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I'm so upset recently! I took part in a project called VEGA at the beginning of the year! It's mainly for AI trading! But after ICO, there was no such thing as the second largest exchange they had ever said, and there was no progress in the so-called A project, and there was no one in the telegraph group to manage it. This project now seems to have no hope, so here I appeal to everyone, do not participate in ICO activities! Because there are so many liars! You can't tell which project is real!
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ICO is all about Destiny but you need to study it first before you join them so that you will not ended like your position right now maybe you already invetigate about them at the beginning but they miserably failed you. Good Luck Next time!

Unfortunately, there are a lot of ICO cheats now, and they have a very good attitude when it comes to fundraising! And try to design their website as well as possible. It looks so formal that we can't tell the truth!

Got to agree with you there buddy. Back than when I started I rated bounties that has a percentage of 50% 50 gamble safe now. Why? Because you make a risk of joining and you win fairly and the same time lose fairly because you lost because the ICO did not succeed and did everything at is power to make the top

 my rating are 50% good that if 25% winning and getting paid fairly  and the other one is 25% and same as the first you win fair because the ICO did its best.

Safe and 50 % not safe now a days you might get scamed and a big lost. 

Serious discussion! :)

They say a lot of lies almost 95% of cheating and we must prepare for this. Take several projects 3 5 7, one or two of them may be good. Everyone cheats, you're not the first and not the last.

Quite right! investing in similar projects is always a risk ... but do not worry, maybe you're lucky in bounty campaigns?

among iso there is a lot of deceit! you can not hope for any one project, you need to recruit 10-20 projects at once and invest a little bit each

deceptions will continue and will continue to happen. Please be more careful when investing. There are many topics related to this topic in the Forum. I would recommend reading and researching. I'm sorry.

You cannot stop us from participating in many ICO projects dude. This is not new to everyone here that together with the legit projects, there are also the scam ICOs. Thats why, you need to study the project first to avoid this kind of issue because not all ICO projects are 100% real.

Ico is an innovation of blockchain technology there might be some scam happening in overall ico changed the blockchain in the much larger way and attracted many industries into blockchain technology

ICOs are not cheated to everyone but many scam projects also comes in the market so we only analyse the best project. I think few peoples only looking to ICOs project because they know the correct way in ICO platform. I don't know about Vega project but many promising projects are available in the market.

ICO is a very good investment and I think you need to study the project you intend to invest to minimize the risk of your money. There are still a lot of successful ICO projects that have helped investors to grow their money many times, but there are also a number of fraudulent schemes that create a lot of confusion for investors. So for investment ICO, the selection of investment projects is the decisive factor to your success.

That is why it is important to evaluate any potential ICOs. Not because an ICOs got a well thought road map and whitepaper it will be successful or it will be scam free. You should also check other indicators such as background investigating the managers and dev team along with community checking of the project. Doubting something is never been bad and if your gut feeling about a project is bad then believe it.

Actually, investment in ICO will make our profit. I do not agree with what you say, if no one is investing in ICO then the project will not run successfully. Not all ICOs are a scam, we must be careful in choosing ICO if we are going to invest.

I know how upsetting this is on your end. I had experienced this when i first joined an ICO. At first all is clear but one thing i noticed they do not have a good teleram group. I learned that a good ICO should have a good telegram where they can communicate with the investors. Until now, the first thing i check is telegram group.

I really feel bad for you buddy. This is the primary reason why google, twitter and facebook pulled out of crypto related ads. It is become more and more risky to invest in ICOs. I too was a regular investor but in the recent light of these scams, my trust has been taken away. Also, most of the ICO's price falls the moment they are listed on exchange because of numerous bounty hunters who sell their tokens immediately. It is advisable to only deal in coins which have been listed on exchanges.

really very hard to distinguish between real and scam. they are just giving promotions with good profits and delivering promise of a promise but in fact the same end.

every day there are many ico that is held, for that need to be careful in choosing it. sabgat it is difficult to determine which ico is going to cheat or not.

How much did you invest bro? Feel sorry for you. I know some stories where guys invested amount of 13 ETH in scam ICO's and then were desperate. Yes it is a wild wild west so try to be cool.  ::) ::)

ICO causes more and more distrust - thanks to the scammers. At this point, companies that produce and sell tokens are more focused on the product. The product is developed, developed, improved. And all before the sale of the tokens.

Choosing an ICO is a very difficult task that requires a lot of knowledge in this area. In choosing an ICO, it is better to trust a proven, reliable professional, I think...

I'm feel sorry for what you meet. ICO is really hard to choose and you will have to do research a lot before decide to invest to it or not. Now, there's too much ICO has been announce each day so if you don't know about it or the market, you will be cheat. Becareful from now!

I just can advise you to choose projects carefully! 90% of all ico are deceived! this is no secret for anyone

that's why I do not participate in ico, for me it's much safer to deal with bounty, because you can recruit more than 30 projects!

Have you searched for information on the assessment site for ICO that you follow? many ICOs are scam and do not provide the evidence described in the roadmap section. you should be wise to choose ICO in this year.

This is why evaluation if ICO projects before joining its bounty or paticipating / investing in the pre-sale and sale of their coin is  essential to lessen the risks of joining poor projects or scam. Checking the team and devs along with reading the whitelist and roadmap should be one of your indicators. It would also not hurt checking reviews and ratings in sites like icobench along with evaluating its campaign managers and the response of its community.

Feeling sad for you , but it is not true that all ICOs are scam . asking people for not investing in any ico is childish statement . scams will be everywhere and yes it is hard to find which project is good or not . but still you should check project properly before investment . if you are failed to reach to any conclusion then buy tokens only from exchanges when it get listed .
you should check reviews about that project everywhere also at the same time beware of shillers .

Not all ICOs will do the same as they did and I know some pf the project teams are working hard even if their project is at the end of failure,by doing all as they can and even sometimes we can see signature campaigns after the token released into the market is a sign that how they are working on it.But as you said there were many scammers so we need to do research before investing on them.

Sadly, this may be the true. A lot of ICO projects have their websites very visual and appealing that you can't tell the legit one and the scammers. They very accommodating at first when it comes in the token sale stage but times comes that when the ICO releases its very disappointing.  :( 

Participating in ICOs bounty is contain risks same as invest in it,Try to make some research before join a bounty , all bounty managers now will tell you to do your search on the project before joining it. All I can advice you is  to tell you try your best to join with known managers and a good project .

Sorry to hear about your experience on ICO but this is the risk involved when we do make investment and dont easily be fooled out on such claims on the very first place.Why did you believe that they are the 2nd largest exchange yet most people on here do know about whose are on the top exchange as of todays and even a single google will already help you out to know on whats the truth. I know what you feel but you cant generalize that all ico are scam yet there are still good ones but selecting would really be very tough as an investor.

Unfortunately in the last days the scam icos have been multiplied. Making investment is a bit of a luck and also investors do not trust because of scam icos.

Though its bit hard to identify, spend time in analysing the ICOs. Go through the details given in the white papers, Road maps, team members details, their infrastructure and etc. This would obviously make you aware of the legit and best ICOs.  It literally takes time.  To be more brief, choose the ICOs the best managers have taken bounty responsibilities. This would reduce the work load.

There are a lot of fake ICO out there but there a equally good projects with dedicated and strong team out there as well. I think we just have to do extensive research on  projects we want to invest.

Do not rely too heavily on ICO rating websites because they can be hired to advertise the project. Let's study the real value of life-giving projects and what it really means. Choosing a good project to invest in this period is not easy due to the many new ICO projects being established but most of them are unstable.

A lot of scam ICO everywhere, but i saw also very good and strong projects. Sometimes project with only soft cap reached and small team makes more then another with high ICO ratings, advertisement everywhere. I see two ways - not to invest at all or choose 10-15 projects (dyor about them) and invest.

If you shove your fingers into the socket, and you will be electro-shocked, will you suggest not using the sockets? The fact that you are unlucky with the project speaks only of the failure and / or inability to choose the right projects. Do not need to spoil, to the normal start-ups, the opportunity to realize their ideas, and investors to earn, because of your own failures.

There are many good projects that bring high profits. You can not call for an ICO removal just because your project failed

It's absolutely true that there are so many projects that are just came just to scam people, but we can't deny that there are still some projects that are promising and profitable. The problem is, we have to make a lot of research first before we start investing, because of those scam projects.

Most of the current ICOs are not potent, there are ICOs I join the bounty that does not reach the soft cap, which means they have to extend the bounty time to open the Token and have the campaigns they delay and not pay the Token on time. Therefore, it is advisable to invest time to select potential ICO projects to avoid fraud and waste your time.

Not all bad ico bro..you have read wp and understand ico project before?

If you are in doubt in ico project you can see on ico assessment site like ico bench or icowise. there you can find information about ico project from about ico, ico project team, token sale, and rating from ico.

if I think you'd better follow more than one campaign, because if one campaign fails you can expect another campaign.

You are either crazy or drunk right now. There is no way to follow more than 1 campaign except you joined on their social media bounty. From OP's story, i believe he was joined on signature campaign and that's why he got angry like this.

Nice project this community has a potential to grow in the near future keep it up God Bless Developers. https://all-stocks.net

My God, I regret your loss. However, I admire your courage. I do not have the ability to participate in ICO. I am weak. I think this year's ICO is basically not ideal. If it is 2017, that's OK.

http://bitcoinist.com/3-icos-huge-potential-2018/

Ico's will make their project looks good in the eyes of many people to attract many investors. So it makes harder for us to determine which one is good and which is not. So you need to spend quality time in studying the ico that you want to join. So that you will not lose money.

Sochustvuyu, but you're not the only one)) Unfortunately, the bounty's fate is this) Our business is a lottery.

I think you need to be more careful, but you shouldn`t completely abandon it. :)

I think not all ICO's are deceiving but here we have to be smart in choosing an ICO project. because otherwise we will suffer losses. and here too many people are looking for ICO project, just want to know just how the correct procedure when in ICO platform.

By study what you are referring to? Share with us, so that we don't get fucked up.

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It is a common sense that every investor research about the project on the basis of the info available online.
Those info are also delivered by the founders so that they can control how much info you can get.

We as an investor can't check founder's background, can't get his/or team's identity docs as security, and finally can't study the true intention of the founders.
Except all these things, I think every investor checks all the info available.

Basically, investing in ICO is like gambling. You may win or lose, so you better prepare yourself in advance.

Yes, the cryptocurrency market still has many successful ICO projects and brings huge profits to investors. The most important thing when you invest in an ICO is to choose a good ICO project to participate in. If you can choose a good project, your chances of success and getting more profits will increase dramatically. . Never be pessimistic about this market because its potential is huge.

Cheated again? What other ICO have you participated in? Just curious..

I know that there are a lot of ICOs are scam right now but is it fair that you classify them all as one?.yes there are frauds but still there are good ICOs to invest on. If you scammed twice then you must be more experiences on categorizing ICO whether it is true or not. Dont lose hope mate. Most of us get scammed to but never surrender.

Easy to say but would really be hard to do where identifying potential projects in the market and considering how many project launch ICO's you would really have a headache which one would you choose up being pessimistic cant really be blamed out into a certain person or investor because we might able to say these things up too when we do lose up money.We are still on rage and making such words on where you do generalize all ICO are scams but if we look deeper there are still lots who can able to give us some decent profits.

The choice of ICO campaign to participate is the most important step before deciding to invest in trading or participating in the bounty. The cases say the ICO swindled most of the ICO's choice of the wrong way or followed advice from friends. It is best to look for projects on ICO review websites or join ICO managed by reputable managers such as amazix, deadley, yahoo, cheus.

investing in similar projects is always a risk ... but do not worry, maybe you're lucky in bounty campaigns? ;D

You better not to be angry like that your friend maybe you are not ready to deal with the risks that occur as you experience so my advice is to learn first any existing ico project and understand who the bounty manager who holds the project because every manager also has different characters and have different rules in managing your project should also find out who is the best bounty manager and always bring the project to success if it can choose to follow the project and do not easily despair when experiencing a scam ico project because all the prize hunters must have experienced it.
Good luck.

Investing into ico always have a big risk. If your lucky you will get high returns. But for you my friend your a kinda unlucky person when it comes to investing,might better of you will stop doing this.

I understand your feeling. I was in that situation once and i wont join any ICO anymore.
Last year, i spent 10ETH on a BTC-fork project called B2X. Ofcourse, i was cheated and 10 ETH gone away (the price of ETH that time was 1300$)
Be careful when u invest in ICO, scammers everywhere :((

All things depend on destiny, nobody tell in this feild, which ico is real. We need to study first all activites, whitepaper, adviser, team and many more thing,

I agree with you, participation in ico is very risky. It is better to wait, when the token will leave on a stock exchange and to buy it already there. For example, QuarkChain started trading on Binance, the volume of trading is large and the price is still very attractive

Honestly, I recently saw so many similar discussions that I generally decided not to invest in ICO. I'm sure there are good projects, but it's really hard to find them.

ICO is an investment channel that is high profit but also high risk. You need to find out about the project yourself, not the cheering crowd project, FOMO.

One good ICO is totally enough to change your entire life. But it is your responsibility select which one will change yours. There are lot of scam projects out there. Therefore I recommend to refer experts' reviews and ICO benchmark reviews before you are participating in an ICO. Experience is the matter

ICOs aren't inherently bad, you just need to do your own due diligence and make sure you are investing correctly and wisely. ICOs arent something to just throw your money at and hope.
I'm extremely intrigued about a couple upcoming ICOs, I recommend you to at least look into them.
The projects are Fr8 Network and Muirfield IP.

Fr8 Network seeks to remove intermediaries from supply chains and bring revenue back to distributors and carriers. A much needed real-world use case.

Muirfield IP is a private equity fund utilizing blockchain technology, really quite interesting.

That's life. That's that. At the moment, a very large percentage of scam projects - more than 50 percent. Before entering the project, I follow it thoroughly, and then start to perform the bounty. But even this does not give any guarantees.

of course today there are a lot of seemingly good projects that later turn out to be scammers. But I believe that we ourselves must be able to identify fraudsters, before they can deceive us.

It is very difficult to find a profitable ICO

It seems to me that you can not say that like all 80% of the company are scammers. The fact is that today due to the poor condition of the crypto-currency market, very few projects have a real and prospective development and therefore many investors and bounty companies do not get what they earned. But there are certainly those who are deceiving from the very beginning.

I understand you.Yes, now a lot of projects that do not comply with the conditions.Don't you worry.Keep investing and you will succeed.Good luck

Explain to me, please, where do you find such ICOs ??? https://www.linkedin.com/in/markpage/ - this guy, Vega (Developer/Operations), i cant see in his linkedin any information that he is working there, this guy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-k-van-hoomissen-128ba8127/  - Vega (Founder/Head Developer) same thing and almost no experience. So if you choose weird projects, why you are spreading FUD here? And if you see that we are almost at the market bottom, and market capitalisation falling down, what do you want from weak project token. To get listed at good exchange token needs a trading volume, without growing market capitalisation and bull market shitcoin cant get big trading volume. Do you understand that?

If you are deceived even several times in a row this does not mean that all projects are scammers. This means that you do not know how to analyze. On the contrary, there are many good, worthwhile projects. You just need to learn how to choose good and to filter out bad ones.

Yes. I understand what's your feeling at the moment . But some ICO has huge potential and be success after ICO like Shivom, Nuclear Vision, Wepower, Polymath, ... Instead of invest to 1 ICO project , you should check more project and separate your money when invest to more that ICO project. If lucky you can change your life .
Good luck to my buddy^^

To start ico should learn first about ico is essentially a lot of reading so we no longer stuck, good luck good luck  :)

I feel it so difficult to recognize what is a good project and most of the projects I have done are cheated or received very little

Yes, there are a lot of projects on the market that do not reach that do not fulfill their promises.unfortunately, this is a big problem because the market is very young and ico can be carried out by almost anyone who has a minimum capital. that would not be deceived. study projects from all possible angles and points of view look for information on this forum and get better every day.

Most ICOs have lost more than 50% lately. 10 ICOs earn only 1 or 2 of them. ICOs need to slow down now.

There have always been people who claimed to have been deceived by ICO recently. I'm not sure how you actually join ico. It's undeniable that many icos are scmas, but the key is to learn how to identify them.

ico programs will do everything just to attract investors on thier token sale. And if you fall  ,theres only 2 scenarios  that will happen ,  first you get will what you have invested or you will loose all youve invested without any return.

The reason is either they are too lazy to research ICOs they want to join or that ICO turned to scam when people think it's a good ICO.

If no one will participate in an ICO then there will be no use for the BOUNTIES.
a success of any project depends with their ICO sale.
what you need to do is make a research and study the project before participating in that ICO.
if there is no BIG EXCHANGE yet in that project well maybe they are not into exchange listing now.
they may prioritise the project launching first.

ICOs are very risky investment, it requires a lot of research to differentiate between the good ones and scam/fraud ones. If this is not your strength I'd recommend you buy after listing in exchange, especially now many ICOs get listed below ICO price

That's why i stick with airdrop

Honestly this new coin is pretty reliable
https://discord.gg/TWGNTpC

in fact it is your own fault that is not understood between the ICO honest or not because there are still many crimes like that recognize your manager and see whether there is a fund or not and ICO own qualifications so my advice for the future that you are more careful .

That's too bad to know mate but not all ICO are liars some of them are doing their job according to the roadmap or whitepaper it's just that you need to select where to invest and conduct some research about it .

As the crypto community grows in geometric progression, the scammers grow too, unfortunately. We gotta be careful. I hope u invested not so much money?

That's true many fake projects we had and this will affects the image of the whole cryptocurrency and this might be a reason that few investors will join in any ICOs. Although there are still good ICOs out there but you need to research thoroughly the about project and the team behind before you participate.

Yeah i agree people need to start doing there due dilligence on projects before investing, regardless of scams i think that alot of projects even good ones do market there ico's too much and promess too much but i don't think that's the problem i think the real problem is not meeting the deadlines for milestones you set for your self as a project and team and a lot of people feel like they've been scamed or cheated. i think that every project that's worth it's weight will take the time to develop a fully functional product they just have to be honest about it from the get go.

nt all icos are risky but we need to check the ico before joining once and thrice we should check the rating in ico companies and invest in ico coins or else we loose money in large

Hey, not all ICO's are scam. You say like this because you are feeling disappointed with the ICO that you follow has a scam. Many ICOs have been successful to date. Maybe you are less careful before following ICO.
Try to stand up again and start over. Stop complaining dude.

Sorry for that unfortunate incidence but I think not all ICOs are scam though! Others have reallynenjoyed from certain ICOs and have made huge profits from there. I think we all have to be careful and always talk to our stars as well to lead us to the right project.

Unfortunately, not all the crowd funding projects, including ICO, gain success and AI is very difficult topic to be developed. But I am sure, that there are the bounty projects worth to participate, otherwise very few people would do it.

ICO this is a kind of lottery, And  earning on it  impossible to win. To say a long story short I'm not going to take part in ICO.

Ico is actually a good form and should be applied but fraud projects are disrupting the ico model in everyone's eyes. So , before investing or engaging in some operation , we need to find out about it , which determines the feasibility of the projec. The product is real or not an important assessment to determine whether the project is real

Seems it's best to forgo ICO and pick up after exchange listing as dump then occurs at which the coin/token can be usually be had for less than ICO offering price.

ICO is a lottery, especially now. Therefore, I participate only in bounty. In them I will only lose time, but not money.

Feeling sorry for you, mate. From my experience, almost anything with "AI" indicator on cryptomarket is just a scam. Nonetheless, there are still a few decent projects. If interested in AI implementation, I would recommend you to have a look at Cryptics. The guys have built a powerful AI to deliver forecasts, along with trading engine, bots, funds and all of that. They've already released MVP even before the presales, all makes me be sure they're not scam. If interested, check it out, I would place this project into TOP3 best in 2018.

Deception is everywhere. Be careful.  There are a lot of scams on the ICO market now. Learn to analyze and choose projects in which to invest. There are still many successful ICO projects.

The risk of getting scammed exists in every category.
Be more careful when choosing an ICO.
Learn from your mistakes.

That is the reason why you should always check the platform of an ico before investing on it in order to determine if the project is really profitable or not, because in this you will have a higher chance to avoid scam ico's.

I invested in electronium,  enigma,  cindicator,  lympo and got really good results.  Tezos is yet to be listed let's see how it will work.  Choosing a right ice matters a lot.

First of all, always do your own research before investing in a project. You cannot invest with closed eyes. There are many excellent projects out there in the market (and also many scams), so it is very important to take your time and analyze the ones you like.

Looking at the project as a whole and looking at the team behind it, is very important to make a correct decision.

If I can give you guys my opinion, I discovered an exciting ICO that is very interesting: RAWG.

Look at this article where the team explains:

“Why the games market needs RAWG”

https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-1-why-the-games-market-needs-rawg-ccf039c0bae7 (https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-1-why-the-games-market-needs-rawg-ccf039c0bae7)

The ICO will start in a short period and they are at the moment in pre-ICO phase. This is the ICO site: https://token.rawg.io (https://token.rawg.io)/. It's a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services (the site is already working, with more than 57,000 games in the database).

Have a look and get some information while doing your own research!

 
I agree yet not,


I agree,
 
I know that there's a lot of scam ICO which they will do their very best deal for you to be hooked and get invested. This crypto or so called internet money is a risky thing to get involved. First you have to be careful and READ more about their goals and plans. If they reached their target or not. You really have to make your own research, join their telegram, facebook or etch before investing.

I'm not,
Because I see a lot of potential ICO that invades the crypto world with their cool, awesome offers, Legit goals and etch. Some of them in fact, their planning for proper regulations.. I think you just have to research more if you want to invest or not again.

Yeah, most of the ICO are actually scam. They promise a lot of thing but fails to deliver. Some don't even try to give a working demo platform. They just take peoples money and run away. Make sure next time you join an ICO, you do proper analysis and look for well know development team.

Yes, nobody can't say for sure which project will bring profit and which will kill your investments. Nobody knows it so investments in ICO are so risky due to this unpredictability. Don't give up and be patient if you want to achieve success.

Yes, unfortunately, recently began to appear too many fraudulent projects and ICO. A lot of projects after crowdsale do not fulfill their obligations and promises. But I think that this is not a reason to completely abandon investing in ICO, because there are very promising projects.

Investing in ICO projects is now very dangerous. The whole market goes down and many projects do not fulfill all those promises about which they spoke at once.

Of course there are a lot of fake ICOs, you might want to take a look at some tips on how to determine a scam ICO on btlk. And apart from scams there are also unsuccessful projects, you never know actually which project will be popular and which won't, so just don't spend too much time and money on the ICOs and then you won't have much to lose.

Do you know thoughts are material?You just said that everything is bad you were deceived and you thereby attract bad energy to yourself and you will not succeed in the future be a success.Smile and continue to participate in the ICO.Somewhere but you have to win

ICO is a high-risk and highly profitable way of investing, and this will continue as long as there is no control by state bodies

Although many ICO scam I think it will not affect someone to invest into cryptocurency because most people see more profit to be gained if the ICO is a success

Honestly, I dislike the field of ICO's especially in this era (period) due to there are many scammers and cheaters, and regrettably, they (scammers) like that field because many people are easily fooled, that's why they make the scam ICO's in order to guarantee a large profit and even without any financial losses at first.
In fact, everyone must be careful before starting in ICO, and in my opinion, if you do not have any knowledge in that field, then you must stay away from it, because there is a great possibility that you will lose you money. Plus, do not be greedy because of the fake value of Airdrops and do not rush for making decisions.

do not just because one ico you follow is a scam, do not even make you do not believe in the other ico, not all ico is a scam, there are many ico that ultimately reap success, preferably before choosing ico, check whitepaper first, because in whitepaper included important information related to ico

Thank you very much for your reminder and sympathy for your experience. I hope you have not lost too much money. There are many ICO projects now. If you need to invest, you must understand them clearly. Read white papers, review project progress, and even understand their team background. These are all necessary. At least I did it! ;)

Sad but true, nowadays the number of scam projects are growing and its hard to determine the legit to scam, at first it seems promising and has potential but as time passes or after the end of ICO there's no update anymore.

I experienced scam project as well and I cant blame you for not trusting ICOs again however I never lose hope, I still keep trying but this time I make sure I know everything about the project and also asking for others opinion.

Easy way to trick investors to invest in ICO is to give them false hope. Like any one want to help traders without skills and experience, they all care about money and how to take money from people and not to give money to people because if they give money to people less money will be there for them. You need to understand this.

90% of ICOs are now fake, and I have advised my friends not to purchase any ICO projects because even good projects may fail! What's more, there are so many fraudulent ICOs!

I agree with you. It is very dangerous to invest in this year's ICO. ICO projects are riskier than previous years. So this year I will not invest in ICO projects but I still participate in bounty campaigns

it's your fault. You can not advise people to stop investing in ICO projects. Sometimes I invest in ICO projects and most of the time I make a profit. You need to find out the project carefully before investing

It is better to trade or hold than to invest in ICO projects. I personally gave up the ICO investment in April and I think that is the right decision. ICO projects are sometimes successful. But after listing, prices drop dramatically

At first, I was very worried about the deception of the ICO team if the project turned out to be unsuccessful or simply fraudulent and labor, and time was wasted. Now I take it more calmly and I know that no matter how I checked the documents of the ICO project, vseravno some of them will be fraudulent. But the spent efforts are periodically rewarded sometimes by good generosity. Of course, it would be better if all teams of ICO projects worked honestly, but in the current conditions it is impossible. Too many scammers attract this activity by the possibility of collecting large sums. Over time, this activity should be regulated by states, and then fraud will become less. In the meantime, you need to gain knowledge and experience.

If you are good at checking the team details and white paper content properly you will be able to manage and get into the good ICO project mate. Please do not worry about all the ICO project with the bounty or manager. That is not the factor to choose the good ICO project dude.

Sometime social media accounts allow you to find the good or bad team with their LinkedIn profile and Facebook page.

And I think that this is the right decision! And you can invest if someone from the team has already had successful projects.

If you do not have the skills to find the good ICO again and again you will be failed only finally. Please review about the ICO projects with the forum members you will get the good guidence from the forum people. After that check the good project and invest on it.
You may see above someone says ICO rating site can help on it. I am damn sure you will never the good projects with the help of those kind of sites.

If you invested on the good ICO project in the pre sale time itself means you do not need to worry about that. You can easily win and never get cheated.

guys, still someone should invest in new projects. Can not all participate in Bounty companies and trade in the market. ico of the company is developing very quickly and it is from investors that their success depends.

Why create a bunch of similar topics?
There are many scam projects on which people lost money / time.
Every project is a risk. :)

This is ridiculous comrade! You just need to carefully choose an ICO! And even if 10 ico successful total will be 5, they will block your failures, the main thing is the correct distribution of investment
 ;D

Actually, there are many scam ICOs that greatly influence the potential ICO. And actually, ICO campaigns, if you spend time and effort to choose, will avoid ICO scam campaigns. The best is that you should have a team of over 5 people to analyze and find out potential ICO projects for everyone in the group.

Currently, it is my opinion that 95% of the ICO projects created during this period are scams and the selection of a good project to invest is extremely difficult. I believe that investors should have the right investment plan for their long-term development. ARAW is a very good project and worth referring to during this period.

There have always been people who claimed to have been deceived by ICO recently. I'm not sure how you actually join ico. It's undeniable that many icos are scmas, but the key is to learn how to identify them.

I I signed up for the project. But this coin prices are down. I feeling same you right now

To avoid falling into such situations, I always find project very carefully! One of the important criteria when selecting a project is the reputation of the manager. Also, I advise you to read white paper, there is a lot of useful information. And if the manager does not answer - it does not mean that the company is scam. They can just be busy.

Do not consider all the ico project bro, all of the ICO are doing well in their activities. It is difficult to predict whether it is a scam or legit and if a ico is successful. So do not judge all ico project. Thank you ..

Everyone calls it 80% ico is cheat. And there are some ico that can be followed. I run the project and join to participate. Yes hopefully do not commit fraud. I hope you are lucky to choose a good project.

it is difficult to predict early about the cheating ico. and i think indeed the luck factor determines as well. therefore to support the luck factor, we must be appropriate in analyzing ico, thus minimizing risk

Participate in ISO without the tools of strict control is a dangerous undertaking. And in the bounty it is possible, but even here unscrupulous projects await. Which again and again change the rules. And in the end they even ascribe you to the level of the scammer!

Truly that many ICOs now are not true to their words or what is stated in their white papers are not being followed. I can`t blame you for being bitter, but you must not make it general, NOT all ICOs are fake or liars though. You just need to be a good researcher before you invest on a specific ICO.

I've been through this campaign a few months, but the project is gone and can not be contacted, it's very painful, but you do not have to give up on it.

Sad to hear about your bad experience... I haven't heard about this ICO, so I've just googled it, and I see that its raiting on ICObench is pretty low. Actually I ignore it if it's high, but when even this tracker gives 1.6 to a project, then it is a huge red flag for me. I know that you are disappointed now, but try to move on.

     You are lucky if you joined a good ICO. At this moment it is very difficult to find a better ICO that become successful,that's why it is important to learn more about ICO project you want to join and invest. Always study their project very well,read their white paper and know all the persons behind that project if really trustworthy. Having knowledge is very important in choosing good ICO. You can try to join in the ICO project in my signature,The Organicco. It is good ICO base e on their project and the reason of their ICO is to develope the green and agriculture industries through organic materials and it is very helpful to our planet. I believe this ICO will become successful someday.

I can not understand why people prefer to risk so much and continuing to invest in ICO projects, if now there is a much safer way of earn as  DAICO..

Perhaps you just need to learn more professionally how to choose ICO projects for investment. Most likely you just did not analyze this project well enough.

you should be more careful in investing in ICO. now every day there are many ICOs being held, you have to know the purpose of their ICO project, see their social media account.

U gotta check all the info before participating in a ICO. Double check, even triple, cos it's ur money and nowadays investors are surrounded by scams...

Thanks for the update

ICO is an investment channel that is high profit but also high risk. You need to find out about the project yourself, not the cheering crowd project, FOMO.

Joining is always risky. You are like taking a gamble in all your assets that put in. Checking all the infos about the project especially the team behind must be considered to be able to avoid being scammed.

I think that ICO has always been too risky way of investing money. I have not tried it, but judging by how many negative reviews I generally would not recommend it at all.

Of course, it's not pleasant when you work, and you are deceived and do not get paid. I understand you.

Sorry for that unlucky incidence however I think no longer all ICOs are scam although! Others have reallynenjoyed from certain ICOs and have made massive earnings from there. I assume all of us must be careful and usually talk to our stars as properly to guide us to the right task.

this is limited in some ico. not every ico you invested in you lost your money. i have participated in some ico and it yield something at the end. you can't give up on others ico because they have something good to offer

Very badly that more and more ICO falls or turns out to be a scam. For the ICO market, this is a bad situation, which reduces the confidence in projects and the willingness to invest in ICO. This growing problem can have serious consequences.

Many projects now do not fully implement the project roadmap in the whitepaper or it has been altered in some way. It is possible that the market conditions have caused the time delay to open the transaction is delayed. But it can be said that some ICO projects did not have the necessary preparation or beta versions. More than that, the ICO is out of favor when the trend is almost unpopular and the scam issue is still a big question mark in the development of the crypto market.

I do not invest in ICO projects. ICO is a form of calling for capital before you work on the project, potentially a lot of high risk. It takes money and time. Choosing investment projects is the key to your success.

Yes 95% ico is just a hoax. Some ico just collect information about your wallets. You enter your wallet number and then they can see your balance.

AI trading ICO, lending ICO, arbitrage trading ICO they are all very shady projects because they all claim they need millions to develop project and they are all promising unsustainable gains, high return of investment, they are all too good to be true and they act like there is no risk for your money, all these signals should tell you to stay away from them.

I've been scammed as well.. But don't care keep on making Bounty.... Keep on joining Airdrops... Perhaps you we can find our luck on some of them....

Condolence to you because of the non-potential ICO campaign. My experience is that careful research on ICO projects before joining. In addition to information on the team, whitepaper, Token information, the index is most important because a project, only reach the soft cap and the hard cap is considered the potential in the future.

You have to do a whole lot of research before investing on ICOs...as a newbie back then i invested on all ICOs thrown at me.it was a bad experience but i learnt well...
I check out the teams do plenty of research,  study their white paper and consult experts before staking my money now.. A whole lot of fake ICOs are out there now.. Please be careful

You can't just generalize in this manner as if to say all ICO are the same as the one you just talked about, there are ICOs giving people good profit for investors that's why ICOs are still here

i'm condolence to you,
it is currently very difficult to choose which ICO is good in the future.
but i hope you do not judge all ICO bad, because there are also some very good ICO.
we just need to see it better,

if you want to follow good ICO in the future
you should see the team working for the project, and the whitepaper.
it would be great if the project has reached softcap.

Keep the spirit  ;) ;)

I think ico is great if you are cheated again better you see from the team and the concept they want and see at https://icobench.com/icos to know the suggestion of blockchain expert so that can know ico is good or not.

Now it is difficult to predict something in ISO. I also participated in the project PlayHall. The project was collected softcap and all the same the participants did not receive anything.

Currently ICO project with AI Trading many fraud, I advise you to flow first before start joining in their bounty, One way is to read whitepaper and see their vision and mission,

it seems you are one of those people who can not or do not understand how to choose a good ico and correct, preferably before investing you have to see first how the ratings and concepts what they want to develop and see the team they have not until you cheated from ico.

Well i really agree with your buddy. I joined so many ICO's and my experience are all the same. Big Failure. i don't if i need to stop or no.

I have the same opinion! If participation in ICO is not your main job, then study projects more carefully and continue to explore this market!

At the moment, there are a lot of ICO scammers, and they are about 90%, so I do not advise investing in ICO.

Always there are more who are cheated in ICO scams. We do have so many who have the same experience so dont worry you are one among them who have learned how to come out of it. Find out ways to find out the scams and we do have. Before either you invest or join in a bounty campaign do have a pre-check before getting into. Read and analyze through the white papers, road-map, team members' profiles, the company's existence and its business success path in the past. These details would certainly confirm you of a legit ICOs.

How was the song from Bob Marley's;

NO WOMAN NO CRY

I use his mind on crypto;

NO ICO NO CRY

Scamming upset all of us and no need ICOs anymore. After all that topic that I see then just saying same thing no more ico, NOOO!

Maybe you are new. You need to find out thoroughly before joining any ico. Currently there are many ico scam

Almost all ICOs are scam. This is becoming rampant now due to lack of regulations from authorities with regards to ICOs. Therefore, as investor we must always do our own due diligence before investing in any ICO. Research and analyze the ICO project, its team members, its products, roadmap, whitepaper, etc. If an ICO appears to be too good to be true, it probably is. Maintaining a skeptical perspective when assessing ICOs will help you to avoid getting scammed.

Unfortunately, there has been a lot of this incident lately. They do ico, and they cheat people. People are not investigating. They make money with their dream of being rich. But the end is always sad.

Am so sorry for your loss, in as much as many ico are scam, there still good one out their. Always do one or two research before investing in any online business

Unfortunately, now many ICO are indeed scam. And it is very difficult to determine this immediately.We have to be very careful.

Currently there are many ICOs that end in fraud and I think it will degrade people's trust in ICO projects and that can lead to development teams finding it difficult to find investors,

I'm not interested in ICO because I've been cheated, and at that moment I feel wasting my time and doing a job that the result is empty because the end of ICO I get nothing.
so many new ICO scams and it is difficult to judge whether the ICO that followed was successful or not because it is not easy to find investors and investors are also not easy to trust the new ICO.

indeed a lot of ICO is scam or do not have a good future but behind all the lies there are still some ICO projects that have a real and powerful team so that it can make their project a good project and able to survive in the market.

I've come to the time on where I do already cursed out ICO investment when I do lose up most of my savings but later on I realized that this is just always been part of the risk on losing out money because I did make a mistake which I do only carelessly finding up projects to invest without even doing a further analysis or research and now I tried it once more and make some profits to some good projects.It would really just matter on how you do research into projects which are really suitable for longer runs.

Yes sometimes come across scammers. At the moment nothing can be done about them until they have entered the reclamation. Therefore, I przhedem than do the project, I study it thoroughly: idea, command the road map and only after that I proceed to perform the bounty.

You need to carefully study the ICO projects before joining, keeping track of team information before investing. Many ICOs have scams. This is the main reason why google, twitter and facebook withdraw from the ads related to encryption

this can't be stopped in online cryptocurrency business you have to be careful before chosen ico to invest in

it seems that you have to be more careful in the future with a new project, before joining ICO must first be checked first so that the road will not be half-failed due to being fooled by the project

   I managed to participate in several ICO, some I earned quite well, I can say with certainty, for a good project, it must have potential for the future, that it will be needed in five years. Unfortunately most projects do not have this potential. I was lucky and I came across a project focused on protecting against hacking quantum processors, and to maximize the use of all the advantages of new technologies, project Kelvin Blockchain (https://medium.com/@kelvinchain/the-post-quantum-era-of-blockchain-todays-solutions-for-the-world-of-tomorrow-16bdd970f49a). With the coming quantum technologies, the current market must experience many changes. To be more exact, many coins will leave the market, as there will simply be no demand for them, due to the same technological superiority.

Happenes! nothing can be done about it, you have to forget and choose a more carefully tracked campaign of times! I also had 30% of the campaign who are pots and who simply did not collect the minimum cap! good luck!

To invest in ICO and make a profit. You must be a smart and experienced investor. ICO investment looks simple. But it's hard to choose with each of us. If you invest in ICOs without a definite analysis. You've been scam. You need to have experience evaluating ICO. understand their white paper. And know developer information. These are the minimum requirements for you to invest in an ICO

of course this is often the case, many ICO cheats, they take investors' money and then disappear, just a little ICO who is not a scam  ;D

I understand that you got the tokens, but they did not appear on the stock exchange and you do not see any significant progress on the project. Maybe you need to wait and not jump to conclusions. Not always the ICO team has time to do everything quickly. Perhaps they even intentionally delayed by listing the tokens on the exchange so that they do not depreciate. Anything can happen. In addition, the project can unfold over the years.
But despite frequent fraud in ICO projects, this activity is still useful and profitable for bounty hunters.

You should have posted this on scam accusations with proofs included. Investing in ICO is not really an easy thing where you buy and just wait for the profit. Your experience serve as an example that anything that sounds good does not mean that they are good and legit.

Yes, without researching it is not a good idea to invest in the ICO, because there are many people facing the same situation. Yes, we have to do some research before investing into any of the ICO because everything seems to be perfect but at last, we will lose the value when it enters the market.

There are certainly plenty scams in the ICO ecosystem. In such an over saturated market, we should be careful of ICOs that are promising heaven on earth. Please, always apply due diligence.... ask questions, make research.

Know what to look for when evaluating the potential viability of a brand new ICO. Don't fall for everything you see

Sorry, for the wasted effort, wish you more luck in your future endeavors.

ito risk if you are not careful in choosing the right ICO
You can also find references here https://icodrops.com/
essentially do not give up easily if you want the wealth of the ICO project

preferably when you want to invest in ico you have to see first how the development of the token and how projects and concepts that they will build so you can find out the coin is good or not do not be tempted because of the bonus but clay first team and concept will be developed.

If you are deceived again, then you, were not very cautious and attentive. There are a lot of scammers, so you should always check people you work with.  :P

it seems that you do not know which ico is good and that suits you, it's better you become a very good ico participant and already have potential for success you can see it all from project and development that they want to build.

Choose your ICO investment wisely.Don't fall for fake FOMO traps.Check reviews on atleast 4 to 5 review sites.Do your own analysis and invest
Invest the amount that you can afford to lose.Don't ever loan money or Invest your life savings in ICO.
Genuine ICOs/projects may need atleast a year or more to see actual returns

How many times have u been cheated on? What a pity, actually... But maybe u were wrong somewhere when u havent checked projects for real info.

As practice shows, about 30 percent of projects do not pay tokens, or they do it out, but they are worthless. Do not be upset! Take it as  experience and more carefully approach the choice of the project!

ICO investment right now is highly risky ,it has been bastardized with a lot of scams.
They went as far as copying other project's whitepaper with fake names for developers to lure people.

Guys watch out , don't throw away your hard earned money to scammers.

It's a shame when you cheat. Wasted time, health and lost hope. I was also involved in 10 projects and three cheated on me.But you can't do anything - it's science for the future.

People lose out in practically every business venture.
The knowledge of the risks involved should make you arm yourself.
Research on any project you plan on investing in.
Pull out once you have any doubts or reservations.

ICO will be abandoned if too many scam, the fact 80% ICO is not successful because it is no longer attractive to investors ;D

I hope this does not happen to you more than 5x when you mentioned the word 'again'. Because if it does, then I suggest that you need to leave crypto for good because its not for you. Some ICOs can be scam that you won't know because you were blinded by their claims that it will be like this or that quickly.

That's true, and if you don't know how to do it, seek expert advice. I've got absolutely no knowledge about ICOs so wouldn't really be getting into them without some form of advice. There's no way that I could be able to tell if someone was scamming or not, other than looking into their LinkedIn, track record, other projects, etc. And nowadays, it's not hard to fabricate those.

This site has some good info:
https://icobench.com/

Or you can just hire an ICO hedge manager type professional.

It’s important to know for sure the nature of the business. This starts by assessing whether the ICO has actually been created by a real company or not.

Each quarter of 2017 brought along new records for the crypto market cap and ICOs. However, it’s not unheard of for random people to launch ICOs, though they have no previous activity in the field, let alone any tangible results.

Also, the new tokens should be related to the business model of the company. You should understand the purpose of the token and its utility for the firm. Apart from going for a well-organized existing business with a solid plan, you should understand the viability of the economic model behind the ICO.

As most of the people don't understand how token are useful for the business purpose, some companies give more clarity about the token why they want to raise the fund and how they are going to use these coins in future aspects. Many fakes companies will not give a proper answer to the investors so we have to stay away from these projects.

Presently a days it is exceptionally hard to locate a good ICO that turn into successful,that's the reason it is important to leran more about project before investment . i think its better read double  or tripple time instead of wasting your  1 or 2 month.read their white paper and know every one of the people behind that undertaking if extremely reliable and check the ico rating. Having good information is important in picking great ICO

Thank you for your advice,dude. I deem that the problem of take part in ico is not fraud，because liar is always existing. The key point is that now participating in ico is definitely like doing charity, almost all of ico projects are lower than the initial price when ico coin listed on exchange at present.

Yes, many projects do have a good idea and look tempting, but after the fundraising they disappear :(

I heard about this project and thought it was a good ico, it's sad that it all ended like this ..

Cryptocurrency is life, in life we can be fooled, but it does not mean that life is bad. In ico the same, need long and hard to choose a company, read the white paper, to spend on studying a lot vremeni, and only then to invest.

90% of ICOs are now fake . I agree with you. It is very dangerous to invest in this year's ICO.

It should not be generalized to all ICO projects, because not all ICO projects will succeed, but some are successful and make their coin worth a lot. Only bad luck that happened to you get ico project that smells scam

What a bad trend. In many projects, the token after going to the stock exchange costs less than the ICO.

Yes it is very easy to tag many ICO projects as scam because majority have been cheated times without number but it is still very possible to find legit ICO projects out there despite the fact that many have been consider to be scam. For i think i have been lucky not to have be scammed by the ICO projects i participated in, probably is because i followed the team diligently even after they hit softcap i still make sure i carry out extensive research about the project to ensure my safety of not giving out funds to scammers pretending to be legit.

Not all ICO is a cheat or scam but some ICO are scam. If you want to invest your money on some ICO or ever something try to know more about the project. However, some project look like it real sometimes but scam at the end. Shine your eye now.

This is normal prices after entering the exchange are falling. Typically, bounty hunters want to quickly sell large amounts of tokens causing a drop in price. If ICO develops and is not a scam, you can expect price of tokens will increase after some time.

An unsuccessful project is not an excuse to completely refuse to participate in the ICO. It's like playing a lottery, either lucky or not. Therefore, when you invest, be ready for losses, and do not invest all your money, let alone never borrow money for risky investments. Because ICO now is a very risky investment, it's easier to play roulette))) I can advise two very good projects - AltairVR and Streamity, the sale is still ongoing and there are already excellent results of their work.

The risks abound in any business investments. It's up to you to make research before putting in your money into any venture.
There are a lot of scam and poorly organized programs, with glowing white papers and roadmaps.
Look beyond the surface, the team behind the project, the project itself.
The handling and the process.

This trend of scam ICOs will cause great damage to the future of cryptocurrency. Potential investors may change their minds towards icos and it may spell doom. People are loosing so much money to scam. According to what I read, over 80% icos have turned scam so far in 2018.

That doesn't mean that all ICOs can't be trusted. It was wrong on your part that you didn't do your due diligence before putting your money in right place. There are many ways to differentiate between a fake and legit ICO. Go through the team and the whitepaper to know whether a company is legit. One thing I particularly look for is the number of partnership as it tells a lot about the company's legitimacy.

Well if no will take part in the event that nobody will take an interest in an ICO at that point there will be no utilization for the BOUNTIES. An accomplishment of any venture depends with their ICO deal. What you have to do is make an examination and concentrate the task before taking an interest in that ICO. In the event that there is no BIG EXCHANGE yet in that venture well perhaps they are not into trade posting now. They may organize the task propelling first.

Most of the latest ICOs are destined to fail because of the market crash and broken trust of the investors. Also exchange listings make the token prices go down very hard and make the investors lose half of their money.

The problem is that around 95% of ICO do fail. Either they are not able to raise the amount they initially have desired. Or they have raised it, but the project idea failed. Or it's just the market bringing down the whole project and token price. There is always a risk when investing into ICOs. That's the reason everybody is saying: "Only invest what you can afford to lose".

Their goals are too high, perhaps for a reason.
I am not convinced in this, nowadays hardcaps are too high, I don't remember when was the last time I have seen ICO with hard cap under 20 million dollars. I don't think projects fail, I think they take money, run away, create new ICO and repeat. Why to bother with project if you can collect money and start another ICO?
Token price is irrelevant for team as they collected money, value of tokens is important only to investors.

yups. That's the truth. We need to understand before we invest part of our money. First, we must distinguish our investment money from need money. Why? because the money that we will invest in the ICO must indeed be money that is completely unused or ready to disappear. Secondly, we must look at the Project carried by ICO, do not be rash. We cannot blame anyone here because the cryptos ICO does not have legal institutions that protect or protect investors from scam ICOs. So we ourselves should be vigilant and think carefully about our steps before investing.

The enormous potential of the VEGA ICO campaign is that you are in the early stages of the year, at which time the cryptocurrency market is in a severe crisis leading to an ICO campaign that is also losing money. Now that you can invest in the ICO ARAW project, I'm taking part in the bounty campaign and seeing this is a very potential project.

ICOs are getting worse with every month this year. That is really upsetting, it is such a great instrument to invest but it gets ruined by greedy people.

80% seems too high for scams. I'd say actual scams are a lot lower, and 80% are just failed projects.
Failing is not the same as being a scam.

ICO is a very good investment and has gained a lot of profit in the cryptocurrency market, but now the market is falling so strongly that most ICO projects are unsuccessful. This means that ICO is affected by the cryptocurrency market, and in essence ICO is still a very good investment.

Always there are more who are cheated in ICO scams. We do have so many who have the same experience so don’t worry you are one among them who have learned how to come out of it. Find out ways to find out the scams and we do have. Before either you invest or join in a bounty campaign do have a pre-check before getting into. Read and analyze through the white papers, road-map, team members profiles, the company’s existence and its business success path in the past. These details would certainly confirm you of a legit ICOs.

Did you spent time for research the ICO before you decided to invest? If you invest without research, you will lost money because now ICOs is the land of scammers. But there's still good project to follow like Mozo, MVL, Skyfchain, Module .... These project with me is best in this time.

I sump up:

NO MORE ICO
NO MORE CRY

Of course, no all icos are scam however we have experienced several times that ICO's prices generally higher than the first market placement of related coin/token.

Bot only being scammed but also seeing low prices make you feel bad then I totally, absolutely, exactly HATE that ICOs.

No more please...

You just had no luck with the project. There are a lot of real and quality projects that already have their own product, and can bring a good return on investment

Yes, the risks from investing in ICO are very high, and I think they are about 25%. This is a very large number. But you can not immediately make a global conclusion and decide for everyone. Here, as in any business, there are always problems - from scammers to simple mishaps.

Now it is better to be very careful with the investments in the ICO. Many projects are scam, and many projects simply don't raise the necessary amount during the fall of the market. Be careful!

I read on some websites that 60% of ICOs are scams, so you really have to be very careful when choosing, at least you know the symptoms you have to look for to see if you are going to get scammed or not, when an ICO starts to fail on its roadmap, they start to promise more than they can reach and the moderators and CMs are breaking away from the project and stopped talking to the community, you can bet that this project is going to fail, better to lose a couple of weeks than a few full months waiting for a token that will never come.

I wonder how long it will take. With such a large number of scams, investors will eventually leave because engaging in ICO will involve too much risk of losing funds. This will also adversely affect bounty hunters.

You don't have to be so categorical and tell everyone that they don't go to participate in the ICO. Still, every person has its head on his shoulders and he has the right to decide what to do. I don't argue, there is a lot of deceit but there are also honest projects. And of course, now you are getting upset that you are in such an unpleasant situation. But try to do a little differently. Find a project with a good rating and invest in it a small amount which will not be so hurting to lose.

It just does not take much luck, many companies do not collect the amounts they need and burn tokens on this, so even prospective teams can do so.

Well, don't judge all ICO just by 1 negative experience. Yes, that is truth that now is not the best period for ICOs in general but it is still a valid way to invest your money if you know how to work with ICOs in the right way.

For me no all ICO's are cheated even now a days some of ICO's now are scams I believe there are some of good ICO's now that telling the truth and I suggest before investing in any ICO you need to do a research about them for you to avoid scam and regret later that's why we need to be careful on that.

Starting to participate in ICO projects as a participant in the ICO generosity campaign, we must be prepared that any of the ICO companies may not collect enough sum for the softcap, or simply be fraudulent. Yes, it's unpleasant, time, effort, and everything was wasted. However, tragedies of this do not. May be lucky next time.
In the future, the situation may change for the better. Perhaps the states, at last, will regulate the process of conducting ICO and fraud will disappear from this type of activity.

i think ico is very good maybe it's just you who can't choose good ico so you are cheated like that, you have to be good at seeing ico, try you can see it on https://icobench.com/icos there is ico which is very good who has a rating above 4/5.

patiently, all investments do have risks, but not all ico are frauds as you accuse, if ico fails because of lack of interest from other investors, you cannot blame them, but I will continue to invest through ico with the experience I have

it is very unfair to give a statement that all ICOs fail and scam. I agree with you. there are other things that must be done to avoid ico scam. this is an important part so ico gets better and you have the right to determine it yourself.

Feel sorry for you bro,  but you ought to have done some extremely research about the ico you wanna invest in,  but I think generalizing all ico as scam is highly uncalled for,  if you had invested in some good project ICOs you wouldn't have generalized them as scam

It's just a reality, but you shouldn't be upset really, just take a closer look at other projects and for sure you will earn more in some project, more attempts - more chances to get what you want

I've kind of left ICOs behind. But there are still ways where to know whether an ICO is legit or not. For example the team and whether they have experience with the development of another coin, and thus a reputation. Such a reputation would tell you if you can trust them or not. If it's a new person in the field, then I wouldn't trust them.

The risk of ico is quite large.you must be careful when you participate in ico.If you are not careful, you will lose all.

Please, be occurate choosing the right project for investment! I feel sorry for u. Did u analyse the mistakes u did? The next time u gotta check that point twice!

You may not be lucky with this project but may be lucky with another project. It also depends on you for the ICO, how likely it is to develop or just spam.

Well I totally agree with you that the individuals need to begin doing there due dilligence on ventures before contributing, paying little mind to tricks I believe that alot of activities even great ones do advertise there ico's excessively and promise excessively however I don't imagine that is the issue I think the genuine issue isn't meeting the due dates for points of reference you set for your self as an undertaking and group and many individuals feel like they've been scamed or duped.
I believe that each undertaking that is justified, despite all the trouble's weight will set aside the opportunity to build up a completely utilitarian item they simply must speak the truth about it from the get go.

I think you either had not made a good research before investing or where just hyped by others on investing into a scam coin. There's a huge risk in investing into ICO, but I think with the proper research you'd be safe. Don't just rely on review platform like icobench, icorating, and menlo. Also do an extensive research afterwards.

If you don't have any faith in the ICO better don't invest in the ICO because recently we have seen many scam ICO launching without any developments after raising the money. So it is always good to choose the right ICO for investing, otherwise, start investing in the potential coin in order to be in safe trading.

ico is good for investment,i think you should carefully read the project before joining bounty or before investment..

Before going into any ICO you should do a lot of research first to verify or filter out the ICO that are good for investing and long term holding because some of the ICO are just hyped up and that creates a fast pump but in long term basis, it doesn't give them a great income since the hype was gone and the price is starting to fall down.

Personally I tend to stay away from ICOs as if crypto is high risk investment ICOs are VERY high risk investment.

If you do research well (as much as possible) there is always chance for big bank in the process, but not always.

There are scam projects of course, man you can buy entire ICO setup for like few hundred USD and keep your own ICO launched if you want to go that route. ICO = startup with lot of frauds IMO. Nothing else.

I think your lack of thorough investigation leads to being cheated, or you do not have enough experience to buy the ico, pay attention to the development team, the route and the actual application of the project. Finally, whether the community's assessment of the project is good or not

Unfortunately 90% of the ICO projects are scam, 6% fails and only 4% hit exchanges and among this 4%, 90% are listed at lower ICO price. It's hard to choose in whic ICO take part.

Investing to ico are still high risk, you can guarantee that ico you have invested will be success and could give you x10 on what youve invested.

I gave up investing in any ICO project a long time ago, and I will also warn my friends not to invest in any ICO project! Because such investment risk is greater than the income!

I fell sorry for you, ICO is risky especially when there are so many on the market, there are a few reputable ones at the moment, the new up and coming platform BITFAIR, which launches in October, is set to be the first platform to trade in top 100 altcoins, through smart contracts, the catch is you need their tokens to trade, they don't take a percentage of the coin that you buy or sell, so not loosing any part of the investment. They are already in the top ten trading platforms for newbies. Have a look

That is bad man, i agree there are too many scam projects. I am involved in one of the biggest ICO so far. And i have done so many researches and i think i have finally found ICO legit and not scam.

That's a bad experience and this is a lesson learned that we should b careful in choosing ICOs and don't ever give your money on those no clear white paper and research thoroughly to minimize the risk.

Your reminder is very good, especially the novices try not to participate in the ICO project. This year's ICO quality is very bad, a lot of scams.

Have you hunt down data on the appraisal site for ICO that you take after? numerous ICOs are trick and don't give the confirmation portrayed in the guide area. you ought to be wise to pick ICO in this year.

Just because you invested in wrong ICO project because you're not a good investor so you suggest all other people should stay away from investing in ICO project? LOL. As I can see so many investors out there still can earn money from investing in ICO project although downward trend is happening because they're professional investors :).

Investments are always risks and Investors know this. If you got a bad experience, it does not mean that all such.
Next time be careful, good luck!)

Before joining ICO you should learn  about ico in which you are participating. You should see it's rank. Project for which ico is working and things like that. Of course there are many ICOs that lie people but not every.

Nonsense, how can you say this year is very bad, what about lats year, how many scam ICOs were launched and successfully reach their targets and yet they never got listed on exchange and there was no movement in development. I really wonder how many ico's launched last year did what they supposed to do.

Indeed, of the many ICOs that came out almost 80 percent of the scams in my opinion. Only 20 percent of ICO projects are good and really run. Of the 10 ICOs I followed, 5 of them were Scam and not running. And this makes me conscious, whitepapers, telegram groups, teams, roadmaps, the project itself must be absolutely clear.  Please be aware with our choice to invest in ICO, because ICO is not legit like you images

careful guys , many ico cheat you can check with https://icowatchlist.com/ before invest

ICO is good to earn more money but if you see the ICO are possible now you will notice. ICO can gives you high profit if the ICO that you invested  will increase again the value and you will earn more money on this.

there are many ICOs that are scammers, but there are also many good ones. those who do not deceive. yes tokens do not always grow after the release, but this is the market

It is not necessary to convince someone to do something, it is the choice of everyone, I personally do not expect that from all the companies in which I participate, poluyau grow profit, wrote a lot of tips on how to choose an ICO, if you have a failure, it does not mean that everyone will have it !!

To invest in ICOs requires a lot of serious research and analysis to be successful. I believe that everything is worth it and your serious evaluation helps make the project you invest more successful.

You lose does not mean that others will lose.
See why you lost, because you chose the wrong project.

it's sad!! always exist cheat in ico, i only want them punished for doing that

That is right, if the ICO is good and the ICO developer has the credibility to be trusted by many people, then everyone who invests in it can be sure that they will get a big profit, this is the advantage of the ICO project that many investors are waiting for. However, if the ICO project ends in scams, yeah, every investor in it has no other way than to express the money they spent previously. I told everyone, a high profit will be accompanied by a high risk.

most ico participants do not understand about a good project, finally they take part in ico that is not good / spam, the first step in participating in ico by looking at the team, project platform, and investors remains the project.
by looking at and analyzing I think everyone will know which scammer project is good

iso is a lottery of luck you never know if you're lucky or not, just this time you were not lucky, I wish good luck to get on a good project

why dont go ? ;D Many ppl get lots of money on it let market decide

Spam bounty doesn't mean they are scam project. Even the good project could be turned to scam after some months later (see Centra as example).
There is no "scammer project is good" how can you say a scam project is a good one?

It is sad, but what do you want? It is very profitable sphere for scammers, and we should be careful. You wanted to earn on this project, but earned on you.  This happens, so I trust more projects that creators of those invest in their promotion. Bounty is no longer effective. Therefore, if the project uses services for promotion in social media, for example, upvotes.io (https://upvotes.io/buy-reddit-upvotes/) for reddit, then this project is going to develop further

I absolutely agree,a lot of scammers but there are good companies such as KamaGame. Everything is clean and transparent, there is a product, there is a mobile app and good fees.

ICO is a prone of scammer. Because ICO can get a lot of money. So that is the number one target . The best to avoid ICO who are not legit make a lot of research everything about that always be vigilant and make wise decision to avoid losing money. They have advantage and disadvantage of investing in ico. Take a big risk for that if you want to earn more money.

Can't be sure really which project are good from the scam. But if you surrender now, you won't be able to get your investment back. From the very start, we all know that market is uncertain. Participating in ICO might be a gamble in our part. Sometimes, we gain, sometimes we.loss. musch better if you read the project carefully before investing.

That is why be careful about these ICOs' promises. They will use the sweetest words just to make you invest in them. We investors should always be realistic at most time. For example, if they said that they are the next bitcoin or eth then you should blacklist them already on your choices.

If you have chosen a company for investment, you can wait for the token to appear on exchanges and buy it there at the moment of price drawdown.

ICOs are 90% fraudulent now that they are all frauds. For 10% robust projects, it is not worth raising money.

this is not for all the ico most ico were scam and some were real you have to understand the project ico go through there website understand them before investing in any ico

there are so many good ico. NGRX is the best ico with a good future in market

ICO is like you buy lottery if you choose nice ico you will rich

This is why ICO is highly researching is extremely important before You invest.and need to extra careful in this long bear market as even Good Projects going way below the ICO Price in this year. Never invest in any Project without a proper Research.

Ico as a lottery ticket became, when the scum appeared, too much scum, it is necessary to regulate it as it is.

There are also suggestions of people who made good profits from ICOs. And what separates those who lose from those who gain is research, and knowledge.
Endeavour to do your own research on any potential investment venture.

Loosing is a part of investing on ICOs, people find good one on the beginning but become disaster in the end... Some confront many errors in their current bounty but it become successful out of a sudden, don't be upset instead stand up and start walking again... You may find good one along the way!

I agree with you, we can't do much in the market situation and current coins at that moment of the release. But what makes me sad that managers are changing rules, they are giving n the end 10 times less coin than in the early stages by plans...you finally get 5 coins instead of 5 000 coins.

ICO is all about Destiny but you need to study it first before you join them so that you will not ended like your position right now maybe you already invetigate about them at the beginning but they miserably failed you. Good Luck Next time!

You have to make a research and don't rush into shady projects like you stated above.
Even hype projects can decrease value, but those ones with good tokenometrics and community will beat market.

Is that mean when you buy a good lottery then you will rich? Not that simple, ICO is very different from a lottery. A good lottery place or a bad lottery place is just luck that will make you rich, and it's the same. Unlike the ICO project, you need special knowledge to ensure that the ICO is scam or legitimate and ensures that the ICO project has potential or does not have good potential. I mean, when you will invest in ICO you need a good strategy and knowledge to invest in.

Crypto-currency is a tool, but how it is used is already a personal decision of every person or group of people.

I have learned the lesson from investing in ICO, and now I will not make any investment even if ICO looks perfect! Even just $1!

 ??? Do not judge all ICOs with only one negative experience. I believe there are some good ICO's now telling the truth and I suggest before investing in any ICO you need to do a research on them for you to avoid scams and regret then why. We need to be careful about that.

You should see a team from a project under management, I think now there are laws that regulate ICO-based fraud and of course the ICO founder will seriously handle their project if fraud is sure to hurt himself.

This is becoming a prevalent occurrence, however, there are still genuine ICOs out there. I wouldn't suggest we should not invest in ICOs, my style is always to spread my tentacles. Just be careful in selecting ICO to invest in.

How then do you plant to promote cryptocurrency if you can never invest in ICO and you also remain vocal in your discouragement of people from investing in ICOs. Yes scam exists but not all ICOs are scams. Even if you don't want to invest in ICOs, you can keep that to yourself instead of pouring it out in public. As a bounty hunter, if ICOs do not meet their caps, how do you get rewarded for the job you are doing? I mean no offense please, just trying to correct an impression.

Now after every stumbling here so write? Or already calm down and will better select the company's bounty.

There are a lot of liars, but as for another, it is necessary to learn to avoid such projects.

You can participate, only you need to look for better, and now there is an experience that should help you in the future.

I sympathize with you buddy but do not give up due to few failures. Did you make enough research about the project and activities of team members including CEO before investing. These stupid ICOs always has red flag initially but sometime we just kinda gamble and hope for its success

if you want to take part in the ICO you have to be careful because there are a lot of scam and fraud ICOs, you have to be more selective in choosing ICO, maybe it will be even better if you make regulations about ico, so ico scam can be reduced, currently I don't follow ico, mostly my activity is currently in the cyrpto currency market

Sometimes luck also favors you and you get the right choice as many times you try hard but need to have good knowledge about the ICO and make the best of the choice among so many new ICO being setup everyday so that you can make the right choice.

it is very sad to hear because of the same experiences was happened to me also with one of ico called bitmora there is no news about when they are going to launch the project, because i was waiting for long time still i will get answer that they are going to launch soon but dot know when.

I don't believe any ICO from now on. First thing is to learn all about the ICO you're going to invest.

At present, there are many ICO cheats now, and they have a very good attitude when dealing with investors so they look very professional at fundraising and designing their website as best they can. Looks so formal that we can't tell the truth!
but if we are observant and careful, there is still a really good iCO

AI projects bring big profits, but this is also a very complex technology, you need to carefully study the development team and generally look at their work

Just do not invest all your last money in one project, I invested in not a lot in about 10 projects, 9 can be lost but one will block others on profit)

You are not the only victim, but if you are smart enough, you should stop buying any ICO project after being deceived for the first time. I think the second time being cheated is an expression of ignorance!

Although the ICO has high risk characteristics, it will be accompanied by high expected returns and this is something people are very interested in. And not every ICO is a scam and no process, you have potential investors eyes and find out what is the ICO scam and what is the strong ICO.

currently the ICO is coming and going like a train. currently I refrain from investing in ICOs because crypto conditions have not improved and many ICOs are scam

To invest in ICOs requires a lot of serious research and analysis to be successful. I believe that everything is worth it and your serious evaluation helps make the project you invest more successful.
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Yes, that is true. No need to rush to invest in ICO projects. Understand and learn deeply about several important things in every aspect. Ask with several experts and advisors.

This post is very related for my experience in participating bounty campaigns. I was experienced that already I joined in some bounty last february but until now I didn't receive any rewards. It is very disappointing since that was first bounty campaign and I really did all my best for that campaign. However I thought that it is not the end of my story here in crypto world and I believe that there is a new bounty campaigns that gives me another opportunity.

You are right it if is possible truly disappointing because what we are doing here is not easy.. we consumes a lots of our time here just to earn.. but in return we will be get scammed... There a lots of similar cases just like what you experienced today.. you are correct it is really hard to know how to separate good ICO project to those who are just only a shit project...

There are a lot of scammers in ICO. But this does not mean that all such projects. Experienced investors know how to correctly choose the right projects.

Almost all ICO's now are Scam few of them is Legit, Investing in ICO's is Like a gamble best thing to do is just Avoid ICO for now and go buy good coins in the market and hold it Until December just a friendly Advice :)

Agree with your advice. Since the crypto market is unstable, the ICO project situation becomes uncertain. Most projects find it difficult to get funds, end in failure or even the project is a scam. It seems we have to be patient and wait for when the ICO project is in a positive trend.

To avoid falling into such situations, I always find project very carefully! One of the important criteria when selecting a project is the reputation of the manager. Also, I advise you to read white paper, there is a lot of useful information. And if the manager does not answer - it does not mean that the company is scam. They can just be busy.

before you invest your time or money into ico you gotta read or research into it. not just blindly invest your time or money

Scammers find this place as a living fortune for them, there still people who gamble with fate and invest knowing that risk is bigger than what they've expected, that's right the number of good intended project was smaller from those who have a big chance to scam so better to buy old coins which already been traded inside the market and follow their venture instead of working with ICO's.

I do not invest in icos, but im buying those ico tokens when it is listed in an exchange cause its cheaper than thier ico price.

Most ICOs are created for the ultimate purpose of scam. Some ICOs scam shortly after the sale ends. Some ICOs will scam after a while because they do not continue their project. It is best not to invest in an ICO if you do not have the experience

ICO is very rampant nowadays, it's pop up like a mushroom in the wild.. Well don't blame all ICO, there's an ICO out here that has a real project and real people behind.. This tip will might be help you..
1. Make sure the project is really exist.
2. Don't over rely on Whitepaper.
3. is the dev team shows themselves in the public? or making a live video to discuss their project?
4. How about the office? is it real?

This are the few things to consider before you decide to invest in ICO's.

Those factors you mention are not enough lately. I generally recommend newcomers not to get involved in this. It is easier and more profitable to buy Altcoin after it has entered the market. Find those who received that token for free and buy it.

Investing in an ICO is like choosing a cat in a sack. if we are lucky to get a good cat. But if we are not lucky we will get a cat that is not good.
Invest in our ICO like looking for our luck. if we get a good ICO project and have a high coin price maybe we can get rich. but if we get an ICO project that is scam without a goal we might lose.
That is the crypto world, we must dare to accept any risk that is in crypto and ICO.

ICO is becoming more and more risky thing nowadays, really. But I think that there is still possible to find a lot of decent projects so don't judge so strictly all the ICOs!

I feel so sorry for you my friend, but still a lot of investors nowadays are experiencing like that, but maybe this time they were fully knowledgeable when it comes to investing in ICO, an ICO project is still a 50/50 chance of survival, because a lot of people behind it are scammers, and maybe we should do something like DYOR before we engage into a certain project, dont make a scammers to become a millionare.

If you want to buy ico you have to consider Team DEV, Whitepaper, roadmap, product coin purpose and finally Intuition

I agree on you, many are just fake projects that only wants the money of the investors. Although there are few projects that has potential to become huge if they are given a chance to develop their concepts with the support of their investors. We just need to do a thorough research about then to make it sure that we are not waiting our time and money.

Oh, this is a particular problem. Many bounty hunters are deceived, and many projects are just scammers. Indeed, there is no desire to participate in such programs.

Yes, that's right, but now there are a lot of companies that don't make bounty campaings, so you can't buy tokens at a low price.

I practically believe you and also hard luck for your loss. For anyone who has ever invested in an ICO should know it's a gigantic risk.
Recently, Conston Taylor 'Linkchain' founder and CEO, over 7 ICO advisors, and an investor make a claim on Linkchain whitepaper, for  being contacted on LinkedIn by an unknown person to function as an advisor on a project, it eventually turned out being a scam. Related cases have happened in the past, for this is a serious issue that can set back the progress of ICO in the society, before it goes beyond control a serious measures need to be taken to counteract this menace.
Furthermore, Conston stated that "one of the riskiest things that a purchaser can encounter is the
uncertainty that exists with a team that is going through an ICO for the very first time, for all this and some other reasons can pull down the success of any ICO.
We should be aware that this existing problem in the crypto space can and will make many to lose hope on ICO, termed it as a scam. Although, the Linkchain team is currently working to address this issues, a guaranteed 100% security to ICO purchasers.

Yes, it is very easy to label many ICO projects as fraud, because most of them have been changed without quantity, but it is still very easy to find legitimate ICO projects there, despite the fact that many of them are considered fraudsters.

Oops am so sorry for your loss, please next time take some security measures towards your investment.  And don't forget to carry out extensive research about the project before investing.

Thank god, I thought I will invest some in VEGA, for some reason I backed off. I think there are many ICO's coming with promising project but not doing enough after the ICO is over. One has to be careful while dealing with such ICO.

They say a lot of lies almost 95% of cheating and we must prepare for this. Take several projects 3 5 7, one or two of them may be good. Everyone cheats, you're not the first and not the last.

Yes not all ICO is real some of them is are scam. After the ICO they will run away and block all the link to have access to them and some will sell with high price and list lower than the ICO price

You ought to look for REVERSE-ICOs. Reverse ICOs are businesses introducing a token into their existing business ecosystem.

That means they have existing revenue streams, customers and infrastructure to deploy their token into. This means they can accept fiat during their token sale and don't have a complete dependence on funds raised to get their projects off the ground.

It also means it isn't a scam. No licensed business can run off into the sunset with your money, especially if you pay in fiat.

A good business knowledge and working product means they have a good idea of how to deliver something to their customers and the broader market.

This article provides a good overview of the concept.

https://bitcoinist.com/reverse-icos-a-better-alternative/

ICO investment is very risky now a days because whether the company has the ability to lead the development after the crowdsale. Some companies are failing to list in the exchanges after the crowdsale, so we have to check all the factors before investing into any ICO. Recently we have seen many scam Ico's.

I really sympathised with you for being cheated but I don't think cheating can be totally eradicated in human history  all you have to do anytime you want to trade or invest is to be careful.

People should just do their research to the best and take responsibility for their losing investement we know that there is not enough regulation to protect you in this space and as a result you will have to do that for yourself by learning and being dilligent and accept that if the project dies that it was your decision to invest in it and the best thing you can do is to try to take the lessons from it so you can improve the quality of your next investements.

One thing I don't quite understand is why investors will still choose to continue investing in ICO projects when they are subject to ICO fraud. Is it because ICO's profits are high? Does the high profit make people forget the risk?

We can't said no one should not go into trading.
1: you have to understand the project ICO
2: invest minimum amount
3: don't invest in ICO because of their huge bonuses

Invest what you can afford to lose.

I think we are at the stage now in which most ICOs will fail, so we have to be careful

I'm very sorry that everything has turned out this way! Now it is really very difficult to "guess" whether the project will be successful. To invest money became more risky. I think it is more important to study the project and its team more thoroughly before investing.

It's a pity that you were deceived. I hope that this s**t will never happen again. Good luck in the future friend  ;) ;)

Before investing in ICO, you should study the project in detail and analyze it with competitors. In addition, you should understand that this is an increased risk and the amount of your investment shouldn't be critical for you if the project isn't successful.

You have to do a whole lot of research before investing on ICOs...as a newbie back then i invested on all ICOs thrown at me.it was a bad experience but i learnt well...
I check out the teams do plenty of research,  study their white paper and consult experts before staking my money now.. A whole lot of fake ICOs are out there now.. Please be careful

I don't know again how to analyze which project is truly safe and potential. sometimes there are many ico projects that have good teams, clear road maps, whitepaper, Ann and many more but at the end they disappoint investors by being a scam. since then I have switched from ICO investment to trading because it is safer and more profitable. if you still want to invest in ICO, be careful and be prepared with all the risks that might occur

That will be the lesson for you. Find out thoroughly before making a decision. Investing in an ICO does not necessarily have to be your job x2 x3, but to help that project grow. Wish you luck  :-[

If you are deceived it does not mean that all openings are gentle and scammers ! Before investing, you need to study everything well and not to invest all the money, even if it is an excellent project !

I think that it is just an occasion, you just selected wrong ICO, don't judge all ICOs because of that one, other people shouldn't follow such a one-minded opinion as for me.

It is the investors responsibility to check and research that he is investing in the right ICO and company. If you are cheated, it might not be your fault but you were the one to be blamed and not anyone else. I have been blaming myself every time I was cheated and lost good amount of my money but this is the risk in joining the ICO.

Important notes when deciding to invest in an ICO project. You need to understand the people behind the ICO projects in the past, what they have done, where and how successful. Also, check their credibility and influence in the community. When everything is just a whitepaper for developers, developers create a distinctive brand identity, a clear, easy to understand and transparent presentation of the project. It helps investors to be impressed right from the start and is interested in learning more deeply about the project. TOKENS. What is the total source of supply? How big will the founders and investors be? Inflation rate expected?
 Is the token invested immediately or not? ROADMAP. This is a question you need to know. See all the documents they have posted about the project roadmap. How does the project plan work? What was the original goal? What will happen when the initial goal is achieved? How to develop in the future? Predict the potential risks.

The characteristics of  ICO projects are the ability to increase profits faster and higher than conventional forms, but also potentially much riskier. Before investing in any field, investors should thoroughly research and make a decision. It is not easy to invest in an ICO. You have to choose a good ICO that has the potential to grow in the future and bring benefits to the community. Feasibility. So how to evaluate a potential ICO project, how effective new investment? First of all, you have to find out about the entire ICO project team, especially the development team and the advisory board. Study each team member for more information about them. A good ICO project ever made their announcement on Bitcoin before executing that project. You should read the user's feedback carefully. The interest of investors will be answered or not. If the developer avoids answering a few questions, it's a bad sign. Sending a personal message of how fast they respond is a good idea. Evaluation of the project phase. Does it only have a whitepaper, A beta? Is there a product launch with limited functionality? The importance of a potential ICO project is to have a large support community, such as a public slack for all investors. What is their Token? Blockchain needed?

I have found that people are always being deceived. Is this the result of human greed? People only see the profits of investing in ICO, but they don't see the risk of ICO so huge!

Yes your are right now days there are so many scam ico are cheating to investors after they got big amount of money in cryptocurrency so ang one have to to some research about ico before going to invest any ico I also have some interesting story about I was cheated more than 100 USD one of scam ico.

I have been to ico or bounty and I was cheated and finally punished but fortunately the sentence was only short so I didn't lose anymore

Before investing in any ICO project, the first thing we need to care about is the development team. But their names, positions, degrees do not measure the quality of the team as people often mistakenly, but the previous projects that they have made and succeed. In particular, the information the employees of your project have access to on LinkedIn to ensure that they actually exist, is also the information that companies often use to looking for talent.
The sketchy whitepaper, although the whitepaper is the most informative document on the project, most people do not read it. When referring to a whitepaper, there are two things to clarify: First, the project must provide specific and detailed information as possible. This will help the investor better understand the project and make it easier to make investment decisions. Secondly, reading and understanding the project is an act that shows that we are more responsible for our investment. If we do not read the whitepaper and invest in losses, the first mistake is because we have not studied it thoroughly, and not by anyone else. A sketchy, uncluttered, low-level whitepaper is a testament to the attitude of the team to the project they are trying to raise capital. How can they do great things even if their whitepaper is superficial ?!
The communication message of an ICO project will usually show their long-term vision and who the customer is. If a project emphasizes their message is to bring in an attractive profit for you, your customers may not be what they say, but maybe their target audience is you invest. If their product/service is good enough, they certainly bring it out, and there is no reason to hide it. The high possibility is that the dev team itself is not confident enough with its product/service to use the profit message to attract investors.

I have also begun to abandon ICO investments because the success of an ICO project is determined by many factors, a good team, a clear roadmap that can benefit investors, and most importantly market conditions when distributing tokens. when the distribution of crypto prices is decreasing globally, the market will have an impact that will decrease again, not to mention the mass sales sequence of the airdrop and bounty tokens will worsen the market atmosphere. the right moment when entering the market is the key to success for those tokens in my opinion

I also experienced fraud joining the ICO and I didn't get anything or profit until now and there is no continuation, and in my opinion it is very detrimental and a waste of time.
why make an ICO if the reason is that the project was unsuccessful or there were also people who ran away carrying coins or tokens for pesrta payments and whatever the reason was that it was very detrimental to many people and I really hated ICO fraudsters.

I have been noticing that a lot of projects which i was looking at 3-4 motnhs ago ,right noow are dissapeard.
Unfortunately there is a lot of scams and yes it is hard to spot good ones, but it is not impossible.
I will give you some examples which i seen in ICO phase.
1) MTC
2) PUNDI X
3) NEBULA Ai

Unfortunately your example is not isolated,there are many companies who are raising funds ,and then hiding in order not to fall into the trap of scammers suggest to look more closely at the concept of the project ,spending more time you will be able to find a worthy project.

I understand your plight but that doesn't mean you should advise potential investors to stay away from ICOs. It is better to advise investors to do due diligence before investing. There are scam ICOs but that doesn't make all other ICOs scam. You can still find credible ones.

in 2018 there are a lot of ico scam,
90% of all IOO did not reach or failed 10% percent success but the selling price in the exchange was still below ico.

Signs that identify a ICO scam.
Team DEV anonymous - fake profile
Before investing in any ICO project, the first thing we need to care about is the development team. But their names, positions, degrees do not measure the quality of the team as people often mistakenly, but the previous projects that they have made and succeed. In particular, the project staff information you have access to on LinkedIn to ensure that they actually exist.
Scary whitepaper
Although the whitepaper is the most informative document on the project, most people do not read it. When referring to a whitepaper, there are two things to clarify: First, the project must provide specific and detailed information as possible. This will help the investor better understand the project and make it easier to make investment decisions. Reading and understanding the project is also an act that shows that we are more responsible for our investment. If we do not read the whitepaper and invest in losses, the first mistake is because we did not study well.
Use multiple buzzwords
For those who are not professionals in the industry, hearing these buzzwords will feel like this is very specialized, majestic and specialized information. But actually, they intentionally make the reader do not understand or misunderstand.

At this point I'm staying away from ICOs unless they have a fair distribution without asking for money, right now the risk is too high with al lthe scams we have today.

That was just a bad luck, nothing more I believe. This year showed us a lot of decent ICOs even in such market conditions, and there's still enough hype around various projects, so I think that it is your individual experience.

before investing in an ICO, you should research thoroughly your project before you invest in it, Otherwise, you will lose the opportunity cost for another potential ICO cryptocurrency. Any worst ICO project is when there is not any information such as new web, sketchy information, untouchable team, unclear features and sketchy whitepaper.

When you invest in an ICO project, the first thing you need to do is to explore the stages of an ICO project. Avoid unreliable websites, phishing websites are the biggest threat to ICO cryptocurrency projects and potential investors. Since phishing sites are often the same as the real ICO site, so be sure to research the web before investing. Avoid address fraudulent, Absolutely never trust the address of the Ethereum Wallet for you to be sent from strangers on the internet. Thorough study of information, regardless of the investor's willingness to participate in an ICO project, the first is to consult and thoroughly research the project and the ICO team, often publicly available. Apparently on the big social networks like FaceBook, Twitter.

Imo the problem is investors themselves, people have been fooling other people since the beginning of time, no one can do anything with that
I've seen a lot of people who invested in ICOs but didn't even read whitepapers, didn't check team members' accounts, the actual progress of the product
Analyzing the website is far from enough

To avoid being scammed in the ICO, these are the things you need to know before investing in it. Learn about the ICO project team, especially the development team and the advisory board. Study each team member for more information about them. You can find their name on Google. Visit the Linkedin profile page. Look for the famous names on the project advisory board. Find out if the group has ever participated in pre-codec or ICO projects that are successful; And in what project do they contribute? You should read the user's feedback carefully. The interest of investors will be answered or not. If the developer avoids answering a few questions, it's a bad sign. Sending a personal message of how fast they respond is a good idea. Each member's message on Bitcoin represents the rank and activity level of the sender. Based on this, it is important for you to be aware of new people and reputable people. Look for reputable reviews, as well as look for negative messages, which can sometimes be a warning sign.

Maybe I was lucky, maybe it was a different time, I participated in Waves and in Dragonchain ICOs and they are both top 100 now.

I agree with you but now there are many SCAM projects with more sophisticated tricks to trick the investors, they forge from the profile team, whitepaper, etc. It's getting easier with this SCAM project.

ICO investment is still a good investment in the cryptocurrency market and investors can participate in this period. Be sure to look carefully at the project that you want to participate in to minimize the risk. Never invest without really understanding it.

Hardest thing about ICO is research about a good one! I have to go through a wood of paid promoters (advisors) and a bunch of false promises  till I found a legit one. And when you find a legit one you dive in deeper and find out its not that "revolutionary" as you would want it to be, and then start again! Easiest thing is to throw your money away.

You can't stop crypto investors on participating in many active and newly published ICO projects. This is not new to everyone here that together with the legit projects, we all knew that there are also the scam ICOs. Thats why, we must need to study the projects we want to invest before investing on it. to avoid this kind of issues because not all ICO projects are real.

Scam accusations have always been there since the time of memorial, but we have been careful especially when investing in ICO's because most just polish it to be more catchy but at the long run they have nothing good to offer. Am very sorry for your loss buddy.

Investment in ICO is a high risk game and absolutely no guarantee of profit. Signs of a rogue ICO project you need to know to stay away from sophisticated delusions in the fertile crypto market with the opportunity to get rich. Before investing in any ICO project, what we First concern is the development team. But their names, positions, degrees do not measure the quality of the team as people often mistakenly, but the previous projects that they have made and succeed. You can search for employee information by visiting the LinkedIn site to make sure they really exist. And those ICOs usually provide sketchy whitepaper. Although the whitepaper is the most informative document on the project, most people do not read it or read it carefully. When referring to the whitepaper, there are things to clarify as follows: First, the project must provide specific and detailed information as possible. This will help the investor better understand the project they invest and make it easier to make investment decisions. Secondly, reading and understanding the project is an act that shows that we are more responsible for our own money when investing in an ICO project. If we do not read the whitepaper and invest in losses, the first mistake is because we have not researched it thoroughly, not by anyone else.

You were cheated by the fact that you do not know much about the ICO development team. If you look at the development team and find out about the projects they have been successful before, your investment will be wiser. It is important that you carefully read the whitepaper that they have sent to you. If the whitepaper is clear and not ambiguous then it is a trustworthy ICO project. Do not be disappointed, as this can be a lesson that will make you more experienced with the next ICO project, be a smart investor. good luck.

This is getting more and more common and taking into account how weak the market of cryptocurrencies is at the moment I do not see how this can improve at all, I really think that the best days of icos are over, that doesn't mean that icos are not going to exist anymore but icos are not going to be as influential as they were in the last years and I'm happy about that.

Well, ICOs are risky business to participate in and that is a well-known fact. You can really make some easy money with buying ICO coins/tokens but there is always the possibility that something will go wrong and you'll lose your money. Use the money you are Ok to lose.

Right now all they fell 10 × make the stock market cheaper than the smart. Most of the ico are fake and unsafe. It's best to get on the stock market, make more sense and secure.

What do you think about 3DES coin listed on IDEX and crex24? I think it has nice chances to growth.

I think you only cheated and maybe you only feel the loss because I see some people are often happy with their armpits being able to become participants from IO, because these participants will get bonuses of more than 30% and it can provide benefits for investors who have a lot of capital.

Artificial intelligence is the most common scam tool. If I were you, I would not participate in this kind of thing that is destined to have no future, even if it is speculation.

scam icos one of the biggest problem in crypto space and we have to change this . What happened to daico thing ? When we are gonna feel safe ?

some of which damage cryptocurrency to become part of the technology that continues to grow and be accepted by the wider community is the existence of a scam ICO or a project that is not real to develop they only take advantage of fundraising and leave it and this is difficult to eradicate and we must be careful, and smart in examining the project so we don't lose our money

New ICOs continue to emerge and fraud and the death of ICO projects are increasing, as bounty hunters and investors must be observant and learn how they deceive so as not to be deceived again and evaluate dead ICOs to bring the best solution when choosing the next ICO

Before joining the ICO, you must first learn about their project, so you will not be fooled by them. Good luck next time. I also hope that there will be a handling to change the ICO system to be safer and more reliable.

Another sympathy seeker, the title said "Don't go to ICO" but still joining in a campaign.  ::)

It's normal to get scammed many times because the identity of each and everyone here is being anonymous, sometimes they're releasing names of the devs but it's fake. I get scammed many times but still I earned a lot of money because I'm being wise now on choosin' good projects.

Learning from mistakes make us more stronger.  ;)

After all, you can communicate with the organizers and developers. At first glance, most ISO projects seem real, but when you start to carefully analyze and try to contact the team, it becomes clear who is who.

Even without saying this, one don't need to be told twice at the rate the market is going. Icos now have a low chance to succeed except your idea is really great for investors to risk it and invest.
I was ones cheated in an ico and I tell you, its not great feeling. What I do is to buy more ones its listen on exchange.

If you have no faith in ICO, it is better not to invest in ICO, because we recently saw a lot of ICO launches without any changes after collecting money.

there are many ways on how to identify if the project is legit or real , for example you can check their telegram on how well active the community and its moderator , website and GitHub you can check them there on how frequently they update their stuffs and what the teams background is which linked in helps as well , even if you have identify their project and team are legit it will be up to their project if it can stay longer in this competitive space

not all ICOs are scam.
ICO is a form of how to promote crypto so that it can be known by many people and the idea of ICO can be applied in the real world.
I know there will never be anyone who forces you to invest in it so if something unexpected happens don't blame the ICO but blame yourself.

It's reasonable for everyone to thinking a loss before they intend to invest in ICO. After a lot of people were fooled into investing in ICO so they lost all the money he had. Admittedly , investment in ICO is promising, every investor buys tokens/coins when the ICO takes place and after the tokens/coins has been listed in several exchanges and make the price expensive, this will give a big profit to that person. However, the possitive image in the ICO has been destroyed when many scammers take advantage of this situation. Till now every investor's view of ICO has changed, and it might take a long time to make them believe again.

ICO, was cheated again?
did you had your own research and studies?
did you make your own data and make the knowledge for it?
if not then there is mostly a hundred percent that it will happen everytime!

Now a days we have to be very careful with the ICO, without researching it is a very bad idea to invest in ICO. There are many scam ICO's and we have to carefully watch closely and start researching their promotional activities very closely. Otherwise, they will cheat us after making money by giving useless coins to us.

All this is of course sad. No one is immune from fraudsters.My friend, maybe you should not despair? It just adds to your experience.

Not all of the ICO's is cheating mate,there are still good and legitimate ICO's but I cannot blame you for what you say about ICO's because that is not easy for you,but nexttime be careful research the project properly before you invest so that you can avoid scam and cheating projects.

Which really common from the people who've been lied and victimized by those scammers, but it's right that there's still some projects that has been created for a purpose that will be usable in the long run, we just needed to select and review most of those upcoming ico's and check it up to make sure
that we recognized the potentials of its success..

I agree with your opinion, I also look through many ICOS and realize that a good ICO is a high investment and product launches are also quality.

Difficult conditions not only for investors, but also for good projects. Now there are a lot of demands from the community for them, which is beneficial for the ICO process as a whole. Their experience will translate into new projects and we will get more information for analysis.

In very deed, the product quality have a value in this market very seldom. Now everything depends on the team and their work organization.

Yes, you might be right....some are shitty projects...
I took part in ICO of binex.trade.....this project is live now but volume is too low...but their team members are supportive they are giving reply in telegram. let's see what will happen in future.!

not all ico are as fraudsters and many are ico who achieve full success, it all depends on each of them like how they choose or look for ico who would be successful and we also have to be able to anticipate if indeed ico that we follow did not experience success with we just take it easy and don't be too bothered there are still many new ico

This is why ICO studies very well what is extremely important before you invest. And you need to take special care in this long bear market, since even good projects go below the ICO price this year.

Well, in the first place dude, it is true that bounties can give profit to all bounty hunters, but it never says that all ico are good to join in.
Of course its not the way you think, if you can notice there are some tips or advise about finding a good ico campaign for this things. So, if you fail in the ico you chose in it means there is something lacking on you why failed? In short the next you join change the way you did in choosing the good ico. That's my advise to you :)

This seems to have become a topic of frequent discussion. I personally think that if you are willing to take the risk of investment, then investing in ICO is still feasible, but if you are not rich, then staying away from ICO is the best choice!

So are you saying that ico is only for rich people ? Well thats wrong .  poor people can also have the right to invest on an ico as long as they are willing to take the risk and most importantly can afford to loose big  .

Speking of ico , Ico's have gotten a bad reputation lately due to growing number of scams and frauds but not all ico are bad . infact , ico is pretty beneficial as long as you are good at picking the right one .

While it is better not to invest in crypto projects. It is better to wait for the market reversal, or buy crypto coins on the stock exchange now. Many coins are cheaper now than on the stage ICO.

Hey. Yes, such events sometimes occur. Be careful and educated and conscious.

But sometimes investing in crypto projects will be more profitable because we can buy coins far below ico prices and I think what we have to deal with in this problem is how we avoid ico impersonal fraud.

Yeah it's all about destiny and if you want to be profitable then you need take the risk in investing ICO. The risk is higher but if you manage it properly and choose the right project the profits could be exponential as those good projects are now hitting the moon.

I don't believe that ico is all about destiny, don't make laugh dude. It could be ico is like a journey because the more you hunt the good project is the more you become aggressive to to seek it thru bounty campaign. Where through studying the concept of the ico project it will give an idea in the future that we are going to be a victim by the scammer.

As many the project come up with ico for funding, honestly it's really hard to choosing ico, some project promising many tool can use, after all they look dont care and act everything it's okay, as my experience its better investing after the project hit the market than invest to ico.

Well, that was sometime that felt by everyone. But now, I can't be sure that the ICO is really a promising place. Until now, many investors have given up on investing in ICO. They don't see the scam project that often happens, but some investors look at the current market conditions. As long as the cryptocurrency market decreases, I haven't seen a coin that has been successfully launched and has experienced price increases like most others expect. But most of the new tokens / coins have decreased even more than the ICO price.

it is still cautious for your money,yes it was listed in the exchange but it doesnt mean it will be a successful one, it will have a value but it doesnt mean the amount that you invested will be having a good profit because there are lots of coins in the market that has a value but there was no chance to recover with a good price.

Regular investing in a crypto project will bring investors only disappointment, and everything happens because everyone is accustomed to investing without thinking. And now you need to try to find a good project.

Well, in this time very difficult we are looking for a ICO's project that could be potential and profitable for us, most of the ICO now
just scam or failed to reach the target. I think it is better to buy the coins in the market and then hold it for long term.

ICO is a risky investment channel but also profitable.
But.ICO this time is a lot different from 2017. ICO projects are no longer attractive to investors, because when the token is listed on the floor is /2, /3, /5...
In addition,have many many ICO projects are created with the intent to deceive many users. You need to be careful to select potential ICOs and have practical applications.

wow, I have seen a lot of posts like this, which say that all ICO are scam and more and more doubts I have about participating in ICO. thank you guys for your warnings

Since the end of 2017, the situation regarding the ICO has only worsened. In the first half of 2018, it became clear that it is better not to invest in ICO. Too many scams and even less normal projects become unprofitable for their investors.

So many scam Ico if you are not ready to face the risks do not invest in Ico. Scam Ico’s spreading this year you will lose eventually. Better not to trust and invest if you know nothing the project.

You should control your greed. This year ICO is very difficult. Many ICOs have failed, and the failure rate is over 80%. This is very scary. You need to be calm! A rational investment can protect your assets. Of course, we are incompetent to those liar.

The focus should not only be on investing into new ICO's but choosing projects that have already successfully launched and accomplished some of the milestones on their roadmaps and represent good value in terms of future developments and diversifying into those

I have participated in many projects this year, but they have not sent me rewards, only 1 of the 10 projects I have participated in have distributed rewards, this year the ICO situation is very concerning. I hope they don't die all, which results in cryptocurrency disappearing in the world.