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I think we should protect to issue scam ICOs in the crypto market. It creates misconception between new user and about market. What you think?

You can't stop people from launching ICOs. However, you can educate people and make them be able to distinguish a scam from a legit project. It's not an easy task though, people are no longer interested in learning, they just want profit so they'll put their money in any project that have a high score in TokenMarket or other scoring sites.

That's right, people are too focus on making money without even making any effort on knowing more about the market.
Basically we cannot not stop ICO's from launching since we don't know yet if its a scam or not and the moment they live their ICO and make more details about the project then that is the time when we can spread news about scam ICO's. We should educate people now on how this market works, just tell them the things they need to know before they invest.

we cant but we should not help them it was sad because scamming is a daily routine of some people.

In my opinion, before setting up ICOs we need to look into as much detail as possible, which we need to look at "who created this ICOs project?" There are so many fraudulent acts in ICOs that it makes new people afraid, so my advice is to be careful in determining ICOs projects.

Hello everyone, I'm engaged in bounty projects, and I'm very upset about this amount of scum. about 10 percent ICo is fraud

I think you can not stop it but unfortunately if you can avoid this scam ICO. If you can joined any ICO the before you can check ICO team. It way give you strong stable information and search good ICO.

We have nothing to do about scam of ICO launching because first of all we don't determine what is legit or fake we have noticed after the end of their activities, so for me every ICO lounching I have to appreciate and trying to cooperate who knows this is a good ICO project  bringing to the good intention serving to all people.

We can't stop scam ICO project  launching because we don't know that which project will scam or which project will hit. A newbie must aware investing in ico project . First they need to know how to analysis an ico project. We need to collect scammed ico project owner information so that they can't launch new project. If they launch then we will know that him/his project will scam.

Yeas I'm agree with him !! most investors rely on the information base on ICO scoring sites.

This is actually a very dangerous thing, because if you have enough money for these review sites.
Even a fraudulent ICO program will have a high score.

all countries are rules & regulations for ico launching then save to scam. it's my opinion.

No one could really stop a scam ico to launch, all we have to do is not to invest to such ico. The question is how we identify such ico. An individual must do some serious research on their selected ico. How? It's on this forum do some readings and you'll be enlightened.

many icos arent scams actually they are just failed icos, how to distinguish those?

I think we can stop the scam in ICO launching but I think we can try to prevent us to invest in bitcoin ICO, with do some reserach about the the project and the CEo and the developer befiore invest in it, so you can stop to invest in the scam project

There's no way we can stop scammers from creating their own coin and launch an ICO because anyone can do this without any permission from a central authority or government. But of course we can do something to prevent beginners as well as other crypto investors from being scammed by fake ICOs, it is to warn or guide everyone on how not to be a victim of ICO scams. But do we really need to do it? for me no, it is for everyone to know. If you want to invest on something you should understand what it does and what is it for, right? so even you are a beginner you should do some research before putting your money into a project. And if you do your research you will notice that there are lots of scam and you will know or learn how to avoid them.

Yes, your idea is correct. But I think it's a bit difficult to predict. Because most of the time, we can not understand what is going to happen in the end even after we verify it. And by this scam case came forward. The newcomer is interrupted and the wrong idea comes. But I think it should be more careful and the experts should consult. This will reduce the scam.  ::)

Scam icos are ruining the reputation of cryptocurrencies. Some just ran away after collecting money, while some just remains good in  paper only without no much development after the ICO. What we need is strict regulations. Regulation are actually good for ICO'S as well for cryptocurrencies as a whole. It will help in mass adoption.

I think the only way to stop them is for people to lose interest in investing in them. Which I think may happen over time.

Thanks to the Security and exchange comission (SEC)  for trying to regulate and prevent the crypto community from scam ICO. This I think is going to help prevent scam ICOs and people should watchout and be careful of where they invest. Search for their team , project idea, location, identity, make sure they are not anonymous.

I think this task should be given to the SEC, which is currently imposing legal sanctions on fraudulent ICO projects.
So we should try to avoid investing in these fraudulent ICO.

After careful study of most ICO projects, it is found that ICOs are not really needed to advance their courses. For a few, ICO is a genuine path to advance their programs.

How do you stop ICOs launching?
- It is not worthwhile to aim at stopping an integrated function by a Blockchain  technology. For an ICOs  based in the US, you may be able to get restitution if you take action BUT only after the perceived scam. But remember, most ICOs have warnings on their websites and they will use it to defend their ICO actions.

- It is more worthwhile to mount effort in educating people about the basics of cryptocurrency/tokens.

- After educating people, they can be able to compare actual codes and/or functional buttons in GITHUB, Etherscan, MEW, Metamask, and website information to be able to make their own informed decision, not only for ICOs which are predominant on Ethereum Blockchain but also for other Blockchains. If the codes are in machine-only readable language, reach out and private message through a forum or website.

- From analysis and findings, websites are easy to create and integrate functions that are slightly or largely different from the actual codes behind a coin. Don't be too fascinated by website gimmicks and marketing landing pages.

- When one argues that understanding codes and functional buttons is difficult, and cannot help in quick decision about investing in an ICO, then the alternate step to take is really to ask yourself if you want to indeed support the project, merely using/storing the token of the project or if you simply want to make quick money from an ico. In most cases after careful study, investors and traders want to get involved to make quick money from an ico. Buy it when it is cheap and sell it off soon after the ico ends. Ask yourself: is this want you want as well or do you really want to support a project? What matters most to you is up to you!

- A Strong Note to Newbies: Seeing the faces or hearing the voices of a team behind an ICO will not protect you from been scammed by an ICO. Even your best friend or your family member WITHOUT GENUINE INTENTION will scam you in this ecosystem.

- A Final Note to Newbies: Some ICOs are genuine but cannot deal with market forces of pricing after the ico ends. So they simply go extinct due to market forces and therefore appear as scammers. Market Pricing is Knuckle Bone and spared not even Bitcoin and Ethereum!

The problem is that no one will ever do it for free. Its hard to give an advice to those people who are only interests are how to earn money fast. Only few people knows exactly what it is and do some research.

There is a solution given  y ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin daico already the abyss project using this but still it there is no much projects dare to implement this . Because in case of failure of reaching roadmap they have to refund also control will be having investors voting.

Its really hard to stop Scam ICOs because at first they have they have very promising rewards to investors and bounty hunters and most especially they are foreign national so its hard for us to stop.

You just read my mind's question. The same question was playing in my mind. But then I realize if there was any way to stop launching scam ICO then everyone already stops them. It is not possible to prevent starting a lousy scam ICO. We need to motivate people for good things and try to keep away from shit ICO Projects

Nobody knows which ico will be a scam but we able to know it will scam or not it depends on developer how they transparency everything, share everything so the investor knows how was the project.

Well i dont think any individual cant stop it . better my suggestion is before join and investing any new ico try to chek company details and company roadmap, team all the things .

very difficult in my opinion, and very necessary international regulation especially in the country that is occupied by its ico organizers. I feel the same worries as the others, ico scam becomes a problem that makes a negative on the development.

There needs to be some kind of regulations that govern the production of new ICOs. Also there should be some kind of bar set that the team of developers and creators of the coin have to meet before they can introduce a new coin into the market. There are already thousands of scam coins now in the market and the last thing we need is people adding to it

I think we should pay more attention to ranking services which are responsible for evaluation of ICOs' quality. Those we have now are rather dubious and biased and a lot of ratings are just paid for. As soon as there is demand for quality ICO analytics, people will tend to avoid investing in projects experts labeled as fishy.

If we want to create a free market then scam it's should be normal. If you want protect yourself from scams you must teach yourself immediately. Otherwise you can find new or old market with founders own rules.

good,The more rampant ICO (Initial Coin Offering) currently makes some people will be a little confused should choose which ICO is best and recommendations for us choose invested as the Product or Project that we deserve the most.
Product or Project Team - It's no secret that the success of an ICO project relies heavily on all executive management teams such as CEO, CTO, CMO and so on. These are the people who will face the strategic technical challenges of the product project later on. They must be very experienced in their fields according to their product formula. View and find who they are and at least they should have an active profile on LinKedin and FaceBook . It should be remembered that although they have been successful on ICO before but whether they have the right expertise on current ICO products or projects. In comparison, the US Venture Fund is more likely to invest in projects whose founders have failed before.

Actually nobody can predict the bad intention of humans about launching scam ICOs but we can put some laws in place to check them. However it's in the place of investors to carry out due diligent search before parting out their earned income for investments so as not to fall victims to scam projects.

I always check the team of the ico, then see if the project will go further, i also go through reviews of other people before investing, if I am not convinced, I just do airdrop and wait till it hits exchange.

if people wouldn't be investing in scam ICOs, they wouldn't have an economic incentive to pop up. That is rather utopistic scenario though, yet until then there will always be scammers.

Tell them about the projects that you support. Here is the place where you shouldn't be afraid of any stiff competition from other investors, as the bigger the community grows, the higher your income is. So support your favorite projects in all ways, like and retweet them not only for some bounty, but just to broaden the community. How can it help to find scammers? The more money are invested in legit projects, the less are left to invest in scam. Easy!

Yes we can't stop SCAM ICO. It will keep growing and it will became big problem. Maybe all we can do is share knowledge to new people about SCAM ICO and how to avoid them.

Pretty much. However, come next major bullrun, stupid money will be thrown once again left and right. Mainly because during such periods it's hard to lose money. And so the cycle continues. Regulation is the only thing I can think about that would certainly curb the enthusiasm of serial scammers.

ICO projects have been launched and will continue. This can not be stopped. Especially to understand the fraudulent project or not. Already in the final result, everything will be clear when we are deceived.

To some extent, this contributes to the development of the ICO market and teaches people many skills related to investing

I strongly agree with you that stopping the launch of ICO is not an easy thing to do. I think it's hard to find a way for that. We just need to be careful and identify the original or scam ICO project that we will choose. Thus, the examination becomes mandatory before making a decision.

I hope that soon they will create some kind of platform or body that will control the ICO. To check it out, give permission or reject. Maybe I don't understand something, but I think it would be the right decision.

By the way, don't you think that some regulations from government can be a solution? Of course, we are here for the idea of no central authority telling us where we can invest and where we can not, but it's so difficult to punish real scammers, who get investors' money and then just disappear forever.

This can not be stopped. even when the ICO will not exit the ad know if the result is a scam or what it looks like. but that can be done is to anticipate the course with an analysis of whether it is viewed by the team as well as see the concept they have. If it proves to be a scam is certainly at the very least provide information on matters related to this or other forums such as the telegram.

I think there needs to be some sort of regulation that governs the production of the new ICO, but it's all. There must also be some kind of group that can make the team of developers and coin-makers meet before they can introduce new coins to the market, because I feel the same worries as others , ico scam becomes a problem that makes it negative on development.

Actually they need to get money more easily than other do like a physical work.  some person get tired of getting some knowledge on what it is or how it works the good that they think was it is famous and everybody wants to buy that token so they also buy that even the didn't know the projects or anything. What if no one else don't know it and they invest because of advertisement only? and the project was not good but it has a lot of ads, right? there are more victim people when it was a scam because they not cite and study the ICO so this is why there are many person experience scam.

If you think so, then do not you want to propose an option as it struggles with the moshenic ICO. Introducing side regulators is a bad idea. It seems to me worthwhile to organize a platform for the ICO rating from market participants.

to stop fraud in the ICO program I think this is very difficult because it is related to the internet world that everyone can access it. but the most important thing is that every individual can choose and inspect the ICO program before we invest in the ICO program so that we will not get a loss from the ICO program that leads to fraud.

Someone here told about government regulation but he forgets that crypto is about decentralisation and we should not forget about it

By regulating them.
Every ICO should have a transparent team, transparent development progress and if they fail, they should return the money otherwise they would go to jail.

I feel that there should be more verification if the ICOs being sent to the market for proper clarifications

I think the only way is to make some kind of regulation by checking the team and their ability to make their ICO project real. But personally I do not see the way we can do this regulation now.

Nope not just ten percent there's more than that but I don't have the exact figure my guess is that 60% - 70% are scams abandoned projects are included cause we may consider them scammers not counting the failed ICO's because they are going to refund all of the funds of their investors they just failed to meet the token sale caps, can't stop them completely but we can spread awareness about their cheap tactics and gimmicks.

I think that there is no way to stop the scammers here and if you start thinking about what bad can happen when using cryptocurrency - it is better not to use it at all.

Write in the discussion of bitcointalk if the ICO is scam. Leave comment in ann page then the investors wiil be negative to the ICO. If the ICO is managed by scam team all members should give the comment so the ICO will be left and fail, When they fail they will lost money , that they deserve

I can not tell you that this can be stopped, because I see no alternative to introducing a smart contract into platforms, so that money will come only if the developers have fulfilled some part of the transaction.

Now everyone can make ico so it seems we cant stop the launch of the scam ico because we are also difficult to determine which ico is a scam.
The only way is we have to be more selective in investing in ico.

We can stop it by not investing to the different ICO projects that looks stupid and so simple. I don't even know why they are still alive and we are facing the same problem the whole year.

I see a couple way to stop ICO scams. 1) Stop investing in it without a deep analysis. 2) Do the same thing again. If we support all of ICO that means we support scammers as well.

It is impossible to stop the ICO which then becomes a scam.
The maximum that we have the opportunity to do is to evaluate the ICO, idea, the team.
And such sites exist. And they often give a good evaluation of the scam, and a poor evaluation of projects that lists on good exchanges.
Unfortunately.

I agree that first of all we are determined to make money. And less look closely to the company. About 20% of scammers and we do not like to know about them until we are deceived.  Work with proven companies and all will be well.

The best thing we can do is improve our knowledge to recognize which ICO is scam. The reason why scam ICOs is still alive is still have lots of people invested on them. Those investors did not learning enough about that projects, so they were trapped. When all of we be smarter, scam ICOs wont be alive.

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

Every day we improve our knowledge about cryptocurrencies. But scammers also do not rest. They come up with more and more cunning schemes every day. I think that mutual assistance and notification of other people interested in cryptocurrencies is a step forward in the fight against fraud! Bitcointalk forum is a good place for this ;)

As a new user these things is inevitable for you not to know which it would really give hesitance once you heard it on some people who invested and lose out money because of these scammy ICO. The solution is not to completely stop since this is an impossible thing because the nature of crypto is anonymous and decentralized which anyone can launch whenever they do want. The solution would be this, if people doesnt tend to fund out a scam project sooner or later they would be gone but still they are rampant nowadays because they do continue on investing on it.

Investors must examine intensively the team and the idea of this icos before investing in them and if this investors finds something fishy to the team, they must alert the public or the other investors.

The best thing to kill the whole industry of scam ICO is simple - just dont give them money. Thats all.
If such projects will gain less money there will be less such ICOs in time. Only customer is responsible for such percentage of fraud in crypto imo

scammers can only stop control by the bodies that will filter the fundraising, otherwise legends will continue!

we can not unilaterally to stop the ICO scam project. It takes an influential person to stop that as well as support from the community. For now the best way to avoid ICO scam is to educate new users so they have enough knowledge to see objectively which ICO scam and which are not scam. I think ICO scam arose due to lack of such education.

Thats funny question because there is no way to stop all this as this world runs on the blockchain which is public leader and thus people can do whatever they want and open source anything they want.  :D
We can not stop ICO from getting listed here because this forum itself is partially decentralised one and thus have no rights to stop them. We can however expose the scams here and then may be we can stop its operation from there onwards.
So pretty much we can minimise the risk but we cant really stop them getting formed and listed in the initial stages.

we can't stop ICO fraud because we don't know which project is fraudulent or not

It is very difficult to detect a scam project, sometimes even an ICO scam is better than the actual ICO. Do not be fooled by cheap prices and huge profits, we have to be really good at choosing ICO and investing in it.

if there is a lawyer among us, we could try to file a collective lawsuit against some companies, maybe others will be scared.

The U.S. securities and exchange Commission (SEC) decided to teach investors to recognize fraudulent ICO on a practical example, so he launched his own Scam project! The purpose of which is to teach investors to choose the right projects and not to invest in scammers.

In fact, projects - scams will cease to exist only when investors get literacy! While investors in the market are illiterate and are ready to invest anywhere, scammers will use these!

No matter amount of measures in place to stop scam in the precious space we must also educate ourselves individually, do not buy ico for buying sake dig into the bottom of any ico then when you are assured about the credibility of the project, you can now Invest.

It is not in our hand to stop ICO launch as it beyond our limit. What we can do is we can raise awarness among mass so that they do not fall the victim of such scam. If no one go for this scam ICO it will be stopped automatically.

I heard that an aplication software has established to eradicate scams. So, can search and learn about that app from google and from different websites.

which I know we can not stop ICO's launching because I see a lot of people trying to protect ICO to get rid of fraud and so we have to help ICO not to stop so we can not stop the ICO project

We cant stop scam as mention by others ... best way is we do own research and educate people only probably thru here or any platform.

You can't stop people from starting ICO crowdfunding.
But you can avoid participating in these fraudulent ICO crowdfunding.
I think the task should be given to each country.

Personally, I think you can not stop people from launching ICO. If you can join any ICO before you can check the ICO team. It gives you strong stable information and is looking for a good ICO. So We have nothing to do with ICO launch scams because we do not first determine what is legitimate or fake that we noticed after the end of their activities.

Smile, stopping scam ICO is not an easy task mate. I’m very sure if there is anyway we could stop that for long, we would have done that but it’s so unfortunate, no way. The only thing we could do is just studying very well and avoiding what is not good for our system. Everybody should always do their own personal research

I think is quite difficult to do that, unless some organization make a worldwide regulation and control the ICO activity.
We need some controller who can watch and certified ICO project before launch the token sale.

Yes we will not be able to stop the scam in ico, we can only avoid the scam and give suggestions or feedback to the newbie or those who want to join in ico to be careful in choosing ico project. Be careful is the key, that's all we can do now.

For me, basically we cannot stop ICOs from launching, they offered good and big rewards and of course people want to earned money, even we don't know if that is legitimate or fake so all we have to do now is make a research first before we get in through that project.

I feel Ico is no problem, I think for the end result is none of my business. The most important thing is I've tried to join in some ico, about that there is a result or just a scam I do not care, most important now I try it. No problem to try first, because if we do not try, we will not know the end result.

as long as there is internet they can create and launch ICO at the same time they can hide their identity. the problem is once a new investor is scammed it will affect cryto and they will like stop investing again. they too focused on earning profit and joined without proper knowledge. well once they experienced it ther will understand it.

We can not influence the emergence of fraudulent ICO projects, however, as participants in the ICO signature campaign, we can not join such projects and thereby help ensure that their criminal plans are not implemented. We can also distribute information about this project to fraudulent ICO projects and warn others not to invest in them.

It seems that stopping a scam in ico is not easy, and it could be impossible. Now than we think of something that is impossible we better find out that we are not wrong investment in scam ico. Before making a good investment we know the background ico, the purpose and who made it.

There is no way to stop scam, the space has grown very big in the last 2 years and this come about with their own baggage, even when it very obvious that some projects are scam people still invest in them, Bitconnect is a very good example alot of people on this platform call it out but people went ahead to invest in it and even youtubers were promoting it

One way to stop them is to do thorough research and post red flags for others to see. I have seen fraudulent ICOs get stopped in their tracks by people who spoke up in this forum.

I am also think no way to stop scamming.
Allways finds the peoples who invest their moneys in blind mode

the only way would be to create a network with verified ico and to manually confirm each one of them.
But it will takes too much money and too much work

To do evil is human nature and can not be stopped. Scam is evil and can not be stopped also. No matter how hard we try to warn people about this scams the greedy ones will fall for it because of the easy profit they think they get out there. And the scammers have a way of always changing their tactics.

Scam icos damage the image of cryptocurrency. Many of them who after getting the funds then fled and did not continue the project. It is very harmful to us. It seems like cryptocurrency should make strict rules about ico project, so not any project is accepted because many of them are scam.

For this it is necessary that all ICO projects have a license to conduct investment charges. Therefore, the state should take appropriate measures as soon as possible

actually, we cannot stop the launch of an ico like a scam ico. because people are free to launch an ico. all we can do is avoid the scam ico. need thoroughness in understanding an ico so we don't get stuck in an ico and get the loss. so start now, we should be more careful in choosing an ico so as not to get a scam ico.

The truth is that, most of these icos that are launching, you can't really stop people from launching their icos. You can teach people how to make their own research and be able to choose between good ico and a bad ico in my own opinion.

The only way was just to create more regulations over ICOs, and that already happened, anyway, there are a lot of scammy projects and a lot of people are losing their money because of fake projects.

We cant stop them from launching but we can definitely keep them from taking off, with better awareness, cautious investment and educating ourselves.

I myself really want to stop the scam ICO and coins. however, what can I do? I can only do it by not invetsin gin the project by analzying the deep resarch. However, it may not work. Some very good projects are launched and the community is built. But then, they are scammed easily. It is very difficult to stop the scams.

Unfortunately i think we can't, except if those are regulate but that's not really what happen for now.
We have to be vigilent and always looking at the ico news

Yes what we need is just a proper ventilatory system that will help foster better assessment and bring to Crypto traders the best

We only can stop scam ICO by killing all scammer in this world :). We need to make scammers afraid of something then they'll stop scamming other people :)).

It's only theory but it's impossible in this world while identity of everyone is anonymous so they can do what they want and of course they wanna scam money from other people cause it's the easiest way to get money without doing anything  ::).

It's hard to stop something that's so widely known now. You can only educate and inform people about the risks of investing their money without doing further research about the project first. And also call out people who put scam ICOs out there.

Definitely who does not want to be be in scam free world. Additionally we are talking about crypto market now. I believe that when the scam is reduce in the crypto market countries government rules and regulation will be more lenient on crypto  trading, crypto user like you and mewill be more at ease when we trade eth or any coins. If the traders are more knowledgeable in choosing an ico to invest, slowly after sometime ICO scams should be lesser. As crypto trading is a very lucrative and scams evolve is a normal thing. I believe we only can reduce the number and not totally. 

Good idea! But ICO are produced in different countries and it is difficult to implement it. But we have to come to this in the end!

I think there needs to be some sort of regulation that governs the production of the new ICO, but it's all. There must also be some kind of group that can make the team of developers and coin-makers meet before they can introduce new coins to the market, because I feel the same worries as others , ico scam becomes a problem that makes it negative on development.

You can't stop launching scam ICO? You can't stop people who are greedy, who wants earn money easily by scamming people who trust in them.. We can only do is to do effort to research about the project we want to invest..

Hardly we can directly stop the launch of the scam ICOs atm, but at least we can try to minimize the possibility of successful fundraising by such "projects", more closely researching these "projects" and not supporting those who cause suspicion. This is especially true of the PR sector and the bounty participants in particular, who often support everyone in a row, the ones spreading shit and scam around the world and complicating the choice of investors, especially newbies. If everyone, when choosing a project for investment and\or contribution, will be literally a little more careful and more conscious, the whole ecosystem will benefit from this and each of its participants especially. In fact, it's not difficult not to support shit and scam ::)

But in general, of course there are more eco-systemic and technological solutions that can almost completely eliminate this problem and I am sure they will be implemented from time to time. And I don't mean regulation by the states.

How?)What a question :o

Just don`t invest in such projects, be a smart man and check carefully all projects,I don`t think it`s too difficult:)What about scams, we need 2 or 3 years and market`ll kick off all suspicious projects.We saw the same situation in internet market during 2000s

First of all, it is extremely difficult to differentiate between a regular ICO and a scam ICO in the beginning. Only when the ICO ends, we will be sure about that. But if someone notices that scammers are among the ICO promoters, then definitely we can take action against that ICO.

Let's think together, because the scammers are focused solely on how to tear off our money. They don't think about the project. If we carefully choose the projects, then there will be less scammers. But people are literally obsessed with profits and in most cases do not even read the white paper of the project, trusting the unverified ICO ratings, not understanding that everything in our life is sold.

I don't think it would be possible to stop ICOs projects from launching into the market, the only way for investors to prevent themselves from getting scam is to analyze whether the project is legit or a scam from the start by putting some of their efforts and time to research the main purpose of the project, the usage of the tokens and the team members who are developing the ERC 20 tokens.

It would be difficult to stop the scammy ICO’s. More rules and regulations are needed to be made for that. The people need to study more before investing on any ICO.

We can't stop scam ICO project  launching because we don't know that which project will scam or which project will hit. A newbie must aware investing in ico project . First they need to know how to analysis an ico project. We need to collect scammed ico project owner information so that they can't launch new project. If they launch then we will know that him/his project will scam.

The main feature of the market of crypto currency is that it runs on the basis of decentralization. It has no central authority to regulate the market. Since the market is decentralized, it is not possible to stop scam coins from launching in ICO. Moreover it is also difficult to recognize coin as scam until it comes to the ICO.

People are too focus on making money without even making any effort on knowing more about the market. We cannot not stop ICO's from launching since we don't know yet if it’s a scam or not. We should educate people now on and tell them how the market works.They need to know the proper knowledge before they are going to invest .

I never know to stop the scam ICO because if it can be done it will look easy for us to choose which ICO more people invest in it.

will be hard to stop, but if we more accurately can reduce the trapped in the scam ico only in need of information.

I guess with decentralization we cannot stop scammed ICOs for launching the best way to stop them is by not supporting them by not purchasing any tokens as well not participating their bounty programs. thus great research is a must in order to distinguished the scammed ico or not

It's difficult to stop scams here in technology, we can't even know the subject because we are anonymous who's doing bad influence in ICO projects. We can avoid this issues by reading there project launched and analyze the details wether it's not copied.

yes sure, it is difficult but if we want to be sure we get a clue to the ICO, can be from people who have experienced or even from the view of everyone when able to see something not tempted by the amount of profit.

Scam is the main problem of crypto market based on this many crypto users are victim of it also they lost their money in case of ICO people may affect more based on false project they may invest money and it will be cause of huge loss so we should identify and be aware of this types of ICO.

It is too difficult to avoid such a thing. If the current ICO project is not a fraud, he will have a very high probability of failure and the customer will still face the property loss! If you really want to invest in ICO, I recommend investing in projects that have ready-made products. !

We need regulators that will allow only honest and safe ICO, as well as monitor the development of projects after the collection of money

These people can not be stopped. ICO projects will multiply with each passing day. Only intuition will help you identify fraudulent and nothing more, or stupid mistakes will be given out by your developers.

You can't stop people launching ICO, important things is give education to new user about scam ico charateristic. In my opinion here are few Scam ico charateristic,

1. Dont have clear team, fake account id
2. Non reputable team
3. Dont have clear product
4. etc

The only solution to minimize the scam ICO is to spread awareness to potential investors.
I think the government have already seen this because they are already planning to regulate the ICO for security of the investors.
There are a lot of opportunity in crypto, yet the risk is high, the success will always be depending on our effort and dedication to what we do.

We will never be able to stop ICO scams in this world. I think we should create videos or articles that guide people to get to know the ICO scam. This can limit newbie involvement in scam projects

I think it will be difficult to stop scams, only way is to identify them and not to invest money. We should invest in good projects and support them, for example Ambit Mining is live now, I can suggest to take a look, it is live until June 10

I'm pretty new to this business but I really like what Alethena is doing - at least what I have seen from their demo platform with the rating of Swiss Real Coin ICO. They seem to be building something independent for the future but they definitely need more traction with listed ICOs. Maybe I'm also a bit biased because I'm Swiss  ;)

Crypto is an open world so we cannot prohibit any person or organization to join. However, we can try to recognize scam ICO and let others know about it by posting in group or forum. This would reduce the victims of being scammed.

There must be proper regulations to start ICO because there are many scam ICO's coming now a days and they are stealing our money.

Due diligence and then hopefully finding a way to get the signal out through all this noise and ocean of shills obsfucating facts and actual sentiment.

We cannot stop it. It is likely the criminals in the world. We will never stop them. What we are going to do is avoiding them or even eliminating them from our lists. We can avoid participated in the scam ICO by analyzing them. I know, it is very difficult and maybe it is till fifty-fifty. But, careful analysis and decision will lead you to get the legit ICO.

You probably won't be able to stop someone from doing something that he/she wants to do because we live in free countries. Maybe you could, if you are the government, but otherwise, it's going to be extremely difficult.

What you can instead do is educate people, help spread awareness and teach people you know of what ICOs are clearly scams.

I agree with the other user's comment that we can't easily stop an ICO if we think that they are not legit but we can make a community to help new investor or participants to educate themselves before joining or supporting a newly ICO, usually we need to research about the team behind the project because some ICO uses a fake profile so it is better to check them first if they are legit or not.

If you talk about protection it must be managed by the state, ICO emerge in internet which pretty difficult to control (telegram situation in Russia it was banned but everyone still use it).

There is no way for anyone to stop an ico for scamming their own investors, the best thing to know is just the people behind the ico or the developers who are advertising the current coin they are selling.

Their is no possible way to stop scams at ico lanching. We dont recognized if one new ico are scam or not. We have to  minimize that by aware on participating, careful and be researchful on what we have done.

You can't stop people from launching ICOs. However, you can educate people and make them be able to distinguish a scam from a legit project. It's not an easy task though, people are no longer interested in learning, they just want profit so they'll put their money in any project that have a high score in TokenMarket or other scoring sites.

will not be stopped. that can be done naturally only anticipate with the ICO does not follow such a scam. maximum possible that can be done just remind this forum through the media to the investor. However, to know a scam and there is also not an easy thing. If our opinions, not necessarily true scam and thus it would be a bad thing for us.

I do not think that it is possible, i mean, regulations were meant to do that, but they are not as effective as they should be at the moment, and that is the reason of why there are so many scammy icos

You can get scammed in any market if you go in blindly.
You need to do a heap of research on the project and team members to reduce risk

I think we can not stop they launching ICO but we can warning peoples to not make investment on that ICO. We prevent peoples by educating them about scam ICO and how to avoid it and make warning about that scam ICO

I don't think we can stop this process in any way. It can be stopped only by a strict legislative regulation of the ICO. But at the same time, regulation will reduce the profitability of ICO campaigns.

If we want to protect us, then cryptocurrency and ICO must be regulated by the laws like IPOs otherwise there will be scams. But as this sphere becomes regulated, it will not be so profitable anymore. For now, I can't see the other way to protect cryptoinvestors. We are on our own now

ICOs are dirtying the whole crypto markets and there needs to be done something about it. The social media sites banning ICO ads was a step in the positive direction. Now the next part comes of the crypto users who need to prevent themselves from investing in these ICOs, if no one invests in these ICOs than they are going to die down sooner.

We need icos because they help many projects to stay afloat and develop their projects easily. Investors are willing to commit to a project but it is hard for them to tell which is scam and which isn't. I am glad to be involved in Spotcoin. An ico project that will not end up being a scam

Just by no investing on those kind of programs, if all the other scammers see that it is impossible to make money out of those scams, they will stop trying to create them.

Its just simple avoid those shady ICO's  just do a little researched  about the project that you want to participate  don't let those scammy alibis to legitimized hiding to protect there identity or whatsoever! they are running and ICO in the name of transparency they must reveal their true Identity and skip from hiding. if the platform's Team is not transparent Don't  invest period!

The idea of fraud can not be stopped, it can either be prevented or simply be careful, and never store your personal data on the computer you are working with.

It doesn't work like that. No matter what prohibitions are imposed, scammers will be as long as there are people who invest money in such projects. We must learn to work on ourselves and not to fall for such ICO. Then the scammers will understand that this niche is no longer valid. You wait for action from outside. But this is a decentralized system that is held by all of us, and it depends on us what will happen to it.

No one can stop the ico's who are scamming different investors because most of them are really look's legit, but just always look on the platform and the developers who are handling in order to determine if you will really earn profit or not.

Most of the time, it won't be stopped. Scammers will always find a way to trick people and what we can do is to avoid being tricked and to educate the rest about this fraud. Newbies are easily fooled because of lack of knowledge and if you already a veteran in detecting whether an ICO is fake, then better share it with the folks. Of course, do not forget to provide evidence to make it convincing. You must be pretty sure too because if you are wrong then you are spreading FUD.

 I think we can't because ICO needs to be transformed into something else which would not allowed to be scam and deceive

i think there are no ways to stop these scam icos.

even if icos here in the forum completely forbids, it will certainly continue to give it in another forum.

Well, it is very difficult to stop people from launching scam ICOs. BTC One thing we can do that is to spread the knowledge between the people about to difference a scam in a legit project.

We cannot stop an ICO's on launching because they have budget on their marketing plans no matter what we do. However, we can protect ourselves and other member or investors for being scam by an ICO in our own ways. We should check the whitepaper of an ICO before investing on it, it should have a realistic offers and not the too good to be true because it may smell fishy in the first place. Investigation is a must before  joining on a ICO, you must check its user's review and should be supported and has positive feedback from the community.

I think it cannot be stopped. Scams are everywhere and you cannot resist them actually. But yes, we can avoid them and then ban them. We can discourage them by avoiding properly.

We don't have anything to do about trick of ICO propelling on the grounds that as a matter of first importance we don't figure out what is genuine or counterfeit we have seen after the finish of their exercises, so for me each ICO lounching I need to acknowledge and attempting to coordinate who knows this is a decent ICO venture conveying to the great aim serving to all individuals.

There is no way to stop them becasue they are like the plague, there is no way to end with them, regulations were suppose to stop with them but it seems to do not be working.

I am yet to understand or how one can identify the real ICO or the Fake one. Alot of people have come up their own ideas and thoughts on how to identify good ICOs but you found out that finally, some of the projects they rebel as Fake comes out clean and good.  it hard to pick out the good ones. from the look of things it is clear that the outcome  of a project depends on the community. also the amount of money been pushed into it.
 far from this you never can tell.

Everything about ICOs sucks. if you are lucky, you win. iF Not you get burned.

I think we can't stop the launch of ico scam. because we don't know from the beginning that there is a scam ico. that we can do is choose the ico who has a team who can be trusted and have good prospects for the future. therefore, we can avoid the scam ico if we can choose ico well.

We can not stop the scam ICOs but we can avoid it by making careful research for an ICO that gets our interest as investors.

No we can. In one very simple action. If the community will stop buying scam coins and support such projects with their money - they will stop appearing every day. As simple as that. All in our hands

Yes we are all doesnt want scam ICO to be freely run their ICO. The most problem we are facing is, we cannot know whether the ICO is scam or not first.
I think we can avoid this kind of ICO by only investing our money to a verify ICO project on some review or rating site. They usually required ICO team to do KYC.

Actually, ICOs barely are complete fraud. For me the irrefutable problem turns out to be oftentimes one poor business proposition.

Stopping ICO is like closing the entire cryptocurency Market. it is a hard task to archive which will Not Be Possible.
because. All New projects Needs funds to start up

Its not easy and I think it cant be stopped. Because you cant stop people from launching the ICO. What we have to do is to let people know the kind of ICO by educating them on how to find a good ICO

The only way is to do a proper research and don`t invest in scam .

People must understand what to make money from investments it`s a lot of research in play ....

So when pseudo investor will learn this lesson will be less scam ICO and also SEC started to check all ICO what are on the market .

While it is worrisome that nothing has been done to the best of my knowledge about scam ICOs, it won't be out of place to begin publishing our findings about suspicious ICO for forum members to follow up investigations so that we can begin to a definition of some disturbing matters.

we will never be able to stop it, but we will never know maybe in the future there will be a technology that can prevent scam, so that all crypto traders and crypto investors are safe from all forms of virtual crime

We cannot stop scam ico from launching... sometimes those ico do not intend to unfinished their project, mostly they run out of fund or lack of time to settle everything so even if they sometimes wanted to finished it they could not but there are also scam ico which we should study and examine very carefully for us not be victimize.

Maybe if this kind of thing nobody can call them, because they also have the same rights as we want to do anything. What is important is that we avoid ICOs that are 'likely' to fail or anything, try to be more precise and recognize the background of the project by looking for references from a variety of trusted sources.

We can't stop them from launching their ico because we can't know if their project is scam at the beginning. Some of the project that turns to scam has good whitepaper, website. Some of them deliver too their project but at the very end turns into nothing and just leave the project. I think the only way for us is not to invest on this and before that of course we need some information about their company and other way is to invest only what money we can lose.

Scam ico is the evil of nowdays. Only the legislative framework is able to control ICO and protect investors. Already different communities unite to fight against it. For example cryptocurrency police community platform  are  created to fight  with such type fraud.

Currently, ICO campaigns are not managed so that ICO scam was created to attract investors. At the present time, the only way to avoid being fooled by ICOs is to learn knowledge about ICO to choose your own potential ICO, avoiding ICO scam projects. And in 2019, there is hope for an ICO control to prevent fraudulent projects.

Since I remember there were some attempts yet to start controlling of ICO. But until for modern day there are no results as we can see. I am even losing any faith that it is possible to take ICOs under real control.

I also worked for ico scam. I am very angry with this. Having too much ico makes it difficult to control. Deceptive behavior is also increasingly professional.

That would be a good idea and besides we will need it for sure inorder for us to lessen the percentage of doing ICO's that is a scam.

The rate at which Ico are coming out on a regular basis is quite alarming,  more than 50% of those Ico are scam the best way to stop this is by putting regulations in place, once there's regulations the market will be free from scam ico

I think that if most of the consumers will not prefer to invest on an ico even though it was not scam then the coin will still die eventually after the release or the campaign will failed so ti does not matter even if we will not try to stop an ico that looks like scam because people will still notice it on the platform.

We can't stop scam ICO from launching but some smart people can detect the bad behavior from bad ICO as soon as possible. If such smart people willing to warn of bad things quickly, then some investors can certainly be saved.

can't seem to stop it. If it appears it will still be there and none could stop him. most great step better mutual warned. but I think that people like this are rarely willing to mutually warn each other. ICO like this is very troubling and very have no benefits.

if there is a way to stop it, it is already been done even before. but there is no way to define or to know if an ico is scam. even a good ico becoming scam if it is their real intention.

It is impossible to monitor, identify and stop all of them and it would take a great amount of effort and resources to establish a dedicated system to totally prevent these scam ICOs. The best we can do is to provide information to as many as we can in order to reduce the number of victims enough for these scammers to make their efforts deemed not worthy.

this is the hard part, when launching ico with a potential project but with a scam team behind it, many people are interested and eventually joined the part of the ico. while everyone or team can freely launch ico in the market.

I do not think that it is possible to achieve such a result, in order to completely eliminate the risk of fraud in this area. But it is possible to reduce such risks if competently to analyze proposals and study the opinions of experts.

If you want to effectively prevent fraudulent ICOs from engaging in fraudulent activities, you can only achieve this through the unified monitoring actions of the whole country, because most investors cannot get information from news and forums that suggest that certain items are fraudulent!

The scammer is hard and almost impossible to stop in ICO. But I liked the idea with the band. When we work in a team, everything will quickly improve. And scammers have nothing to stay with.

Nothing can stop those ico that intended to scams because like legit project those damn scammer are doing their illegal activities too.though we cant stop them but we can manage to make them life miserable

On what process?by not entertaining all ico project,dont invest on all of them either legit or scam because nowadays we cant distinguish whos legit and whos scammer from that they will have no victim and we will not be abused

Well maybe the best way to prohibit these kind of stuff is by means of educating every people in this kind of platform because of they have no prior knowledge about on what they are doing they are very prone in this circumstances so maybe the best way is to inform everyone on what is a legit ICO and not and by this thing we can stop ICOs that are scam.

There is nothing way to stop those coming scam ICO, here in cryptonis decentralize and anyone of us can purchase ICO  or build a project. Only we can do is to classify and find out which is real and scam. Better to not depend on any rating site just do self basis on picking ico

Stopping the rise of ICO scams requires effective government supervision!
The government set up related departments to supervise ico's market!
At the source to eliminate the emergence of ico scam!

The only thing you can do is try to get educated and learn as much as possible. Nothing else can be done because this is international market and there is no regulation

We need to introduce new rules and improve the KYC system. It may even be necessary to impose a criminal penalty on such projects.

I think that first we must defeat greed in people who deceive people with false promises. However, before we can defeat greed, we must defeat human nature. How to defeat human nature? Destroy all humans!

We can't stop scam ICO launching. There is no manner to stop it, that stopping the launch of ICO is not an easy thing to do. I think it's hard to find a way for that. We just need to be careful and identify the original or scam ICO project that we will choose. Thus, the examination becomes mandatory before making a decision. And I see no alternative to introducing a smart contract into platforms, so that money will come only if the developers have fulfilled some part of the transaction.

I think there must be proper regulations to Launch an ICO. This is only a way to stop scam ICO's. We need a proper committee which can do proper research of ICO project and then give permission to launch it.

It seems to me that in order to avoid the scams, ICO should go out on special platforms for ICO, for example, I know in Japan they did this, called Comsa, but it still does not work properly, if all ICO’s would came out on such platforms, it would be at least some guarantees.

I be convinced it's a bite crucial to foresee. Because about of the bit, we not cognize what is accomplishment to come to proceed in the boundary yet astern we verify it.

you are right and the most important thing we can do is not to take part in such kind of ICOs. they won't raise any money and it would be the best response to the scammers.

There is no way to stop it, there are a lot of scams nowadays and i am more than sure that it is impossible without regulations on every country, so just forget about that idea

While I do not see any way out that would stop the scammers. Fraud ICO is thriving because of the narrow-minded people who do not want to learn how to choose the right ICO.

Well, we can not stop people launching ICO, you can do research on their ico so we can choose ico which is not a scam. All we can do is be careful and hopeful. It is very difficult if we compare ico, so much ico now. We can see icorating etc. I think it helps to keep us away from ico scam.

Theres no way to stop it but theres a way to reduce people who get scammed simply by making a website that list suspicious ICO so that the community could judge whether an ICO is scam or not.
Theres plenty of website like this already but not really updated and people put low attention to such thing and thats why scam ICO still appear time by time.

Do not assume that you can completely solve this problem. But you can minimize this problem if you carefully and responsibly treat the choice of a suitable project for investment.

Just need to carefully choose the right project for your investments, analyze the market and share with other investors useful information about scammers.

In reality, Coins hardly are total fraud. I consider that the certain issue tends to be generally a atrocious financial proposition.

I do not think that it will be possible to completely stop this process. Scammers have always been in all areas. Just need to carefully choose the project to reduce such a problem.

There are already a lot of different opinions that are described here, but no one else will be able to create a service that would really give any percentage of whether you need to invest, many rating sites are not an indicator, as you managed to notice.

The only way was just to create more regulations over ICOs, and that already happened, anyway, there are a lot of scammy projects and a lot of people are losing their money because of fake projects.

I don't think we can stop this process in any way. It can be stopped only by a strict legislative regulation of the ICO. But at the same time, regulation will reduce the profitability of ICO campaigns.

Paying project deposits may be an effective way, but who will keep these deposits? It is time to set up a government supervision agency to supervise the ICO.I believe that scmas are not willing to pay a deposit.

Seems like there is no way to stop the scam ICO, it is a personal research to avoid such thing.

I don't know how it is possible to stop scam ICOs, but we can avoid participating in such ICOs. It is easy to sort out projects with fake team and copy paste WP. Also presence in social network and Linked in does really matter to determinate fake ICO

I myself really want to stop the scam ICO and coins. however, what can I do? I can only do it by not invetsin gin the project by analzying the deep resarch. However, it may not work. Some very good projects are launched and the community is built.

Yes mate, scam icos right now has the main reason why icos are now lesser investors. Lets just take some research mate before acting and buying their tokens mate. If we have seen malicious act or paper about them, its good enough to dont take part part of it so we can avoid scam icos

You can't stop it... just like how we can never stop crimes from happening. As long as people stay greedy and stupid, there will always be scam.

I think that all we can do is wait for regulation. And so that it was not too cruel to ordinary coins such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. There is no other option, without this, unfortunately, scammers will not disappear :-\

Unfortunately, the world has not yet come up with such an opportunity so that we could forbid rogues to create their own ICOs. But I think clever people are already working on it and once we can prevent the creation of fraudulent ICOs.

 I think if we would be educated enough to consider and reveal the scam ICO from very beginning of it existence. Then they would stop creating them, but this is impossible.

ICOs are too tidbit for fraud! I assume that only detailed regulation of the crypto market (and at the international level) can solve this problem. That is my opinion.

Their is no possible way to stop scams at ico lanching. We dont recognized if one new ico are scam or not. We have to  minimize that by aware on participating, careful and be researchful on what we have done.

You cannot stop crooks from launching ICO project under the current regulations. China and the US have both restricted their citizens from taking part in ICO but that is more a draconian step than a solution. The best way forward is for people to properly educate themselves about crypto space and to do proper due diligence on any project before putting their money into it.

Agreed. But unfortunately bounty hunters are not the main victim of scams. The most important victim of scams are investors, which we are with you and attract thanks to the social/media company.

The best ways for us to stop scam ICOs from launching would be for people to report the ICO as scams. This way other investors can see that the ICO is a scam and they will not put money into it. If no one buys an ICO then the coin will not be able to launch, they will simply just die out because if people are not investing in your coin then the coin is worthless

This does not seem to completely prevent them from deceiving. What we need to do is to carefully understand ICO's project development, the white paper, and the background of the team. This will reduce the risk of being deceived. Only blind investment will be used to generate losses and fraud.

how can you stop the scammers? you can only learn to distinguish projects scammers or not, but I agree that it is not easy, but still possible, but many do not really want to learn everything just want to make money.

We can immediately write our opinion about the ICO project, after its careful analysis on this forum. Thus, we will let all investors who are interested in the project know whether to invest or have any suspicions and fears.

Therer is no way to stop their launching, the only thing that you can do is just to share the word and avoid other people to join there

that is quite a difficult thing to do. It actually more boils down to people jumping into something they don't know much about, and letting yourself be lead around. That's how most scams, not just online ones, happen. Apart from being educated about crypto, people should also learn to not jump the gun right away on every ICO.

The main problem IMO is that we all value very much the lack of regulations. That is why most of us are here IMO. If we set up some regulations that will push a lot of investors back. I don't see a meaningful solution so far, but really hope to see one that will work.

When people stop investing their Eth in suspicious projects, then situation will be much better i think. We just need to be careful with our money and thinking twice before investing somewhere.

Currently, it is challenging to ban scam ICOs because the cryptocurrency market is not currently managed by any individual or organization. Therefore, it can only be hoped that the next few years will be maintained to minimize ICO scam daily so that investors are no longer be cheated.

There must be some body of security before ICO's are released into the market. Someone or something that will verify the validity of the ICO. I think one good idea is the identification of the people who are in on it, and should there be something wrong that will happen along the way, they will be arrested as criminals.

It's a pity that you can't stop this kind of thing and anyone can easily launch ICO unless this piece of law is perfected in the future.

It costs almost nothing you create an ICO, it takes basically a very well thought idea, a professional writer to compose the whitepaper and then ask for millions of dollars.
I believe there should be a rule to protect investors from falling for this kind of scams and a working product should be a necessity for every project before the ICO is launched.

ICOs are a new way to collect money for businesses online. Most of them are fake or die out without any conviction. There are no government regulations also, despite of this we invest in them, we should stop being greedy.

What the best we can do is to analyze if the ICO is genuine - the team, experts, management, the prototype, the community, supply, cost, road map ahead, etc.

It's not really a misconception if nearly the entire market in altcoins is scam ICO's... it simply is just something that has remained true which is altcoins generally are scams. Just ICOs are a new way to scam people with altcoins or tokens. The market has been like that for a long time and the only way to prevent it would be to ban ICO's on the forum, which is not a solution that can be taken.

I don't think this can be stopped but i believe it can be controlled. IMO a form of verification should be done before you are allowed to lunch any ICO. or maybe ICO regulatory board should be set up, where the board make decisions and also introduced a form of penalty for ripping off their hard earned money.  

I think it cannot be stopped. Scams are everywhere and you cannot resist them actually. But yes, we can avoid them and then ban them. We can discourage them by avoiding properly.

The problem of fraud can be solves only with reasonable regulations. Governments should look after the projects and their activity the same way as they look after business organisations. SEC looks scary for the market but it can do the job and well. Other governments will look for what SEC is doing and repeat. We saw it many times on the stocks market. The same way will be in crypto.

We can't fully halt the emergence of fraudulent ICOs, but we can urge people to do their own due diligence and carefully vet the ICOs. Investors must be very skeptical of all ICOs. Fortunately, there are plenty of warnings about fraud, so it's on investors to take some responsibility for their decisions.

Yes I believe you are correct sir. Educating is the key to stop people from getting fooled into joining fake or scam ico's. We can help spread awareness and informations on how to spot and tell if this ico is legit or scam. We must help each other specially those who have little experience with icos.

No one can stop or can even see if an ICO is planning to scam. It is very hard even you took take time to do your own research about it reading reviews and other stuffs. That's why investing to ico is very risky compared to buying a dump coin in the market. Regulations I believe will not be helpful, if the team or person is planning to scam they will definitely do it whatever the rule is. Do you know how government works? Politics? Corruption? They can simply pay them.

I think we will not be able to stop the scams that are in ico. it is not possible we will tell people that ico scam is very dangerous, they may not listen to us. they only think of profit, they never think of anyone else.

The main feature of the market of crypto currency is that it runs on the basis of decentralization. It has no central authority to regulate the market. Since the market is decentralized, it is not possible to stop scam coins from launching in ICO. Moreover it is also difficult to recognize coin as scam until it comes to the ICO.

It is possible to stop an ICO launch, it is based on my experience. We spread the news about the scam project before the ICO begins, if you have many proof that the project is a scam, then it has a possibility to be deleted. That's why scam accusation section exist.

We can't stop them in any way but we can remind some investors not to buy their currency that they advertising and in that way if we know the ICO that running is a scam we can make them not to scam other people. Just like my other ICO I joined before a concern people who ask me not to invest in that ICO to prevent from losing my investments.

That's the right move. otherwise, if you can find evidence that the project is a scam, you can create a thread here to warn and discuss it with other bitcointalk members. Based on my experience, it is very effective to stop a scam project.

Most of the  ICO in the market are scams even though integrate themselves to the ethereum blockchain network and the smart contract, the only way scan ICO can be stopped is if they do not receive their payments  immediately but in installments

It is very easy to stop the scam icos. Simply dont participate in it  :) And scammers will disappear, because will be very careful about his funds.

We should check the whitepaper of an ICO before investing on it, it should have a realistic offers and not the too good to be true because it may smell fishy in the first place. Investigation is a must before  joining on a ICO, you must check its user's review and should be supported and has positive feedback from the community.

We simply cant do that by all ourselves. Scam ICO's should be recognised individually and must be warned to everyone on the forum before they catch others and scam them.
You can only get awareness about it this way but you cant simply ban the ICO's or hunt the scam ICO's and close them. Remember we are on the decentralised stage and here everything is ran over the public knots and we can not stop anything here as long as it comes under some jurisdiction etc. If there had been any way then I am sure we would have ended up closing almost 90% of the ICO's. lol

To stop scam ICO's, We should follow experienced crypto user advice and experienced ICO investorshould share their experience in words with newbie's by telling him to don't participate or believe in that ICO's. Otherwise, there is a now way to stop scam ICO's. If we don't participate or believe in it, then scam ICO managers will automatically stop there project. But the main thing is, in this world nobody like to read! People just wan't profit and invest in that ICO scam project which has high marks in fake sites.

Of course, you need to protect investors from dishonest companies. But mechanisms for additional investor authority are already being developed with regard to access and distribution of collected funds. It should be reasonable and justified that any movement in the project, rather than now, is collected and lost.

ICO is never been stop. So many ICO everyday, all you need to do is review the ICO, know the team members if legit. You want to research it before you commit in the ICO.

We can not stop the fraudulent ICO projects. They are entitled to be conducted by any persons and unhindered. We can only help publicize such facts and bring them this way to the attention of law enforcement bodies, so that they take appropriate measures. It remains to be hoped that in the near future, states will begin to regulate the ICO process and this regulation will exclude fraud in this kind of activity.

To stop scam ICOs launching we need some regulation from Ethereum team,possobility to refund ETH sent to ICOs if they breaking rules or trying to scam

we can't, but we shouldn't help them, it was sad because cheating is the daily life of some people.

You can't stop ICOs launching now because they are the center if attraction now maybe people should aware on scam ICOs to prevent them against scamming. Don't harsh the situation learn to investigate more about the project and stay tuned always. Goodluck

The only way to protect against fraudulent companies is to try to recognize them and participate less and of course invest . It is impossible to protect and get rid of them yet

ICO scam will never be able to stop popping up. that can be done when this is encountered by reporting the circumstances that happened in order that the ICO will not get support. Indeed it is difficult sometimes to distinguish a scam also and not.

I agree, there is no way that we can stop ICO scams from popping up and they are just getting more and more sophisticated as time goes on.It is not harder to tell which of the projects are scams as the scam projects often even look better than the legit ones. What we can do is to pass information around when we come across scam projects to prevent others from falling for them.

the only way to scan ICO can be stopped is if they do not immediately receive their payment but in installments.Most of the ICO in the market is a fraud though it integrates itself into the network blockchain ethereum and smart contracts,

It’s impossible. People always agree with taking a quick profit. Quick and more. So they are interested in those sites which are paying high. Actually, in this case, people search first about any project that has a high score or rank. If you want to protect people then you can create a site about which sites are a scam or have a big chance for the scam.

We all know that one of the most difficult ways to do in crypto is stopping the scams. We talk about anonymous people in the worldwide that creates the scams. We cannot know who they are. We may feel also difficult to differentiate the legit and scam ICOs or coins. Therefore, we can only make such analysis whether it is legit or scam.

I need to know that ICO is really reliable project. For that it is necessary to understand who is working on this project. This the core principle when I am choosing cryptocurrency project.

If the ICO is verified in each variable states and is set accountable for the targets that it reaches much like the transaction is held accountable by the minute in the case of bitcoin then the scam ICO will decrease exponentially in volume

Scams will always exist. There's nothing we can do about it. But we can help each other to avoid them by spreading awareness and education. People need to have better understanding of how greed can lead to poor decisions. Instead of thinking about how much money you can make, think about how much you might lose if you are wrong.

The most important thing is trying to be realistic about the outcomes of the ICO. What does it really mean? Is it something that you could see yourself trying to do yourself? These questions help investors to check in with themselves and approach it rationally.

Non-scam icos are no longer making money.Almost all fall to a price of at least 1 in 10.It does not make sense to take it from ico anymore.

Unfortunately, we can not stop this. We can only wait and hope when the regulators adopt laws that will prohibit it. On the other hand, bounty hunters still have time to earn money. Maybe it's risky, but nevertheless we have a job ;)

I figure we can't stop the dispatch of ico trick. since we don't know from the earliest starting point that there is a trick ico. that we can do is pick the ico who has a group who can be trusted and have great prospects for what's to come. in this manner, we can maintain a strategic distance from the trick ico in the event that we can pick ico well.

We can only stop this with our hard-working disregard. Other options simply can not be in my opinion, at least in 2018.

I emphatically concur with you that ceasing the dispatch of ICO isn't a simple activity. I believe it's elusive a route for that. We simply should be watchful and recognize the first or trick ICO venture that we will pick. In this manner, the examination winds up compulsory before settling on a choice.

We don't have anything to do about trap of ICO pushing in light of the fact that as an issue of first significance we don't make sense of what is real or fake we have seen after the complete of their activities, so for me each ICO lounching I have to recognize and endeavoring to facilitate who knows this is a tolerable ICO wander passing on to the considerable point serving to all people.

This can be stopped, but in my opinion it will happen only when the ICO and cryptocurrencies begin to be at least minimally regulated by the state. I don't even consider other options.

Now really scammers have divorced a lot. And we are all at risk. Therefore, we need to be more attentive. And always before you invest, make sure. What do you and where do you invest. Read more reviews and recommendations on the forum.

I think you can't stop that, it's really bad for all of us. But it's hard to stop it. People have done everything they can to get big money. So they will use fraudulent methods to make money. That's the nature of evil human beings. so you can't stop it I think.

The simplest way to prevent a scam ICO is to raise awareness as well as the sense of responsibility, alerting the ICO to abnormalities. And finally, post a topic to alert people or contact the moderators to review the incident.

I rarely find ICO Spam, I often find ICOs failing. ICO failures that occur due to failure to sell tokens, or not achieved targets from Developers. I think to stop a failed ICO will be very difficult.

Well i don't think we'll have any hand in an ico's launch whether it's legitimate or a scam. There are a lot of scam icos dude and that's aside from the failed icos you're talling about. Though with people now being more and more aware of these scams and how to spot them, a lot won't get the support they're hoping for.

Personally, I don't think you can stop people from launching ICO. If you can join any ICO, then you can view the ICO team. It provides you with strong and stable information and is looking for a good ICO. Therefore, we have nothing to do with the ICO launch fraud, because we are not sure at first what we notice after the event is legal or false.

together we live in the market, the problem of misunderstanding is common in the icos we are working on now and we also have to create between new users and about the market

There should some trusted source and authority confirmed by crypto community. Im also tired from scam projects and all those people who are bad influencing on crypto world

the very simple thing to do is choose an good ICO and if you think that ICO is did not meet your qualifications to invest or join there bounty campaign try to avoid them investing or joining there campaigns. you can use ICOBENCH to know details of such ICO campaigns coming out right now. ratings of every campaign are stated there and important details of the project.

We can stop scam ICO to be created by not contributing on their ICO. Both investors and bounty hunters will have to do some due diligence.
Many scam ICO will die eventually if investors not sending them money, and no hunters promote their project.

However, there seems to be no way to stop ico fraud. Because now there are many bad people who try to make a profit using crypto. So all we have to do is better understand where ico is cheating and where is ico legit. We must try to do our own research.

the real question is how to issue fraudulent ICOs from the crypto market. maybe it will be a difficult process to do, in terms of time and method. I anticipate more by choosing and researching before choosing an option from the ICO. thus will be more careful. that I will do as a new user who still needs a lot of experience from seniors. thank you

It's very difficult to do this because everyone has the right to make their own ICO, the crypto market is very free. I think we can't stop ICO scams but we can avoid getting into a scam ICO. That is by analyzing each new coin released, I am sure that the ICO has proven to have good features and development. So by analyzing we will be able to avoid the ICO scam, I think only this and cannot stop it because the crypto market is free so that everyone is free to make the coins they want.

We cannot stop it, we don't have any power in this sphere. Only SEC can make laws for this, so we all waiting for SEC regulation. Maybe it will be at the end of the year.

some countries already have certain bills that will carry out adjustments in ico companies. in Reality This is how you can reduce the percentage of fraud. I hope that such innovations will have a positive impact on this business.

Fraudulent ICO is very difficult to recognize. Their organizers are becoming more sophisticated and such projects look even more natural than honest ICO.

Honestly we cannot stop scam ICO to launching but we can avoid by choosing wise and make a research about it. Since money is there when creating ICO, so we cannot stop to those people to create their own ICO, so i think its better to be wise when choosing ICO because nowadays there's a lot scam ICO came out. No one can stop scam ICO to launch, just do your best to find a good ICO before invest to it and avoid to get scam.

Scam projects is the one of a main problem in the industry now. The trust of the people is damaged by this kind of scam projects. I wish really if we have a method to eliminate the scams.

I think we cannot stop scammer here and real life too. But the only option is we can ignore them or protect themselves by researching. If you find any of the scammer give a negative trust to punish them.

True! The so-called "scorers" will give good scores for BTC

As long as there's no regulation on ICOs, we cannot stop scam ICOs. It is actually easy for people to create their own ICO, some scam ICOs are just copying whitepapers and creating fake profiles for the team. If ICOs are reviewed and regulated before launched, there will be lesser chance for investors being scammed.

Yes regulation is needed for ICOs, it would also help in making the crypto space more trustworthy

if there will indeed be such a regulation by the end of the year, this means that the current year is the worst year for ICO Investors. because many of them only get profit from the token sale, without further project development

Now the market is teeming with scammers. And each time they are faster and more cunning. So, our task now is to be very vigilant and accurate. Try not to hurry and think a lot before investing your money.

Here only everything depends on the government.We need strict measures for the ICO.When they start to regulate, then we will get rid of scams.

the scam is indeed troubling. This will make the ICO became difficult for receiving many investors because they fear a scam so it won't get anything in investing. so it may not give the results of analyzing either to choose ICO as an investment.

I think it is not a simple but very important task, for example, to create community something like crypto police but it is necessary to foresee and to prevent the possibility of such a community to abuse its power

We can't prevent them from propelling their ico on the grounds that we can't know whether their undertaking is trick toward the start. A portion of the venture that swings to trick has great whitepaper, site. Some of them convey too their undertaking however at the plain end transforms into nothing and simply leave the task. I think the main path for us isn't to contribute on this and before that obviously we require some data about their organization and other route is to contribute just what cash we can lose.

I think if we legalize crypto in whole world, government can regulate ICOs and therefore there will be not so many scam ICOs

I think it is impossible to stop of launching ico's. because lot of people launched ico's only for scamming.thinking of most of people is earnings without hard working. it couldn't be easier l think so.

Previously I had a look at an ICO project, but that project was aimed at analyzing and inspecting other ICO projects. To avoid scams from fake ICOs or bad projects

This question is of concern to most of the crypto-community since large investments come in projects, but there is no sense from them, and also many projects cannot collect the desired amount for their development, although their potential is huge.

Unfortunately, you cannot do anything about it. We just need to be more careful and not to invest in every ICO that is coming at the market. Without bounty hunters and investors support, no project will survive. So be advised and avoid scam projects.

We can't stop launching scam ICO but we can know the way of detecting scam ICO. The possibility of scam ICO launching may reduce soon. There is some platform which is being built for regulating ICO within blockchain. Maybe, that will be a good solution.

We can not stop. If we stop a few of them, we can't stop the rest because there's too many. We can't get ahead of Scam, but we can dig it up.

yeah right, a lot of ico scams now i think this is because ico's popularity last year was a lot of success and made people want to invest in ico but in fact many ico scams were made to deceive investors and many investors were disappointed because of that. hopefully in the future this will end soon and investors come back to invest

Actually, it's not possible to stop scam ICO because after collecting a huge amount of money they run away and broke the investors hurt. Before scam their all activity was right and that's why investors get the trust to invest their ICO. I think we can aware the peoples about it and I think in this way we can stop this unexpected situation.

We could stop anybody in joining iCo's because most of us focus on making money. We can't control those who wants to earn through it. We can't also do anything to eliminate scam because some people are also busy fooling people so we must just be alert and smart all the time.

It is very great idea but we can't stop scammer project unfortunately. There are no laws protecting iso, and if there is no law, it means that you cannot judge, so you need to be very careful when you invest in a project. And even if the project seems to be very successful no one is insured from the fact that it can be scam.

That is really good decision but we can not do that mate. People can do easily with their websites and telegram groups and creating erc 20 tokens.. The most important thing is people need to be more experienced about that issue. Investors need to learn more and more day by day. You can not stop scam issues. But you can stop their money flow. If investors start to realise about scam icos that is the end of the scam issues. but firstly we need to have knowledge about that issue.

Unfortunately, this is very difficult to fight. I think that each of us should just become more attentive and avoid the scam ICO and then they will die themselves. IMHO

I think I saw some of the projects that are also ICOs that claiming that they can protect the people from scam and in the end they will also turn out to be a scam lol a cycle really. It's really hopeless to see things like this if you really want to make crypto successful. How can we obtain that adoption.

I think it's very helpful to protect the ICO scam with the aim of avoiding newcomers who still lack the experience and history of crypto. I think it's possible to stop the ICO scam by fixing the procedure the developer makes a more promising project so that the creation of serious projects without fraud, because we as investors cannot do much.

Correct, the only thing to stop scammers is to announce to the public and create an organizations to say stop scamming so that most of bitcoiners will know and identify who really they are that who wants to ruined the name of the IcO's.

I agree with you, scam projects makes us to be such idiots people, many times people outside of crypto market tell me what the stupid market this without regulations!!!, I think this should be regulated from the inside of cryptographic market itself, I like the idea of DAICO and many projects is under initializing.

If the mentality doesn't change then we will always see people jumping on the first ICO website they visit

I think the best way to stop scam ICO is for people to learn how to make their own research on posting their findings about an ICO, I can tell you that many people have promoted scam ICO through bounty campaigns just for the sake of getting reward, they didn't make any single research about the project before promoting it. I think to stop ICO scam, it begins with all of us learning how to make research about an ICO, do research before you start prompting an ICO, it should not be left for bounty managers to do the research alone, two is better than one and many is better than two

Probably we need a platform for regulating the process of PPI, this is just one of the options, but it may be the most effective. And at the current stage it is necessary to self-educate and learn to distinguish scam projects from normal ones, so at least we will protect ourselves.

It seems to me that first of all you need to have certain opportunities to verify the entire team of each project. Thus, it is possible to assume not only the prospects, but also the authenticity of the ico company. in any case, all technical documentation and can be very effectively forged.

Well i don't think we can stop anyone creating new ideas, what we can only do is encourage people to read before investing, ignorant is bad. They are basic Knowledge people need to be aware such knowledge includes;
1. Be ready to make lose before thinking of the next Lambo.
2. The Team (make sure the team have every social media link on the website) and they have good reputation.
3. What is the project solving? Is blockchain technology needed?.
4. The market strategy.

After doing all this then, we can reduce the rate of scam.
Just  know if it doesn't feel right. ASK QUESTION.

most likely you need to enter some kind of centrolized check for all new projects that will assess the risks for investors

You are quite correct, the notion new potential investors about cryptocurrency would definitely be negatively affected with the large numbers of scam ICOs flocking themselves around. High rules and regulations must be installed to control the activities of ICOs.

You cant stop people lunching ico. Unless if you have a big evidence that this ico is a scam. But i think we can minimize scam ico by reading whitepaper ans platform and make an investegate on the team if its real or not. Some ico use fake team.

Yes,I think that's a good idea coming from you to  have rules and regulations in terms of launching projects in ICO and also the reason why they direct in scams due to the hype in market .I hope there will be a solution for this issues .

There have been so many scam ICOs running on this platform and I think it never easy to detect. One thing I know for sure that can be done is to always make sure that we do thorough investigation on the project and on the team before promoting it.

Well, that's on every body's wish list. We'd all want an eera where tere wouldn't be scam ICOs or many of them but it seems as. ddays go by, the scammers get smarter. As at now and in my opinion, I think our only best chance is dependent on regulations. Should they seet rukes and regulations for ICO, scans would reduce and scammers can't run away.. They'll be apprehension.

We can't control then,but we can avoid them through proper research, there are many ICO and many groups that talks about some ICO to avoid too.

Well, I agree with you. However, the issue come up to aware other new users and Bitcoiners to the ICO scam. Actually, it is really hard to stop this. because we can not know what ICO is scam and not. If you join the campaign then you will know if its scam or not because of their procedures and how they will pay you. Before you know if the project is a scam you will learned based on your experienced before.