or an original. Because usually the scam is of course very exactly the same as the original. Of course before doing anything, you better take a little time to fully analyze how the project is doing ico.

It's crucial that you make sure the team is real and has reliable Linkedin accounts. It wouldn't be a bad idea to see what they've done in the past too.

New projects with promising prospects arise every day. Therefore, before investing, be careful when participating in such projects, do not take promises for granted, take seriously any unanswered question. Do your own research and follow your intuition to stay safe.

For that you have to gain a lot of knowledge about icos. And this days scam icos are very smart so sometimes its hard to discover one. But still if you really want to know if a ico is scam or not the first thing you have to do is read the white paper. It is the main thing in a ico and you have to check it up again and again. You have to read it and understand it how technically it is written. Then you gave to check the website and talk to community and founders. Of you find they are find also then go for how relucent the project is now and will be ain upcoming future that's it. Still sometimes its hard to catch one.

While it's advisable to check the background of the team, the Whitepaper, the viability of the project. All these may look genuine but you will be shocked to discover that is a great scam ICO in the making. In essence, you can still be care and fall victim to ICO scam.

Scammers have become so professional so it is hard to know. They are now able to change the amount of money collected. Maybe you should give superiority to the STOs. Because they remove scammers through regulations.

The best person to ask this is ICOethics he has done extensive investigation on so many ICO and he already has a long list for this, go to scam section check out his list and so do all the other member's post so you can check if the ICO that you want to invest is not a scam one.

Contact a few members of the team personally, from their tone and attitude you can usually deduce their intent; that would be the first step.

Also look for paid shills, if most noise about a project is being produced by a few "do anything for a few bucks" mentality guys from

third world countries, that's often a cue for you to be very careful...

I agree and I'm surprised on how good he is at doing this, this is probably the easiest way to get a lot of merits, offer something that can help the community if you are a newbie catch this scam ICOs post them on the scam section and watch your merits grow.

we have to do a good analysis of the projects. there are many indicators that we must understand and we must pay attention to all the data that is in the project. when the data we see is indicated to be incorrect then we must be vigilant. data is important and should not be something that can be faked. so that is one way to determine whether we will invest or not on projects.

collecting more data and analize it could help us to avoid fake projects.but we have to cooporate with another people to get that data.each people have limitation in their work.so by collaborate could be good choice for us.

Go to the scam section check if the ICO that you are looking at is not in their list, then check ICOBENCH if they verified their account, they should have an active telegram channel and they should answer your queries in a professional manner, some developers are banning people if they are confronted with issues about their project.

If i will advise you,i will say you should not invest in ICO for now because you need to learn alot of things about this market before you beging to make any decision.May you should just make research and study some of the project we have now and get feedback of the community and them,that will help you.

The best way is to look into the profiles of the team members and check for coherence in information they provide especially pertaining to their credentials. Scam projects are often detected by knowing the actual faces or the team behind the project. Check for the partners of the project and ascertain if the information about partnering with other bodies is true or false.

if you still don't know how to identify them genuine or scam you should have to read a lot and do a lot of research like reading whitepapers, seeing teams and communities on telegram because that will help you find real projects or scams

Actually it is very hard to identify if one ICO is scam my advice to you is make your own research about the project and the background of the team, better to invest with a huge community ICO and reach soft cap.

You must know that there is no 100percent grantee on Amy Ways to avoiding scam project but you can at least try.
*dont be entice by mouth watering white paper
*study the team
*don't be hesitant to quit the project
*avoid greed

I do not think that there will be guaranteed services or services in this case, because I see that today there are not even people who could seriously determine how truly projects can not be successful or vice versa.

As long as you join a lot of bounty and ICO, then you will gain a lot of experience to choose ICO in subsequent times. It is difficult to distinguish if you have never invested in those projects

You can't simply find out any project that it is legit or scam just can any tricks and tips because it needs lot of time to find out about the project and their legitimate behaviour towards the investors.
By researching about the project you will give that good Clear View about the project.

I think you can check it on some ICO observers, like ICO bench, or ICO hot.
because there all the teams and things about the ICO company have been explained.

Checking the background of the ICO is one of the bets way to avoud high scam ICO. But it doesn't mean that you cannot lose money because there is still chances for you to lose money because we really don't know if the ICO that you invested is really legit maybe behind the good information there is not bad purposes of the team which is to run away once the investor invest their money.

the way you always do when you know the ICO is a scam or not is to check the whitepaper, telegram group, website, roadmap, and also their team. also make sure their sales tokens are transparent so that we can find out the investor funds that are obtained. usually when the ICO scams investor money will never be returned.

As I am also new here, what I am trying to do now  is read the post/advises  of old members knowledgeable in this forum.  From them, I learned the following:

1.  Knew the people/team  behind the project,  their credentials and capabilities.
2.  Study the project itself, if  it is relevant in this new era of world development
3.  Be observant, read as much as you can their whitepaper and all other pertinent papers regarding the ICO.
4.  Take time and analyse all the gathered information before deciding to join or invest in an ICO.

Hope that this will help you too.

I think the main thing is to check it's bounty manager and their team members....

Probably very confidently we can say you can make a very large analysis of the projects. Now it is possible to check the site owners as well to check whether the right people are really displayed on the company's website.

Ask in group telegrams) Maybe they will answer you. There are no ways. There are no opportunities. Faith and experience, and then our conclusions are not always correct.

Most ICOs are scams today. Nowadays no ICO can be trusted. ICO can scam anytime. There is no guarantee that ICO will not scam. So I will tell you not to invest in ICO. Because investing in ICO means to drop your money in water. And ICO is not known to be fake, it is very difficult to know. Even if some things are noticed, ICO is real or fake. It is understood that ICO's white paper is well verified. Many times when looking at the white paper, it is understood that ICO is real.

Thank you

experienced will tell us how to analize ico projects,it is really complicated for us as investors.reviewing their document, analize fund usaged, observe token utility and many more.we have to hard work to identify good projects.this is not only about how much money collected but also how developers team deliver their plann well to investors and market.

Actually, there is no guaranteed way to define whether the project is scam or not, but you should pay attention to such factors as main idea, team skills and Whitepaper to avoid scams.

Nobody knows whether the ICO is a scam or not rather than Allah. We cannot say if a project is hundred percent sure if its a scam until we found out.

If it were easy to find fraudulent ICO projects, then the problem with fraud in ICO projects would have been solved long ago. However, identifying them is not so easy, and the possibilities in us are limited. And fraudsters invent new ways of fraud. I believe that government regulation of ICO activities will be a reliable way to defeat fraud in ICO projects. Many states are taking certain steps in this direction.

Almost difficult, in my opinion menggap or categorize ico scam or not because sometimes I am wrong in assuming ico is a scam actually successful, because indeed fraud has been formed from the beginning of the concept and their team was fake

Check the project first, is it a good project or not. Bad project usually have a really simple website, unknown team, copy paste whitepaper.

There are so many scam ico out there, so be careful bro, be wise about your money.

I this situation,  you will need a whole lot of research and carefulness.  Sometimes the project you think is scam turns out to be real andthose you thought to be real became scam. So you need some time to keep a closer look at it and find some facts out of them.

Now such a strange time that in the Wake of hype frankly weak project can make 500% -1000%, and a fundamental and very promising project immediately after the listing will go down. So it is necessary to clearly understand why and how much a person came to the crypto industry.

Quite difficult to actually determine. Even Bittrex, such a large stock exchange with a reputation could not recognize the RAID scam. Although everything seems to be on their site is beautiful, a lot of partnerships, team experience and everything seems to be good for the standard ico selection points.

for now there is no sure way to find out whether the ICO is a scam or not because the fraudsters also start cleverly hiding their crimes.
and sometimes ICO is actually not cheating but the team cannot develop the project so the project is scam and such things are very difficult to predict.

To me, if you want to save yourself the stress of looking up the team on LinkedIn and checking for Red flags on whitepaper and website, only do projects listed on Icodrops.com or icobench.com, in most cases, they have done the authenticity research on behalf of their subscribers

I would recommend you not invest in ICOs in the currency market situation. As the bearish trend has been continuing for a long time, it wouldn't be profitable for you. Wait until the market recovers.

You would never know for sure if the ICO is a scam or not. However there are still a few recommendations following which you can minimize the risk of being scammed. Among them is analysis of the current project, you have to carefully examine whitepaper of the project and its roadmap, checking if the roadmap is real to implement. One of the most important things is team analysis as well. It's not so important what the project and its product are than the dev team who is going to make everything happen. Believe me you will see it clearly if the team is suspicious/not real/fraudulent.

No  particular procedure for checking a scam ICO but you have to known certain thing about  the project before investing in any ICO. Part of what you should know are, check their website to know more about their project, go through their white paper, softcap and hardcap, team members, are they offering product and lastly make enquiry about the project from those that have been in cryptocurrency for long.

but that does not mean that ICO can no longer benefit us all, it is only a matter of time and we are just waiting because in the future ICO can experience renewal so that ICO will be better and so that it can invest and many projects might succeed. we can't argue like that because ICO might change and what will happen next we don't know.

Most times it is hard to identify a scam ICOs, as they will look real and serious, but once they get what they are looking for, their true colour will manifest. On the other hand, to common way is, studying their whitepaper to see what makes them worth it and if their idea can be realised. Secondly, their community, the nature of the telegram group etc. The team and also the road map to know where they have really started etc.

The whole team should be checked for real compliance with their profile, activities and previous achievements. The project must have a high-quality technical document (without errors and inaccuracies). And it is desirable to choose a project with an existing product, which is currently attractive for the market.

If there would be an ai who search for ico's and check it is scam or not that would be awesome.

But right now, it is very hard sometimes. Still, most scam can be found with fake team members.

it is very difficult to predict to determine that a project will end successfully or actually end with a scam, some supporting aspects of the ICO can be an early indication of the future of an ICO project.

Actually there are so many ways but indeed distinguishing between scam or not is something that is indeed quite difficult because very thin differences make it difficult for us to categorize scams or not

i know a lot of sounds legit ICO. but at the end of the campaign they were gone, so there is no definite method in order to filter or trace of this kind, but just try to use the ICO rating site or the ANN thread of this forum, im sure members would post their feedback as well.

There are so many ways to know if one ICO's has a chance to turn into scam,you could know these if you're will be kind and smart ,just like searching their team if the profile of their staff is real and also their project if has a good purpose for use in near future and also there's more.

First of all crypto investments are full of risks so if you are not ready to take some risks then don't try to invest into crypto activities. I can give you all the necessary guidelines that i know but sometimes you just can't stop certain things from happening. I invested in a project called Cryptassist where we had a live video tour of all members of team and where they are based. Almost every community member believed in this project but now nobody knows the stance of this project.

if you want to go ahead  and invest then look at what the project want to achieve and also whether they have the experienced team members to actually achieve it.

well, now there are very many ICOs who try to cover up the fraud and try their best to be able to influence investors so they can be deceived, they certainly won't be easy to stop, they will try in all kinds of ways.

Read the whitepaper and also check the income of the ico, so that we can get data from the project that we will do the investment whether it is suitable or not as an investment, therefore we must be careful in checking it

There's virtually no perfect way to detect a scam ICO, but you can check for some signal such as the popularity of the team members and advisors, the social media presence of the project, the level of communication the team has with the community, etc.

Identifying whether an ICO is legit or scam is getting more complicated everyday. Yet, if we are investing our money in something, we should be well aware of where is it going.
The best way to know whether an ICO is scam or not is to identify the person behind it, know their personal experience, their economic and social background and whether they are really an specialist about the project are just pretending to be.

It's not that hard to be honest, i mean, you can check it first by check the team behind the project, search the photo of the team on google, if you found some from google and the same person, careful, it might be a scam. Ask it on their ANN thread, if they can't answer then it's a scam

be careful it is very necessary, to be more sure you can look for dtail about it and you can ask the people closest to you who already know in great detail and knowledge.
projects that start well aren't always successful so you have to be careful and not easy to believe and not make decisions easily before you know.

I can give your advice to see who the manager is responsible for and whether the manager is really well known and see the original ico website, usually the fake one that rarely has the original ico web so it can be found out and usually the original is not taken extra costs if scams can be subject to additional fees.

Listen, I think a Mod needs to sticky my reply to the start of Page 1, because the amount of laziness / plagiarism within the replies here is just insane...


Right... Now... What are we dealing with people, Monopoly money??

No? Okay. Let's be serious then.


A legitimate project will list all senior members / advisors on both it's whitepaper and website. This includes names, photos, bios, links to SM accounts.

The most basic first step (which is what is repeated here on every page) - is to actually visit these SM accounts and see if the 'team' are genuine.

They appear to be? Looks can be deceiving. I've seen a Fiat with a BMW e36 body-kit.


Check under the hood.


'Adam McAdamson', the CEO of 'McAdamsonICO' says that he worked for the 'EU Coin Co.' for 4 years as a 'Lead Developer', and attained his Bachelors degree from 'EU University X' in '2010'.


Brilliant. Okay, so, now you contact the 'EU Coin Co.' (email at first if you wish, otherwise cut to the chase and pick up the telephone - it doesn't bite) and you say: "Hi. My name is 'XYZ', I'm calling in regards to 'Adam McAdamson', a gentleman who I believe in 2014 worked for your company - how would I go about receiving a reference, or some sort of supporting evidence of his position and duration with your firm?".

If the reply is positive (can I take an email and have someone in the HR department contact you OR sure, yes he was here we can confirm), then happy days, 'Adam McAdamson' scores a point.

If the reply is "lol hu?" then you can start raising an eyebrow.

Now, sticking with 'Adam', move onto the next reference, 'EU University X'. Give them a call: "Good day, I'm calling in regards to one of your alumni, who graduated in 2010, 'Adam McAdamson'. I'm in search of a reference, or at minimum, confirmation that 'Adam' did indeed attend your university and graduate in 2010?".

If the reply is positive (let me put you through to the Student Management Dep. OR yes, we can confirm 'Adam' did attend and graduate in 2010), then once again the Fonz comes out, eyyyy.

If the reply is "k mmm duno" then the other eyebrow gets raised. No more Rock.


Repeat this process for as many of the listed members whom you feel are required realistically, for this project to become a success. By the end of your emails / calls, the half a braincell that is left functioning will be able to determine whether AS A MINIMUM these people exist and have both the experience and knowledge required to create and maintain what they are suggesting they can (THE ICO).

Once you've done this, why not call them? If they are legit there is probably a phone number. Again for those of you with less wrinkles than me you can email first if you're more comfortable doing so.

Call them and say "Hi. I've seen your website, I've read your whitepaper, I've verified your references. I like the idea. You guys are 100% real right?".

If the person who answers the phone, gives a reply, which is anything other than this, no matter all the good you have just built on them in terms of a case - WALK AWAY:

"Hey. Thanks for calling. Yes we are 100% real. Where are you based? We are in 'XYZ'. The executive board are so busy that they sometimes forget to flush the toilet, but listen, if you are really serious about being a part of this revolution, and supporting the project, and you wish to talk to someone who can provide you with more information, perhaps email, phone, video, or if you are geographically possible to do so, a meeting in person, I can try my best to help arrange this"

That's the reply you want to hear.


Right.... Now. The 'idea'.


I'm not going to throw personal opinions on what is and what isn't a "good project", however you can see for yourself, that > 80% are pretty much trying to raise money to do the same thing.

In terms of if an ICO is a scam, along with the whole data checking of whoever is meant to be leading the project, the idea must be considered thoroughly.

- Is the idea, the concept, a viable one?
- Is it the same as 80% of the others on the market?
- What is the USP?
- Is there a working prototype?
- Is there a product that already exists, funded off the backs of the founders, board, etc, that can be seen functioning?
- Is it a relevant product?
- Is the goal attainable?
- Is the concept going to change the world?

Most scam ICOs have similar signs. Big ambitious plans, almost carbon copied from yet another "we will speed up transaction times with little or no fees and help send from A or B faster and keep track, and yes, and no, the rain is coming".

They tend to use the same generic look, which is a paid template, modified.

There is usually no product, nothing to show the end-user, perhaps a few screenshots (if lucky). Check the SM accounts of those who are involved in high-level. A good SM account will show a history of what has been going on, which projects they have been working on, in what periods of their life, it supports their references... If someone claims to have been building drones for 4 years and has a photo of a drone which they have 3D printed, and engineered from 4 years back, that's a pretty good sign of authenticity.

If they succeed the ICO or not, it doesn't matter, everyone else is doing the same thing. Probably not a great risk. A USP is important.


Choose wisely. Do research. Do real world research. If people are arrogant and don't want to give you the time of day, then don't bother supporting the project. A good team and a good movement will always try and make time and show they are not focused on money.

Hope this helps!!

Just addition into this, mostly fake project offer high rewards and also high returns from investing with them in a short period of time. It is very questionable cause no other investment could give such high percentage, thus we can say that there is something wrong behind this project. They'll probably have a good communication with the investors but later on, they'll gone once the have enough money that have been collected.

Ico who are scam is not easy to find and determine so you need a lot of research to know and if you find a legit ICO that you think maybe it is not 100 percent sure it will become successful or legit because there is still possibility for it to scam the project if the founder and team decide to run our money.

Do research and review about the project ,Don't rely on the opinion of the others rely on your own basis, look for the team bounty team and ico team if its legit,if the project is active make sure it is legit because not all ico projects that active is not legit maybe it is a scam.look also for reference by the experts on ICO.

It's very easy to know whether ICO scams or does not look at its team if it's true and another looks at the background of its team to make sure the project is legit. Another thing to know is that if ico projects are active because most are not active or others stop working so just invest in active.

No amount of suggestions given here to detect scam ICOs will be enough as it mostly depends on your own level of vigilance and judgment on the advertised projects.

In general, I think that people should try to understand what and how to analyze correctly, but today there are very few people who really know how to do it so that it is effective, so I think that all this will definitely show real results only in the case of experience.

well, when an ICO is a scam, of course it will be discovered, even from the team, and the project is already visible. however, it is very difficult to distinguish ICOs that are scam or not. we can only find complete information about it so we can find out whether the project is a scam or not.

Many people mistakenly perceive cryptocurrency as easy money. However, it is not. To make money on the crypto market you need knowledge and experience. We need to find a promising project and know when to enter it and when to exit.
I recently found for myself the Sound Money Coin project and it seriously interested me, but I cannot say that I am ready to invest all my savings there. No matter how interesting this project is to me.

there have been so many ICOs nowadays an not any ICO can success because there are so many scams and not any investors can check a really good ICOs, even today checking social networks or whitepaper will not be a best way but we must check the team members are real of fake and will the project can be useful in the future.

This is one of the most commonly yet difficult to answer question on ICOs. ICO industry is full of scams
It all depends on your research, if you do it properly chances are rare of losing your money to a scam ICO. You can find some good ways in above article.

This is a good question, the SEC even had a period of 3-4 months ago made a fake website, which resulted in typical signs of fraud,and what you should pay attention to, I would say that first of all it is a team, how strong the team, what product is launched, in the Internet starnitsy people from the team to make sure that these are real people and not fakes

Now it is very difficult to find quality projects. I think this is due to the overall negative situation in the cryptocurrency market. But despite this, I try to choose projects with a sought-after product.

First of all you need to analyse the whitepaper, because the most scam projects are very likely to write bad whitepapers. Secondly I would check the team members of each project and if there are no active links to the social media, just skip this project.

Well, we agree that the crypto market has the ability to give fantastic returns but finally, all businesses are subject to the same market forces. If an ICO promises unrealistic returns on investments, like “Our coin gives you 1000% return in x months!” you had better watch out. Also try to read and understand the whitrpaper..  And do Lil research about the team if you can.

While ICOs is an ethical way of raising money through “crowdfunding,” the process is obviously fraught with danger if you fail to do your due diligence of the company, its backers, its team, advisors, and its concept. Here are a few signs when an ICO is most probably a scam, first, are promises that are too good to be true, a shallow whitepaper, then check the core team if they're real or fake, also uncapped or unrealistic raise is a red flag and lastly, breathless hype on social media, if an ICO is confident on its product it shouldn't rely on buzz word hype in social media. Talking about these ICOs, great example would be finished and running projects like Stackr and Bitrus.

some suggestions:
1. Look at the team, make sure the team is experienced and not suspicious
2. read the whitepaper, see the demonstrated concept
3. Look at tokens and how long ico runs

To find out that the ICO project is a scam or not. We have to check the development team and the CIO. We check whether they are real or not. Then study the white paper and you must join the official telegram account they have. If all checks are in doubt, it's better to look for another project.

To choose a potential ICO, you need to know the following information:
Website: Check how the website is designed? How is introduced.
Headquarters: Check which country ICO, location and information, if you can verify it, the better.
Team: Evaluate the team through the information introduced, check to see if they are actually implementing the project?
Whitepage: This is a documentary file detailing the ICO, the size of development, the way of calling capital, the direction of ICO, especially the products that ICO is developing. (Must read carefully)

There is no specific formula for this but you can analyze the ico on different paramameter. First you can check whether promoter are new one or experienced.second you can analyze how they are active on telegram and other social sites. Third you can analyze whether they work according to whitepaper or not. Fourth whether they are going to list on any good exchange or they create their on platform. If they are on good exchange mean they are good.

As a beginner, we must be able to understand the characteristics of a good ICO and not because it is very important to avoid fraud. Imagine things that we must pay attention to, for example TIM, products, and white paper. I do not guarantee that we will not lose money because investing in ICO is difficult things that sometimes happen unexpectedly, but we can avoid the best we can with care.

so it was possible to say like this a half of year ago or even a year. Now scammers are doing their site / white paper very carefully / picking up a team that even with very good preparation you will not be able to determine in advance that the project is a scam. just now you need not to risk a lot of money

in fact all aspects of the ICO determine that the project is good or bad because there are no certain things that guarantee the success of a project.
Although I think work partners and bounty hunters support the success of a project.
so in my opinion, we don't need to invest in ICO with a very large amount, especially in this condition.

There are no true parameters.. I think doing your research as much as possible is the best you can do.. And also try not to FOMO too often..

Yes. A lot of them are getting better in what they do lol. Identifying real and fake ICO is now a heavy task for anyone to do these days. I think the number one thing that matters most when trying to know if any ICO is legit or scam is the team. Yep the team behind it tells a lot of about it. So let's assume that an ICO has a Vitalik Butterin as one of the team members, you don't really need to think twice about it right?? But it doesn't just end there cause scammers now invent fake founders and biographies for their project. So, you really need to dig deeper in this to know if they are really what and who they claim to be. Their social media has to prove it.

There are lot of things you've got to check in an ICO, and I also like to say that scammers are now pretty good at what they do. Most of them now knows how to cover up pretty good so they won't be noticed. So you gotta be very careful cause I have read a lot of stories about them. Take your time to check everything that you're meant to check and also try to ask questions about the ICO.

There are many way to check ICO projects. Many ICO reviews sites like ICO Bench, ICO Bliss, Track ICO. But i believe that you need to make your own research well, not for 10 minutes or a day. You need to search everthing about the project, every news they have or go to their social media accounts and check them they active? Go projects telegram channel and talk with admins, see they respond quickly and trustfuly.

The easiest way is to read the whitepaper, most scam projects will copy and paste their whitepaper, besides that the roadmap that looks impossible is the easiest way to find out about a scam project or not.

I guess too, for an ICO to succeed there must a perfectly working product. Too bad I ain't invested on ICOs you mentioned.

To do this, you need to carry out a whole Analytics,and first of all to study the project itself,what is the idea of the project,and it is very important(I will pay attention to the project team), whether the real people in the picture,and what projects they previously launched!?this will depend on 90% of the project,as people can be stupid fake and it will immediately say that the project is 95% SCAM

whitepaper is the main step in determining ico because we can know the purpose of the project and the product being offered but don't overestimate the whitepaper because now there are so many whitepapers that just copy from the previous project (be careful)
I also advise you to always see the news here Scam Accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)

Check out icoethics.com, it is a good site to find the scam ICO. ICOethics is trying his best to find out and bust scammers here in this forum.
You can check team members of a ico to find out their legitimacy. All the scammers use fake images.

related to ico scam projects or not difficult to find out because there are many ways for them to make ico look convincing in our view. but we can still avoid it when ico is not convincing and the anonymous team is better not to follow. always alert

It's very important to make a background search about an ICO to ensure that you are not wasting time and money on any project which is not worth it. Some folks in the cryptospace are trying to play smart by luring people to invest into ICOs that are not worth a thing and have no working product. It's best to invest into ICOs that have a working product that would actually make use of its tokens at all times hence increasing the value of the tokens when listed on an exchanges.

Make a thorough research about the team members of the project, their whereabouts and their qualifications which guarantees to some level that they have the experience and expertise to actually achieve what they claim to do. This should at least help you to sample good projects from white elephant projects.

For someone who have demands to learn and find out scam projects, scam ICOs, there you go:
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This is a collection, in which collected and presented the most helpful topics on methods use to generally find out scam projects, not only ICOs.

First do research on the project teams one by one and make sure they have location or even phone number to be sure they really exist and the last is to make sure that the really have expertise and working product for the project

The easiest way is to find information about ico on the internet because what I see is a lot of people / websites that analyze an ico for a website that I just know is concourseq, and if you are diligent you might be able to find out yourself and start checking profile profile photos use applications like tineye for example

Now a days this the most problematic thing we are facing. There is no doubt that most of all ICO's are Fake/Scam. But there is couple of things that you can do for invest real ICO. first of all read there whit paper and try to know about that project. Join there telegram official channel and ask about the team, future plan, road map etc that you want to know. if you got 100% positive answer then you can invest your money on it. :)

I think finding information about ico that is scam or not from the internet is not easy. because most of the ico managers have anchored investors in advance so that investo can contribute funds to the ico. yes, so far, searching for a project that does not scam is difficult and sometimes it does not match our predictions.

I think it is difficult to identify whether the ICO project is a scam. Many projects will try to hide the bad aspects in the early stage of crowdfunding, making people feel undetectable. It is not easy to find out the real situation of the project until the end of crowdfunding.

First of all, check as many reputable sources as possible about this project; if there are few references to it in the media, then this is sufficient reason to think, and continue to check even more carefully.

But, no matter how they are to hide the bad aspects, it will still be visible.
I feel analyze gets to the basics, can find something else

This is clear enough. Unique and original projects have legitimate teams easily verifiable on social media or Internet, they also have a non plagiarised whitepaper and workable Tokenomics.

No, no, friend, request is bad. I led too many projects and received too few coins from them. So investing in ICO is not an option today. Invest only in a cryptocurrency that already works and is in demand. Everything is doomed to failure.

In checking good ico or not, first you must check the flow of their project through their whitepaper, then their team must also not a fake it should be real not a dummy only, then they must have a huge community in their project. And having an escrow is an advantage too. Do not be deceive by their promises.

Actually, you don't completely avoid 100% of ICO scam. They disguise very well. You can only use skills to minimize the rate of scam. Find out about the DEV team, check their information carefully. Check their website, check website traffic, check chat channel telegram ....

I don't have the proper way to find any type of scams but we will not be some difference between good and fake so we need to be more alert for every time when we are get investment on this field it will helpful for getting out from scam investment.

I think that there are no clear criteria that would make it possible to know for sure whether the project will be fraudulent or not. It is very difficult to guess now. The cryptocurrency market is still in a bearish trend.

well, i guess that's pretty reasonable. You have to find information in crpyto places. even in this forum, sometimes there are some who discuss some peculiarities of a particular project. well, look for information to avoid scam ICO projects.

Someone who have demands on how to identify scam ICOs, can visit there to get what you wanted.
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This can be helpful for you and help you go save your money, avoid losing money for scam projects.

It's easy to know if the ICO scam is easy or it's not okay to review the project well as well as their ICO team. Also on the ico team background if they are true and if they run the  projects very well and no issues upon them.Chec also the details related on the project.

Of course, I understand that today there is a very big problem of communication with the raid by scammers on the market of ico companies. But the fact is that it cannot be considered an output to the production of a security token, which, in turn, require passport data from the investor and the two participants in the cryptocurrency. In my opinion, I was convinced by the result of the analysis that almost all companies that required to provide personal data could not realize themselves, compared to ico companies that developed and attracted participants according to the old version. We need to look for other ways to combat fraud.

This is one of the major problems now why almost ICO failed, consider the bear market but the lack of trust. Due to 2017 ICO scams, investors are now afraid to invest. But there some  ICO which is still worth to invest but you have to take some precaution, invest only what you can afford to loose.

the simple thing that you can do is
how active them on their social media, if they still active answering many question i can say it still not scam

This time ico looks different consider about some icos able to reach hardcap instantly and there was a lot of investors are searching the hidden gem right now. As long as you have done proper research and you can get the hidden gem.

You should check a whitelist, video explanation, team, advisors, ratings and social medias. Good ICO's also have a very fast crowdsale and top-exchange listing. But anyway you have to remember that cryptoinvestment always has a risk.

To tell the truth, there is no 100% reliable method to flag the scam projects. But from my experience, I would say that projects originating from countries with strict crypto regulation, such as Japan, South Korea, Germany and Singapore are less likely to be run by scammers. Also, avoid projects in which the promoters are anonymous.

Even countries with strict electronic money regulations cannot guarantee an ico is a scam. I have worked with many developers from Korea and they are only interested in the profit of the token after being listed on the exchange.

Just because a coin drops in price doesn't mean it is a scam.  This is what annoys the hell out of me, projects can legitimately fail because competition is too fierce or there just isn't enough demand for it.  Of course there are the obvious exit scams but those should be categorized differently.

The first thing I do is check if it's a project listed on ico drops review website but if its not, then I go ahead to carry out my due diligence but checking out the team on LinkedIn to verify their authenticity before going further

right now a lot of people are panicking when they see the condition of the token prices not in accordance with ICO prices or not as expected, and when you get like that what you need is just waiting until the projects they develop can be implemented and can be used as solutions by many people it will make the price of the token expensive than the previous price.

Shitty tokens and shitty altcoins will die off over time.
It is a toughly truth that investors who invested into poor quality projects have to accept.
It's hard for them to accept their faults and their losses, but they have to do accept sooner or later and take it as lesson for their later investments.

Some of the projects outhere are not scam but a failed developed project with no active team. It hard to say all project as a scam because in these day some of the project has being failed to raise enough money to survived in this bad market. Avoid any fast rich scheme offer by fake team or a bad white paper that only haa being copy paste by other project. Im alway pick one to five project only to join and always to join in their telegram so i can know what are their progress in any time.

Failed projects are not too bad, but it will only become scam projects if they run crowdsale, collect money, and run away, without any developments.
If projects really developed, but months or years later, they failed and bankcrupted, it is acceptable.
It is the same as startup in real life, not mention about crypto startups.
They born, grown, and die, and there are very limited projects that can really matured and become successful years later their start days.

Only a good research can help you with choosing an ICO project. You must get information about heads of the project.

The problem is that some scam ICO are very professional and is quite hard to be identified as scams.

However,  here you jave some key points to take care:
- Whitepaper
- milestones already passed
- team to be verified
- social media activity
- references on other well known sites.

Checking their team IDs, backgrounds, and past history on scam or achivements may help a lot.
Some scammers or scam teams tend to create scam by scam.
So, if you can catch them via their past scam projects, you can avoid falling in their newly trapped scam ones.

First of all you can check the team. How strong and reputed the team is. You can cross-check their profile in the internet so as to ensure that they are not faking anything. You can also view their website and whitepaper. What is their aim and what are their goals. Whether their goals are practical. These things should be taken into consideration.
You can also read ANN of the new project to view what comments have been made about the project. These are the ways I think.

If the site is bad, I refuse. if the idea is bad, I refuse. If it is exchanged with a bad site, I refuse. Now it is difficult to find a good project but you need to know the managers from whom you take them. Mean what the project think. Invest in others or not.

I think everyone has their own way. I think so. No money to run a good site means you do not have a product. Are you all perfect? it means that you are a fraud who wants more investment and just tried the documents. Everything is simple and difficult.

Checking the strength of a project is very difficult, I hope that today people have already learned how to do something like that, so it seems to me that today we need to try to do it more and more often. Because there are not so many projects.

So, if you really think that it is too hard for you to assess quality of ICOs, and not sure that it is scam or not, you should not invest into any ICO.
It will better for you if you wait longer for those ICOs grown and developed some months to verify their quality.
Hurry usually don't help investors to get good returns, instead more risks to lose due to wrong investments into bad projects.

Look at the composition of the team, the idea of the project and the whitepaper. The team should include strong developers. Whitepaper does not contain water. And the idea is either innovative or breakthrough in its field.

I think the best way to know if an ICO is fake or not, is to check if they actually have any team members or developers on their website. The concept of the project is also a good place to start with.

In this space, when it comes to ICO nothing is certain, but one sure thing that I have always used to a kid exit scams is the team, projects with very visible teams that attend blockchain events are less likely to exit scam.

If you have enough knowledge then you can save yourself form scam projects. But sometimes it's still hard to save yourself form a ico scam. First you have to check website and the project. Then you have to read the white paper most of the icons are dead at white paper so those who know how to the k a white paper they have the greater chance. Then you have to check the team and advisory board. But sometimes after checking everything we have to be in a scam ico. So if you don't have knowledge then don't go for a ico but if you have enough knowledge icons can give you a lots of profit.

the complication is difficult because we don't know which is the best and which is the worst the following of good guidance is important to choose and pick the best otherwise you will get lost only and there are lots of scams are available to easily attack the people and make their investment then they fraud everyone.

in some cases ico scam has happened a lot and is none other than the project developer itself. many of them have good goals but are not in accordance with their work map and also a team that is not transparent. my advice before joining the ico project was to be more observant in tracking project clarity and transparent teams.

Check the project from head to toe, start from the site, whether it is well made, then read the white paper, check it for uniqueness, check the composition of the team and their profiles in social networks. If you find any mismatches, write about them on the forum, they will help you.

Investing in ICO does have a big profit. But it also has risks and for that, we must be careful. To find out about fraud projects, we must check the appearance of the website and then check the Team. If after checking the results, it is very doubtful that it is better not to invest.

This one is very simple.

No project should ever promise you a profit if you invest in their ICO, STO or whatever kind of investment oppertunity.


Invest in projects that display good plans for the future with useful products.

in any case, if you make a choice among all ico companies, then this choice will be very difficult. A lot of projects do not initially have any product and you need to correctly analyze the information in order to get at least some confidence in future prospects.

Simple check the team and its background check also the bounty project and its team of there are issues about the bounty team then review the ICO well if there are problems or any untrusted matters.we cam also do reviews on opinions and we can have a study about the project before investing.

Check everything about that project like whitepaper, ico ratting in trusted site or maybe you can ask to your friend who is smarter than you in this cryptocurrency field. If you see something weird in that ico project, just leave it and find another one.

You can do your own research about their team, their location, or their partners.
Usually few users in this forum will make accusation thread if the ICO is scam, here is the thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
My suggestion is, never be lazy to read the forum, it helps you to avoid scammer.

find update on that thread really help us to avoid scam.some people concerning on scam projects, they always analize and research about it.update from accusation thread and some site really help us.

Scammers are so smart and they also have good ability to adapt and change their scam approaches.
So, it's too hard to find all scam projects, from time to time if you simply based on your own knownledge and assessments.
To do that, you should visit other good topics or communities that tend to find scam projects and give away warning alerts.
Personally, I don't invest in ICOs, and it is better to invest into those projects when they actually lively run more than one year.

A lot of people here are fond of saying whitepaper, like that’s the only thing that really matters. This time around scammers can create a really good whitepaper that is unique and will make you think the project is genuine. I’m not trying to say we shouldn’t go through the whitepaper, but you should take your time to go through everything, including the team, so that you don’t waste months investing and working hard and at the end it ends up as nothing.

First thing to do is to scrutinize the entire team of the project to know if they are real or not, to know if they truly have the capacity to run the project or not and to know the level of tueir excitement towards the project. Also weigh the potential application of the project and see if it can be effectively adopted by the masses

As far as I know, there were projects on the market that promised to solve this situation. If I’m not mistaken this is the W12 project and the DESICO project, I don’t know in what condition and in what status these projects are today. Therefore, it is still unknown.

Their site says a lot about them. I do consider, if I visit the site and it looks bad, I just start losing interest immediately. Some of them are even worst to the extent you don’t really have to move on, just quit from there immediately. Their idea is another thing, if it’s a stupid idea, whether scam or not, I’m not going to invest in it cause I already know it’s not going to work out.

The first, in my opinion, is that you have to be positive. Second, you must see the ICO rating. Third, you must visit the website and fourth, you must read white paper. I think that is a good way for you to apply before starting your wishes.

so you are a newbie here who doesn't have any experience but wants to invest? Come on, don't waste your money on scam projects, you should read a lot and start doing research

ICO ratings maybe false and they don't guarantee you anything. project may have 4.8 out of 5 but become a scam or just don't give a result.

As for me what I normally do is to go to icodrops.com and search about the ico that I wanna invest in and also I searched on ico bench they also do review about ico project both site give good reviews about ico if it's a scam or not

besides what you have mentioned in my opinion we also do not need to make a decision too quickly.
It is better to observe the ICO's development first, if we think that the ICO is indeed feasible, then we can decide to invest in the ICO because at the moment there are many ICOs that stop in the middle of the road so we have to wait at least half the ICO period.

ICO has become obsolete. Now another trend, called IEO, is starting to gain momentum, the primary placement of tokens on the exchange, where the project management is almost completely deceptive, since the exchange acts as a kind of guarantor between the project team and the investor

Have any of you invested in ICO recently? In my opinion it is inefficient and fatal business. ICO dead.

Two aspects should observe ICOs are: the developments of projects that run ICOs, as you mentioned; and the movements of prices on exchanges after ICOs ended. If we can see that developments are good or at least acceptable, and price movements show signals of bottom out, we can buy at low price and wait for chances to take profits when development come to product releases.

seeing ICO nowadays there are many projects that have the potential to scam but there are also good ones among them, we just have to be smart in analyzing a project.
even though business is fatal in your opinion, but if the team behind the ICO is still active it will be potentially good.

A good ICO always has an active group Admin. Who always answers member questions. And a good ICO always provides updates about developments or milestones that are obtained. Also, they have good partners.

if at the start admin was active, and then they get some fund lets say 1M$, and then the group was silent over a week no activities from admin or the team member, we can say that project was scam.

I would suggest to read the whitepaper and do a background check for the team members if its a real or fake people and if you are looking for a good project who has a big potential then you need to make deep research about the real use-case of their product.

It really hard to detect a scam project these days because most newly scam project already developed the idea of the real ones and do exactly the way the real ones appear. One thing you should always watch out for is the interaction within the project team and the community.

As you know most of ICO's are scam now a days but you can check about trusted ICO's you should need to check their all social links and ICO,S ranking sites.

Indeed, in practice it is very difficult to identify fraudulent ICOs, because fraudsters are creative. You must check the technical document for errors and inaccuracies, as well as check the personal profiles of team members and the activity of administrators and managers.

The probability of investing in an ICO now that is not a scam is very low. Checking the social media platforms and reading the whitepaper can guarantee you success in your research to determine, if it is scam or not. I will just advise, anyone not to invest more than  you are willing to loose. Invest wisely. I think the IEO is beginning to gain wave and should be a better option.

This is a good site and there is a lot of useful information about projects. But I don’t even believe this site, because they make money from advertising and there is a possibility that they were paid money just for advertising this project.
Until I myself am sure that the project is not scammers I will not invest in it.

Just check it mate, you believe that the project is not a scam but you'll never invest with it. I've never understand of what you've trying to say for the beginners and it only causes them doubts.
Supposedly, if we will found that certain project have its potential, have no indications of scam and we can prove that it is a legit project then we can assured that is a project we've looking for and good for our investment.

There are many ways as others mentioned such as quality of whitepaper, website, authenticity of team, advisors, presence of institutional backing etc. But unfortunately, you'll never truly know until after the ICO is concluded.

You can have an ICO with the best presentation, and still turn out to be a scam. Why?

There are cases of which seemingly legit ICOs with good quality presentation exit without returning investors' fund, simply because they can't raise enough money during ICO. People lose interest in this bear market and the number of ICO investors declines sharply. And unfortunately when these ICO founders are hit by the harsh reality which they weren't prepared due to their plain ignorance and over confidence - very common in the blockchain industry, they change their mind and decide to "recover the loss" and "save their ego" by taking away whatever investor's fund, instead of returning they money and acknowledging their failure and incompetence.

Do a google search "legit ICO turn to exit scam" and you'll find out the unpleasant fact.

Probably the only ICOs giving you more confidence are the ones run by established "conventional" businesses instead of blockchain startups. Even if their ICOs fail, it's more likely they'll return your fund, because they are well established businesses, and so less likely to risk their existing reputation by scamming.

But who knows, even these established businesses may still keep your money - they won't exit, but will come up with some shameless excuses (some of which have been already demonstrated, like "you failed to pass KYC / AML / identity check / xxxx compliance" or "blockchain technical issues"), if they are really desperate in getting profit. Remember even Coinbase (and some other crypto exchanges) have a notorious history of "disappearing" customers' deposits, which saw a surge during the crypto mania in 2017. If this happens, your only hope remains in a class action.

First of all check the OP's trust feedback of ANN thread,then visit the scam accusationfor any issues over that ICO by doing this you can ignore 80% of scam projects.

It will be a bad idea to invest in ICO project considering how the crypto ecosystem is changing. IEO is the new way to invest into a crypto project which is scam free. If you are still investing into ICO projects then you are at your own risk of either losing your money or buying a scam crypto coin. ICO is dead now.....

There are some important factors I consider, first is the project itself, the development team, and the community supporting the ICO. It has to be new and improved idea of a project, this has to attract the people and let them see what's in it for them. Secondly, development team should be real and good credentials, it is one of the biggest factor. And lastly, the people that will support the ICO, larger community mean bigger potential.

the way everyone is different, but I will explain a little how I choose ICO, so I do not get scam.
- I will first see who is involved in the ICO, like who is the Bounty Manager and the authenticity of their Team.
- I will read their Whitepaper, how do they work and whether the profit sharing from ICO makes sense.
- and finally, whether the ICO is listed on ICO recommendation sites such as ICO Bench, Tokenmarket and others.
be diligent in asking and don't be lazy to find out.

One common thing about scam ICOs is that the offer more than they can achieve. Make your own research about the project and its whereabouts considering the team members behind the project. Some individuals can sometimes bring up fake identities of renowned persons as partners of their project but most of the times these are not true but to lure investors into purchasing their tokens.

An ICO whitepaper speak a lot about an ICO but it is quite unfortunate that some white paper are just trash. Advisory and partners of a project also play an important role in very ICO. This can also be avoided by ruling out ICO to IEO.

I think because you are new in forum, also new about ICO, you need someone who expert about ICO, maybe your friend, so can help you to choose the right one, Or just invest in major coins like bitcoin, ethereum and many more. And about how to check scam ICO, maybe this thread can help you https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5110020.0

Scam is real, to be able to determine which that, read and learn thoroughly on the team behind the projects, their whitepaper and social media handles. How the team respond on their social media handles. This for sure will give you a gist into the project. Its takes hard work to do this or else, you will always be scammed.

nowadays it's very difficult to find out. because ico runs as usual, the fixed total stake is calculated at the end of the period and then distribution is also carried out. but it has not yet been launched into the market exchange and also the team sometimes still provides information. this is very difficult to predict ...

Its good to research on the project, social media, or whitepaper but its not enough. Its hard to determine a good ICOs or scam ICOs because the whipaper must be very excellent but i think its depend on the developers team. Right now, ICO have competitor like IEO and to survive, ICOs should offering transparancy and good project with working product

Honestly for now all the fundamentals before investing on ICIS are useless because most of them are scam or fake and other legit ones will get dump hard when listed on exchanges. Better try your luck on binance launchpad because ICOS that are launching there will give you easy profit.

well, being careful when choosing ICO will certainly be a good thing. sometimes some ICOs make existing projects, moreover a weak team. avoid projects like that. although difficult, I think a project scam will leave a trail that makes people think that is a strange thing.

Check for these key factors:

Technology: The technology that the project is pitching is real or some rocket science.
Team: Is the team real or fake, get along chats and hangout to verify it.
Experience: Do they have enough experience in the current sector to make the project a success in a long run?
Fundraising: Often projects with real team and great ideas fail due to no fundraising, so check if they are backed with good wealthy people to fuel up the fundraising?

You must have knowledge about ico first.
if not, you should try to learn and find lots of comparisons of various ico. remember, not all ico will succeed and get success
especially for now, most ico don't have a good idea and potentially the next scam or shitcoin

I looked at various aspects before joining a project or investing.
1. Read whitepaper
2. serach about the project team information
3. find out the project rating
that's a simple things I did before joining a project, but for more details we have to dig more.

Bitcointalk forum is best place to judge any ICO's , here you can check the comments of seniors members and other community and also can check the ratting of member who posted thread for ICO's

we don't know whether ICO is scam or not, but in my opinion the way to avoid ICO scam is to try to check their website pages carefully, such as facebook, twitter, team, documents, whitepaper etc.

This is the most challenging part of any project for investors to find out if any project is scam or legit.
Most of the times we get attracted and inspired by the project idea, it's website, and very large number of community members in telegram.
Now a days every system, idea, concept can be transformed into blockchain technology ecosystem. It's very much possible to design a very good looking website with lot of graphics in it. I have seen there are thousands of boots possible in telegram community.
So if we feel the project is good, we have to get ourselves engaged daily in community discussions. This will keep us updated about project specifically the development part. We also consider at what stage product development is.
If we have technical knowledge (I don't have), GitHub code also can give better idea about project.
One of the thing I have observed that if any product is already existing and through a project they are transitioning to blockchain technology, it's most likely genuine project. For example, Bankera.
There are many other factors which  can be checked to know if any project is good by or not.
Regulations to cryptocurrency and ICOs is permanent solution to it.

I am just reading the whitepaper of a new project and if you have read enough whitepapers, you can determinate a scam project within 5 minutes of reading. In the most cases, team members are just copy pasting things from others.

I've been telling people that it's very difficult to know which ICO is actually scam. Reason being that some projects present very good whitepaper and MVP, yet they have no intention of developing a working product and just do away with funds from token sale. But that is not the case always. The very first thing you should research on is the team, how legitimate and real is the team? Can they achieve the project aim? Do they have project backings? What's the vesting period for their own allocation of coins?

Even the White paper is not a guarantee way to know scam projects some scam projects have a very good White and after the found raising will stop following the road map in the white paper. But intensive research about the team behind the token is what matters and if they really have an ecosystem that will support the coin.

Check out various aspects. Like the Website display, Whitepaper, and Roadmap project. After that you have to check through the social media accounts they have such as Telegram, Facebook and Twitter. If the project is real of course the social media account is still very active.

Unfortunately, there is no way to figure out whether an ICO is definitely a scam. But you should do your own research. At least you can reduce your chances of joining a scam ICO thanks to these investigations. Especially the ones I recommend your research are as follows;

1- Investigate the team members of the project. And I would recommend that you check the old projects which that team members worked.

2- Read the project's whitepaper and check the roadmap.

3- Check the project's ICO raitings on ICO evaluation sites.

4- Read the comments of other investors on the social media about the project. Check the answers by  the project team members which especially to the criticized parts.

5- And my last advice is that, check the other platforms wich the same vision and purpose as the project. In this way, you can get the average value that the token can reach. And in this way, you can calculate your profits in a more logical way. You shouldn't forget that, you should make the comparison with the total market cap of the platform, not the unit price of the token.

Indeed no one can find if a ICO is scam or no, and will be hard to know where to invest, better to not invest on ICO and now i think no one will invest on ICO now if IEO appear.

There is no specific ways to detect ICO scam, the only thing that can serve as hints to know scam Project is to research well on the projects like checking the team, following the project on social media's and checking if the project really have something reasonable to offer.

basic and the promotion only we can trust sum investment if it was new also so I need to check the promoters firstly then only the idea will came to my mind if it was true or fake otherwise we don't have any options to find them it was original or scam.

To know scam ico you have to do proper research, some team can be deceiving with thier sweet mouth, in this space scammers are too many, i think base on feasibility of white paper whether it's achievable also experience of the team, with that you can at least detect if it's scam or not.

To minimise loss by reducing risk, you will do research even just a little bit. First you have to read the whitepaper if the use case is achievable and not too lofty and second most important thing to do is to do background checks on the team if they are real. The best teams are the ones who are known in crypto.

Now it is better not to invest in ICO projects at all, because at least 70% of them are fraudsters. The remaining projects have few chances to realize your ideas and bring you a profit. They can go to the exchange and then begin the massive sale of their tokens at prices lower than ICO.

There are quite a number of ways to differentiate between good ICOs and bad ICOs. But I personally consider the following
The team: you should do a background check on the team and track them on their different social media platform (especially LinkedIn), if they are not real then they are probably scanners.

The advisors: if they have influential people or personal as their advisor then the project is legit because no influential person wants his/her name dragged in the mud.

The project whitepaper: check the quality of their whitepaper and their website

The idea of the project: check whether the idea is realistic or not. Etc

You should consider different ways of analyzing the project based on your discretion.

Yes, now it is difficult to find quality projects. No matter how you check, it is practically impossible to do. You can check out the team and see the idea. But this does not guarantee that the project will be successful and will bring you profit.

But the knowledge of professionals comes after a life time experience or most of the time these traders and investors spend in the crypto industry. Like Bitcointalk forum there are other multiple platforms as well where these professionals as well as newbies interact with each other and exchange of ideas takes place. ICOs are not scam but all are not safe you have to find good ones if you are good at finding them.

As you know most of ICO's was scams and also coming more scams ICO's, if you wants to get good tokens or coins than you should join IEO.

These scam ICOs behave like a legit ones, so it is very difficult to spot them. They spend a lot of money in website creation, promotion and advertisement, but still you can learn about team members and read whitepaper.

As if you wants join any good or trusted bounty than you should check all social links and also should check bounty ranking sites.

I am agree, many scam ICOs act like legit project and i dont think new investor recognize this. I think the important thing about ICOs is on the project itself. If the developers team must do KYC, i think its good one because they want to comply with regulators but this is not only way to recognize legit one

Many methods that can be done to find out the potential of an ICO is scam or not, usually I do simple things like visiting their website if there are lots of bugs on the website and access is too slow then I will not participate in their project.

In view of ico is not merely because there are ico scams spreading in the forum and many are promoting ico scams so investors can be careful because they can join the ico scams and fly their funds into view ico if legit or scam is to think of their website if their website is new but in their roadmap they have made an event then and the admin or their team does not lose the website because they can manipulate it by copying other ico teams and you can also see if their ico bench is in their project and if their ratings are good then it's legit ico.

Hard to recognize scam ICOs because they using a good marketing and always looks legit project. But thanks to IEO because its make competition in new project getting more tight and i am believe will bring ICOs to next level

with that mechanics you were looking before participating will really helps the people to found out that it is not a good project to invest in, because for me as you offer services for the people they should plan very well the design and deliver it to the people clear and complete.

identifiying scam projects really difficult to us.if they publish their ico progress and it look unnormal ,maybe we could distrust on it.actuall if thoorough their site could said about it.they usually use hyip template.

You can actually check in so so so many ways but many people don't know about how to identify if its scam. Here is a link for you to know it while I'm searching on google: https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-identify-cryptocurrency-and-ico-scams/

Till now, I haven't come across a way to check if an ICO is a scam or not. You will read through some whitepapers or telegram and you will feel like wow, this is a great project and at the end of the day, it's all Scam.

The scam projects are increasingly organized more sophisticated. More than 90% of ICO in 2018 had a bad result. It seriously affects investors and the vitality of the community. Perhaps, it doesn't simply look at the team, the website and telegram or wp. It is better to take the time to monitor and observe them to find gaps from those cowardly, lazy teams.

I think the biggest help to check if an ICO is scam or not is this bitcointalk forum. The community got many experts to discuss if a ICO is legit or a scam or not worth it.

investing ico means you have to be ready to lose the money you invest if you are still not ready, don't invest in ico and there is no way to determine ico real or scam ico, but if you want your money to be safe during investment you should go to IEO

usually in forum very active to report if member find new scam projects.maybe we have to routine check on scam accusations board to keep an update about scam projects.

It is easy, because a lot of ICOs making the same errors and if you analyzed some of them you can find out another ICO and detect scam.
From my point of view it is quite easy

Normal analysis of ICO project will help to identify a fraudulent project or not, personally I look at the team, the idea of the project, people's feedback and perspective project

Firstly, I check out the whitepaper and ask relevant questions in their community. Unfortunately, some badass whitepapers have been put together by money grabbers.
Next, I always pay attention to the team that claims they will bring these ideas to fruition - are they capable? I always look out for teams like that of ECOMI (http://bit.ly/2K0GUby), with a licencing giant such as Alfred Khan.
Again, I try as much as possible to assess how possible bringing their idea is.. I don't like unnecessarily complex projects.
Finally, how useful is the utility they possess and can it be appealing enough for the masses to adopt?

If all these are checked in my books, I go in and HODl long term.

Investment is a risk and no one can give you guarantees. But if you invest in IEO from top exchanges, these risks will be reduced and you will be able to earn. But I believe that this is not the way out and it is best for you to learn how to analyze projects in order to understand what you are investing in.

An ICO is simply a crowdfunding event which uses crypto instead of fiat money.

The same rules that apply to startup funding apply to ICO's.

Is the project good? Is the team good? Do you know the team? Why should you trust the project? Does the product have a market? Is there demand? Can the team really build the product/service?

When you invest in ICO you're simply becoming a partner in a startup. If the startup wouldn't work using fiat money funding, it won't work with crypto ICO either.

There are many things to check actually.. And i know so many people here have dropped many already. But I will like to add this; watch also the reviews of some crypto enthusiasts who you now are kind of updated with cryto dealings now and then..

Before investing make sure that you have some research to the project that you are joining or younare investing. Make sure that you check all the details specially the profit or the exchange make sure you analized it well if it is possible or there is an possibilty that project will have a chance to be successful by asking by the member on this site.

Newly evolved ICO or newly launched projects are now difficult to differentiate whether its a scam or not given the fact that they already know what people are looking for in a project. Investing in it also has an assurance that you will end up getting scammed at any times. Just dig and read and if you feel its safe then engage.

It is very easy to look for Ico and check it if its a scam or legit you will only do research and check the team that runs a ICO'S, and i have a good ICO to recommend and this ico is legit and you can check the Dencoin tokens that has started a pre-sale and the main sale will starts at june 1st so check this project.

My advise is understand first what crypto all about and it work in the market. I hardly recomment to study also the specific project you want to invest. Those scammed people here maybe they lack of review. Mostly review have a good project is through there white paper, project objective, social media's and the people behind if they are legit. that the basic you also comparw others advise.

Hello, friend, these are my thinks.

Find out the team.

1. The most important achievement factor for any ICO or cryptocurrency is probably the developers and the administrative team behind the project.

2. The cryptocurrency space is dominated by major names, with superstar developers like Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin capable of making or breaking new projects simply by having their names listed on a development team.

3. For this reason, false creations and biographies are more numerous than pretexts for their projects.

4. The best protection against this counterfeit strategy is to diligently study a project team member before investing.

5.check the whitepaper. Whitepaper says a lot about an ICO.

6. See the accounts of the group members so that you can gain some respect for them.

this is not a financial advice

The simplest way is to search in Google by photos of the team members. Usually they take pictures from stocks of these people are from the industry you can contact them and ask.

if you want to invest / want to buy an altcoin, it's better to buy altcoins that have been registered as an exchange only. so you just wait when it's time to sell the altcoin that you bought again, this is a risk that isn't too big in my opinion than participating in ICO which turns out to be a scam. But if you want to participate in the ICO, please check first, the basic concepts of the project, such as whitepaper, team,and the products offered.

As history showed there are great ICOs that not only give X amount returns but also continue to develop the project after the ICO is finished. However, the problem is that now a lot of companies do an ICO for the sake of getting an investment. Without a clear explanation and accountability to the promises of were the money will be spent or if they will be spent.

However with a deep inhouse research you can unearth some truly interesting and with huge potential projects.  Tho I am leaning now towards projects that do not have any premine, instamine or founder taxes.

However, the question was what are the best ICOs to invest in. I will share the projects that are still in the early stage that  I think are currently at the top of my list (Some are IEO):

BitTorrent
Marconi Protocol
Historia
StarkWare
Oasis Labs

For me I think there is no enough space for ICO now, I joined some events and met a lot of investors and project teams, none of them are intested in ICO, more like STO (Even less IEO now i think)

Yes I agree, I just answer the topic actually. :) Always new ways out per the changes of regulations. Like the HTA mode they did the project last year and they aim to do IEO as well. Seems a popular trend for now.

Well, there is not strait jacket rule to follow in order to detect whether a project is scam or not, however, there are some few checks and tips to include in the research to ascertain a good level of confidence about the authenticity of the project. Firstly, during the research, the investor must look out for the actual profile of the team behind the project. Here, the investor must follow the social media outlets of the team members and come out with accurate information about their data. The data must be coherent and valid as this will help determine the expertise level of the team. Secondly, the investor must look out for the product and its demand level on the market. This part helps the investor to know how serious the project is especially if the project has an already functioning product on the market.

Finding the good ICO is very hard but for me i have my strategy how to know if that ICO is not a scam but sometimes i also victim of scam ICO because it looks like the real ICO by the way you must look at their website, whitepaper, roadmap, the team should have long experience to handle the project.

Honestly it is hard to find out what is the real ICO or scam many of some investors are resting of investing on ICO because lots of scam ICO are scattered here in crypto space, for me i always look at the team background if they have bad reputation and their documents should be complete.

Many things must be checked to ensure that the ICO is an ICO scam or not, first look at the project details through a roadmap, after you read it whether the project is reasonable or not, then look at the team behind it, whether trusted or not

honestly, it's very difficult to know whether the ICO is scam or not. a lot of team profiles and website appearances look promising and can be trusted but in fact we are fooled. whatever advice it will definitely not be effective.

As of my experience, checking linked in profile, facebook and twitter will not going to prove anything, the scam and scammers will going to be able to easily set up their account, its upon their responsibility to manage it by their own, though, what we can do better is to see the community, if it was active and with real members.

at least we can avoid those who have fake teams and models. because it's definitely a scam project. and we can focus more on projects that look promising even though we don't necessarily avoid fraud. isn't it like that we like gambling in choosing projects?

It would do well to remind people also that authenticity of the project does not really say much about the intention to scam or not. If I were a scammer, I'd want to create an authentic project. An actual white paper, an actual blockchain even an actual product that works, etc. The more I give people to see and use, the more they will invest.

It's really important to try and see past the hype and get a sense of the developers and community, if they're real, or if they're just on for the ride.

as I said, we don't know exactly which is a real ico project and scam. then how do you know and avoid it?
yes right, investing in ico, sto, ieo if we think back it does look like we are gambling, the purpose is getting profit or loss, you are right.

For now checking between ico is deceptive or not very difficult. because most ico are also not transparent. the easiest thing is checking the team. are they fake or not. this is the first step before going to the others. make sure they are authentic. because scammers usually fake their team.

actually, it is very difficult to know that, because sometimes someone's intentions arrive when funds have been collected. however, sometimes a number of projects also appear to be clearly scam, even more so they promise lots of bonuses, with very easy things. sometimes the team also consists of edited photos. for whatever, we can know that except doing in-depth research.

Today, its very difficult to find legit projects. We have to keep away ourselves from scam projects.At the beginning of any project, it's really difficult to identify if the project is scam or legit.
Many times we get attracted and inspired by the project idea, it's website, and very large number of community members in telegram.
Now a days every system, idea, concept can be transformed into blockchain technology ecosystem. It's very much possible to design a very good looking website with lot of graphics in it. I have seen there are thousands of boots possible in telegram community.
So if we feel the project is good, we have to get ourselves engaged daily in community discussions. This will keep us updated about project specifically the development part. We also consider at what stage product development is.
If we have technical knowledge (I don't have), GitHub code also can give better idea about project. One example I can give here is MultiVAC. I am engaged in this project so much and due to that get updated on their daily development updates, team members information, any events they have and so on.
One of the thing I have observed that if any product is already existing and through a project they are migrating to blockchain technology, it's most likely genuine project. For example, Bankera.
There are many other factors which  can be checked to know if any project is good by or not.
I see a solution to scam projects, Regulations to cryptocurrency and ICOs. Hope the situation will be better in near future.

Currently ICO projects are not reputable and investment will come with 50% risk. means scam rate up to 50%! That is a terrible number. so you should only invest in IEO projects. Those projects are verified by exchanges in terms of prestige as well as potential.
You should buy tokens at exchanges like Okex, BNB, Huobi, Coineal, IDAX. These are reputable exchanges.

What must be seen is of course development, vision, team, transparency. All of that is the beginning of our trust towards a project that conducts ICO. Because, nowadays there are still many ICOs who are scam or not trusted. So from that transparent to investors is very necessary so that trust grows for us to invest in the ico.

First you need to check the whitepaper they have if it is original then their team behind must also true and not fake. See if the usages of their token is attainable and realistic for the community target of the project, then look at the allocation budget for the bounty, if they have an escrow it is an advantage but not necessary needed, however, having a good reputation of the bounty manager is also a advantage too. And most of all they must trustworthy.

As I see, it requires pretty deep analysis and you know, not everyone can do it today. Cause we basically choose the projects based of friends' recommendation etc, however, of course, we must be more objective

Morning there. Yes, this is true. I would also say that today not everyone can evaluate and rationally recognize one or another project, you are right. So probably only automated solutions that analyze the coin, big data with the use of latest technology can make us sure in one or another solution

Makes sense. So something artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze everything. But are there such solutions on the market already? Are you aware?

Not sure whether there are different solutions, however I know the most advanced one. They are using exactly what you have mentioned - AI, machine learning and other advanced solutions to build objective overview. Called Vespucci. You must have heard of them if you are deeply into Crypto

Can you tell me more about what they are doing? Kinda in more details. Coins analysis?

Well, Vespucci is a new system, that monitors the evolution of blockchain and cryptocurrency markets and delivers unbiased, robust and up-to-date rankings that represent the real value of a very wide spectrum of coins as well as their potential. I recommend you just to Google Vespucci, they are pretty popular. And examine their website, of course

Checking ICO scam or not is difficult, but we can see it from the project's whitepaper, and the team behind it

I dont think that simple, many scam ICOs have good whitepapers but mostly have fake developers team. Whitepaper is not the only factor to determine the project are legit, i think the developers team behind is the main factor to project run

There is only one thing to distinguish if the ICO is scam or not by reviewing its platsform. If its platforms was clear and gives enough good feedback then its not a scam but if its not better look another bounties to be join of like the dencoin tokens which promoted a holders to buy sell and to trade tokens.

that looks good isn't necessarily good so it's hard to know Scam or not.
sometimes we have run uh it turns out the project is a scam, it might happen often.
Until now, I did not understand how to find out if the project was fraudulent. a project that is good or impossible we can understand by reading the project's vision and mission or can know who the team is whether the team can develop well or not.

Do your due diligence research about the people behind the project. Note their pedigree in the market and of course most of these information could be garnered from their whitepaper

To check the ICO scam or not it is necessary to carefully examine all available information about the project and its development team. Read reviews from experts and other people. See reviews of rating sites. And only after that make a decision on investing. However, remember that there will not be a 100% guarantee that the project will not be scammers.

I think that the organizers of the project do not know will be they scammers or not. It is important to understand that people are deceived because of the bad situation in the market. Many projects cannot pay salaries to their employees. But seriously you need to do a thorough analysis of the project.

Do not invest in ICO. 2 years lasted the era of ICO and it ended. Now it is a new era - IEO. At the moment, you can buy coins on well-known exchanges under this scheme. It took a little time and now all the exchanges are true.

right, but sometimes it actually pity them, because they are directly confronted with investors, so they are the first to come in contact with investors. but at least a good project organizer will handle a good project, even though it is not guaranteed

As a new investor, my advice to you is to stay away from ICOs for now and invest only in coins that are already listed on the market because your chances of being scammed is very high. You may decide to go into ICO investment after you are well grounded in crypto investment.

Now scammers are becoming lazy, so first of all you need to check the fake team. If this is all good, then check the physical location of the company.

What if the project is not registered in a particular country? if the project is associated with anonymity. often such projects do not register a company in any country

To start with first checkout the team and their qualifications, then compare with what they are offering to see if it is in accordance. Secondly study the whitepaper it be sure the idea written is possible. Then checkout the community platforms to know how active and how long they are have been working and what they have achieved overtime.
I think this will help a whole lot.

Its good advice and i am agree with your opinion. The developers team is important part in the project and i think their competence againts the project is more needed. Making deep research is important before we make investment and i am believe this can reducing our risk

To check if the ICO was scam or not, here's the things we have to deal with, like reviewing its teams platsforms, tjeir whitepapers and ofcourse the way people responded to the project. If its platforms was clear and gives enough good feedback then its not a scam but if its not better look another bounties to be join of like the dencoin tokens which promoted a holders to buy sell and to trade tokens. Bevause nowadays, as the cryptomarket arises there will also be the scammers that attacks and tricks investor so that they will steal their money.

On how to check if the ICO was scam or not. First thing to do was to check and review all the details about their project like how they run it, also look for its whitepaper if its really seems to be true. Because this time, scammers are everywhere in the cryptomarket just to tricks investors. So, just a tip for everyone only trust a project that has a good whitepapers and also a project which offers a good and true investment like the ETH BTC and also the dencoin which we can be trusted to be part of.

Nowadays, by simply fact that we discuss about an ICO and not an IEO it's a trigger that the project might be a scam.

Most of good projects will choose IEO as they are much reliable and  investors know from the beginning on which exchange the project will be listed.

I agree, checking the development team is the first thing that can help identify dishonest project. I think also we need to check the balance of wallet which received investments

I would try to add - you need to check the real accounts of developers in social networks and linkedin - so that they were and were not created for the ICO, but at least a year before.
As a rule, people risk about their real name and dont want to make clean scam projects with a clear link to themselves

The truth of this matter is that, it is near impossible to know a scam project especially if conducted by professional in the crypto community.
We can watch this few signals or signs, No product ICO. Project with unrealistic promises etc

The team is the most important thing. Team that created successful crypto project has greater chance to create another successful project than some newbies in crypo field.  :)

In my opinion it is very difficult to qualify scam project after run some days. Because there are many projects that run for a long time, but at one time they scam. But at the beginning of the project you will need to qualify a lot about those projects. team member at the first think, second project development, (telegram, social media activity support), Whitepapper proof, web register everything you need check before your investment.

For my suggestions, to check if the ICO was scam or not, here's the things we have to deal with, ofcourse we have to review its teams platsforms, their whitepapers and ofcourse the way people responded to the project. If its platforms was clear enough and gives enough good feedback about the project then its not a scam but if its not better look another bounties to be join of like the dencoin tokens which promoted a holders to buy sell and to trade tokens. Because nowadays, as the cryptoworld arises its goodness then there will also be the scammers that attacks and tricks investor so that they will steal their money and run with it. So we need to have an extra careful here in the cryptomarket.

This does not happen so often, but it is such projects that the investors manage to steal the most from. Fortunately, most of the scam projects are easily identified when checking the team and white paper.

If you are a really investor of ICO you should know how to do proper research about the new release ICO project. Me as a small time investor I am going to see first the white paper and then if I see anything suspicious or any copy paste from other white paper then I automatically leave that ICO.
Try also the image finder on google and try to put the photo of the CEO of that said ICO and then if that photo comes out in the result then for sure it is just copy of the photo on google, not their real identity.

It does not save from fraud by 100%.Many fraudsters are very careful about the preparation of ICO.They behave like a legal team, and you will not even have a hint that this is fraud.So there will never be a full guarantee.

First and foremost, investing in an ICO is a great risk because you don't know the person at the other end that is posing to be what he/she is not. Internet is very easy to tell lies. Therefore, no matter the degree of ones research about an ICO, it still doesn't guarantee the legitimacy of such ICO. In a nutshell, anyone that is participating in an ICO should have it at the back of his/her mind that it is a 50/50 affair.

in order to find out the project is fraudulent or not.  for this you need to carefully study the documentation and analyze the project itself.  Then decide whether the product of your investment is worth it or not.

like this this type of question has been very frequently asked by people before you ... regarding how to know the ICO scam or not ... but the way that I often use is paying attention to the website and roadmap and the supporting media they have is real or not ... and finally I will pay attention to the CEO and Founder media accounts that are genuine or fake ... so it's just like that I often do ... even though many ICOs I follow often experience delays during the distribution process

These scammers are very skilled and have found out that we have known their old tricks so they keep changing the tricks all the time. But there is one thing that doesn't change, the whitepqaper that doesn't look well organized and has spelling mistakes is an indication of a scam project.

You need to do research about the project and you can also check the ICO ratings and of it already raised funds,But now all icos actually almost the same of its not a scam maybe it will not be profitable at all but i have the project that has the solutions in dump and this project is proven and tested that is legit and be profitable also this is the dencoin And now if you dont have any Dencoin tokens you can still buy in the ICO of Dencoin now and get the chance to have a potential coins.
 

For now I will recommend IEO or STO to newbie investors due to the mode in which ICO operators raked in much money from investors with majority of them failing to materialized. At least with IEO and STO you are guaranteed with a backing of your token on an asset or assured of enlisting on exchange. However if you still need to check on ICOs then make sure the team are verified members of a popular social media sites like linkedin or twitter, in that case they can't put their reputation online by scamming people. Also look at the concept of the project and find out of its lightpaper if you can grasped the project visibility without any technical lense.

talking about ICO actually now more ICO which indeed they fail in terms of funding and not fail because of scam. if you are an investor ico and hesitant to buy at the time of ico you should buy when the fund has reached a soft cap or you choose IEO but if you only a bounty hunter then you should already know the answer

no one knows exactly which project is genuine or fraud because almost all ICO projects look good and convincing to follow. but at least before you join in you can browse first and make sure that they are transparent and if there are strange things it's better to look for another project.

It is necessary to study the idea of the project and understand whether it will be in demand. Also check on the authenticity of the members of the development team. As it turned out, fake identity fraudsters is the most difficult.

no one knows for sure whether it's an original ico or a scam, they're very smart and very similar to the original ico. if you are worried about the problem of ico scam, you can choose to participate in the IEO.

Fake team usually can found out by other people. Actually i glad join this forum because people in here can help others when they find that some project is not good. With or without any proven sometimes.

yes it is useful for this forum site, many of us care about scam project information or not. the most important thing is that we don't have to rely entirely on other people's words, keep doing research from ourselves too. always be aware of the tracks of the RedTrust Team.

Personally, the only way you can ascertain if a project is scam or not is too do an in-depth research on the project. That way you get to know more about the project and determine if the project is worthy of investment

Fraudsters will always try to attract investors with their real concept and appearance. Deep research is required to determine the authenticity of their identity. The IEO does not guarantee absolute success in investment and needs research for the potential growth of projects in the future.