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Apparently, ICO investors continue to fall prey to innumerable ICO scam. The effect of this is very devastating on investors perception of crypto-project ICOs.
While it appears there is no apparent solution to address the current scam associated with ICO in the crypto space. I propose that we help each other in finding out the best ways to identify and separate genuine ICO from fake ones....
Share your view and help a friend from falling prey to ICO scam. Let help build a healthy crypto environment. Fight the scam now.

Have a lot of knowledge about ICO.

I think it is a very difficult thing to say whether a project is scam or not, what we can do is do 100% analysis of each project from all aspects and if we see some negative signs or red flags we should share them all over the internet so that the average investor can become more vigilant and in this way avoid getting scammed.

There is no 100% chance to avaid scams as you may know scammers are smarter day by day. But of course it is possible to minimize from falling to a scam project : doing a deep research about the project is one big way to minimize it. I hope there will be a real platfrom that will be able to help investors avoiding scam ICOs, a true platfrom, not just a cheap talks or cheap plans.

You can't really avoid those ICOs if they turned out to be a scam project. But there are things that makes them legit and you need to look for it from them before joining in.

I must confess, the crypto space has become so condensed that it is very difficulty to identify a legit ICO to invest in. However, the best you can do as an ICO investor is to take time to do your homework pretty well about the project you wish to invest in. Double check goal and vision of the project and its feasibility in the crypto space. Thereafter do a background check on the dev team and other companies they partner with. You might also want to avoid double check any personal message you receive from the project you wish to invest in... Most of these messages are scam and not actually from the dev team of the project you wish to invest in..

It takes tons of research. If your going to drop money on something where just about everyone loses money you need to be damn sure you have found a diamond in the rough.  This isn't 2016-2017 the game is way more dangerous now.  I have gotten caught a few times this year. 

I believe that the most important thing to study in a project is a team and a product. If there is no product at the time of the ICO, the risks increase.

To avoid being exposed to ICO SCAM, the fastest way is to learn from people who are experts in ICO investment. or we can try it yourself by checking the web, team, WHITEPAPPER etc. but all that requires knowledge, so my advice is to find someone who is an expert and learn from him

I have been looking for a thread like this for a long period of time.
Thank God at last I found one
I have fall victim of ICO scam time and again.
I came here to read and learn from you people how to avoid it

It is a fact that scam ICOs are prevalent presently in the crypto world but I think until there is a high level of regulations concerning initiating any ICO,  scam will still be looming around. But also from every potential investor adequate research necessary not to fall prey of these scam ICOs.

To avoid scam , ensure you take the underlisted into consideration
1. Do not be so eager to invest into bonu/presale offer, no matter how attractive
2. Ensure you research adequately about the project, what they are out to offer, the solution they are out to solve,past project and experience fro the team member.

Identify fraudulent ICO projects possible on a white paper project and activity in social networks. I noticed that if you see little technical information in white paper and very low activity in the social networks of the project, then you need to better refrain from investing in such a project.

In order to avoid ICO scams, we must choose a trusted manager or an ICO platform that provides legit projects. In my case, I choose projects listed in Bountyhive. They only have a failure rate of 10% which for me is acceptable. Also, projects are required to be escrowed prior to listing in Bountyhive.

Don't invest in ICO? A lot of project can't reach soft cap, most can't reach main goal. I don't want to say about token price after listing on exchanges.

The best way to avoid ico scam of any form of scam is to be very vigilant and also very observant you need to go through the whitepaper of the project and do alot of enquiry as to know how firm the project is get to know the team involved and their profile and also do as your head leads

It can be said that it is very difficult to avoid ICO scams. Those so-called rating websites, from the media or foundations, all serve the interests in this unregulated world. So the best way to avoid it effectively is to have enough experience yourself.

The best way to avoid scams is to not invest in any ICO. Any ICO can be a scam. If you are interested in investing in ICOs but are afraid of fraud, then you need to have basic experience to be able to identify them. Check out the ICO reviews at reputable rating sites. Search dev team and investors are real or fake ...

It is hard to answer your question. For me, till now still no an accurate formula to avoid scam. Scammer becomes smarter recently. But you can use your experience and make own research to know it. Don't believe in ICO with lack and unclear information.

Well that's what "some" of the people do here. You need to go to this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)-Scam Accusastions and you will see some of our members finding on a potential scam. And if you can find one, you can post it there as well so that it can give fair warnings to all of us. Just follow the SCAM format there, and I'm sure that a lot of members will be happy.

The best way that I have found to avoid scam icos is to look at the team behind it. The projects that have team members that are very transparent with what they are doing and what they are working on are always the best ones to put your money into. Then there are the ones that have a really viable product that can be used by people, those are the good icos to put your money in.

For the moment, ICO's scams exist. There is no one-and-one way to avoid being cheated. As investors, they must take the time to do the relevant project goals and visions and their feasibility in the encryption space before investing. The development team and Other companies that they work with conduct background checks, and invest carefully to better avoid scams.

Now the time has come for continuous fraud in crypto. Everyone wants to collect millions and do nothing. It is very difficult to identify good projects, unless you are personally personally familiar with the developers.

I think the best course of action will be knowing about the ICO. Research about the team behind the ICO, their previous experience or projects.Don't invest into something you don't know. Gaining knowledge is a must and if we are not convinced or in doubt with the ICO, better not to invest. Even crypto experts are being scammed by ICO so its all about luck now and who's willing to take the risk.

I have been involved in a number of fraudulent projects and I realized something. I think we should not be involved in lending projects. These are projects with a probability of up to 90%. Beside that, you should choose the project of the reputable managers, it will help you avoid the fraudulent projects.

Basically lending project is a useless idea because so many times lending project become a scam project. The blockchain is focused to change the economic system and it makes sense to avoid any project that will not have any relationship with the economic system. Health care and many more.

Better try to research first before investing in a certain ICO so that you will have prior knowledge on what is legit and how to deal when a certain problem comes. Try to consult some professionals because they have more experience regards in this kind of business.As of now there is a lot of people only wants to invest in a certain ICO without any research and that is their weakness.

If you want to avoid Scam projects and ICOs you need to learn how to analyze the project, it's idea, team, advisors, product, and other information. Once you will get pro in this - you will choose only best projects.

You should def read their whitepaper carefully, double  check their vision and dev team and also their partnerships, which are very important! If you know an ICO expert ask him for his opinion, they should know the market quite well and are probably able to judge the quality better than you.

That is true there are many ICO scam this 2018 . Much better if you stick with Project that has legitimate Advisor , team members and partnership . One of the best ICO im investing with is Gemstra a well known social selling platform . With a solid team members and advisors with over 75 years of experience in the consumer industry ! One of the best feature of this platform of its Gamification & rewards where brands and merchant can reward sellers for outstanding achievements and engagements actions within the Astra Ecosystem !

It is difficult to determine a good ICO project or a scam, and so far there is no most effective way to identify it. To reduce the risk that must be done is to read the white paper in full, examine the development team from their experiences and their real activities on social media.

I think the topic like this has often been discussed. Even there are several threads posted similar topics, you can check, look and read here:
How to avoid ICO Scam, Future of ICO (Initial Coin Offering)➡https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2287869.0

Avoid Being Scammed Again➡https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3196383.0

How to known a Scam ICO➡https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2916240.0

Keep these things in mind when you are into crypto world➡https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3136517.0

now there are many ico available and it's very difficult to identify them, is ico promising or a scam? all can be manipulated, look so real and very perfect, so many people are deceived. for now I keep away from ICO and focus on other investments.

First of all, you should study the presence of a detailed Whitepaper, a real project team, a detailed road map, sane implemented ideas. If the project has a working prototype, or it is developed on the basis of the existing platform, it has a well-known and proven partners and advisors. If so, then you should already consider investing in it.

There are many scam ICO scattered in the world so the big problem is how to avoid scam project to avoid wasting your time. The I think if you want to avoid many scam ICOs now is you need to know how to determine which project is good or not, and what is the best way to choose good project and has the big possibility to be successful project someday. In my own understanding those question is hard to answer because most of the time we can say those ICOs  are scam after the project end.

I think we just need to be careful and be selective because there are lot of ico that are scam and I think the whitepaper and ico rating from rating sites enough is not enough

Maybe this is not very guarantee but maybe at some point it might help you at a minimum to reduce the possibility of being deceived by the ICO, the list below is my personal criteria of how I choose a project to invest using bitcoin or other cryptocurrency:
1. Check the team background (If the team does not provide info about each team member such as the name of the previous project,              background, there is a possibility they will run away with your money if they don't provide information about their teams.)
2. Read their whitepaper and see if it's really worth investing in, their concepts, etc.
    (It's important to know what the project is about.)
3. Check social media accounts, if you consider them very interesting. (Join their telegram group to update.)
4. Check Project professionalism (How they handle users, control fraud, etc.)
5. Follow the Roadmap and other technical details and see if they meet it on time.
6. Look for special proof and validation.
7. Do your own research on the project such as a review of the project or you can also check the main ANN project for
    see comments who agree / disagree or community ideas about the project because ANN threads are like an open forum
    where you can ask questions, give insight, etc.

The main thning to avoid scam is a checking team members, their background (pervious works, recognize if they really worked in this place, etc.), also if a team have partners, advizors, investors you should find out about them and make sure that they are really connected with this project.

I think our sincere and deep analysis will tell us which one is a fake ico.

You can avoid scam ICOs if you know how to determine which project are good or not, because in the first place you are the one who can choose which project that you can advertise or which project you would like to join to earn money in the future.

In fact, no one is forced to invest in business schemes without solid backing, because everyone is responsible for collecting all the information necessary to make an adequate decision on where to invest their money.

It is true that many still have the idea that ICOs are a type of investment that allow large returns in a short period of time, but as time goes by this business scheme has begun to lose the trust of many, and It is more likely now to lose money than to earn it, so I think it would be more prudent to refrain from investing in ICOs if you can not afford to lose that capital.

In my opinion, before investing in an ICO, you probably need to have a thorough research and even investigation.
Get to be grounded on the project, that way you can avoid being scammed.

I one of the most important thing is to ne well grounded on the ICO, that is study the project and even get to interact with the team.
Possibly you can be able to avoid ICO scams.

There is literally no accurate answer to that, nevertheless there is something you can do to help yourself, that is actually getting to study the ICO project carefully, get to go through social media interactions on the project then you can make your decision so you dont get scammed.

The answer to this is simple:

DO YOUR RESEARCH!

Read the whitepaper

Ask the team about the project

If anything seems fishy, DON'T INVEST.

Like what you have said that it is difficult to determine now if an ICO is a fake or legit then better we will not invest in ICOs anymore or maybe we could create a topic here to help one another by putting all discovered fake future ICO for the sake of the hunters and participants.

It's complicated. Now almost all projects that at first glance seem promising are the scam. I advise you to carefully study both the official website and check the developers

In present time to analyze an ICO is scam, a difficult one. Whitepaper, roadmaps, sites are such made it looks attractive that one can easily trap to invest. We should go through each aspect of the project carefully like its experienced team members, initial fund & also it is rising with its roadmap or not. We can look at the ratings of the project given by ICO experts. Looking at some of these features we can decide about the ICO to invest but it is not easy. With experience you can lower down risk.

basically, we can't predict the ico who is a scam. we can only avoid it by choosing the legit ico. by understanding ico before joining it, we can get the legit ico. the legit ico will give the satisfactory results, while ico that is a scam that will give big losses to investors and also bounty hunters

To be sure, there is no solid indication for any scam project. But one thing for sure is we should check the project thoroughly, form the concept, the team, the utilization of the coin etc.
That way we could minimize the possibilities of facing a Scam project.

That's correct moreover you need to check their white papers and about their previous projects as well as their LinkedIn profile these stuffs can definitely help you to avoid ICO scam. Even social media will help to check the status of the ICO's.

Some scammers already know how to forge whitepaper and make a beautiful website. Therefore, pay attention to the team and the product (if any). Explore the past experience of each member and make your opinion about the project.

Actually, it's really difficult to say which is a scam and which are good ICO but we have to very careful about this. But there is a good way to find which is going to scam. Firstly we should look at there planing and also how they are delivering support in telegram channel. If the activity of them are looking good then I think maybe they are not providing a scamming  ICO. After all, we should verify them before investing.

don't just look at it from what is already happened. first look carefully if you want to invest in ICO. many who always give you a warning regarding the analysis of the first before following the ICO but not all pay attention to this. many aspects of the analysis can start from the whitepaper, teams, investors in the wallet and much more. but maybe some rarely pay attention to this issue.

In order for you to avoid scam, you must be knowledgeable enough to invest in an ICO projects, in order for you to make profits. When you decided to invest some funds on newly published or active ICOs, it is better to to check it's websites whether if it has a good management team, big partnerships, and if they have already met some goals in their timeline or roadmap.

ICO project and investing on it is very risky at the first place because you don't know what gonna happen next after the ICO sale. But taking a risk in the crypto world is one of the choice you need to claim. But to avoid to the scam you should check all the background of the project and the project or partnership related to it. And check also the team if all of them are legit and good on their fields. Just do some deeply research about the project you want to invest so that you avoid to be scam.

We must understand that there are indeed many ICO scams in reality. I personally think that before investing, we must start by carefully reading the white papers of the ICO project, check the authenticity of the team, the legality of the ICO project, and carefully evaluate the prospects of the ICO project. Help avoid ICO fraud

Always ask people around you, find out information, and find out how it works. I am participating in Buddy's project and I have researched it very well for its success later this year.

this is a very hard question as i do not know what to say you may know all the rules znd be fooled or you may be lucky

Yes, this is how we exercise in our crypto community and crypto environment in building a healthy crypto industries project to share the legitimate ICO's project listed in a telegram group manage in many well known bounty managers and make spreading ICO project that are scam into the thread for awareness.

The only way I can suggest for anyone on this platform is to be very careful in choosing ICO because most of the ICOs we have in crypto world now are 90% scam.

It is easy said than done. Most ICOs are so enticing that it is hard to determine the bad ones from the good ones. It is only when you are duped before you can realize that it was a scam.

The best way to avoid fraudulent ICO is not to participate in ICO. Especially in recent times, the price of tokens has almost always dropped right after ICO.

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Completely avoid scams will not work. Even experienced investors can get caught. All because there are several types of scams that use different methods of fraud. That's the difficulty.

Now is not the best time to invest in ICO. But if we talk about the general situation, then you need to spend a lot of time studying a good project. First of all, determine how much the project idea is really needed at the moment, how justified is the use of blockchains in this area. Examine white paper, roadmap, profiles of the project team, what experience they have in this area, explore existing partners from the project, etc. This is for me the main criteria when choosing ICO.

You can't avoid scam if you invest or work in this industry, we have seen many promising projects that turned into scam because they failed to delivery what they promised.

In my opinion, it is very terrible for now to participate in the ICO project, because many ICO projects are committing fraud against Investors, so ICO is not as crowded as last year, but if you want to participate in the ICO now, then you must be careful and must be able to get detailed information about the project you are following.

As we can all know is not that easy to identity scam project, my advice for investors that invest in ICO is that we should carry out thorough investigation before investing in any project and make enquiry from our colleagues that we are together in business of crypto in order to avoid not to fall in trap of the scammer.

One of the unique ways to avoid ico scam is simply proper research and observation.. Check for feasibility in project actualization, remove all form of greed and report any fishy findings to other ico dealers for proper investigations. Thanks

The perfect solution is to avoid ICO at all,because market is dumping. By the way there are some good advices, like tokenomics analysis, how much is gonna raise project. For example right now everything above 10 million is too much and I would skip it. 1-3 million market cap seems reasonable

honestly if I really can choose a good ico project then I'm already rich, because even though I'm a bounty hunter but if I keep on getting good projects then I will continue to get good coins too which of course if I sell it I will have money .
I am the same as you, I am not 100% able to choose a good project but even so I am always optimistic, try my best and always believe in my choice and my choice now falls on the SYNAPSECOIN project because of the many projects, in my opinion, it is the best for me

One can avoid falling into the hands of many scam ICOs by doing a diligent and thorough research about the project, the team behind it and if the product is a workable one. If what you have at the end of this research you have made so far is positive to you then you can proceed on to invest in the project otherwise don't.

the fastest way is don't invest in ico. it is the safest way. my advice if you are hesitant to invest in a new project it is better to buy it. focus on coin trading, because investing in ico is far more risky than trading.

I always try to check the site of that ICO, if that site has been built since 6 month ago, you must suspicious. That mean, they just build site just for scamming other people. And then next step, check the team behind that ICO. LinkedIn profile can help you to know who you will have business with.

The analysis of available information does not always provide an absolute guarantee for the authenticity of a certain project. If you provide examples, you don’t need to look far, just pay attention to the information on ethereum Classic Vision. New people paid for not being able to recognize the fraudster on time.

first don't trust other people. always pay attention to everything from the reputation and experience of the team, the concept, the origin of the company. remember do not believe the results they say before you see for yourself. sometimes there are developers who fake their income so that investors are interested.

Let's have a look at this from the beginning ...

1) Some people you don't know (and know you) know about a project.

2) Sells a token / coin to be used for funding the project.

3) You have to send money to this project with certain promises.

First of all it is close to the impossible to understand whether the project is real! The most important thing that should be done in order to prevent the SCAM of the project you deposit is to recognize. You need to know or know everything from A to Z. I'm sure those who try to create a SCAM project will make a mistake.

Before joining ICO, you should try checking. And you can start checking through the website display, checking ICO-empowered wallets, and you must understand the white paper. And fake ICO projects are usually unclear on all websites and the Team is no longer active in providing information about ICO developments.

Before investing in any ICOs, an investor should protect itself by reviewing everything about the project: the whitepaper, development team, project site, etc. That way you can eliminate some risks of getting scammed. However, take note that there are projects out there that seems legit.

Some of my friends went nearly bankrupt after invested on scams. I think it is important to learn not only about ythe project profile but also about the developers' reputation and crediblity first before investing.

Hardly will one see an ICO that will pay off soon lately
I think ICO investment isn't doing it again.
Moreover, even some ICO whitepaper last longer than the project itself.
Now, to avoid a scam ICO, one needs not to be greedy and doesn't follow multitudes to invest.

Its very difficult to determine if an ICO is a scam. Nowadays its hard to find a good and reliable ICO and the only way to avoid it is to really check and do some research on that specific ICO that you’re investing on. And make sure that all you’re details are secure.

Well I think ico scam detecting is not just up to us. It's hard for us, the bounty Hunter to detect scam. To me this detecting will be easy for the authority of this organization. Also the ico regulations must be hardly followed.

you are right. even I have been hit several times by scams from several ICOs. well, sometimes I see an ICO with the concepts they offer, and if it's interesting, I find out the competition from that project. sometimes it really does. however, sometimes an unprofessional, irresponsible team starts to show their injustice and begins to disappear. well, sometimes an ICO can be valued by their team.

Hard to find good ICO these days and i think many ICOs investor suffering loss their portfolio value after token landed in exchanger. I am prefer buying altcoin in market that already have working product and having solid developers team. But if want to join in ICO, better make a good research first in many website because right now many website dedicated for ICOs review

I totally agree with you. Phishing projects have made investors become good prey. Bounty hunters were turned into puppets and promoted them. This makes people lose faith in Icos projects and this is not good at all.

 Recently there have been some topics warning people from projects that they consider fraud. so we need to be more united to build a healthy crypto environment  :)

well it's really hard to avoid a scam ico even you check their team and read their whitepaper.

almost every scammer will cover they plan as smooth as they can, until someone make very proper research on it, you can do research on every detail provided by ICO such as roadmap, token allocation, developer team, you can read their wallpaper very carefully and understand where the project will go before and after ICO, the main thing is what can developer deliver to community if there is question and how they treat the investor and community.

If this community decides something for a change, then surely we can bring big differences so that we can have healthy crypto environment certainly. Unfortunately many people are starting topics on this but not taking care of implementing them in practical. I have seen many topics have been created on this purposes but none of them working till the end. I believe only with the help of DT members and staff we could bring changes.

Reviewing will help but no one could do anything with a well prepared/highly masked scam. There are lot of such projects are always existing and most people finding their real face only after months of engagement with them. It seems there would be no concrete solution for this kind of situations.

Times like bear market that is prolonged for more than a year, you may see more and more ICO that never get funded.
Maybe its time the team really has to put more allocations for the bounty hunters to make good promotions to several platforms where more investors are hanging. So that they get even just the softcap and will not scam bounty participants.

You have to research properly for getting a true ICO. Lot of scam icos are out there. Before you go investment, just you have to find information about the team, have a good idea about the project. Those will help yoi to get best ico.

This is a difficult question . We should invest a lot of knowledge about crypto, analyze each item in the whitepaper, investigate the project team to minimize the risk of investment. It is difficult to detect signs of scam in projects.

I always follow icoethics post in bitcoin forum because he is a perfect man who identified scam bounty campaign,scam ico project and fake team .

Simply, do not invest into ICOs.
Check my signature, now I am promoting post-ICO big german project - savedroid that is currently working hard on relasing the app for cryptocurrency savings.

There is no 100 percent guarantee to avoid scamming ICO projects, these days, there are a plenty of them, they behave like genuine and there are no difference of them. You can research well before joining these projects, but there is no guarantee that they wouldn't turned out to be a scam.

Scam bounty campaign, ico project having no real team . The scams project always arrange in fake management team members. Fake website and white paper and roadmap.

if in my opinion it is rather difficult to avoid it because it must have expertise about the project, read in the whitepaper. But the average person gives advice to read the website, whitepaper, etc.

I am sure that the regulation of ICO at the legislative level will protect investors from fraudulent projects. Before allowing projects to start selling tokens, they will be checked for compliance. In addition, security tokens will gain popularity in 2019, which will also make ICO more secure.

Soon all of ICOs will be regulated and safe because regulations are coming. But is that good? We all want to be safe but without freedom?

I think, it very difficult to Avoid ico scam.  experience is good way to avoid ICO scam. before investment any ICO , you needed deep research about the project. if you have proper knowledge about ICO you can easily avoid ICo scam. so you should be careful before joining any projects.

I believe that we need to create an independent rating of ICO projects on this forum in order to replenish the list of projects on a daily basis and add to the black list of scams. We must take care of our own security and warn others about it. Only together we can achieve fair conditions from ICO and secure our funds.

Invest a lot of time in researching these projects and trying to understand if all of them are legit. It is not so easy, but after several researches, you would be able to detect a scam ICO every time simply by reading its whitepaper.

To be honest, I keep myself away from these ICO's because believe it or not more than 95% of them out there are mere scams. The promise a lot of things on their site, whitepaper and roadmap but fail miserably when it comes to delivery. Just like me many have already burnt their hands and that's the reason why many do not welcome any more ICO's in their portfolio anymore.

To avoid bad/scam ICO, You should follow below step.
1. Team member ;
2. Social Media activity;
3. ICO review;
4. Project future;

You will check one by one and then fix about any ICO. Be sure check everything also alexa rank. Remember, Telegram also main things any ICO.

It seems to me that all the possible options that are available here today will still not be able to protect you from scam projects, because there is really a lot of work, but in fact, today it is a problem that can comprehend any of us.

I like following tips mentioned but ICO reviews can not be trusted simply because most of them get paid for a good review, I believe more in personal research about the project.

There are several pointers to avoid ICO scam. The most important way to do it makes research and know the red flags. I can give 1 factor that can be considered a red flag. But I think it is so important that we should not neglect it.

Do a background check of the project team. Profile pictures are important. If the team uses caricatures or false/fake pictures. It is an obvious red flag.

Scam projects need to do very good research to avoid. the team behind the project is very important. When you combine these points, you can find a successful project.

I think be prevented from scams will easily not come for a people how many times we are using this forum will be the answers for this question because experience will make you more stronger in this field and also make good decisions also so to avoid scams will be in the experience.

Please, share your knowledge with us or do I take your statement to be a question. Anyway, I think the best way to avoid scam ICO is extensive research before investing in any ICO.

I think at this time in cryptocurrency it is safe for us to assume that all ICOs are scam, until proven otherwise.
You should analyze any ico you want to invest in with professional scepticism and you will hardly fall for ico scam

There are two types of scams, before and after .after is the most less expected.during ico, before investing make sure to check team members details and do some research about team background and you can also check its ANN post regularly to keep an eye on project activity.and in order to avoid after scam i.e scam after few months after ico,you can only trust on your research and try to invest in project which has famous person or known person as team or advisor.

Nowadays, its too hard to say if the ico is legit or not. Because in my experience even they most often gave a good updates to their community in most ico on which I had encountered was ended up still into bad result if it is not paused ico project, there will an extension something like that. Which will only frustration to anyone whether investors or bounty participants.  

It's really hard to tell which is scam at the onset of ICOs although some are so glaring one can easily spot it. I would suggest people stop investing in ideas on written down in a whitepaper. At least a viable project should have an MVP, a real office with known team members should they decide to go rogue, they can easily be caught by the government.

To be save from scam I recommend the following few steps,
 1.check the project history, go through the white paper.
Take note of the pre-handled projects, how successful are they.
2. Take note of the team. How successful they have been and which project have they handled.
3. Check their prospectus how valid it is.

Only a constant analysis of many projects will help you hone your skills to the maximum, this is one of the key skills that will help you when choosing the next project.

The basic things one need to do is to check the antecedent of the team behind the project you want to invest in.This will help you to know the profession they are into before managing the project. The question is,does the purpose of the project tally with their profession?The reason is,one can only give out what he has or what is in him.We have seen some project managers raised $15 million,but they failed to deliver a working product that will attract investors.
You should also check the white paper and as well observe how they respond to constructive questions on their various social media outfit,you will have the overview of their capacity.

Looking for ICO with working product can save lots of time instead of checking whitepaper line by line. Investors are not stupid people with big pockets and it is not easy as in old days to scam others. There are tools for measuring the rate of ICOs before investing like ICO comparison sites.

Now there are practically no new projects that already have a working product. as a rule now all  projects are empty

share about ICO scam into a nice thing to do. but still, there must be a clear basis for this and with a definite deepening as well so that the results can be right. When can give good information like this is certainly at least will be able to reduce the scam is hard to know or sometimes helps a lot of people who have difficulty in choosing.

In my opinion you can totally avoid participating in scam ICO by not joining anymore in any ICOs. I think this is the only and the best answer not to experience fake/scam ICO. Very risky and serious decision to be made. The minimal damage is more acceptable than collateral damage.

This problem can be said to be very simple or very difficult. When you give up ICO's investment, the problem becomes simple. But if you continue to choose to invest in ICO, this is very complicated because the IQ of the scammer is usually higher than the average person.

In order to minimize interactions with fraudulent ICOs, a detailed analysis is necessary!

To avoid scam ICO , should be check all social links and ico ranking sites  and also should check their smart contract on github and should check in ehterscan is this verified or not and also check bitcointalk thread .

The more you read and research about the project, the more you will know its authenticity. There are many factors to check if a project is legit or a scam. So, if you want to avoid being scammed, know as much as possible about the project. Checking its feasibility through their website or whitepaper, the people running it and their credibility, the community supporting it and their means of supporting investors will give you an idea if it is a scam.

the way that we can avoid a scam project is by conducting a good analysis of all matters relating to the ICO Project. some supporting documents, teams and advisors are the main things to analyze

check the progress update in github could be analize how far the projects developeted and how serious developers team build the project.and i think you advice pretty good to do.

Personally, I'm still very hard to avoid the scam ICO. They are like the other projects, so clear and ensuring. however, they will suddenly disappear at the certain time and gone without news.
The scammers in this day is very careful, they prepare their website, concept, and a;so whitepaper so perfectly. Sometimes, there are also the telegram community with thousand members in the group and active.

Indeed, even at the very beginning of the development of the ico market, it was very easy to deceive the investor’s company, because such news did not know how to pay attention and how to analyze the information in order to have good results. Nevertheless, in 2016 almost every ico company brought good profits. And today it is used by scammers.

The more we try to avoid these scam projects, the more the scammers try to device ways of evading being detected and using several methods to make investors feel they are real.
I have thought that if the team of the different ICOs can be made to report to a trusted body, perhaps SEC or any other trusted one, before starting ICO. I believe scammers will be afraid of their devices.

Determining which ICO are legit and scam in reality it's hard to find out. We know scammer are smart and we need to be smarter too if we want to see our money is safe or not getting scam by the ICO scam.  If you really want to avoud scam ICO you shoukd not invest but you will not earn more money but your money is safe. You need to choose what do you think is better.

All the guys are right, but one more observation of mine showed that it was not so easy to get into a whitelist in good projects.

I agree it is very hard to determine a scam ICO, there is no exact way how to prevent this scam ICO. And I think that ICOs are dead anyway, I've never seen an ICO project that raised a lot compared on the previous years. It's better to stop investing in ICOs and look forward in looking for STOs projects that are regulated but be sure that they have licensed to perform this.

RESEARCH! is the first I wanna to tell you, you want to put your money in investment product (ICO) then you should research about your investment if you want your money safe/get profit, avoid if the team only give nickname or aliases and also if you don't read and don't know how the situation in this crypto world you will be knock down by the ecosystem. No matter how good the project, if the ecosystem drag you down you cannot fight it...

it is difficult to distinguish the original ICO from a scam, but there are several ways to sense it, make it a habit to read their whitepaper before deciding to invest in it, there are many things that we can explore including the direction of the project's goal or not and the team works well or not .

The main thing is not to trust the various sites providing information about the projects, there is no guarantee that they honestly check, all you need to recheck yourself

The truth is they will only give us the visitors a necessary information but a biased ones. There is no borderline of those scam ICO and hthe legit ones. Even if you pay the site they will definitely do what you will tell them to do.

All sorts of advice still can not lead us to the successful development of our cryptocurrency world, if we stop believing in scam projects. Look, today investors have become much smarter and are no longer just investing in pictures.

there is no sure thing to determine ICO is good and bad, so we have to be smarter and selective in choosing ICO because that's all we can do.
I am sure that the longer we are in this forum, the more we will understand how to choose good ICO.

You have a nice idea friend, we need each other now to avoid this ICO's dummy cheaters. They been using us to gain income by our works. If this wouldn't stop, the crypto community is in danger and those big investors will never participate to be safe there investment in this fake projects doing ICO's.

I think its very difficult to determine if the ico is scam. Perhaps, if the ico have a budget for the bounty project, and they already have an

exchange for their utility token, I guess that project is legit. As long as they are transparent to their community as well in terms of their updates

or news.

Strong study on the Team of the ICO is seriously important before Investing on it. Cool Websites , Whitepaper and even great token economics can be traps by the Scammers to win the Investors. How they answering good questions of the community is also a good way of finding scam Projects.

Do the research and talk to the team, ask questions. See their business plan, if the product even has a market and need etc.

Analyze and study the main purpose and goal of the project ICO look for the team.and the best thing to do is to have research and study the ico before joining.

adding a little information from the experience that I experienced from my participation in a scam project was not to trust the ICO on behalf of the popular altcoin. such as Ethreum Vision Classic Vision (ETCV) scam project in the name of hardfork Ethereum Classic

All sorts of lessons or guides on this forum can not protect you from scam projects. I tried and still was on the verge of a real project scam, I still think that intuition and experience can help to figure it out.

it used to be easy to invest, but now every project needs to be carefully studied, check all possible sources of information and especially closely check the team

There are several ways to distinguish the actual ico or scam, even though it's actually quite difficult, but at least this method can be a little helpful apart from the ico scam.
Make it a habit to read their whitepaper before deciding to invest in it, there are many things we can explore including the direction of the project. goal or not and the team works well or not.

We must oppose ICO fraud because it is very detrimental to many people. Checking again is very important and you need to be more careful. Some ICO ranking websites actually help us determine ICO project choices. However, research must be done first.

Apparently, just make your own research about the coin that you want to invest. Always verify their credentials and their background partnership if they have to know more about it.

I dont even know what can save ur from this scam mess, it has infuriated the whole crypto world, 6 out of every 10 ico is a scam, it has even gotten to the stage where they are using Fork of Ethereum to scam, this Ethereum classic vision came from no where offering better improvement to Ethereum and people bought in, we all have to be more careful and report any scam bounty immediately you notice anything like that.. thanks 

when the market is experiencing a very large price decline and there is an ico scam everywhere, you still ask how to distinguish ico scam or real ??? from here you have to learn a lot and do a lot of research, not ask other people you don't know

I agree with you completely, this is our common problem, the money that forever leaves the world of cryptocurrency is a very strong common problem, but how can we fight it??? Even if we find specialists, where are the guarantees that they won't be bribed tomorrow? Unfortunately, there are no such guarantees.

simply do some thorough research about the that certain initial coin offering or ico, who the one manage its bounty campaign, the team involved in that particular ico, theyre project proposal. The more you dig, the more you will not buried. Be wise enough to investigate every ico that you are going to be part of.

Never trust anybody lol!

I usually follow well know sources like Icodrops and other similar channels to find good ICO to invest
I try to stay away as much as I can from the whole “influencer” thing, as we seen last year, lot of peeps lost money because they got into deals shilled by these folks
Also I follow some crypto funds like Polychain and similar and try to learn and understand what kind of investments they do

On this forum, trying to fight fraudsters. However, advertising projects on so many powerful that vseravno scammers get investment. It's true no one believes. But then it turns out that we were right. Projects need reliable protection.

For me to avoid scams ICO should look good if it is legit or not. because most ico is now a scam and if the scam is not paused or stopped, because they do not see the potential of their tokens and they do not expect to earn them big.

As many says that it is not easy to determine whether an ico is a scam, however we should do a lot of more background research about what we are joining ico. We should read their project plans and the content about their ico on whitepaper and on their website. Because there are some ico that only copies other project's perspective. We see it as a real project but the real thing is its a fraud or scam ico.

Put main attention on the whitepaper and the team. Most of scammers are stealing another project's whitepaper and then put it into his site. As far as I know that about the fact that most of scammers are using the fake identity by stealing it from the internet.

We must oppose ICO fraud and this is indeed difficult to detect. Some ways to avoid this are by checking. We will look at the website and we check from the Team, the Whitepaper, and reach the sales token. Some of these ways we do and may benefit us all.

The reason why scam cannot end or people continue to fall for it is lack of orientation. There should be better education on cryptocurrency investing. New comers in particular need to be informed of this dark side of ICOs.

You cannot avoid scam ICO nowadays because most of the scam ICO's are good in start and when they collect enough funds in their so called project , they suddenly leave their project and their investors . But if you want to know a good ICO qnd scam ICO you must have the knowledge in finding and research for the right one to invest.

Take a look and lot of read about the project, get also some honest review so you'll find what is something strange about the project. It would be better if you'll take choose a project with legit device team working with expertise. I've learned that only those project who has active team has the possible potential. Currently I am.lookint at Hodler wallet and fortunately it shows development from time to time.

I believe there is no specific rules about avoiding scam, what we can do is filter those scam project manually and carefully.
But that doesn't guaranty that we will be able to fully avoid on getting scammed. That step will just reduce the possibilities of being scammed.

It will be difficult to avoid fraudulent ICO projects, because once they hide it, it is difficult to recognize. I think the law needs to have stricter regulations on ICO to protect investors

Stop investing on any of the ICO projects because most of them where are not giving any profits to the investors even if they are legit so don't risk too much just invest on the altcoins and take your profits whatever its comes from the altcoin or bitcoins investment.

It is hard to notify which is the scam ICO because it is looks like real ICO but in my case i really research it carefully there documents are legit like website, whitepaper, roadmap, smart contract and the team behind this are more on experience.

ICO fraud is indeed a very detrimental thing for everyone. And I think if there are institutions that can be trusted to carry out fake ICO audits. Of course, this will be very helpful for investors and bounty hunters. And what you will do must go through a lot of consideration and research.

Yes.You need to investigate all the things about this ico.You need to investigate whether the team is real.Learn all about the team from a variety of sources.In short, judging whether it is a scam, you need to do a lot.

I still find myself not trusting ICOs due to past experience ,they easily break and you end up losing your money its just better to invest in popular coins instead of investing in new iICOs and 99% of the new ones are just scams ,but to spot the right ones are even harder so luck is all that remains

Try to analyse the project and follow the famous crypto guys. I trust them more than unknown people. But really, you never know where scammers are.

Unfortunately, today we cannot be sure of any of the ICO projects that are emerging. The fraudsters are very creative and have learned how to prepare good documents and bypass sharp corners when working with investors. Therefore, I place almost the only hope for restoring order in this type of ICO activity to government regulation. It is government agencies that are able to quickly restore order here, protecting the rights of investors and bounty hunters.

More projects in the ICO. Some projects reach the gole and some projects go down. So before join the project. Just check the project information and white sheet. Then easy to understand the project. Then easy to choose and invest. It good opportunity for future growth. But some projects token hit the high price. So choose the best project and hold the token. Wait for the price increase. Then sell or exchange it.

Just make a deep research about the ico. Most important is the background of the team members.

In some cases, blockchain companies set to do an ICO will crowdsource not just funding but also technology development. "The worst thing I've seen at a decent event was a Nordic startup that actually did have a decent experienced team. Many enthusiastic fraudsters see ICOs as a an easy way to raise money. There is no need to actually have a product or report to anyone. Crowdfunding through an ICO has no real liabilities like a kind of utopia,

It is very easy to avoid fraud in new offers. It is only necessary not to participate in them. At the moment, 99% of new projects are falling dramatically in price.

It is very difficult to identify whether an ICO project is a scam. First, you must track the activity information of the team members, and you can keep abreast of the latest developments of the project.

To be honest, there is no fool proof way to avoid ico scams. Having said that most icos are not scams but rather just not very good business cases. You have quite a high chance of losing all your money on an ICO even if it is not a scam. But to avoid those which are scams you need to do as much due dilligence as possible - look at the white paper, check out the team and what they have done before and ask yourself do they seem capable of doing what they set out in their whitepaper according to the timescales of their roadmap.

Scammers also do not stand still and very often improve their skills, so it is difficult to be completely confident in almost any ICO!

some of the ways you mentioned are actually able to make evaluations of web scam makers, they will read everything and try to be smarter to be able to fool you so that the way you mentioned everything here will be fixed by the villain, the most important thing must be be careful when you want to use your cryptocurrency assets.

Have a good knowledge before investing in any ICO or PROJECT.
Do your own research on the project nad its team. there is no words from other it is all up to you on how you will be away from any scammer in the community.
Have you own knowledge and be smart enough.

The best way to avoid fraudulent ICO is not to engage in investing at the ICO stage.
Buy coins only for those projects that have already completed the tasks set in the White Paper.

I think that without regulation by the state, we can only reduce the risks when choosing an ICO. All we can do is carry out an in-depth analysis of the project and check the information about its team, white paper, evaluate the possibility of implementing the idea and implementation in the real sector.

From my little understanding in avoiding ICO scam is that one need to do personal research about a project before investing on it, which can really help to know possibly good projects.

It is very difficult. I think that now there are a lot of fraudulent projects. We must have a lot of experience in order to identify and circumvent these projects.

Personal check will give the best result, do not unconditionally trust the various sites involved in the preparation of ratings and other checks, they can lie

I encountered many scams in 2018. It was very difficult for me to find good projects among the trash. Now it is difficult to circumvent the scam.

I agree with you that fraud is done by utilizing the ICO project to create a bad image of cryptocurrency in the eyes of investors, their funds are lost due to the actions of a number of individuals committed by fraudsters,

knowledge is needed, but I agree more to luck. because when ico runs, the key to success is how much funds can be collected from the ico project.

To be able to avoid the scams, we must be smarter, more careful, and more details in analyzing an ICO. Well, the legit ICO and scams are always same. What makes different is about the way they display the team members and wallet transaction on etherscan and other checking wallet online. That is why I always check them carefully. besides, be active in the community, whether the telegram and other social media. But of course, it will not guarantee us not to be scammed.

I think we need to be more fucos on researching on the team that handle the project before we are going to invest on their ico. Because some other scam ICO has a good platform and many investors become more interested on it withou the fact that in the end it will fall into scam. For me I will choose a legit and amazing team that has a good experience on handling an ICO we need to check the team background.

Currently it's even more difficult considering how projects are failing to reach their soft cap, many keep extending their ICO and becomes difficult to actually know which is a scam and which is not.

But that get other people's opinions is also an optional good. I think we can follow a community reliable so we can get the input to make the best decision. Avoid project ICO scam it is difficult thing, but that when we strive then we can do so.

To avoid fraud, first of all you need to study the development team in the project as it is very important. If you are not sure about the people who are behind the project and develop it, it is best to refrain from investing. I think that now it is important to invest in an ICO that has a product that is useful in the used,financial sphere or transactions as it directly relates to the cryptocurrency and its industry. For example ETHA. All profits friends !

I usually check their rankings from ICODROP website, if they have taken a high or very high rank I try to participate, especially if they have taken a very high rank from it.

I have seen there are projects like Icovo that are aimed at protecting investments. However, the platform is not working yet. I think such projects are needed. And if they work the problem will be solved.

I don't think we can use ratings to judge the ICO because if their team is not smart and irresponsible then it will be in vain even though they get a lot of sales.
you should check the team carefully because even though ICO is less desirable but the team can develop it well then the project can be successful.

only stupid people still believe in the rating of such websites. the average scam project has a high rating, so are you sure you can trust it.

for me it is better not to invest in ICO than to lose. even quality ico cannot give us profit. so what are we still investing for?

There is no absolute way to avoid ICO scam. The best we can do is carry out a thorough research before investing. Your research could start from reading the whitepaper to see if the team have a true product that they are looking to offer or if their ideas are truly conceivable. The next step should be looking at the profile of team members on different social media platforms to confirm how legit they are. I also like to check out the social media presence of the project, this just goes to show how committed the team is to seeing their idea to fruition. The summary of it all is that you should do a thorough research.

the icovo project including a new project I think needs time for development to develop the project. hoping that in the future they can successfully run the platform well, the development of ICO can be better organized

It is very difficult to identify scam ICO. If we follow some procedures we can live a bit. Our company should know about the background and also know about project team member. For avoid scam ICO many times help with social communication very well.

Although, it might not be that easy to detect and to do the required research for every project, whether it is scam of not.
Reading white paper is not enough, but that after reading, you should be able to drill the team with questions.
This is best done most times by crypto experts. So you might look for one that you can attach yourself to.

The most important thing is to check the credibility of the development team members. Each project must provide links of all developers to LinkedIn accounts and they social media accounts. To verify the credibility of a person, just write a message asking for confirmation of cooperation with the project.

ask the community in ico, or at least you always make contact with the dev to follow every development from ico. if there is no response, then it could be a scam.

To be always get an updated information on any project can be used to avoid getting scammed. The more updated the info we got, at least we will know about a scam project early, and it would be a lot better than we are late knowing about that scam project.

the swot analytics on business intelligence as investors to work with chance on expends as releasing use of funds on possession, the tasks to deliver with spares on excessive as investment plan to complete on book keeping with the notable balance on expectaion.

ICO scams are unavoidable even if it has a legit team and a good community and whitepaper if the people behind it are savage people who is hungry for money, surely that will be a scam ! We cannot avoid it nowadays even if you are a good verifier of ICO's and in the end investors and hunters are the one that is affected.. The only thing that you can do which will give you a good income or profit is by investing in the Top 10 Crypto in the market this will surely give you a good profit if you are a good trader and if your a hunter join only ICO's which has already a working product and a tested and proven by users.. ^_^

as profesional investors we have to analize the running projects based on their swot analytics and pitch desk analisys.by doing this i am sure we will find the benefit and disadvantages from certain projects.but unfortunately most of investors didnt do this analisys.so easy for them to put their money into wrong projects.

Scammers are becoming more sophisticated. No matter how carefully we check, it is possible to be cheated by them. And the current market is really bad. So investing in ICO at this time is really not wise at all

The numbers of ICOs launching the crypto space is very much which makes it difficult to differentiate between the good and legit ones from the bad and scam ones. But I think we can try our best to avoid the scam projects by investigating and analyzing any project you want to invest in very well without leaving any stone unturned or neglecting any red signs.
Check the team and see if they are real
If they claim to have partnership, try to contact their reputable partners and inquiry about the originality
And check the opinion of top crypto analyst too.

If you do proper research, it is possible to identify the scam project and good project. You need to research carefully. Some people have already suggested a lot of ways to find a scam or good project. Read those all, try and you will end up finding out a project's legitimacy.

I am also sad to hear that so many ICOs are trying to deceive investors and bounty hunters, almost every day we find them. We have not really seen the regulation of investor protection against ICO projects and it seems impossible to materialize. Some things we can do to avoid such fraud are studying the background behind the people involved in the project, what products they offer and how they establish communication with investors. but that does not guarantee avoidance of fraud because some of them are smart enough

One can try but it is not possible to identify all the scam ICOs beforehand. Also, most investors are not savvy enough to do all the due diligence needed before investing.

The only way to protect yourself and your funds from fraudulent ICOS is not to invest in them at all. Other ways to date, unfortunately not available. I believe that even a thorough study of the project does not give a 100% guarantee for successful completion, further work and, accordingly, for profit. Risks will always.

I think we should forget about ico for several years, since in such a market, to participate there is not a gratifying business.

I think that it's better to stop investing in ICOs. ICOs market is dead now. Of course, there are good ones, like bittorent which has alredy made x5 profit from ICO price. But it was supported by Tron team.

There are just two words of advice I can give for a question like this.. Meticulous Research
There are good ICOs out there that ended up paying people lots of money but the fact is that it won t fall on your lap, you have to play your part as well.

To avoid ICO  scam, check in details the whithepaper of the  ICO ,confirm how realistic the vision can be done, the past track record of the developer, reviews from ICO review site can also serve as a guide, Observe the past track record of the team and partners involve in ICO project.

Yes, that's right, I myself better invest in ready-made coins and have been in large exchange markets such as Bittrex and Binance, because at the moment good coin prices are down and very cheap to buy, different from buying at ICO tend to be a lot of fraud and many failures at this time.

You can't avoid them. The only way to avoid them is you stop investing in ico but trying to note some key to avoid them doesn't work anymore only if you have more than enough to invest with, you will make gain in four out of ten projects you invest into.

Invest in STO, with STO you are more in good hands than inbesting in ICO.

You made a good suggestion on raising alarm when we find scam ico but the thing is, it is not easy to find, what i think is to do some research on a project before entering at least this will reduce the amount of scam we would fall into.

Ico scams are beginning to look more and more legit as time passes but the formula for catching scam my sales is still the same and it is to research. You have to research every single ico you invest in, check the team, check the road map, the progress, check if they have a product that is already working and also check the value of the community if all these does not check out it is better to be safe than sorry.
But if they do then you can invest also check the token details and economics this is very very important.

How to avoid?
Simple just believe to yourself, if you feel you will get scammed so don't invest, that's it  ;D

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Stop? hmm in my point of view some of us will can't to do that because investing at ICO project looks like a necessity. they aware if they get scammed but they still invest on other ICO project. i know it's weird.
I think if without tron, the possibility of BitTorrent will also be quickly dead.

if you don't want to be cheated don't invest in ICO. ico is very risky even we can't tell which projects are good and scam. focusing on old coins is the best choice at the moment or you can invest in STO. but if you don't like companies that make it difficult STO isn't a good choice for you.

The ICO investments are so risky. Actually, there are only 10% ICO that are promising and real so it means the other 90% are scam ICOs. We can guarantee the credibility of the ICO by studying the background of the members behind the ICO.

It's very risky because you have no assurance either the project will failed or you will scam.
Its to hassle to perform that, but we must, to avoid  get scam. And each one of us must do research to get know more on how to choose the legit one.

Be careful with ico for investment. Learn detail information about member team , read white paper and don't hesistate to ask questions.

Also if you deside to invest in ico , pay attention on project w12 - its project for  max safe ivestment in ico.

OP get involve in ICOs investment doesn't mean he cant be cheated because the crypto scammer are everywhere and they are using varieties of strategy to steal from people. Besides, I believe you yourself dont look what to lookout for before investing into ICOs and if you quit ICO investment because of theft then you might miss a huge opportunity which might occur through it. However, every crypto investment have it own good and bad side including the STOs either but I will advice you and the OP to understand the depth of STOs and ICOs investment first.

For a long time on this forum there are several topics where people write about projects that are suspected of fraud. And people further study these projects in more detail in order to find out whether this is a fraudulent project or not. Use the search on the forum.

On this forum you can find absolutely any information about new projects and the most important thing is that you can discuss such projects with more experienced market participants. I think that if you are a newbie, then there is nothing difficult to write some personal message to the old forum participants to ask their opinion about the project

It seems to me that most of the ICO projects cheat on their investors. That is why I stopped investing in ICO now. This has become very dangerous.

The logic reason for avoid ICO Scam, dont invest on it by the why. Because most of them its really failed to bring the project into a succesfull project. Investor always getting losing capital went we invest on it

To avoid participation in ICO projects of cheaters, it is necessary to study in detail the projects in which you want to invest or take part in the bounty campaign.
I always do that and I manage to find only good projects.

When a new ICO will came to the market then the popularity will see how the currency will going on most of the time we will find that this will be the best currency but some of the steps will not be find in the beginning stage we need to wait for long time to find this will be a scam

It is hard to find out the ICO its a scam we know that som3 of scammer were professional  on what are they doing so that it is possible to find it out if the manager was knowing and respectable and the website was be on the good and the road map was following it last previous quater so i think was a legit ICO but always becarefull and be vigilant  on what you are joining.

It seems to me to be unrealistic to avoid, but it’s quite possible to reduce the risk of getting caught on them, for this you need to conduct a thorough analysis of the project, its team!

To avoid scam, it all depends on us. If we choose to learn much rather than yearning to invest in what we have know idea about will really help. Knowledge as i know is power so let seek that first. Also before joining any ICO try as much as possible to know what you entering it and how authentic they are.

Now it is very difficult to distinguish which is really authentic or fictional ico because the absence of an institution that gives permission to make ico makes investors become a little confused and anxious about the amount of ico currently available

The more you learn about the project the more you can avoid scams. I think every investor should take time knowing everything about the ICO so to eliminate the possibility of joining a scam project. Scammers are getting better in deceiving people of their money so it is important to be wise.

To avoid scam ICO you should have enough knowledge of ICO & you have to study deeply the project before choosing any campaigns.
If you choose project carefully then obviously you will choose a good project & will be a legit project.

There is no better way than to make proper research about the project,team,dev,advisors and also get feedback from the community,that will be alot of help selecting ICO.

It is still hard to trace or determine on which ico project are the legit one. But there are only few things that we need to consider for us to find out if the project has a potential or not. First, check the usages of the utility token they have, also the whitepaper, and of course the team and the owner's background of the project too. Then, lastly the allocation for the project especially for the bounty too.

While avoiding falling for scam projects is a near impossibility we can reduce the cases of scam by doing diligence on projects before buying into them. Read their whitepaper get to know who are behind the project whether they have antecedents with that one should know what project to invest in SBD the ones to totally avoid

In last few ml this we saw many scam project around this crypto market. Most of them just collect the money from general people and investors and disappeared. And many people , mainly the new one stuck in this scam project. The best thing  to avoid scam is knowledge. Stop investing going and first take some knowledge about this market, know how to research on icos and then do your on research then go for investment. That is the only way to avoid this type of scam.

first of all ICO project has to reveal information about people who stand behind it. if it denies to do so you can conclude that it's a scam.

The best option is not to invest in ICO, then you can definitely avoid ICO fraud. There are no new ways to get away from fraudulent ICOS, you can still stumble across scams.

A lot of teams nowadays intend to start ico projects because of those people who are newbies in terms of cryptocurrency.. They abuse the lack of knowledge of the people who are joining them... Thats why we should be vigilant in choosing ico projects  we want to invest with... Try to search with the dev team members identity... If they are really using their true identity and not just copied from others background... Look for the project or platform itself.. If its possible to achieve success or just an impossible to do so... Look for its roadmap if they following it... And mostly see if the project is reall realistic to happen

the original ICO team always dared to appear in an event and also they dared to do KYC, but not only that they also had to have experience in the business field that would help investors be more confident that the ico was not a scam.

I am very simple in choosing ICO, It is best to learn the ICO listed and evaluated at ICOdrop. I have not seen any ICO fail when it is listed there