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Hello, let me clear this doubt some people said that all ICO is a scam but I don't believe them because I have invested in some ICO and make a good fortune, let me give you some clue to invest.
1. When you want to invest first of all research about the particular ico you want to invest in, try to check their Whitepaper because some ICO copy text from another ICO white papers
2. Try to check their LinkedIn profile though that does'nt matter because some fake LinkedIn profile.
3.Try to know their real location even though some use VPN to hide their location.
4.website professional matters a lot because some don't even know how to build website and they are claiming that they are in to Blockchain
5. Despite all this..involving in ICO is a big risk

The very difficult part in investing an ICO is choosing the right project and you have a good idea for choosing an ICO. I salute you for taking a risk investing in an ICO.

Those are most basic ways of finding legitimacy of the crypto currency related projects that is an ICO.

Well nobody is saying that all of them are scam but analysts data shows that around 80% of the ICO that come into the market are real scammers. According to my experience of bounty participation I am sure that this fact is also true.

Because out of 30-40 ICO's bounty that I joined I will only get tokens for around 5-6 bounties. Now you can imagine that much scam ratio does scare people a lot.

There are two cases that defies our understanding.
1. Scam ICO looks even better than real ICOs, great team of advisers and advertisers. Money can buy anything.
2. The label scam is very difficult to use. Real ICOs are having their coins below ICO price for years and some Scam ICOs made their initial investors rich.(of course on expense of later investors)

Whether or not you made money on it is irrelevant and doesn't indicate whether it was a scam or not. Lots of people make money on scams. Doesn't change the fact that something is a scam(assuming it is).

There will always be scams in a new industry trying to take advantage of the people. There are many ICOs which are doing well and have acual use cases. You have to DYOR and find those gems

Not all ICO are scams. It depends on the ICO that you invest. If you invest an ICO that is a scam then that is why you started to believe that all ICO is a scam. All you need to do if you're an ivestor is choosing the good ICO or investigating a good ICO.

Yes true, and this topic you post is a good information, but personally i experience joing a lot of ICO  campaigns with all the characteristics you mentioned above but still there also cases that no matter how legit it looks it ends up to be a scam at the end.. Anyway it is always better to double check to lessen the risks with the advices given from the members of the furom.

Agree. Not all ICOs are scam but legitimacy is not the only ground to determine that ICO is fit to invest in. I have invested in several ICOs and all of them are legit but not all of them were profitable for me and I lost huge fortune investing in ICOs backed by big names. So it is evident that ensuring above points is enough to go for investment. There are several other points that need to be consider too in addition like buzz, promotion, product, uniqueness, exchange listing, etc.

yeah these are some pretty important aspects to look at before investing in a ico. The most important question i am asking myself before investing is, why do the other person want you to invest ?

Not all ICOs are scam but most of them are.
When investing on ICOs this is the first thing you should do, read the whitepaper carefully and if you think the content is not well written or some grammars have errors then probably this is a scam. But the thing is some well planned scams also have good whitepaper, so it will be still hard to justify which is not a scam.
True but what is more important is to know who are those people behind the project and their background or if they really are experts on this field.
True.
Not only ICOs but all kinds of investment is a risk. There's no investment that will guarantee you that will give huge profit.

I agree with you! It is necessary to carry out a careful inspection of all social pages and groups of the project, if it is tritely the website badly works, then as they in general are going to create something - always it guards me. Well and even when carrying out ICO the smart contract surely has to work - it is very important!

just a suggestion also try to search for social media teams like facebook or their personal twitter and ask directly whether it is true they are one of the project team because many ico who use fake team and make linkedin with photos of people. I've found some projects that use the name of someone they acknowledge as their team. and after I contact the person it turns out he did not even know about the project

Well, nobody said that all ICO's are scam. It just so happens that ICO's are a trend and are rampant nowadays that's why it has become a very good target for scammers. They promote their scam projects just so they can earn money, or sometimes, they claim or asks details and information about the participants and then sell it off to some company that needs those. In any case, finding a very good ICO is very difficult nowadays.. One great way, of course, is by means of studying their whitepaper, as well as researching about the team and their advisers. This is the most solid way of avoiding scams.

True. One such ICO is of blockgrain.io where they didnt discounted the price in the pre-sale which is the norm. This boosted my confidence in them

yes this been become a topic lately. I think ico isnt a scam but its more like its dangerous to invest on it cause first there is no guarantee to gain profit or there is no guarantee that its safe, but if we talk about success ico that bring investors a profit there are absolutely plenty of ico out there that success. For example docademic and pundi x. I believe you could use telegram too  to chat and give a qestion or asking something that related to project it sure good thing to make sure its not a scam.

So you are still admitting that investing in an ICO is a big NO NO because you had a lot negativeness posted on your explanations. Even the likes of me would understand how difficult to choose and invest in an ICO but if you wish to earn investing into it a better and good idea also. Well i could get some advise also on those individuals who are planning to invest in an ICO to choose here ICODROPS.COM and select high bench ratings ICO.

I will not restrain saying myself "some" but instead a lot many ICOs are genuine, they are not looking out to SCAM you.
I would like to put an understanding here about ICO, earlier in stocks, the term used was IPO, where new companies or child companies do Initial Public Offering to public for raising the required amount.

ICO is way better then IPO as it gives both the company and investors invest in the company a quicker/easier/safer way to do so.

There are a lot ICO which do not get the raised funds and eventually they back out, but in such scenarios they refund investors back there money in terms of ETH or the means of payment they used to get into ICO.

When you are investing in an ICO, its always a risk, as you are investing in a new venture, they have the concept, idea and vision of a project, but still its not in the market.
So initial research is very much important to understand whether or not the project will be able to deliver there promise or not.

Yes that's not all ICO is Scam and so you can find a good ICO project to invest because now many people who invest in ICO do not get profit, and I advise you if you want to invest in ICO you have to read whitepaper and see the implementation team

No not ICOs are scams, but we cannot neglect the fact that the market is full of scam projects, so we should support good ideas, and rating platforms should have fair rates to make for investors to make correct decisions. There are some good rating platforms, for example www.icoguide.com, which have real rates, So we should encourage also others.

I have seen those posts popping up on the forum with quite a frequency and I often wonder if they have only ever invested in 1 ICO and got burned from it? So far from about 30 different projects I have only invested in 1 where the team simply disappeared at the end of the token sale. I take my time to look into projects thoroughly and often stick with those managed by professional community management teams as they have done their due diligence before entering into a contract with the company.

Another important thing. One should study legit and successful projects that already on the market and study them. After that look at the similar.

Yes I also believe there is always a profitable ICO. We reach this top because of new ccrypto currency born and born in every year. We cant reach what levek of crypto we have now if there is no legit project around us. Yes there must be scam but dont look anf generalize all is a shit project. Take a good research and find out what's real

both of these points are important but very often forgotten even unnoticed altogether. many people are too lazy to read a whitepaper on the grounds it is useless and too long, but this is precisely the most basic mistakes that make many people exposed to the scam. about profile also I think rarely observed and ended up making a lot of people also get caught up in a scam that prolonged.

Scam ICOs try to appear as legit as possible, that's the point actually.
Know how to identify good ICOs.
I usually research on the team, reputation end experience are my keywords.
How useful and unique is the practical project?
Check out their social media presence and customer support service.
I also check for already made commitments, private sale investments, whether or not they require KYC.

it is true not all project ICO fail / scam, this all depends on the work of the team work. if the team work solidly and earnestly in marketing the product then of course there will be investors who buy their ICO, but maybe the initiators of ICO have to work extra hard because they have to create products that are different from existing ones and must be good at reading market interest and business opportunities for their ICO to succeed and their products are beneficial to the masses.

Yes some ICO are not scam, Hey buddy I prefer join their telegram and ask a lot of questions and if you have several source of information you can analyze it but ofcourse the main part of lead developer were developers update their project you should search GitHub it's pretty nice anyway.

It is true that not all ICOs are scam though many investors end up losing money. The major issue for me is investors losing confidence in projects immediately after exchange listings and they try to cash out even at a loss. People should only invest in a project and team they are sure of.

The things you say are very useful to me. thank you. Every day there are many new ico. there are still scam ico. Choosing the right investment is very important.

Not all ICO SCAM but there is many SCAM in ICO. Also there is too much ICO and it make more investor confuse and make ICO hard to success.

I think that some people say that all ico are scams. They want to express it. There are too many scams, too many losses, few projects can make profits, and the majority of losses are losses. This is what he wants to express. In the current market, if you do not do research, you will definitely lose money blindly.

all of that is actually true, looking for public profile and also how they run their campaign. investing in an ico is very risky, but you must take it so you can have an opportunity to gain profit.

Participating in an ICO is a really high risk that can bring a lot of profit or make you a loser. If you follow your advice and carefully study the project in which you plan to invest then you can succeed.

Even if the ICO program allows you to make money, that doesn't mean it's not a hoax.
It is quite possible that the project was a ponzi scheme.

Of course. There are many ICOs that have been successful, which are truly built projects, dedicated. When investing in ICO, I think I need to check the whitepaper of the project carefully. This is important information.

Some ICOs are not scam that's right but nowadays its hard to determine if the particular ICO is a scam or not.

Scammers are professional now and they can lure potential investors to take part in their project because they seem true to their plan and promises. An extensive research is needed to avoid falling into their trap, I think investors are careful now due to their bad past experiences that dont want to happen again.

There is/are still ICO/s that are actually legit and producing coins with dedication. If you may review their websites and ann thread, you can spot if that ICO they are offering will basically be survive and possible to implement their goals in the future then obviously that is not a scam ICO.

Yes, in as much as there are some scam icos, there are still many of them which are not scam and they are doing well in the crypto community. It only take patience and time for you to be find a good by doing your own deep research about a project before you invest in it.

If you will just know how to analyze the ICO project maybe you can avoid being scammed. So make sure you read all about the background of the project before making an investment or comitting in a project.

Now I'm investing in projects that are on ICODROPS. And I use different tables with ratings of reputable people from this industry.

And you just now learned that some scam projects? I'm afraid to disappoint you, but now 40% of the projects are really scams, this is official statistics, which you can find on the forum, there may be even more, so do not be surprised.

Who told you that all ico are scams?can you share some links here proving about theres some people says this?

I have read many thread about saying that 90-95% of ico are scam and thats the reality ,we can prove that in scam and reputation section in which most of the running and finished ico are on there ,so dont be exaggerating mate because me myself believes in some ico that legitimate

There really are some ICOs that are not a scam. Think of those well known altcoin nowadays or part of the top 10 in coinmarketcap. They are all started to an ICO right? Every cryptocurrency started an ICO to raise a fund that will support the team and build the project. It is always advisable to do our own research specially with those tips you provided which are part of the critical points. Doing deeper research is a must so that you will not end being a cry baby when you are not aware what is going on with this platform you wanted to invest in to.

 We can't avoid the increasing numbers of scam ICO's because crypto deals a lot of money that even government trying to impose regulation for taxation but there are legit ICO's out there that bearing true projects, it's just a matter of taking time to know them.

Some ICO is not scam yes, because I think few only are legit and really have future.
They have a lot of ICO are scam now if we rate it I think it 90 percent mostly scam . Before investing your money you should make a research first to make sure that your money is safe and you will get your capital back with high profit.

Yes you are right. But the main thing is this “Today, it is very difficult to know on where ICO is really trusted” but we need to become aware and become wiser.

Yes maybe some ICOs are not scam, but we don't know which one is scam, sometime eventhough the project is looking good, but it can be a scam project, anyway before you join ICO, you must think many times before invest your money into ICO.

Your number 5 point said it all. There are ICOs that have a wonderful whitepaper and they later turn out to be a scam. The most important thing is that all investors should understand the risk on ICO investment.

 Yes I do believe that a lot of ICO's are a scam but there also a good ICO but it seems they are outnumbered to the bad ones, therefore we must do our own research not just believe what they are saying.

Nobody said that all ICOs are scam. If all of them are scam then why the hell people would invest? If somebody did even mention about classifying all ICO as scam then he/she might be either just being sarcastic or exaggerated or he/she is so ignorant.
Most ICOs are scam, only a few are legit and from that few legit, only a portion of that is worth to invest in. ICO investment has higher risk than gambling/

most ICOs today are scam. most of them looks real and you can't distinguish real and fake. scammer are smart and they learn to improve their way of scamming people. it gets harder to know if it is scam or not.

It is difficult to determine which ICO is not scam. I think if the development team has deliberately scam, they will do it carefully, not easy to know.

All your points are all correct but unfortunately all these scammers knows what you are going to look at their project, so they are going to try very hard to make their ico as legit to your eye as possible, you need an extra mile to do a good research to know what you are investing into

Its always worth to invest in those who has got real working proto types of whatever products an services they are offering. They should at least show us some preparedness so that we can be able to track the activity about their previous works and see that there were real people working on them.

Because it gets very hard when it comes to the development phase where they keep saying us that they are in beta phase, alpha phase, open phase and stuff like that. It can be troubling later on.

So a start up with actual fired up things would be always great to see.

I have never have an idea that all icos are scam but many of them are scam.  Investing into icos takes courage and understand on how the market work as many of us here has lost money through icos investments. 
There are coins that I invested in since last year and there have not been listed in any exchanges and to me there are scam projects because there are now worthless.

For information of all people herein forum specially the bounty hunters or the icos participants or icos investors believe me or not i'm one of the lucky guy get huge profits from the icos as bounty hunter.
Proven for me icos are not all scam their a lot of project have great promises rom the investors so no need to worried to invest in icos but need to make sure investigate the project capabilities before to invest.

ICO can be a form used by scammers. But it is also one of the best ways to raise capital and develop a project. ICODROPS is one of the best places to evaluate ICOs, and so ICORATING. That was my thought.

Well, if those who said that all ICO are scams may have been scammed by a lot of ICO that they have invested in. So, I understand why do they said that. But, assuming that all ICO are scams is not right. Because, a few of them can give you a good fortune like you did. Finding a good coin to invest is the most critical part of investing in ICO.

The thing I know is that it's very difficult to determine a scam and not an ico project. All you say are some steps to identify security investment in ico project. Investing in ico projects is vulnerable to failure, but if you are right in choosing a project of course the results will be great. However, I agree that not all ico projects are scam, there are some of them that are good.

We have check all about some ico when to participated and invest there, many ico was scam and have run away investor money. Before joining we have check how trust an ico owner, trust or not an ico owner will be some ico success or not, many ico owner is not trust after their ico was sold out and success they have delay for listing their token on market. we have know roadmap of ico correctly to know when we can sell it.

Don't think all are ICO's are scam, some good ICO's also live now,whenever you invest in any ICO, you should study about it,read roadmap,whitepaper, team behind the project,active in social medias etc.. I think if you are ready to invest in ICO that is better investment plat from because you will get good profit and you can earn good return after 6 months when the token listed in good exchange, you should patience also, wait for good return on invest.

Yes, there are some serious projects! But there are too many unsuccessful projects! Choosing the right investment is very difficult! Care should be taken when joining ICOs

Live promotion from place to place would be a great showcase of an ICOs credibility. Fake infos and identities are everywhere in this field, showing the teams work would be a good proof of the project activities and legitimacy.

hai friends .. thank you for providing this very useful information, I strongly agree with the perykerugian because your scamsataan, it is very difficult to distinguish the good ICO and who only intend to commit fraud or scams. but if investors are observant with all aspects of their bounty program will not suffer losses due to a scam

Hi, everybody. Of course, not all ICO Scam and Scam. There are really worthwhile projects. You just need to spend a lot of time on the analysis of each project to understand what's what and then everything will be OK.

it is true that not all ICO scam, those who have not released the coins must have a separate reason has not released it, of course they have long-term thinking and project to give its investors a good profit later, therefore we must be observant to see whitepapers and products they offer.

This is especially difficult for people new to crypto. We do not even know whether this whitepaper is a plagiarism or not. In addition there are so many ICO's and we do not have time to check all their whitepapers.

Yes its true but mostly of ICO here are scams so you better always be alert because they attack anytime. That's why make a further research for the ICO so that you will not scam in future.

oh yeah it is true not all ICOs are scam...you just have to make your relevant researches before investing in any ICO

People who said all ICOs scam because they involved in scam ICO, first time, second time and they made a quick conclusion that all ICOs were scam. We already saw a lot of ICO with success in the past few days or few moths ago

I think you can determine if it's fake or not though. Yes there are a lot of scam icos right now but there are as much legitimate icos as there are scams. A lot of people just don't want to take time running through the ico information and studying each of them.

Yes, those things that you have mentioned are a common thing for investors to do. There are actually a lot of legit companies that are legitimately making their way for the success of their ICOs. The thing here is that, newbies tend to believe easily without a critical analysis of the situation. They tend to invest into something without further serious research which results into them falling into those scam ICOs. Thank you mate for reminding us as a community. :)

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Yes, it is true that some ICO are not scam but majority of the ICOs are scam. Out of one hundred percentage, i can say that less than 30% of ICOs are true or are successful. I think it is important to note that investing in cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings ("ICOs") is highly risky and speculative. One therefore need to be very careful in dealing with any ICO or crypto currency and should be to accept any risk that may occur along the line.

I would recommend that you buy the YUM tokens. Yumerium (YUM) is a gaming token that can be earned by playing, sharing and reviewing games and can be spent in any game that supports it. YUM integrates marketing tools such as referral bonuses or bounty campaigns to attract and engage users.

When we do talk about on the word "ALL" then it does mean on 100% and people do keep on saying such word but i cant blame them to say such words. Majority of ICO or projects do failed up which in result on overall impressions would almost considered 100%.

Going back on previous years where ICO investment was the trend which is really true on to those early days but now on the current or recent days most of them are shit.

Not all ICOs are scam, its because of the shitty ones that the thing is being named a scam. There are many good and genuine teams out there which lack the resources to achieve their vision so we just need to find which ones are really good and have the potential to grow exponentially.

 The truth is that most of the ICO nowadays don't have any properly outlined goals. They are just about raising funds and getting the token to one or two exchange and that is it. Which in turn is not profitable to those that has invested in such project. A project meant to solve a particular problem and become valuable are supposed to make that their primary objective and not about just getting token listed and then abandoned.

If you easily select without reading the concept they promote in ICO it is possible to select a bad one which is scam but if you kindly select with reading the particulat, details and concept it is secured for now .So for me eventhough it tooks, time better to used it.

Having a nice flashy website helps to attract investors but remember it is not proof that the ICO is not a scam. These websites can be bought with a template for a low cost, and a cheap IT worker might be willing to fill it in for a few coins.

Always will there be scams in a new industry trying to take advantage of the people. It's non avoidable. There are many ICOs which are doing well and have actual use cases and some already working products.

Yes of course, some of the ICO is not scam, don’t ever consider that all ICO are scam because they are not, there’s some people use the name of iCO to earn an income even if in the bad way, just be wise.

Good tips, thank you for that. Yeah, engaging oneself into ICO is a really risky thing, so gotta be really careful. To find a good ICO project is really hard, but I've found one with all the key features (web, wp, mvp, linkedin profiles, active social communication). This is Cryptics - AI forecasting, trading engine, bots, funds and stuff. I think it's gotta be really promising

All your points are all correct but unfortunately all these scammers knows what you are going to look at their project, so they are going to try very hard to make their ico as legit to your eye as possible, you need an extra mile to do a good research to know what you are investing into

No one claimed that all ICO's are scams. The thing is that most ICO's drop in terms of their eth value when they hit the exchange, and hence people start panicking and saying that the ico is a scam. Its part of what bear market brings to us.

Correct, involving ICO always has risk. It is still a hit or miss when it comes to ICO investment. Even with a good background and profile, they might still failed to deliver.

Yes maybe some ICOs are not scam, but we don't know which one is scam, sometime eventhough the project is looking good, but it can be a scam project, anyway before you join ICO, you must think many times before invest your money into ICO.

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No not all of them but most of them are scams, you can read all about what happend with what we thought a legit big player currency such verge and EOS and so on.

I agree. There are still a lot of ICOs out there which are not scams and they actually have promising projects with good products to offer. The problem is that the market is so saturated with scam coins that it is now very hard to tell which Icos are the legit ones and which icos are the scams

Yes, it's true, some projects are not really scam, but many projects look like scam, maybe they are not finalized, but overall I get such an impression. I can not speak for everyone, but this is my personal opinion. There are very few normal projects now.

Indeed. But still, not ICOs with great website interfaces are legitimate. Some scammers are skillful as well. They can deceive you with impressive whitepaper contents, professional-like website graphics etc. Why? Their effort of dishonesty will be paid off well when a lot of people will be persuaded.

Yes, I agree with you that some of ICO is not scam, because they only saying that the ICO is scam because of the others project and even though 70% of it are fake we have still 30% of ICO project are perfect.

Well you are right we didn't really know which is true and which is not...  Well we cant really predict it because there are a lots of people who get victims of ICO scam...  But despite of this news about scam we will keep working here...  Because its part of our work...  Always think that in order for us to become a wise cryptocurrency user we will need to be updated about this scammer and also it is normal jere to experience it.... Bu we should be always aware of it...

Not all ICO's are scams, that is never true. Most of them are real, I mean the real ones are more than the fake ones. ICO's who's developers are known are most promising, good websites, a viable whitepaper and real images of developers, not avatars. Read white papers and know the idea behind the project.

This forum sometimes meets information that allegedly all ICO are fraud. This, of course, is greatly exaggerated. Someone simply begins to write a topic after being deceived into some kind of ICO and therefore he writes that absolutely all ICO projects are fraud. Many projects continue to be very useful and promising, they create a real useful product and bring new convenience to people. In general, ICO projects are a very useful activity. If it is regulated by the states, then the demand for the ICO will be very high.

Yes indeed their are some ICO that it is not a scam but it is very hard to find one because its been with a lot of scam and it is not very easy to determine what it is scam or not so do your research to make your success higher

It's not all fraud. we should be smarter in seeing a potential than ico. we must analyze it further. as you say. ico developers. whitepapernya and also the concept they offer

This is obviously true. Based on my observations, 50% of all ICOs are scams or worthless while remaining 50% turn out to be legit whose coins or tokens possess value. The biggest problem is no one knows which ICO is legit or scam until the last moment which is what makes this a risky market to invest into. This is why I feel regulation is good and healthy to help reduce the scams and useless ICOs in the market on the whole.

And you just now learned that some scam projects? I'm afraid to disappoint you, but now 40% of the projects are really scams, this is official statistics, which you can find on the forum, there may be even more, so do not be surprised.

It is good for you to be able participating a successful ICO. Nowadays, it is hard to find a good and legit ICO with a promising profit.
Many ICO's cannot deliver what they promise, always have a delay in running the roadmap, and have excuses.
But i agree with you, not all ICO's are scam.

Many unsuccessful, abandoned or fraudulent ICOs projects! When participating, select highly valued projects and have a good developer team to mitigate risk!

Of course, I think it's really easy to know that not all ICO projects are scam :). The problem is you need to be able to find out legit project to invest in and it's not easy at the moment or I can say that it's really hard. As you guys know that this year is era of ICO project so number of ICO project out there is really huge so it make us more difficult to find out a good project. So it's the reason why people often think that all ICO projects are scam just because they don't have ability to find out good projects :))

of course that's what you say is very important in choosing a good ico. now many ico fail, pending, and a lot of cheats, be careful in choosing ico project. especially if you want to invest there.

Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish a fraudulent project from a good one . Because some people come to everything with such professionalism that for a long time you do not understand what went wrong and why you were not paid

The situation is critical, we cant trust in reviews and in ICO benchy sites.
Everyone should do your own research, but how? Whitepaper mostly seems very good, but who knows if the team will develop everything in the Whitepaper.

The number of scams is large - but new projects come out every day and a few pieces, and promising too, there is only a percentage not so big , and it must be found

Of course, if you follow ICO market you can see there are too many ICO program and most of the ICO is very popular. People always invest in an ICO program but recently I see some ICO scam after success. I think it is very difficult to analyze the ICO program because after success some ICO has scammed. You can invest in the ICO program without any hesitation.

   Reality is far more different. Many ICO`s are not scam. People should know what is scam and what is
failed project. How to make a difference between project with potential future and project that is doom
to fail? We search for answers before we invest our money.
   ICO market is growing and I expect soon we to see some regulations in many countries about ICO`s.
That will be a good sign for all new potential investors.

Let us be clear here, just because one made a good fortune does not make projects funded thru Initial Coin Offerings legit. I agree with the list you made. Those are basic things that needs to be done by every ICO investors.

Thanks for the information you share very useful. But there are still many factors and risks. The ico scam is now very professional. Research and investment choices are complex.

Yes this are some of the ways which we must follow before investing in any ICO.There are still many projects which are legit and have potential to grow in future but we need to have analysis of market and do reserach for such ICO's.The scam projects usually have huge pumps and dumps in prices after the ICO is over and promotions are done and legit one take time to reach new level.At least 60-70% have been categorized as sacm last year so we need to be careful.

The fact that you are lucky with one or more projects does not mean that 80% of them are not scam. Even if the project is good and it has a future, it is very difficult to collect the desired money in such a bear market. Therefore, investing in ICOs at the moment is a very risky decision.

we have legitimate projects that are doing great and have great potentials for future development. So there are also scam projects too but sometimes it shocks me when people talk as if all altcoins are scams .That insertion to me is quite immature to make such generalizations about altcoins.

I believe in that. I still not let go with the ICO even i scammed for how many times and still i am here. There's still ICO that is not scam and if we get scam accpet it it's part of the system and go find another campaign. The right time will come to us we should not rush things. Altcoin is really playful and need to understand what ever it takes. We should have more patience when it comes to ICO.

It goes without saying that investing your money always involves risks   ::)

Obviously all ICO are not scam.If Every ico was scamed nobody invest here.Some ico are scam.For scam ICO now invester afraid to invest.But now a days scam ICO numbers decrease.So be careful to invest.
Before invest check their profile, project, activity, social media subscribers etc.

There are a lot out there that are just looking to take your money with minimal product, most of them will not be around in a year.

A couple I have been part of take almost a year to get things moving and these are decent ones.

Of course, many projects are fraudulent, but there are also many good projects. It seems to me that in order to understand how reliable it is to invest in a project, two things need to be addressed. First, project developers should have profiles in LinkedIn and they must be active. Secondly, the crypto-funds must invest during private rounds.

There are a lot of promising ICOs, but only a few of them will become successful. The EON foundation is a project initiated to support the EON blockchain gaming platform to solve problems faced in the blockchain game industry. EON platform is a decentralized digital game distribution platform, where gamers play, share, discover new games and also a great environment for gamers to socialize online.

No not all ICo's are scam maybe 20% of ICO are scam and that's why you need to be careful in choosing on what ICO you should want to invest because now a day's some of ICO are scam but there are also  a good ICO you need to choose the good one

True. I think that people know that not all of the ICOs are scams but they have come across so many scam ICOs that it is hard for people to picture any good ICOs. It is now harder to figure out which of the coins are scams and which ones are not really scams. Like a lot of people have pointed out in this thread, there are alot of promising iccos but not all of them will end up being successful.

The most difficult thing is choosing an ico project for investing, because many of the ico are scam, thanks for sharing, this will be very useful to reduce the risk of scam in ico.

Safinus is the most reliable investment among all ICO’s which create the current market. It might grow up at several times in the nearest future (estimates of experts which you can find on every website related to ICO tell you more than words). Investment into Safinus will be totally worth a risk of taking it. Safinus.com

Not all ICOs are scams, that's right. I don't know if it's 20% or 30% or more. However, the fact is the number of scams has increased a lot recently. Also, quality scams are much better done. It is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize cheating even after a good analysis of the project.

Thats right it make sense at all!! You should always thete whitepaper!! Because some of that have been copied in other ICOS!! Yo avoid scam amd regrets !! Number importan always read there whitepaper!!

Your tips are very useful for many people who are in doubt with ico, this can be done and applied to someone feel confident with the ico that currently appears. so I think not all ico scam as long as we can continue to be more selective against existing ico.

Yeah.  Maybe not all ICO is a scam,  but what if the value of thier tokens is so down, and price falls hard,  you will feel like you are likely scammed because of it. 😂

If you can get a huge profit without any risk that would be great of course.
But that is impossible, so what you can do instead is minimizing risks by doing your own research.
I earned quite a lot of profit from investing in ICO called SRCOIN and they were successful as ICO.
Not many ICOs are successful but it is very rewarding if you do invest in successful ICO.
Knowing that few members of SRCOIN were hired in another ICO called MediBit, I have invested in MediBit as well.
Having team members especially those with experiences of successful ICO is a big selling point for me.
 

Take a look at their Bitcoin Talk page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3219242.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3219242.0)  website: https://www.medibitusa.com/  (https://www.medibitusa.com/) and Telegram group: https://t.me/MediBit_EN (https://t.me/MediBit_EN)

Oh also, they just announced major news that they are now working together with Korean exchanges to launch the ICO.
And it is confirmed that they will be listed and available for trade as soon as ICO ends.

Having a decent garish site pulls in financial specialists however recollect it isn't verification that the ICO isn't a trick. These sites can be purchased with a format for an ease, and a shabby IT laborer may will to fill it in for a couple of coins.

That's what I'm trying to explain to people they always say that everything is a scam just do not spare your time and carefully study the project and then start investing your money!

Last year, a lot of ICO made a lot of money. And the early ICO is also. At that time, they were basically good ICO. Now things are changing a lot. People should learn to think about it. Look at it more. Learn more. To make money.

There are some good points. Doing research it most important thing before buying any of ICO tokens. Buying tokens without research like you grab something in dark. It can be a good one or maybe a bad one. But testing your luck is not a really a good thing. So doing research before purchase token is the most important thing. Yes, Some of the whitepapers are copied from another one. Some of Whitepapers directly translated with google translate. Reading and checking Whitepaper also very very important.
When talking about websites, any expert can design a very attractive website. there are people do that with a price. So now hardly identify scam websites. For that best thing I think is checking website reaches and weight of website.
For the additional point check whether that project has already working product. many of Projects that have already working products became very successful before. So I guess it's a good point to note down.

I have never have a thought that all icos are trick however a significant number of them are trick. Putting into icos takes mettle and comprehend on how the market function the same number of us here has lost cash through icos speculations.

There are coins that I put resources into since a year ago and there have not been recorded in any trades and to me there are trick ventures on the grounds that there are currently useless.

Furthermore, you quite recently discovered that some trick ventures? I'm reluctant to disillusion you, however now 40% of the ventures are truly tricks, this is legitimate measurements, which you can discover on the discussion, there might be considerably more, so don't be shocked.

I think the whole scam outbreak is just a phase of many that the market will have, scammers realized that everyone could create an ICO project but it is a matter of time until people become more selective and experienced when investing their money on ICO.

Icos are a good way to make some money, but it is true that a lot of them are being scammy ones, i have already been scammed a lot of times before during the last few months

Indeed. Not all ICOs are scam. It's a matter of choosing the right one to invest in and the amount of research for you to pick the right one. Recently I just invested on VLUX https://vlux.io/.

Investing in crypto is really risky. Most ICOs now can be a scam. So im saying that not all Icos are scam. With proper and enough researching about the project of a certain ICO, you will know what to invest in, and what altcoins are worth to hold for longterm.

I don't care about what people say that the ICO is a fraud. maybe you can say with a disadvantage, to this day I can only survive the situation. Thank you for your advice. very helpful.

     Nowadays, we have to be aware on choosing the right ICO before penetrating to evade scammers. By reading the informations, learning its aspects and looking on how does its roadmap and whitepaper shows good prospect on future. Therefore,  knowledge is very important for deliberating and choosing the good project. Being wise can excuse the lack oF losses.

it's true that there are so many ICOs that end up scam, they offer very promising things, but we need to be more careful to see their identities through their website, LinkedIn profile and whitepaper to ensure that the ICO is not a scam.

sometimes, multiple times you try to look deep in some project, see about that is real project or not, you still get scam. they make it as real as possible but at the end the are still scam. this is a risk world, you put your money here it mean you ready to lost your money. sometime smart will lose with luck.

Yes ofcourse, many existing altcoins that become one of the top 100 coins came from ICO. We don't have to be so pessimistic about it since it has already given as alot of profit and I am sure that until now there are many coins with alot of potentials out there.

It cannot hide that there are some ICO in a blockchain are scam but we as a participants we are all responsible for choosing the best campaign. Looking good project comes in a good research which we are all free to ask more question about the project details.

It is true that there are some ICO's that are not scams. I was fortunate enough that with my very first signature campaign I was joining from Amazix bounties, I get paid off. Since then, I've been supporting their campaign and just lately two of their bounties has ended and I hope the same thing with the previous campaign they will pay off.

Those were the days that ICOs are mostly legit. Now we dont know the percentage compare of success and failure.

Careful is also a good thing, but those things are absolutely indispensable in the ICO

I agree with this idea. Although some ICO projects are considered fraudulent, there are many projects that give users the benefits of investing in them.

Not all ICO are scams. It depends on the ICO that you invest. If you invest in an ICO that is a scam then that is why you started to believe that all ICO is a scam. All you need to do, if you're an investor is choosing the good ICO or investigating a good ICO.

basically, it all depends on how we can choose the ico. not all ico is a scam. there are still many legit ico that can be followed if we can choose it well. need a good understanding when choosing ico so we can avoid the scam ico. we know that the scam ico is very detrimental, so we must avoid it.

There will always be scammers trying to deceive people, but not all projects are scams and there are good and promising, so do not get upset and you need to look better.

Yeah but some are scam many people take advantage of scamming because money makes the world round. But make sure to choose a good ICOs to be invest, ICOs that have a full data of their project and has a potential to become success in a good way how they handle to acquired their goal. Goodluck

Yes. But in the recent market, we can find lots of scam projects. Some projects look promising when it see for the first time. But in reality those can be scam projects.

to find a very good project, you need to study them very much. In addition, there are a lot of sites where the ratings of these projects are shown. you need to be able to analyze.

I must agree with you on this. But I think the hardest part is identifying if a particular ICO is legit or scam. But those you mentioned could help a lot to everyone who is looking for ICO. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

Here is a guide I wrote on choosing ICO's;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3756325.msg37046725#msg37046725

Yes, not all initial coin offering are scam you just need to research about it for you to avoid some scam projects. The way you review a project can totally help some newbie  in crypto. We can also watch some youtube tutorial on how to review a project for us to learn more about checking a legit project.

A lot of companies do not have a wonderful vision of their project, they just collect money. Then they disappear. But there is a percentage of those who really come up with a good idea who has my own finished product. They have the right to exist.

I agree with you that not all ICOs are a scam. I have already seen a lot of investors who made big profits by investing in ICOs. You give good advice to become a successful investor and not invest in a scam. A lot of ICO projects really copy someone else's white paper.

some good ICOs with clear media and business partners, their teams and advisors are also competent in the targeted fields, but the number of successes is inversely proportional to the failed and even fraudulent ICO, this is very sad because the ICO managed only 1-5 projects this year.

My only criticism is that they need to recruit a team that is able to analyze the market and make the direction of the coin better after ico ends, many developers are confused and ultimately lose focus on developing their projects precisely after distributing or even listing in the market.

maybe it's better if you choose the ICO in your country, so if there is a misunderstanding then you can visit the head office.

because if a different country ICO is very difficult to go to its headquarters.

I have participated in ICOs, some are scam while some are real. So not every ICOs are scam. Make proper findings  before participating.

Of course not all ICO are a Scam, but the bottom line is that most of the ICO is a Scam. I think that investing in ICO is very dangerous now. In addition, even if the ICO is not a Scam, then with a probability of 100 percent on the exchange, their tokens will come out at a lower price than promised.

It is true that some ICO is not a scam since I already received a reward from one good ICO managed by Amazix. Even reading whitepaper, roadmap, etc.. about ongoing projects yet it is not guaranteed that it pays off once ICO ended. For me, I'll just trust my instinct and hope that I will be blessed with good luck in choosing the ICO I want to participate in.

Yes, there are still trusted and legit ICO's but the problem is that its hard to find them. Good for you, as you joined a good bounty run by Amazix but other are not fortunate as you. I don't know about instinct though, for me its not a good indication. Perhaps we really need to make our own research before participating in any ICO.

We are here to earn money. If a scam ICO gives an opportunity to earn, why not. But it is better to keep in line with such projects.

Yes, it's true that not all ICOs are scams because some of them are paying but you should choose only legit ICOs by research on their informations to invest.

You are right not all ICO's is scam. There is some ICO's with good development and the ICO is legit.
They will give paid. But now a days is danger for investment because there also so many ICO' are scamed.

I agree. That's why before you do an investment, it is important to do your own research. One ICO I've been keeping an eye on is NeuronChain.
NeuronChain’s blockchain can be widely applied for businesses and individuals like me that are seeking to trade goods, services and assets of any kind. Also we participants have the capability to issue our own programmable tokens and run their dApps and dCards on it. If you'd like to know more about them, visit their website here: http://neuronchain.io/

An ICO is a trend, and now it's very difficult to find a very good ICO. Before investing, you should first conduct research to make sure your money is safe and that you will get a high margin of funding.

And also you have to have a team to check the ICO you are following is not a SCAM.
Because with your team it will be strong when things don't happen right.

You will also be easy to claim the problem.

have no doubts that not all ICO scam, but most of them are. oh, and thanks for some tips how to find not scam ICO this is very useful. I am grateful, but don't have any free merit, so xxx)

Oh that's definitely true buddy. Not all ICO are really scams. Yhere have bewn very good ones this year but the problem is that the bad ones are more tjan the good ones whichis makkinit difficult to find the goid one. It's like searching gor a fallen pin in the sabd at night without lights.

may be referred to by many of the ICO is many juxtaposed scam popping up. This is indeed true existence because it is the quality of the ICO enough decreases due to too much a scam there is. It's bad enough and certainly would make investors also quite confused to sign in and choose to invest in ICO.

Very few ICOs are true scams and started with the only intent to rob investor money. Most scam ICOs do not give team members names and profiles and that is always a big red flag.

Yes not all ICOs are scam but they are a lot of scam ICOs these days. What you can do is thoroughly check everything about them like the team behind it and its purpose.

In fact ninety nine plus of ICO I have invested this year have not scam me a penny! The bearish market lose me money in spite of successful ICO completion! Scam project exist but it is not in the majority!

Yes of course not all ICO's are scam because I participated a trusted ICO that will pay the rewards that are allocated to your works and also for the investors that are invested they prioritized them to recieved the profit that foresaw in thier investments that they offer. And I think the best thing to do in participating ICO is keeping yourself careful in joining.

In one, I can completely agree with you - this is that not all ICO are scammers, but it happens that you end up with a bad project!

need a lot of anticipation in the ICO to this time. the many existing ICO but not all of it is promising and can be great. Thus many existing ICO gives the value of the not so good when it entered the market even scam is also quite a lot of them. research is important and to be able to do this, of course, need a deepening as well about what to learn more.

Today everyone should be aware of the principles of the right choice. Analyzing information, studying its aspects and looking at how its roadmap and white paper show a good future perspective. Be careful - this is also a factor that reduces losses.

I followed the old method, choosing a project based on ico rating.
currently this method does not guarantee ico success. I play safe, when ico softcap is the right time to enter. I think this is the safest method.

e that not all ICO projects are fraud and have given very high quality examples for this ! You have to believe in the idea if you are here.

Let check potential ICO, only potential ICOs with transparent information and real product for community.
They are not Scam and you can earn profit from them.
For example: Organicco - they have company and partners!
Check now: https://organicco.uk

Unfortunately, all these keys for choosing a good project are still very risky. Chances of being deceived by a beautiful wrapper are great. In addition, many good potentiality projects may tritely not release a finished product due to mistakes in planning.

Yes you are right. The most important thing about icos choosing right one. You need to choose promising and real one and that is really hard thing. But if people want  to earn money from icos they need to spend some time to learn these informations and tricks about icos..
Sorry . Money cannot be earned easily.. İnvestors need to spend their time for deeply researchs..

Say more. A ICO is not a Scam. I do not understand why people have such an opinion. I will agree that there are a lot of scams on the market, but to say that only some projects are not scams is quite stupid.

Perhaps the choice of the project - the most important and difficult task. Recently, one project offered an unreal pool of bounty and golden mountains for bounty hunters. As a result, he was a fraud. Do not be deceived by huge fees, most likely, this is a hoax.

Some of the ICO is not a scam!
YES THIS IS 100 PERCENT TRUE.
People call them scam because they didn't go through the project.
Why? Soft cap not reached, though they sent back the investors money.
Still, some participants in bounty can't accept the fact.
There are so many ICO project that is legit, just find them!

indeed the end of a project depends on our luck whether it gets a salary or not. usually what we consider promising and the failure can end in fraud. it is not easy to choose a promising and good ico, it all depends on our luck.

we cannot know for sure the project will succeed or sacmp. Luck does affect our results, but we can't just depend on luck because it won't come at any time. we still have to try to find a good ICO. at least we can get characteristics that are close to fraud.

Naturally, not all ICO projects are scam. You just need to carefully select and spend a considerable amount of time on it. Always first of all you need to pay attention to the project team, to their communication with the community. A correctly compiled WhitePaper alsoimportant, that is it must be literate, without mistakes. The same goes for the website. I pay attention on these aspects when I choosing a project and while they didn't let me down.

I understand that now is the time when most projects turn out to be scams. Everyone starts to panic, whine and take offense that it is impossible to earn any more. I wouldn't say that. Even at this time, I have 20 projects only 2-3 are scams. Just need to be able to choose a bounty

Advice for beginners and those who recently in this area. While selecting the bounty, do not pay particular attention to information such as assessment icobench from the ICO and other organizations. These ratings give no guarantee that your bounty will be successful

yes I also do the same thing as you do. can an ICO scam or not it depends on yourself in choosing the right ICO or not. trading requires good and correct techniques. therefore, try to read white paper on every ICO that will be invested. it will really help you in choosing the right ICO.

It's a very hard nut to crack when one is trying to differentiate which ICO is scam or not. It's not all about the whitepaper or website. Some make really cool websites with outstanding catchy graphics, to lure potentials investors in. Some write big grammar on whitepaper with extremely good presentations and superb road map, yet they are scam. As for me, the very first thing I look at is the team, proper checks on the team helps before any other factor to consider. Then if there is a working product, atleast  you know the project has a focus. I'm not saying ICOs that present a product or MVP are all genuine, but most with working products are genuine from experience.  Do thorough research before buying in is the key, also know you are taking a risk too so you don't blame anyone.

now it is very difficult to find an ICO project that is not a scam because it all looks the same at the beginning of the ICO project that the scam is only known when their sales are finished.

The first indicator of a good project is that it has a working product. Such little but in other to invest I not ready.

Number ICOs increased drastically due to higher response from the investors & some scammers have taken the advantage of the investors by scamming them making scam projects. If you check statistics chart of the ICOs the fund raised by ICOs are dropping drastically due to bear market & poor performance of the tokens on the exchange since last 3 months. This is happening due to trust issues between ICOs & investors, Now a days its better to consider following points to along with OP mentioned in this thread :-
1) Investments from Venture capitals
2) Working Product
3) Activities on social media such as twitter & telegram. Also their ANN thread on bitcoin-talk forum & how they answer on questions raised by forum members.

Yes, of course, I agree that today there are many fraudulent ICOs. However, there are also ICOs that will bring in profits to its investors. For searching a such kind of ICO you should spend a lot of time.

right, it is very difficult to distinguish between real ico and scam, the scammers are very clever to trap people by making their projects look very convincing

it's like you give us instructions as a child, funny and silly
but maybe a little help for beginners. I think that what investors should have done, especially in short practical investments, is where the mistake lies. there are many new investors who want to get rich in one night

not just some! but there are so many ICO who are legit.
There are some who are the scam.
You or everyone just need to be more careful and be more knowledgeable in choosing ICO.
the danger is everywhere even in FIAT we just need to be wise.

I would put on one place with the product, as good indicators, technical documentation, namely white paper, and a team with real profiles in social networks, the physical address of the project is also very important.

It's actually quite easy to find out if an ICO is a scam or not.
You mentioned linkedin, but that is just hte start.

First off, a simple google of the devs brings up a lot.
If they are reputable, they will have a digital footprint that is legitimate.
If only things related to the ico come up, it is sketchy.

Also, it is quite easy to double check their claims, like where they worked before or what partnerships they have.
If they claim to have worked for a big company, it is easy to reach out to the company and double check.
Even big companies are quick to dissassociate themselves with people they never had business with.
It is a legal thing and you will find response times fairly acceptable.

Thousands of people made money thanks to the best ICOs. Some of them even managed to become millionaires. I am sure that each of us can find a very good and promising project. Just do not be in a hurry.

I think you are also one of them. As I. I took part in very good projects that gave me the opportunity to earn real money. And there are quite a few such projects. You just need to carefully select and devote a lot of time to this choice.

Indeed, it is not that all of ICOs are scam projects. Some of them are already succeed bring profits to their investors.
When choosing ICO, you must search their flaw by all means. Not only a good things you have to find, but red flag is very important to find too.
Anyway, it is true that investing in ICO is risky than just holding coins.

On the overall, majority of ICO are scam or not really needed in cryptocurrency. Those ICO only launch to collect money from poor investors that didn't make a thorough research and will become a victim once the team leave and stop developing the project.

Scam is really a lot, a good reliable project is difficult to distinguish.
I consider it a good indicator if the project has real partners or large well-known investors.

But the fact that currently 90% ico is a potential scamer and only lists in the market without developing according to their whitepaper. after that they left and left the projeck

Sure, especially the point one. Most of the new icos just copy paste the whitepaper from another project. We really need to be carefull before want to invest, we are so lucky if can find the good one in this year.

Yes some of ICO's are not a scam, Actually we can find a good ICO if we have time to search of them.
But we need to be careful always because as of now ill think have some ICO are scam.

yes it might not all, but too many scammed project used the way of ico defamed it

I don't see any wrong with His thoughts regarding about the ico, in fact all for what He stated was really true. Any investment form has an involve risk as a capitalist, and for seeking or searching the ico all for what he said was indeed also. And mostly, there are still left legits ICO remain and will arise in this field of business too.

Definitely not all ICO are scam but most of them is yes. That's why it's kinda hard to find a legit one. Making investing in ICO is one of the most risky investment in crypto world. Many have loss in this kind of investment resulting into people lossing trust in ICO. Like when they hear or read ICO, they will only think of one word and that is scam.

 Let us think first before we says all of ICO are scam. there are many ICO that is not scam and paying. before you join a bounty make sure you have some reviews about it so you cant say ICO is scam.

You are right. On the one hand, the market is overwhelmed with a lot of trash projects that will never collect any soft cap and will only scam the investors. But on the other hand, there are a lot of great projects left. You just need to search better.

I agree with you, even though there are some ICO that have achieved hardcap but there is no guarantee to success, for example like Monvid after ICO ends with their hardcap running away. it seems at this time we need institutions that can protect investors from scam ICO or maybe set term and conditions that are very difficult to run a crowdfunding

Now, when the market is after a strong fall, there are very few such projects that deserve real trust from investors. And while the situation does not change in the direction of the beginning of a bullish trend, I think the number of good projects will remain the same - small.

If there will be an intervention from the regulators and that will put ico on the so many regulations. Some of them are not scam but it's almost more than 90% of them are scam coins. Look at CMC and there were less than 300 coins that's still exist. This is a difficult situation when a good project being disappeared caused by scam ico.

Investing in ICO means choosing a good real project. The details needed to be explored. Including websites,Team,Technology and The community.

I always first study the project, the roadmap, White Paper. If I do not understand technology, I ask for help in telegram. You must always remember that you are investing your own money and you need to know everything about the company before giving them money.

Some ICO are scam and most of them are legit.
We should never jump into any ICO with out studying the project.
Let me remid you that in this community, knowledge is the basic principle to have to be successful.

Yes, this is good advices, but what can I add for them it`s check team, investors supporting. Yes, investing in ICO - it`s a big risk, but this risk can provide you a huge profit if you choose a good one.

The topic of the topic is certainly very funny, especially if you understand that now the situation as a whole with ICO processes is very, very difficult, because the market is full of fake projects that only steal money and nothing more. Of course there are good projects.

Yes, there are ICO project that are legit we just need to read there platform they produce .I believe it's more worth if we're able to decide with our own perception in terms of choosing.Don't ignore other projects because we can't determine the flow how it goes.

That's true they are to many scam ICO's are now.
If we do not search of them and we invest directly maybe your money will going to lose if the ICO's it was a scam. Must better to ask first and read some of them info.

Your advice is helpful. But scammers are constantly improving the quality of projects. And it aggravates our situation. I make quality sites. Make quality white papers. Even registers sites in those countries that are needed for ICO.

It's good that there are people who realize this and begin to protect the ICO.It seems to me that this is the norm that some of them are scam and people lose their money. In an unregulated market this is the norm. But you can not think that the whole market is

Hello, I am a scholar. I want to ask you how can you find out the real location of the project? what should I do? This is very important to me, I hope to get your help!

You can try to find their address on the google maps and see the real photos from this place. It can say a quite many about location. And often you can find some info in the linkedin profile.

I see some projects that made a great work without any ICO and other funds raising. That projects need pay attention more then most of ICO

Yeah that is why before we are stepping into a particular project we need to gather informations that will pinpoint their legitimacy. Though there are also ICO's that are considered not scam however they just have a less potential idea or some might have failed due to lack of exposure. That is why I love being a bounty hunter because I only need to invest my time and effort and the risk I take is minimal unlike big players that invest their own money.

Yes, not all icos are scams. A lot of really strong and interesting projects with a solid team keeps coming up every day, but the scam icos are also increasing on a daily basis.

Some big ICO have enough all of condition but it is still a scam. Everything can be faked in this world. This is what make people don't believe in ICO anymore and they said that 90% of ICO are scam.

Yes, I do agree, some ICOs are not Scam! Research and checking is an important factor before any investment. I love projects with useful and practical products. But, the team delivery is important too. The team MUST be dedicated to deliver. I love the actual ARROUND ico, and I see the practicality behind it. However, like many other good projects, the team HAS TO deliver in the long run.. https://arround.io

Of course as an investor with ico and as a bounty hunter, I myself believed that there are so many legit crypto projects as compared with those scam project. As an investors we already knew that we're taking risk in putting our money every time we participate in tokensale but I also believed that before we invest our money we are wiser and smarter enough to dyor before making decisions to invest with any particular crypto project out there.

Of course it's true. Not all ICO can be fraudulent. It's just projects aimed at improving some areas of activity. All of them can't be directed to withdraw money from their investors, it's stupid

I still insist on participating in the bounty, because I know there are still real projects here, but that doesn't mean I can get enough profit!

It was hard to spot the scam ICO, You know some ICO had a great Ideas but in the end they are the scammers. They promised was very promising and some investors are agreed to their promised and also they scam a lot of money by using fake info. How did you know if the team are fake only? Its hard to know that because the brilliant idea is on the who trying to make bad things to everybody.

ICO are successful when they deliver on their promises and make their project usable for cryptocurrency community and technology market as well. If ICO are underperformed and could not raise funds, such ICO is a scam!

 Some icos are scam and some are not scam. there are also icos that successful delivered and paying after the ico.

I want to believe in it, but I think that most of the projects, all the same today, this is a really serious problem, which today may have big problems for the world - these are scam projects. Investors just run away because of this.

When the company collected money, but the collected funds were not enough for a full start, very few projects returned deposits to investors or made minimal compensation. Among all the companies there are some scammers but not all of them.

But you understand that every day it is becoming more and more difficult for us to find these very projects, which in the case of what you say are probably the most profitable and not scam projects. I think that today it is probably more rare.

Of course that not all ICOs are scam, but it is almost impossible to find out whoch ICO is scam and which is not.
For example CasperAPI seems to be scam or dead project, they colected in pre-sale 1million dollars, 4.7 rating on ICOBench, very good whitepaper, product, but yes, they leave the project.

Of course, all ICOs are scams, so why do investors invest, but now the decline of ICO is related to fraud, and when investors can't make a profit, ICO will be greatly reduced. Such a market has led to a rapid decline in Ethereum.

well, some ICOs are certainly not scam. I have participated in several projects and of course it went smoothly. well, for now, it might be difficult to find a project like that, but I'm sure, out there, there are some projects that are good enough to believe.

Of course, not all the ICO scams actually scams very few on the market, more projects that don't survive, can't raise the necessary money or can't compete with other projects. With your tips I agree, always check the documents and the site before investing.

There are very few ICO projects like this, and not everyone can find and recognize them. Usually most investors have failed now, and the market downturn has led to a significant drop in ICO success. However, if you can invest in a good ICO, it can also make you rich.

It is true what you say that we cannot generalize that all ICOs are scams. There are still a number of trusted ICOs because I myself have benefited from several ICOs who are truly responsible. Our main key to determining whether an ICO is responsible or just fraud is in our thoroughness and carefulness in choosing the ICO. I oblige myself to know in full and in depth about ICO that I will follow from reading the whitepaper. After reading the whitepaper, I will make an analysis so that it will be clearly illustrated about the future of the ICO. Only from the results of the analysis did, I decide to join the ICO or not. Indeed there are ICOs that are only deceptive or fake but there are still some who are trusted.

I believe that not all ICOs are scam today. Some projects have really useful and promising goals for further development. But the problem is that it is really difficult to find such promising projects, given the large number of scammers.

This is true but the fact right now is that a lot of them are actually scam coins, there is a higher percentage of scam coins than there is for the legit ones which is why so many people seem to be convinced that there are only scam ICOs right now. If you are seeing the same thing repeatedly daily then you are bound to start thinking that is the norm

Yes , I can really belt that that most Icos  are not scam but real. But scammers are higher since this very year.Most investors are finding it very hard to invest in other ICO.

Not all ICO are scam just like you have written but majority of them these days are scam,though some of them do start well but along the line compromise. There are some that are still genuine,to get them you need to go beyond just white paper and make necessary research.

Many scam ico was created because ico investment in the past year is very profitable and many people invested and gain massive income that is why scammer want to take advantage on creating fake ico to collect huge money in greedy people.

Some ICO aren't really scams, but there are so few of them that they're just inconspicuous in 99.9% of scams.

To be honest,some ICO is not scam.I said this because there are still icos that are specific on the problems it aims to solve.I have also seen ICO that shows the correct details ,country and the career of the developers behind the project ,and this helps one to carry out proper research and review.
The ico that shows the correct details of the developers will not exit scam because the team won't like to be prosecuted by the court.Even if they fail to achieve the hardcap ,they will refund every investors his money,but if they hit both softcap and hardcap ,they will do 80% of what they wrote on the white paper.
Intact,if you go through the problems the developers of real ICO want to solve,you will find out they just want to profer solutions on a problem using blockchain technology.Note ,you will also find out the developers ate people who have proven themselves in different capacities especially where they have worked.

Personally, I now continue to regularly invest in various ICOs. Because I am absolutely sure that today there are promising projects with good ideas and resources for further development. Of course, the number of scammers today is quite large. But with the right choice, you can find profitable solutions.

This is absolutely true and I think that now the best thing that can be thought of is that now many ICOs are really very dubious projects, but there are also normal projects that say exactly about the right investment.

90% of ICOs are not surely scam, but they fail to develop the product what they promise, or they fail to satisfy their investors and this cause that these projects are slowly dying after token sale.

Everyone gives advice on how to choose ICO. Anyone share a successful investment in the project. If among us are those who won from an investment in ICO? I am interested in your opinion on how you chose the project for yourself.

I believe that behind the widespread of the ICO scam, there are still many ICOs that are legitimate and promising their prospects. To be able to obtain such ICO and as expected, we must be careful when choosing ICO. Check all information contained in the ICO, and also check the background of the team concerned. At present the ICO growth is getting better, the quality of the concept offered is able to bring the revolution to a better direction.

Even those ways, that author of the topic gave, cant protect you from scam. I usually prefer to find projects, which have connecitons with famous investors, advisors and etc

It's true that there are some ICOs that are not a scam but they are still having troubles in delay of token distribution, delay in list of exchanges and having troubles in reaching the softcap and the hardcap, that is why a lot of bounty hunters started to quit because joining ICOs today is a lot of risk.

It is true that there are some legit ICOs on this market left, but it is pretty sad that such a big percentage of ongoing ICOs is a scam. We need something to regulate this issues, because if we continue to go this road, the industry will die.

I agree ICOs are a big risk, but also a good opportinity to make some money if you pick a good one. Sure, the god ones are very rare these days man many scams are trying to scam investors and in general these scam projects are very damagin to the entire market.
It's up to everyone to pick the good ones and if you do so you can have success.

Yeah, I agree, but I'm sure the scams will be less if people are doing a better research. Most scams are easy to spot.

Yes, I agree you need to check all carefully before investing. There are several good ICOs now on market but as for me, it's better to buy their tokens after listing. It's less risky.

Yumerium was a big promising ICO and over 3.5 million raised but unfortunately hardcap not reached. Total token issued 800 million but after ico team decide to burned huge token now total supply 26 million. Bounty pool reduced that's why so many hunters open SCAM Accusation but this project not scam in my researching.

Some ICO are not scam, we still have many of them that are genuine with good prospects. Though we stil have some of them that are pure scam

Thank you, read through this article I have equipped myself with a number of ways to choose a good ICO. It's still very hard for me to choose an ICO. I often get stuck with dead ICO, ICO scam. Thanks again.

Of course there is good projects and icos, %5-10 of icos are good in my opinion but in bear market like now, it doesn't matter good project or bad project and they are dropping much so you must be careful about icos in the bear market.

Of course, some ICOs are not scamm. But there are very few of them, in order not to fall for scamm projects, you must first read the website then later on the campaign and its ratings. It is better to spend some time on this than do the work for half a year and in the end - scamm

yes, that is true if we do research in cyberspace, but also need to know about the project being developed by participating from each seminar held by the developer to what extent the project has been running to strengthen the level of trust to be able to join the existing ICO.

Of course, it is absurd the posts that some people make who believe that this is full of scammers and opportunists, they are simply real people with their ambitions and scruples, so, yes, there are scammers here but I think there are many more developers who genuinely want to make this a better world with the help of cryptos.

Of course, 81% of ICOs are deceptive. Still, 19% of the ICO is good and can be profitable.
The way you talked about is really the best way to choose a good ICO. I added a way to choose ICO based on softcap or near the hardcap, it is worth doing ICO.

Yes, I agree with you. But again I don't see any specifics. Anyone can declare some heresy, and if he does not use the exact values, he will be able to challenge everything.

You know how stupid that statement sounds... Some people are white. Ingeniously. No doubt. But what good is this information?

There are a lot of scammers in this market, but even more of those who simply cannot fulfill their plans. For various reasons - someone does not have enough time, someone experience.

Not Just in investing in ICO, but also that any investment has its risk. So we should not be carried away by some enticing words, rather do our own research and be sure of what we are into.
One of the things i always look at before investing in a project, most especially on the part of website. If the CEO or developer of a project cannot give a good and mature website, i can't trust such.

There are still some ICOS that are not really a fraud, but there are very few of them and given the fact that investors have also become few and the cryptocurrency market has sagged so much, I think that these ICOS will not collect a lot of money.

Yeah well 95% os ICOS are scam either they exit after they get funds or they deliver something that costs nothing and keep the rest of money....

unfortunately there are very few really worthy projects on the market and it is difficult to choose them correctly

exactly and its investors fault that they never check project deeply or read the wp

I guess there is no reason to know their true location because as you can see, the word "true" says it all. Why do they need to hide their location? The answer is because they might have some bad things going on. So, to check an ICO, they should have their address and they should be proud of it to consider not a scam.

You must have decided to kill us with information that carries nothing.
You know about the subject of statistics. Use it.

yeah, it's hard to trust ico right now because of the many scammers. but there are more good ico appearing than ico scam, we just need to find the project. we can choose a good project by looking at the project they are developing.

How can all ICOs be scam? In fact only a small percentage of all ICOs turn out to be entirely scam. Some ICOs become unsuccessful due to technical, team, or marketing problem and not necessarily a scam. It is always good to make a thorough research on a project before choosing to join its ICOs.

Of course, not all projects are fraudulent, so our task is to find such a project

I think we need to do something to reduce the number of scammers in this market because I am tired of participating in fraudulent projects.

This is true, out of all the thousands of ICOs out there, there will always be those ICOs that can be trusted and are reliable, I think that people are getting too blinded by the fact that there are lots of scam ICOs but there are still reliable ones out there, and I promise you that you just really need to know which is which around the community, proofreading is the best key in knowing if it is a scam or its not.

Soon there will be more regulation introduced in different regions including a global set of standards for ICO's

This will mean that projects will need to register with the relevant authority or apply for a license to conduct a fund raiser which will provide consumers with some level of protection for their investments and help legitimize the industry and eradicate scams

Yes of course not all ico are scams. In fact there are still many ico who don't scam. Some projects with good developers and teams will definitely be consistent in working on the project. The tips you describe are certainly very helpful. But it would be better if in the future there is a special team that makes regulations in the ico program.

You were correct, there are still good quality project among those scam project.
Event though i don't make an investment on ICO, but i also use the way you said to look for a good project, that way joining their bounty campaign could be worth it.

I also read the news about it. In the future ICO will be tightened so that no more ICO scam. And also for investors, they will be protected if the price is below the price of ico when the listing is exchanged. If assets fall from the ico price to 80%, the funds may be returned. Therefore ICO is now better and reduces ICO scam. And in the future investors will also be calm if they invest in ICO.

Yes you can make a good profit by investing on ICO's. But you have to choose the correct one. Some ICO's are SCAM & some ICO's are failing. If you choose a ICO like this you will lose your money. So be CAREFUL before selecting a ICO for investing.  :)

many are caught up in the scam that ICO because they too are promised results without analyzing and deeper look at the ICO. This is what many a mistake because Miss analysis in the beginning then it will not be able to understand the project and finally fell in the scam. check the whitepaper and find out the identity of the team is the foundation that must be done for the ICO.

In the world of trade, if you don't lose, then profit.
Same thing with ICO, if the ICO is successful it will be profitable and if the ICO fails it will become a loss.

ICO must also have a certificate from the country that organizes it so that the ICO gets protection from the law.

Due to the decline in market prices, some ICOs have had difficulties in maintaining projects and meeting their targets, because investors' interest has also declined. For now, the ICO situation seems to have been better than before. The ICO present this time is more fresh, both in terms of spirit and concept. Don't be afraid to contribute to the ICO, there are many ICOs that you can follow and they don't scam.

Thank you for the explanation, it's just that I have never invested in ico, because there are so many ico that end scams. I'm just a bountyhunter, even though ico is a scam, I only lose time.

Not every project is a scam, you are right. If people are unable to research the projects before taking part in them, it is their problem, that they are not getting their funds back or making loses. Invest some time and you will find the gold projects on this market.

Unfortunately, the number of fraudulent ICOS is much higher. But there are definitely good projects. Now many are afraid to invest, because the market is going through hard times and it affects the collection of funds. Thus, the development of the project takes much more time. And investors are afraid that the project will not be able to realize itself.

Of course not all ICO are scam yet there are some instances that people will try to leverage on others investment that's why they use ICO to do so. It is only minimal to see scam ICO and of course those scams are the most promising among the list of ICO to lure investors to their platforms.

Yes, not some ICO is scam buy the fact is that our will u know wish of the ICO is scam and wish of the ICO not scam, someone just have to be very careful when inventing in any of the ICO.

Of course there are normal projects , you just need to still be able to choose them , but of course in this market is very difficult not to get into the Scam , but if you choose a good project it will give you good money!

It is an established fact that ICO scam is one of the biggest challenges facing the cryptospace today. But that does not rule out the fact that there are still some good and genuine ones out there. I have had experiences of both the good and the bad, gaining some and losing some, which shows that investment does not go without some level of risks. I always advise friends and colleagues in this risky space to be extremely cautious and conduct thorough research before parting with their hard earned money. Wisdom, it is said, is profitable to direct.

today there are many fraudulent projects for more than 95%, but. 5% of them are really good projects that can help our world. Here is one of them #swachhcoin. The project will pay people for their trash. At the moment, the bonus is 25%, you can buy coins by the end of October. I advise you to see the project.

very correct advice about how to determine a good and potential ICO before investing in the ICO, this will be the starting point where you will receive results that are profitable or detrimental to you, because ICO is currently a lot of scams, so you have to choose ICO which potential, when all of the criteria are met you can only take part in the group telegram and ask about investment during ICO

I also believe that not all are scam even there are still many good ico that benefit investors only because the market falls then the number is getting smaller every day because many ico are supposed to be good and can succeed but fail due to lack of funds from investors and why is this related to the market? because when the market falls, people become afraid of investing

All ico's are basically scams if you think about it

it is difficult to check the authenticity of a project whether it is a scam or a good project. Because usually people who are used to doing such fraud will be smarter than the visitors. They have arranged everything to look good. so we are still stuck in a project like that. My advice is that there needs to be a special rule in this forum so that the careless project cannot run the project ...!

Possessing all the requirements in the ICO are valid which it gets from your research ICO. Then i could say that not all ICO you have invested has a good reputation towards the investors which they want to like invest in the said campaign. this is why its becoming more complicated this year were mostly ICO are unsuccessful to reach the softcap.

Thanks for the advice, I agree with you. Self-analysis of the project, allows you to learn more about it and make sure that it is working professionals who will make the finished product and will not be scammers. Even visual familiarity with the site, checking for errors, the number of users in social networks and their activity can already tell you a lot. But it is impossible to get a full guarantee that participation in the ICO is guaranteed to be successful.

It helps to find an ICO with a fully functioning product rather than just an idea. That gives more confidence to investors. FinanceX for example. After a successful Private Sale and Presale, their ICO starts tomorrow with a huge promotion. 30% bonus FNX token for anyone who purchases on the first day.
https://medium.com/financex/30-bonus-on-fnx-november-21-d8b82b4ad8bf (https://medium.com/financex/30-bonus-on-fnx-november-21-d8b82b4ad8bf)

Most of them is SCAM. but not for a little. We should check up all of possibility.

not all ICOs are scam but most of them are scam. that is the reason why people don't believe in ICO anymore.

I also absolutely agree with this statement, not all ICOs are scam today. If desired, you can find profitable and really useful projects that will provide regular payments. But you should always remember - now investments in ICO are still quite risky, given the large number of scammers.

I also think that now there are really good and promising ICOs that provide payments for their investors. But the current situation on the crypto market is complicated by the fact that the number of fraudsters is still quite large.

Yes most ICO's are not scam but the main problem now lies in the hands of the investors. so many investors are very scared to invest because the crypto market is getting unfavorable as day goes by

I think so. At the moment, some ICO are private projects, and most scammers who want to deceive us and take money. I check all information about this.

Some ICOs are not fraudulent, but the current market is down too much, they do not sell pennies and if there are no buyers, so I think it is hard to make a successful ICO. during this period.

Yes, absolutely there are many good ICO's which has been existed here which is based on the innovative idea and doing their contribution to making this world more digital. Due to this good ICO's the bounty hunters has alive in the hope of getting a good amount of rewards instead of promoting them.

Frankly speaking, there are good projects out there with future potentials. The bearish nature of the market has influenced the prices of these project's coins greatly and other are yet to develop a working product. We expect to see these good ICOs stand the test of time come 2019.

what you say is true, not all ico are fraudsters, there are also good ico and many profit investors, so be careful when buying ico

Well  a lot of icos are legitimate and have good usable projects. It's just that there are also a lot of bogus projects that smear their image generally. One would just have to be really keen in studying whitepages and roadmaps as well as the teams behind a product they're interested in supporting and funding.

Right now it is indeed an ico that is not a scam and also a scam. but in my opinion for now there are too many ico who are indeed scams. maybe the percentage of more than 80% of the existing ico is an unclear and deceptive project

This is a good start for newbies. But to have the advice above augument. Team research is very important. Now matter how they want to fake it. Trace them from their linkedin page to current or former place of work. If for example he worked with PWC, his LinkedIn connections must have pwc friends. Check how often he posts on LinkedIn and when he Registered on LinkedIn. Some of them clam to have worked with Google for 4 years, pwc 3 years and yet a 4 months old LinkedIn account. Obviously, something is not right

Certainly you are correct on this topic, i must say that some projects are real and they come to solve some challenges that human faces daily.

I think the most difficult oart in choosing ICO is knowing the team, even the profile very clear, but we never know what will they do if the coins start listing in the market, will they make the coins better with all of their power or just let the coins in the market without any responsibility

Investing in an ICO may be risky, but like he said it's also profitable. But the point in investing in an ICO shouldn't always be about the financial gains. Though a large percentage of people do so because of it, however, the solutions being provided have a larger economic impact. I'd give you an example. Hinounou wants to conduct an ICO, it's an already established business with partnerships and all. But the idea of doing an ICO is to leverage blockchain technology. They have also hinted that They will not be giving out special bonuses to early backers - which I think it's their way of discouraging 'profit-alone' mindset. Read about them, there's more to the story though, and you'd find that there is more credibility in ICOs than meets the eye.

However, he has rightly pointed out some important measures to take before investing in an ICO, but beyond these, go for credible projects with reliable structures already in place.

Of course some ICOs are not scam because most of the coins in the crypto market is came from ICOs. ICOs are used for funding a coin for its development and growth. ICOs are also good investment because you'll be able to be the early birds since the price are given so low before the demand of the market grows.

Truly speaking some projects are genuine, the only thing is that the scam projects has made everyone to assume and suspect all genuine projects if they are scam or not.

We have never said app icos are scam but rather majority are scam for that reason it has scared most persons off that they do not want to be part of any ico project except they are well convinced that its not a scam

I heard the issue that a lot of them or fake developers are planning fraud with the fake ico they created, this is the main problem for cryptocurrency

Most likely in the next few weeks - until the end of December - there will be a very good time to start buying alts, but you should not rush when buying because only those projects that have a working product can be the safest to buy, such coins will be the safest for investment, the rest of the ICO deserve much less attention.

Not only that, the ICO is likely to be hit by the current decline in bitcoin prices. and investors will run away with their losses. I do not understand whether ico still has a future. there must be new regulations that protect investors so that investors feel safe with their assets.

Scam ICO's existed because their were real ones, you cannot have an adulterated product without its original existing somewhere, here what is more worrisome is the proliferation of scam projects with all the appearance of the original and making it hard to distinguish

It is really hard to trust so many ICOs existing in our crypto community. Unfortunately, nowadays many existing ICO platforms are seem to be scam. Not all but most of them are being handle by fake people who only wants our money then afterwards run it away. Everybody should be investigative before trusting. I believe that there are legit ICO projects but only few.

There are a lot of worthy projects, but compared to scam projects there are not many of them, recently there are a lot of projects with the same ideas, and they cannot be called a scam, because they also try to make a working product

Yes, it`s true. Not all ICOs is a scam, some of them are really promising, but you need to make your own research work to find them. Moreover, if you find a really good one, you will get a huge profit.

Yes and if you will find them then tell to our community))) then you will not earn any money)
As far as I know, very good projects didn't give high reward for bounty hunters.

Yes, in such a falling market, when even a bitcoin more or less stable coin falls by 15 percent per day, you can forget about ico projects. Almost in all ico projects that are right now there are problems with financing, if last year they could collect $ 100 million, then right now up to 10 units of current reach.

Yeah, I agree with you. In last year we saw many good ICOs most of them give profit and they still are working perfectly. But after that some ICOs start to scam people and many of them failed. So investors and general people start to think that ICO investment is not good anymore. But I still think and it's true that there is many good ICOs are growing. And they just want to do something for this blockchain and crypto ecosystem. Now it's investors part to find them. Don't go for someone's word and invest somewhere. Do some research by yourself like study whitepaper and one pager. Read the website check advisory board and team members profile. Then go for investment. And in this market don't expect 10-20x. ICOs are always risk. Be careful.

about the last 10 months it is more profitable to buy coins on the stock exchange immediately after their release, their price in most cases is less than ico

The main difficulty is only in the fact that today the problem is only to really find the very project that you are so stubbornly searching for, because otherwise nothing good will work out. There are good projects, but very few of them.

Knowing the ICO to invest in these days, can sometimes be challenging and so e scam ICOs can disguise to be real. Which is why we need to do a lot of work in our research. What i do sometimes is, if i have $100 to invest in an ICO, for instance, I would first invest half of it, to reduce my risk level. Then for some times again, i would continue with my research. When i am now very sure of its authenticity, i can then invest the remaining half.

Probably only about one percent of all new projects launched this year are not fraudulent. Let's see what will happen in 2019

It is necessary to choose projects for participation in ICO more carefully, there are not many such projects, but they are also worthy for investment. Many investors are afraid of scams and correctly do to find a good project it is necessary to analyze and study these projects a lot.

Despite the many ICOs that are frankly fraudulent, there are units that are really interesting and workable projects. Their teams not only successfully conduct ICOs but also continue to develop and promote them. Participation in such projects can now be considered luck.

May I reconstruct the sentence. Not all ICO are scam. This means that there is really a good or maybe great ICO thats why you can see many tokens succeed in this chaoter just like ethereum having a good platform and still kicking at its finest. Maybe the market is down as of now but i still believe that it will recover next year.

It is not enough to find a good project, it is important that the project manages to enter the market, because more than half of the projects have problems with the implementation of the idea and the listing of the coin. In addition, no one wants to enter a falling market, this is fraught with negative consequences for the entire project.

generally speaking, it is true. we can't judje all of the same it just because some show poor example. a common sense is something that can help you in such cases. be reasonable and alert

Actually, Its very hard to identify a good ICO in the market because all of them is the same. Maybe you can Identify if they were a scam or not when you already a member of them. Because you can experience lots of problem and you can analyze if that ICO is worth it to your hardwork or not. Looking by their whitepaper is easy to fool because its the same with other ICO's vision in their project.

That is really true there are some ICO that are not scam, there are few ICOs that are fraud and will will scam the investment of tge people , so there are group of people who are really running this ICOs which are scam project.

As a whole, no. There are some scams out there, certainly but the biggest risk is generally that the platform doesn’t get built, doesn’t work, isn’t adopted by a critical mass, etc. 

About 90% or more of these platforms don’t or won’t get built, either because they lack access to the talent, they pivot, have a bad team, run out of funds, fail to prove concept all the reasons any startup fails. But that doesn’t mean they acted nefariously.

There were still legit ICOS  and profitable one but nowadays people were suck on the existence of lots of scam projects in which it works well in the beginning and sudden changes at the end.Projects looks promising,developers looks legitimate but at the end of the day it runs away investors money.Seems so annoying but we still have to believe that someday this hearless people will dissappear and ICOS would become more profitable and functional.

I agree that not all ICOs are scam. Now there is a very bad market situation. Projects have time to develop their platforms before the market starts a new wave of growth.

Great list you got there. Since it's getting hard to determine what's scam or not, it is better to look for a working product first before investing in one as this gives more assurance that they're serious in their goals.

There are so many legit ICO's in the market which it is very hard to predict them in the market but the only choice we have is to research them in order to find a potential project. Of course, daily we are seeing many fake projects with no real product and raising money without any development in order to scam the people.

Excellent ICO is very rare, and the ratio may be as high as one thousandth. Now investing in ICO has no meaning, the entire cryptocurrency market is falling, and investing in ICO is also facing depreciation. This is an incontrovertible fact.

I must agree with you,not all Icos are scam,some of the 2015-2017 projects are doing good and developing by great teams ,for example -Etherium,Antshares ,Eos,Tezos and etc. So all their investors have received great profit by the moment.

If only some ICOS were not scammers, then the market would have died a long time ago. After all, investors could not invest anywhere, because "some" means that it is less than 10%.

hey, liked your tip about tracking down the real location! and yes, though it is a risky adventure, why not to try it once in a while? definetley new experience. i think it is not that scarry if you have money

The project in the bounty of the company I participate in is not really a Scam, but these projects that conduct ICO are isolated cases and investing in ICO will still be very dangerous, since you can lose money even by investing in a good project.

For sure some icos are not scam but its a bit very difficult to get good ico projects these days so people are very scared of investing in icos but to avoid been scammed cross examine icos before investing its safer that way thanks

Yes, some projects really give us a very good and sought-after product. But to find such projects is very difficult now.

Don't argue for the ICO any more. In fact, there are many scams in the ICO. Countless investors have been tricked into leaving the cryptocurrency, which has caused the current bitcoin price to be sluggish and the miners to go bankrupt. In this way, the entire cryptocurrency market will disappear, please don't be so optimistic.

Yeah, of course not all ICO are scam but a very good percentage of ICO have turned out to be scam.  An extensive research is required to identified the real ICO project from the fake projects, which have caused investors to take extreme precautions in investing.

There are no lies in what you said... Icos are a big risk. As at September, 10 biggest scam icos in 2018 had raked 700 million usd (all time high).  The best remedy is to be able to genuinely confirm the identities of the project team members

You are right, but it is pretty difficult to detect a great project that is going to bring you profit on such a market. People are afraid of losing their funds at the moment and even if a project seems legit they would better stay away until the market recovers.

Not all ICO'S are sCam but many are scam. No lies in what you said and the clues in investing you gave is perfect. Reasons why many people fall for scam projects is not researching well about the project. There are some ICo's that glaringly spells scam and even without researching much one would know but people still fall for it. Still yet, involving in ICo's is a risk. We just have to take it, no risk no reward  :)

that is the problem with people who is participating in ICO, they dont do some small research regarding the project and in the end they are blaming the project although yes it has a part that people can blame the project but if they do some research the risk may lessen.

not all ico is a scam, many ico are true and pay investors and bounty hunters. But there are others ico scams so do not invest and do not trust if you dont want to lose. before investing make sure you review the ico well.

not all ICOs are scams because  their are still true and sensible ico. yes many ico scams but many ico that are true and trustworthy of investors and bounty hunters.

Yes A lot of legit ICO's on the move. There is always a better way in crypto as long as you are knowledgeable. It is very helpful in dealing your investments decision making and in choosing projects.