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So one of my inboxes gets plastered with ICO announcements which I always have considered scam and didn't even take a look.

Is it just to investigate here on the forum, or is there a trusted website that informs about legit ICOs and recommendations?

How do you even come to a decision in which ICOs you want to participate with the vast amount of new alt tokens that spring up like mushrooms all the time?

Research linkedins and google seach for info of each member of the ICO Team, if you like team and beleive them = real ICO

Obviously there is a lot of fraud going on, so this may not be the most reliable and/or efficient way for an investor to dig up new opportunities. I have seen projects that overall looked so authentic and nevertheless were fraud, which made me extremely cautious. Luckily I haven't been scammed yet, but I'm really curious how others come to their decisions.

You must be a voodoo to choose real ico that will make you profit) Even if it have top places on different sites this means nothing) I want to try such strategy: will find top successful ICOs and its advisors. After that I will check what ICO they are promoting now) Bang I'm reach)
How do you think is it the good idea or not)?

Actually im not expert to determine if those ICO is legit or scam,as in my own experience ICO become real if its  so many advertisment ,in tweeter,facebook ,telegram and other social media site's and most important there white papers is full of information about there platform project.mostly legit ICO have a good team work and platform of there project and there is camaraderie in the part of the team for the success of the project,while you can determine if the ICO is scam or phishing because there is no complete details of information in white papers.

If you want to distinguish between a real ICO and a scam, see if the concept they are trying to introduce to the community is unique and is not a rip off from other coins. Most of the time, scam ICO's are just ripped off from coins that are already present today and isn't improved at all. That way you can distinguish a profitable ICO and a scam one. It doesn't work all of the time though, so also try to consider the activeness of the team and the truth behind the facts they give. As much as possible, verify it if it is verifiable.

Strict selection criteria can not be selected. But I notice some facts. First of all, developers (or ICO moderator) answer any questions (even the simplest ones, even if they already answered these questions). And responses from the developers arrive within a day. Secondly, a good ICO will not scream about its prospects. Instead of that there must be clear roadmap and whitepaper. Thirdly, there must be a website and a page on at least two social networks.

I don't know how to judge whether fraud, but generally speaking, if an ICO project is open source, so 99% this is a very good  ICO project, worth the investment, the open source of the ICO project is too little,

Before i put my investment into some random announcements, i always research on their whitepaper team and their idea that can or will be successful on disrupting something.

You have to be really careful with this.
Every detail sgould be connected if you want to invest with an ICO.
Their team should be reflecting the kind of service they will provide. If not then get out as soon as you can or they will be milking your money.
The service connected with their marketing strategy. How do they attack the community into making their service be inviting, I think there should be a connection with that.

Example of wrong marketing: Inviting a religious group into investing with a condom factory.

Hi, First of all, I check the ICO team. I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale. If a project has more advisors than team members, that’s usually a scam

Do research, researching regarding about the ICO for me is not that hard. Read the white papers, see the development team, visit their website, and send them an email if you have further questions regarding the ICO. Also check if the project, the idea, and the technology behind it is unique and doable. These are the things I do to be able to help me know if an ICO is a legit one or a scam.

It is no rocket science. You should check every detail in whitepaper, website and ann page. You should check about backgrounds of people working on that certain project and do the math. It is up to you in the end.

Make research if you see ico then see the member if they are many participate ico that is real.

It's always essential to do a super thorough research, basically, you should be looking for as much as info as you can find. Personal details, etc. But when then it might still be a scam. You can never be 100% sure.

Here you go. Hopefully help.

https://www.trackico.io/
https://icorating.com/
https://www.icoalert.com/?q=&is_v=1

and in the rest of the type, explore the team, the market and bla bla bla have already received from above

If you are particioating ico you need to make research there wibsite ,and the team ico they have if you see good project that is real and not a scam.

The first thing to look at is who is behind the project. Linkedin and some searches should give you a flavour of what is going on. If the project does not even have that info... let it pass

I usually ignore those who sent me PM about their ICO. You should check their whitepaper, team and uniqueness of their project. If you pay attention to those three things, you can easily weed out scams from good ones.

 Yeah you are right mate ICO that just copy cut from other ICO  are surely a scam but for those people who did a research to find the right ICO are those most likely be rewarded. For so many ICO that sprout like mushroom it s really hard to find what is true among them, one thing is to determine if their working product and services they introduces is feasible and unique among others and you should know if their team are composed of people with expertise and superb credentials.

There is a legit site just like some ico rate site. But I think that the important thing is about trying to do your own diligence.

Make a deep research and try to take a look in various community feedbacks.

Icodrop seems the only legit site for me.

Because i was doing a deep research and that brings me to the conclusion to participate in the ico. I was participating in zilliqa and get 15x return and what's next?

if something is too good to be true it usually is.

all the ICO's that say 'this will bring you XXX in revenue/month' is most of the time a scam.

the ICO's that really do have a revenue share system or a staking system usually don't tell you how much you can expect to make simply because they would not have a clue until the product/company is launched.

Use some ico evaluation website is a good choice, I usually use Icorop and icobench this two site, icodrop can see white list is now on registration of the ico project, and icobench can see each expert score for the ico project.

One of my main criteria is if a company advertises not its product but a bounty campaign! Projects that organize charity campaigns for charity campaigns are usually a scam!

it is hard to distinguish if the ICO is a scam or not because they're very sneaky they will scam the ICO on the end of the ICO but doing some research can be a great help it is simple task yet very helpful

Lots of good advice, and of course it always gets down to the basics. Problem is, having looked through some recent announcements, there are some with a promising idea, but I'm somehow doubtful they can pull it off. There are too many projects and tokens already, it quickly gets extremely cumbersome to look through all the info and come to a conclusion. Right now I'm not sure what's next. I'm going to follow new announcements and see what the participation is going to be, others may be in a better position to identify the real potential and likelihood of being scam, I'm just overly skeptical.

Reading a whitepaper is another way to know more about the said ICO, as long as they are detailed and more info to dig up. In addition you can make your own research and gather more sources to filter it. In that way, your selection process narrows and it can really help you to decide.

The team composition and roadmap plus a good reviews coming from reputable publishing companies I don't mean the paid ones, these are all some of the criteria of course marketing also plays a major role, but if the project is legit people will market it even if they are not participating in the bounty campaign.

Having a MVP (minimum viable product) and reputable and verifiable advisers help.

Its not always easy to pick which project will moon, but sometimes its too easy to pick which projects are scams.  Once the scammers get there game straight and put up halfway decent websites with some sort of white paper (wouldnt think it would be to hard) then it gets a bit more difficult.

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Right!! One should know and study and read so you can get what you want and back on my first answer on the top you should go there and see and read.


One should keep in mind if the ICO have an whitepaper some says that ICO is legit. So keep in mind reading should not be miss.

note that you atleast know the risk :)

Maybe we can go to google to research the name of the founder of the said ICO because fake ICO uses fake name and pictures to scam so we should research them if there were no results found or the picture doesn't match with the name it is probably fake. Also, don't invest in ICO wherein the founder is anonymous..its probably fraud.