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If the project is a scam, it would be really silly of its team to show their true identities. In most cases, they just find some pics online and use them as the images of their “Chief Financial Officers” or “advisors,” as was seen  in Empire Card who used a picture of French actress Sabine de Poncins, little known outside of France, as the portrait of their proud imaginary CEO Patricia Harrison. There have even been reports of Ryan Gosling “working” for a project as a designer under a completely different name.   
Some scammers are, however, way more intricate. They know it’s quite easy to reveal a fake pic so they just hire people to pose as their CEOs, CFOs, and so forth. Rumor has it that certain scammers even pay homeless people to pretend they’re leading a disruptive startup to a bright and radiant future. This fraud is much harder to call out, but at least those guys help homeless people in some way, so here’s your silver lining.

There is no way to know for certain that the people presented to you on the landing page are genuine team members. In theory, it’s possible that the project in question is the first one they’re involved in, so you won’t find too much of a backstory for them. However, if all of them are virtually untraceable, that’s a good reason to have second thoughts.
So, what to do? Always check up every team member presented to you on the project’s website. Use TinEye or Google Images to see if the person on the picture is really what the caption says. Check all their social media profiles. See if they’ve been in the industry for a long time, or have posted anything relevant a year back. If you see that the team is completely inexperienced, and half of them even don’t show their real faces, that’s the red flag for you.   

There is no proper way to identify a transparent project team. Because if a group of scammers use homeless people to disguise their own identity, there's no way we can identify their scam attempt. Using photos of models and actors may have a sideline chance that at least some people would identify them, but that's not the case for homeless people! So there's no correct process to identify such scammers!

You can't believe the advisors as well. Because in most cases, these advisors are paid hefty money by the project team just to feature their name in the team. In majority of the cases, the advisors themselves don't know much about the project! That's one of the many reasons why ICOs have lost their credibility very quickly and IEOs emerged! 

They help the homeless people to get a few bucks but scammed the investor with a ton of bucks and does it look good?
it looks like this time with the launch of launchpads in various exchange site is helping it a lot.
It's even not possible to identify the fraud when that scammer was using the homeless people as fake CEO and many more. But strict validation from the expert will help a lot but this time it's impossible to reveal the true identity without creating a real meet up.
This time im only using reliable exchange site to identify the transparent project team.

I think that there is no proper way to identify a transparent project team. The only way is to avoid any unknown development team, and take part only in projects that have famous personalities in the development team.

the problem is very difficult to identify transparency in the profile of the developer and the project team, in this case I am sometimes confused to distinguish it because most projects currently seem real, well maybe a good way for me to browse through the various sources available, and of course take the time to research them before joining .

Not really. Some people even prepare a story well in advance. Trust me it has happened.

People think, okay I have reputation and trust, let me just scam for one big project and retire with all the money. Maybe people hate me but I have a story prepared. Maybe a hack and exit scam. And look like I am trying to fix things for 2 years until everybody is tired,,, then I stay low for a few more years. When everybody forgets I enjoy my money.

Nowadays its really hard to point out if the project team involves frauds and scammers, not unless they will do international conferences and many blockchain events, and as what i have encountered in some of the projects, some developers were attending these events, and in this case, developers could me meet up and talk about the certain project they are doing.

This is known for many projects in the past. They really are desperate to ride the market by providing projects and tokens that will not have use case at all.

Seriously? they are taking advantage of the homeless people just for their selfish plans to make money out of their no use case tokens.

If they are paying homeless people with no other cost to gain from it then It is too good to be true, but I am not saying that it is a total scam but pay attention and take caution to it, If that is the case maybe they are just providing homeless with their charity work, But even though it is for a cause are we sure that the large percentage of it will be going to that homeless or it will be just a front.

Well, Anyway there is no other way for us to know if this certain projects are legit or not lets just be cautious because just like in my preview post there is risk in providing support for newly bounty project.

When I follow a project, I can go to their official Twitter, facebook, telegram, and of course their official website to learn about the project, or you can go to their actual office address according to the actual situation, when the project is publicity. We can go to the promotion address and check the quality of the project.

Yes, such methods are real. Actors, homeless people, alcoholics and drug addicts. Many do so. Some look for photos on the Internet and change them. In general, confirming the identity of the team is very difficult. Of course, if they do not participate in large conferences and are not public.

I suggest if you want to identify the truth of the team, let alone use famous figures, then I use their linkedIn to contact them directly, or look for accurate information about them on various sites on the internet, if they really support a project they will definitely make a link or link just talking about the project.

We have different ways to identify if a certain project is legit or not, my strategy is I only invest in IEO now since scams are coming from ICO.
I usually look more on the reputation of the exchange rather the team behind the project as for me, that's easy to do, when a project has an IEO in big exchange, usually, it makes me confident to invest on such project as I believe I'm being help by the exchange in determining if the project is legit.

Yes, monitoring the project team from all sides will help determine whether the team is serious or just filth trying to defraud the community.

I encounter one developer using people on Fiverr and Facebook to be his CEO and part of the team because they know that if they are going to get picture from the internet they will easily get caught, that is why it's very important if you are looking for the team composition that they can do group photo or questions and answer via webinar so people will know if they are really part of the team.

Team composition is very important, if you are going to invest in one project, it's important that the developers can communicate, or even important to attend one of their events.

This is why i always advice people to learn how to use google image search engine or other image search engines,they can quickly give positive results on stolen identity if you know how to use them,its pretty easy,all you have to do is insert the project ceo and the teams picture one after the other, ive revealed a scam project this way in the past

There are several projects where the developer team is separate and not in one office or place. It is difficult to identify the transparency of the project developer team and all we can do is research through social media that is sometimes on their website. But I think this forum several times dismantled the developer team whose profile took photos and other people's identities.

They are transparent if they can show the real face while doing a video explaining their projects, with so many scam projects now and in the past, the only option for this developers is to be as much as transparent as they can be, or they will not get funded at all.

Your approach to determining a legit project is plausible, but you need to be mindful of the fact that some scam projects have a well spelt out strategy deviced to cajole their investors towards believing that they're legit. We still need to make some research to be certain that the team and project are for real.

Agreed, it is really hard to find if those people are legitimately in this field that is why I prefer to join bounty with a well-known people in the industry.

I dont think this is true, LOL surely they dont have time to do this because they dont really care.

I believe that there are several ways to verify the legitimacy of a project team and some are listed below:

1. Try to convince the team to conduct an AMA via online video conference and ask questions including technical ones that
    are relevant to the project (If the team don't know what they are talking about especially with development aspects, then
    we could consider it as a red flag)

2. Research and verify their social media profiles especially on Linkedin and Github profiles - (for core developers) and assess
    if they are really who they say they are and try to see their previous activity on projects they have worked on.

3. Observe if they have good community management and if they are regularly interacting with the community via social media
    channels and see if they are always ready to assist on any concerns  of the community. (most legit projects often responds
    to the community's queries mostly in a daily basis and if you didn't get any response to one of your queries, then beware of
    this project).

4. Observe if they are posting any documentation or pictures of team activities (e.g. attending a crypto conference, symposiums)
    If none of these has been published, chances are the project is a scam.

5. Additionally, you could check these threads that might be useful regarding your concern.

Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0

Scam Accusations
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

Based on what I learned about projects that it is unpredictable that is why one must really make a proper research about the project ask here at the forum that is a great option but another option is is to make it a research about it at like google or yahoo. in some cases people just want to invest and do not make any kind of research so in the end it is a scam therefore negativity starts. So, I would say learn from that mistake or if your not into researching you and just invest be ready and invest the amount that you are ready to lose.

If research does not work because people still doest have any kind of idea that the project is a scam from the very start I would suggest reallly that YOU MUST BE READY ON THE GAMBLE AMOUNT THAT YOU WILL LOSE . not being negative it is just reality when it comes joining project because if it is not a scam than the project failed possible 50 50 chances if getting your money or if you got it in the same amount you gave for them to invest from the very first place the project started.

Fraudsters who use other people's photos, copy white paper or engage in other plagiarism is not so difficult to calculate. They do not pose a serious danger to the crypto market. Much more dangerous are those scammers who make a completely unique project with their documents and photos. They are much more difficult to determine.

I personally don't think there's any perfect way for the identification of the project team members. Most times, the best we can do is follow the project loyally and get a realistic opinion about the project. This could be achieved by testing all facts to know if they're true.

some projects do not publish the whole team working on the project. but there are successful, and have real developments in the market. while there are some that publish but the results of plagiarizing teams from other projects. their purpose is nothing but deception, be careful.

I think it's rather difficult to know that their team is real or fake, I don't think too much if their identities and projects don't have reviews in internet, I prefer not to join that project. Because I prefer to follow projects with teams that are transparent on social media or active public events, and some of their project reviews in well-known media.

Its very hard to identify a transparent project teams because humans are created with no abilities of reading others mind, any promises a project team gives investors are still promises which can end up a failure,there is one thing many project teams always do wrong,they failed to keep investors as their first priority,i as a investor always like teams that have nothing to hide,tell us the truth of anything that is going on either it will hurt or not

with use of reference as the white paper on projects website as the ico terms of offers deliverance, investors might gains of customs with difference on unit as option on identifying details to returns with one of decision to put of option on market with the ieo exchange.

The scammers will always update the action according to the new trend. For example one of the actions that the team on a project after doing research looks convincing, but the reality at the end of the project is a scam.
One of the characteristics of a transparent project team is that I feel that the team can be relied upon and the team communicates with the project group to the members.

Its really not an easy task identifying the genuine project team but its is very much achievable when you follow the right steps. What i do in situations like this is go through their linkedin profiles if available but in a situation where it isnt, you will have to manually search with the provided names on the project website and cross reference with what you see on linkedin or Facebook.

I think there are many ways we can take to find out whether the program that we are taking does not fool us. The first step is to make sure you are following a program that is registered on a trusted platform. secondly before you join you should do a question and answer with the project development team by entering their telegram group. then you can contact directly the contact of the development team admin of the program. well that's where you can find out whether the program can be trusted and transparent in conveying their work processes in developing the program.

there were teams who shows faces on youtube videos actually that still turned out scam. its why you should be anxious to a project that offers project that's too ambitious. just to cite one example of the team who show their shameless faces on youtube but manage to scam people, BUBBLETONE project is just one. this is why even when this is suppose to be decentralized, we really need regulations because of them.

First I will look at their previous experience, then find out their background in several sources including, on forums, social media, and several other sources listed in their gift chains. overall it is difficult to find fraudulent projects but we can reconsider if you feel there is something suspicious with the team and that is what needs to be decided before you fall into it.

I do this using the official site of the project. First I look at the linkendin profiles, if they are not there, I immediately discard this project, and if they are there, I check them for activity and look at my work experience, does it match what is described on the site, and then I look for profiles on social networks by name and surname.

The only time I believe a project team is real is looking for their project on icobench, once the top team member like the CEO and CTO has passed KYC exercise, I trust the project is real to an extent but without this, I'm always sceptical about project team members.

Now there are banks of photographs that collect photos taken by professionals. There are photos of people who are not found anywhere else on the Internet. Many fraudulent projects can buy photos on such sites. I also met a project where the "main developer" once a week on a video answered user questions. We only later learned that he was a hired actor.
Scammers are becoming more inventive every day.

How much money does it take to turn a homeless person into a person who looks like a financial director? Homeless people often fight and have bruises and scratches, and they also have bad teeth.
It seems to me much simpler and cheaper to hire actors to make the photos that fraudsters need.
In any case, I am glad that there are people on the forum who are looking for scammers and help people not to be deceived.

there are many ways scammers try to deceive investors including one of them using homelessness and changing it as part of the project team, often I find their profile team photos look ridiculous that they have edited, and to ensure their transparency we need to explore both in the forum , social media, or other sources.

The way I identify the project team that is transparent is to find out their origin on the Google site, their website, social media channels and in the bounty announcement. I always follow an experienced project team like the project I'm currently on because this team has a good reputation in managing previous projects.

People still think that cryptocurrency startup projects are transparent because they developing a new blockchain technology. Of course that they live in ilusion and they need to invest into many scam ICOs to understand how to choose the best projects. Without failure there is no success.

Check the project carefully, the idea behind the project, be sure it is new, or at least solve problems.
If you think the project is good Invest in IEO only why?
All exchanges to run IEO should ask the team to pass KYC, team should provide there ids for that, at least founders should provide IDs.

We can see how the team can be directly involved in their projects through social media, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, I think in modern times like this it is certainly straightforward to access someone's information via the internet, if on social media alone, they  not do promotions the project, of course they are a fake team and the project uses only their photos.

I need to know the team before I invest in any project. They should have social media accounts and public releases published in major media like yahoo finance, forbes or something like that. Furthermore, they should have a detailed plan and keep the community updated.

It would still be easy to identify them even if they hire all those people or homeless people you talk, the best way to catch a thief is through the LinkedIn, if they hire an homeless person, it means their linked in will be new, a good team must have been an active person in a business line, and from their profile you should be able to know, form the year and from some research you make on the google page, it should point you to knowing which project is doing some certain thing at that particular time.

I think it is high time we ignore team that do not want to show their identity to even their video, project team right now needs to really go to the length of showing their face to the public and even the location of the said project if they are really true.

First, make sure that the team is really real and you can browse through the channels available in the project's bounty thread or make a video call about the face and whereabouts of the company and it's important to research on the Google site too. now many cases of fraud using another project whitepaper, the scamers change several copies to make it look real.

Identifying the genuineness of a project team is one of the diffcult things in this space, in time past there were projects whose team was hidden but they didn't scam investors but nowadays any project whose team is hidden gives a second thought. Nevertheless, i think the best place to get started is through social media to track their online presence and to know a little about them; Google can also help to break down the search. Thereby, with the results from the search, link it to the idea they are trying to create and see if it adds up.

Real pictures of core team members. Also when a project starts doing AMA that's video covered I regard them as being real team. A physical office where people can visit is another method of know which project isn't fake.

As you mentioned, looking into the team members is important. You may easily identify a goof, it is a fraudulent project. The way funds are used could also be examine. Although one shouldn't expect the get every information on funding and spending of the startup. One have to know that startups are not liquid or entirely transparent with money. If it were, it would be publicly traded stocks. It's not a problem with it though, private money is fundamentally different from public money. You shouldn't expect everything to be available as such structure could easily be replicated. And most founders are scared of that.

Most team always have a good social media accounts, starting with LinkedIn which is duly updates with their experiences and qualifications so far. Thus if a team finds it hard relating such to the community then something is wrong. Also, study the whitepaper, pick strategic questions and ask the team to see their reactions, in certian cases the team either removes the user or ignores the question. Also, another way it through AMA.

It's very difficult to know a real team considering the high level of imposters out there. LinkedIn profiles help a lot but can't really be 100% accurate in helping identify fake team members.  Normally, I believe a team more when they do video AMAs on YouTube, although this doesn't even guarantee that the project is legit.

This is a difficult thing to do, just do not invest more than you are willing to lose, most of these developers started with good intentions but when they raised funds, they tuned to something else, I just feel there should be a change in the way these guys gain access to the funds, release the fund in trenches, since hey do have roadmaps, once a  major roadmap has been met, release funds to them.Never trust anybody in the space, never.

It is quite difficult, but we can still try to investigate through the social media profile of the development team. The fake team, usually seen from their social media activities, new accounts with low activity, do not match the field they are working on. It will be more easily seen if using or faking someone else's account.
The safest way is to never invest more than you can afford to lose.

That reminds me of a particular video I saw sometimes ago. The person posing as the CEO was a female and it appeared that she was reading directly from a paper given to her. To my amazement, she was not also good at speaking English. That shows how foolish the scammers were. Although, they might have been able to scam some noobs, which of course sometimes, it's inevitable.

Not all of them being transparent looks trusted, some of the scammers use others identity which it looks open and traceable even we search it on the internet. We should not be confident of this transparency, we need to spend more time searching and do have time to reviews feedbacks.

Remember that we are in the internet era, we can make some things impossible to possible, do the editing job and copy others personal details. This it has that we can't guarantee, yet we need also to give some trust with them and that is why crypto investment is a risky thing.

If the project uses fake pictures of team members it usually shows they are ready to fake much more than just pictures. When pictures don't match the rest also doesn't. The location of their office is faked, the team is shown as much bigger than it really is and half of the members are ghosts. Sometimes they even claim to have a registered company somewhere and it's a lie or it's a cheap UK company that you can start online for a few pounds.

If you find some lies on their websites or in their threads don't invest. It's better not to include some information than lie.

I believe that if you look at the project team and you are worried about something, it is not a good sign. If they are not scammers, their identities should be revealed. What the video with conference with them, their personal pages in social networks. If the team is conscientious, it must have this data.

They must provide correct information and do not falsify data information. Many people say to identify a transparent team, must have real information. And some projects have been like this but also failed. So the right way to identify real projects is very difficult.

Scammers are also very clever they can find weaknesses of this business. I before joining the project, always I checked the active team on social media. If they are active and always provide information about the development of the project, I think it deserves to be followed.

Just using "Search Image" on google went you feel the project was really weird. Its was really easy to catch a photo online, but if they using other real names + photo ask the person on that photo. You can that information on google example like their social media, and ask him did he involved in that project if not then its a scam. We got some case, went a scam project paying other people to use their photo for doing a scam ICO.

There is no sure way to look deeper into an ICO or IEO project team. What is clear is that we only need to review each development and progress they have achieved for their project through the social media they provide.

There is no way if they aren't popular and they are just new people on that kind of business. There is nothing impossible on the internet and that includes neglecting transparency for the sake of their respected interest. On the other hand, you still can ascertain that but in a different way. One way is when they tend to interact with conference and they speak very well. The other way is via checking their promises wherein it should match to what they've made so far.

They are changing their methods because using ran down picture has been exposed but this people who agreed to be part of the team and paid to use their picture and talent, are guilty of connivance so they will also be persecuted for their action, even if they say that they are just hired by unknown developers.

It is very difficult to identify projects that are really real nowadays, many projects use other people's photos as their team and of course this is very detrimental to investors and people who used photos for use in fraudulent projects, now if we follow the ICO project / IEO, it's better that the first time we do is research the project team. Because even if the team is fake, of course the project will be fake too.

The one about hiring homeless people sounds more possible because they probably wouldn't want those with much pictures on social media or on the internet for easy facial recognition.

Having real team photo doesn't matter much though. If developers with real photos do not have good and viable projects, they will eventually fail.
What matters most to me is original and viable  with good whitepapers and Roadmaps

This statement is far different from an ICO or company you buy a portion of their share. For example, a company is regulated and ICO is not, so you lose your money, you can't find it anywhere.

If you buy into ICO, you don't know the mind of the project owners which majority are to scam you just as you have read the most thread, the lack of trust in icos anymore. If you are building your investment or company, you know you are genuine about it and you will make it grow but most icos intentionally are to scam, is another business for them.

The thing you can do is follow projects and test their execution, for example, I have been following a project called Lympo and not only they did everything they say they will, but there is something big coming up. There was a leak like here: http://boards.4channel.org/biz/thread/15515880
And there are some serious rumors that something big is coming :)

I have never seen photos in profiles similar to the homeless).I think you're exaggerating too much.The main criterion is an account that was not created before the start of ICO.As a rule, people with experience come to the project, so this experience should be confirmed (I mean Linkedin).

You cannot predict peoples' actions, so you can take part in a good project with a legit team, but nobody guarantees that those guys will not disappear will all money within the next couple of months. It is a lottery :)

I calculate fraudulent teams by searching for specific people through search engines, because fraudsters are often in a hurry and do not create a separate page for fake people on social networks, and even if they create it, you can always notice that it is new, which means there is a chance that it was created for cover.

Any team should be real and have social media account, where you can track their personalities. Secondly, I always need to see a good marketing plan for the next several years. The last but not least, just keeping the eye on the team members following their decisions to understand how do the act in difficult situations.

In general, if scammers use other people's photos from the network, it is not so difficult to determine. It is much more difficult to determine the legitimacy of the project if all the team members are real, have their own profiles in social networks, and actively communicate with the community.
In this case, as a rule, the search for isitina ceases. But, you need to understand that any team can have behind its backs a not-so-clean story.
And often scam projects are identified by ascertaining what the team leaders did before.

Even a good man can change and have evil intention. Many often times, I usually will look at the part of the world the team are from, there are some certain regions of the world that may have good team and good project but they will always personally destroy the project by their poor management decisions. I ran from team that promise too many things and high ROI.

This is actually quite easy. As you said, if fraudsters try to use the profile of famous people, then it will be easier to identify. We must observe social media activities from the development team if we want to make sure they are genuine or fake. New accounts, or those whose activities have nothing to do with the project they are building, are indicators that they are fake. Indeed there are projects that do not display the profile of their team, it does not mean that the project is 100% scam, because there are still many aspects that must be assessed besides the development team. Although the team's identity is hidden, projects that have good strategies and features will continue to provide high confidence for investors.

So basically not all scammers are evil and there are some who are not for their own benefit as described, but there are still many parties who are disadvantaged, especially investors here. I personally admit that a scammer's intelligence in involving many people cannot be recognized and what is unfortunate is that his intelligence is not used in the right path like the example of making a good Altcoin or other Blockhain.

Fake Linkedin accounts are sold in the marketplace board of the forum, unfortunately. The fake teams can be the first reason why I ignore such projects for investing purposes. The team members have to be the best in the profession in order to attract more attention to crypto investors. Finding the real people behind the project is not an easy process from my practice, the true detective work is required for the best results.

but any way for some project can proof their identity, they must create IEO for their crowdfund, and of course exchanger need their identity about the team of the project and make investor fund safer than investing money directly on the official website project

Waoh this thread is really an eye opener. The level folks go to disguise their evil deeds is mind blowing. Wish they could put such energy into good use but they will never. All they need is cheap money without being ready to put in the requisite energy.

Simple, if a project team use a new social media profile,,
Thats really a big sign, if the project is not good buddy,,

It is necessary that you invest in a project whose team you have confirmed its identity and be sure they can be trusted.
Identifying them might be quite uneasy, but you can still make enquiries by searching through the details they provided.
A team without a comprehensive detail, should be regarded as shady.
They must have years of experience about what they claim they intend providing or doing, block chain technology inclusive.
You can also try to communicate with them.

in my eyes transparent team means an active team who will be friendly and always provide development progress report and also they have to show the product that releasing.

It's not easy to detect fraudulent projects because they also know our weaknesses. But for me, if the team and the CEO do not provide any original identifying information, I will not join. Especially if we check the website View, ROADMAP projects and activities on Social Media. And if everything looks bad, I'm sure it's better to join another project.

it is important to conduct detailed project research in forum threads, telegrams, social media networks, ico websites and other video calls with the team to prove that they are a real team. basically if you or an investor wants to put a large amount of money, of course, they won't make a quick decision before they believe that the project is truly worth investing.

interesting question here, i also still looking the best way about this. But so far i will look at their profile team, they must have below

1. Social media such as twitter, LK or facebook. Their social media must be active before ico/ieo launched, for me minimum time i 1 year.
2. Google, when i search on google their name must be there. Which means it's not hard to find them. Let say one of their team have name "mikel adol njamu", if you try to search on google so you will not find any last activities of this user, and any related information to those queries. Avoid this ico/ieo if their team like this.
3. Look at information you have from no 1 until no 2, are they background really interested?? If that's interested so you can continue to their ico/ieo

If the project is scam, then they really do not publish their personal photos. However, several people can be deceivers in the project, and the rest can be hired personnel who are not aware of the impending deception, here are their photos and can appear on all sites.
Now scammers are more and more inventive and we need to carefully study each new project.

Video call would have been the best , at least it gives investors a little bit of leverage to use against them in future if they happen to be scammers, but so many developers shy away from that because they feel they are acting illegally, or they feel they are acting under the rule of anonymity., but they have failed to understand that they are the ones that needs people to bring out money they have worked for to develop a project that would be of immense benefit to the developer, so I don’t see reason why they should not go to any length to show their face.

If I was a developer and I believe in my project, I would even go to the length of showing my office address also, to prove to them that I am not running away, but how many of these developers even have a location? All they do is sit on their system and conduct campaigns.

It doesn't mean that even they published their photos(or might a photo of another person) will be trusted or we can assure that they are not scammers. Not we think that bad but scammers are now getting smarter and smarter, they keep on studying where they could penetrate such actions. In fact, with all the awareness we do but still, a lot of people are getting scam.

Now, it is to realize that it be hard to determine whos gonna be trusted and whos we can't. For the better of everyone, we should not have to give our trust easily, not for the strangers nor to the person who gives us a big returns deal cause it mostly scams.

yes, I guess identifying the project team is complicated work? maybe one way is to find out in depth, about them, find their social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc .find out also when they joined the social media.
type their names on Google, if they are people with credibility, their names will appear on Google images. also find out their Curriculum Vitae. and if they don't seem convincing, it's better not to join their project

do a thorough research about the project you want to invest in, don't be lazy to read.
it's about risky investments, make sure that the project is really real.
starting from the developer profile, the team, the company, the website, the media channel, and the community in it.

Popular ICOs kyc sites for core team members, live AMA, live office where people visit its all good sign of real team members.

I agree with the statement you said that in a project the most important is the background of the team and the developer and also how active they are in responding to some questions from investors and users. Updating project progress is proof that the team is working well.

But in the start anyone will do their best to satisfy the investors to invest in their project and after getting their goal they will escape and then investors can do nothing. So the best thing to know about the team is to know that they are the real persons and are existing in the community from the start. They will have their existing profiles and will be in communication with a lot of people and will be the part of the real community. They will show their career in their profiles and will show the companies with whom they worked in the past from where you can find them.

how to identify a real team by searching whether the team's profile is real or not, including the face of the team by making a video call and matching whether it's the same as what is listed on the whitepapper or not.

Search for the pictures of team members on google (right-click on image & search on google). Make sure all members are genuine. Even if one of them is fake, it means the project is not transparent. Ask the team to host AMA on YouTube where you can see their faces. It is a good sign if they are organizing events. I have verified the team for many projects like Vite, Bitwings, imusify

If you want to check project team is really simple scan picture with google images. Visit Trusted sites (https://www.coincurb.com/category/active-ico/) check project analysis, community remarks and rating of the project. I believe by doing such things we can check whether project team is really or fake.

good project certainly has famous people and is good in it. when the big people publish the participation and promotion of the project, we can see if the project is really supported by competent people.
but there are some projects that take pictures and names of famous people and published the project. be careful with projects like this. especially if the brand promotion is not done well, avoid those who hide something from their project.

To identify a transparent project team, you need to do a little background checking of the team members to find out whether they're genuine or not and also the face of the project. You can also do video call, compare and match if the same as what is listed on the project.

check out the few project that are proven to be legit
and check out few that are proven to be a scam
and you will see the differences very quick

I was aware about using fake identities, but not to the extent you mentioned it. I think transparent team can be identified only through community updates, their active involvement with community and that to on regular basis.
Another important aspect is AMA. Due to regular AMAs by team, confidence can be increased in the project.

I think I will not be scammed by a team proposal for a new project. Usually I checked the profile and not just scanned the it on online like website anf their linkedin. I usually ask for their account on video and try to contact them and see if their really the person on their social account. Yes, and trust me only few agree to this request and that's one criteria that might lead to their being a scam team or using only the account of someone.

Trusted projects will go into nowhere in the end. I would invest what I could afford to lose.

There is no strait jacket rules or formula to follow to identify a transparent project team. The best way is to run all the possible checks on the team members and if possible look into the social media profiles of each of the members and as you run the checks, look out for the coherence and inconsistencies in the information they provide. This will tell which team tells the truth.

Honestly it is not that simple to tell this team are transparent but I guess with the teams level of communication with their community members can say to some extent how transparent they are,
Some team participate more in community discussions, very active to update members of their progress and what plans the have in future, etc.
I think this type of behavior in team members can describe the team transparency.

When I got bad team we know from tread of bitcointalk and got many news in telegram channel, we know which one real or fake team data using. We need to know all of transparent project to identify which one scam or trust investing project for joining, you have ask for every one before joining an ICO or IEO.

There is but this somehow requires an extra work.  It is by checking their education background, work history and inquire to those institution.


I agree to that 100%.

For anyone said that we have to check the team background, we should have do more research on them or even chat with them deeper about the project.
Because if you just see their CV or Portofolio at linked.in or other website, it can be faked. There are so many project's team with fake linked in portofolio out there so, be careful of choosing project to invest

I've heard such a thing in the past, someone stealing a random person's photo and uses it for LinkedIn until someone contacted the respective person trough social media and get the confirmation that it's not him. If people want a more obvious transparency, just demand the developers to do some kind of interview which can't be faked in other word live interview and once they are showing their faces then you can judge whether it's a real person or not.
Otherwise, if the developers refuse to do so just don't believe them, we're talking about real money here so the credibility and trust is the most important factor.

i dont know how to identify legit projects  . what i only do is that i based my decision on the feedbacks that i saw  . i search the project here and online and ill check if it has a positive feedback and i compare it with how much negative feedback it have  .  

i also look for the sponsored projects or the one that has an exclusive tag because i have a feeling that they are legit and thier budget is bigger than those unsponsored and common one's  but thats only my strategy  , you can follow it you want to  .

Usually I see a transparent team from a new project as there is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. Because that's where investors can see the face of the developer directly, and the details of their concepts are clear. Their partner lists is taken into consideration. Because there is a partner, automatically the project is no joke. But, firstly looking for for further detail for it.

That's true, need to check as many sources as possible, academic papers, participation in events, press citations to confirm identities and experience. Every team needs experienced developers, if they have only marketers it's a red flag.

If the people are real, it's in their own interest to give every proof possible for it. Like interviews, live video amas, lot's of video about everything. Pics more interviews. If devs are clearly avoiding this, there's really no good reason for it. But that's just for made up identities or for identity thieves. There are numerous other ways for them to scam or fail miserably as well. (Envion case)

In bitcointalk forum, there is a scam accusation board here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
You can check there, some bitcointalk members are busting the scammers who use other's peoples pictures as their team profile.
The scam accusation section is good to used, at least it is the first step to avoid investing on wrong project.

Full background check if possible to avoid those scam projects.
Most of the team in the ICO's are just buying information in the black market where they can use as their faces. It is easy to know if you do more researches about the project and especially to the team.

no one knows how to determine it. Although they help people in the wrong way, I don't think it's good to do it.
and also investors who will invest their money may think that money can be used later for their needs and those of their families.
because not all investors have a lot of money sometimes they bet with the last money, hoping it will develop.

Agree, the thread can be a guide before deciding to invest. Legitimate projects certainly have a developer team that has social media and does not use someone else's photo. Besides, it usually has a partnership with a large well-known company.

True, a very lively project that has a fake team is not transparent and only to get money from investors then the project is not taken care of and dead.
Usually, I see how they run his project roadmap as they write in the whitepaper.
Before becoming an investor, as good as his to do a video call with his team to let us know that they are real or fake.

Transparent project looks with team and owner put real social media link like twitter, linkedin and Facebook. we check history of Facebook account is real and have made with ten years or social twitter account look active with promote their ICO, always check telegram channel ICO how many investor give good respond with  ICO is best solution for investing and check have any complain from investor with their ICO?

In as much as it gets very hard to connect the dots with some projects especially one that i invested into sometime ago, your best shot is to seek out their experiences with previous projects. In addition, it's best to get close to their social profiles to get to know more about them. Lol i remember reading a scam report about TwoGap project and go to know one of the team members was into managing a restaurant. I can't authenticate the the legitimacy of the Report from Shitcoin Offering group but it was soo funny to read that ;D. Now not much is being done about this project and just like most ICOs, the price keep falling :(

Almost all teams use fake popular faces to gain much more advantage during ICOs I think the real teams behind most of the projects are totally different and the harsh fact is that you will never get to know these teams. Even those with faces generally deny their responsibility from such things so there is no way at all.

A project can still use real image and be a scam. For example, Miracle Tele, had used real images and ended up scamming investors. True identities are no guarantee for a project not to scam. Some persons don't care about reputation, they really don't have any reputation to protect, theirs is to cash on the project. Check most of the ICO that bountyhives promoted, they collected money and when some manage to get listed, the token prices went dead and threw investors into debt.

It's really hard to find out the team profile is real or not since they can make a fake account on social media, even a social site like linked in have no validation about their user profile.
So many people got tricked by the the tracked record of the person on the team but that's all just fake

The project must be examined in detail if you want to invest so that you know about the project, starting from the real team, product offerings, viewing white papers, partnerships and most importantly in my view the team meeting and being published so that investors know that project development is indeed serious .

Some projects now do weekly update or monthly update for their supporters to discuss whether their roadmap have been followed , it is better  specially now that youtube is in demand and too popular doing live asking questions and do updates in real time with their real face. I hope ICO would do something like that,At that point we can know whether they really know what their doing since questions are on the spot and we can identify if they are really serious in their projects.

We can also checked the team's legitimacy by checking their information at linked in if applicable. Having a background check to the team is basically the most needed to do, having them checked can validate if they can be trusted and if they have the capability to have a progress and development of the project.

It is difficult to tell which one is legitimate or not if you are referring to the team profile. Some team developers even do video interview or conference with their investors to ask as many question about the project. I think a team who doesn't hide in somebody else's profile is somehow what I can say transparent.

With respect to what I bolded in the OP's post, they are not helping anyone, rather they are harming everyone, even themselves because karma will one day catch up with them.
First, those who are hired are being harmed, because they might one day be caught, if the case is taken seriously and will face the wrath of the law. In a way, their reputation is being tarnished for just a peanut, because I am trying to imagine how much they will be paid for such service. They do not know where they will be in future and by so doing, such action might be used against them.
Also, investors who fall, victim, are being harmed, by deceiving them.

So pls, if you are I doubt of the team of a project, after carrying out adequate research, do not invest in it and do not mislead others.

The AMA sessions are not enough for the project investors to measure the trustworthiness of the team but the options are limited to this circle, unfortunately. Making new challenges during the ICO will surely increase the traffic of the project website, the transparent team never ignores the request by the investor side. Just looking in the social media pages will not be enough for me to identify the team members.

how to identify projects? see transparency in the project team or what is often called a team video call, see the background of the team and the developer, the products they offer in the market, the road map according to whether or not the same as the information in WP and how the team responds to the attitude of investors and prize hunters too.

The scammers will change their tactics too, if you think that doing a google reverse can bring the pictures they will come up with a new idea, they will hire some models pay them off and then upload the pictures, if those are not popular models then who is going to identify them even if you do a good reverse search. So you really cannot identify the scammers unless the project is from a reputed team i am not going to believe any project as i had my hard lesson in the past.

in fact there is no perfect way to identify reliable and real team projects, because most fraudsters have ways that others might not know like they originally wanted to cheat on the market. it's just that we can still avoid a bad project if we find something suspicious about Whitepapper, Team Background, or the poor work of the developer.

this AMA has been use also to fake images to look like there are legitimate and really working for thier project and roadmap . Ive been see many project that have weekly AMA some of them is considered scam already.

The easy thing is if their team often does AMA LIVE and also they attend the blockchain forum that's where the real face of each team can be seen. if there is rarely this information, it might be doubtful whether the project exists or is only a fictitious one. but despite that the fake team is now very often encountered

even they are using thier real identity there is no guaranteed that they are not planning for scaming people as i said before it will only looks  like ligitimate but it doesnt mean they are . And those people who give their real identity sometimes are the one who get more investment and gone with it.

You will never identify which team is real or fake by icobench because this isn’t a trustworthy way. Icobench added most of the projects in their trust score but all of them are not real project. Even they manipulating in positive feedback which is paid. I think real project team member identifying is more difficult because if they are not explore identity in their project how you can be expose? But in generally most of the projects team reveal their identity in through by whitepaper or website. Because first of all investors looking for how much professional project core team.           

A transparent team is a team that is completely open in everything, both in performance and everything in the whitepaper, but now a lot of ICO's are really transparent and this is used by people who are not responsible for cheating everyone, I think crypto should be even more serious in solving this problem maybe by having more terms and conditions for creating an ICO.

It is very difficult to get rid of those who are greedy like them (con artists), the most effective way is to get everything back to each other, let us earn money together but not by deceiving others, we work together giving crypto knowledge to each other, sharing experiences, isn't that better than cheating.

It's very hard to identify a transparent project team, when the members are "nonames" and nobody knows them - that's almost impossible. So, if it is so, I would rather miss this opportunity :)

A transparent project team is the one which feed its community with all the needed information about the project and its progress without keeping none as secret. Transparent projects allows its community members to feel free and ask questions in the telegram group and in a calm and professional way answers them.

Transparent team also gives any update to the community regarding the improvement and development that has been done with the project. The community is given all the needed information of the team to confirm if they are real, and also the future plans of the project.

This is going to be so time taking and difficult act to have voice conferences with the investors as most of projects keep their investors hidden. So we can search about the project in Google and we can talk to the management about it. Make research as it’s not good to be blind for investing better use old projects not new one.

verifying the transparency of a team seems the most difficult thing in these crowdsale, even the ICO rating sites and professionals I followed had failed at one time.

Indeed, some projects are blatantly clear though they do not manipulate personal data or faces, but they ultimately deceive investors. in this industry it is funnest in my opinion because fraudsters are free to easily commit these crimes without firm action

Until now I don't think there is a 100% accurate way for us to find out if the project team is real.. but the LinkedIn profile of the team on the project I think can increase investor confidence in the project, although not exactly 100% accurate, the existence of LinkedIn profiles has helped me identify a team on a project.

But 70-90% (at least) is good enough to know that a certain project is just a scam or not. If we are about to dig deeper for a certain project we probably know that if this can be trusted or just another fool. But sometimes it is hard to think that even a successful project and have good team members never survive from the market competition. I may say that transparency isn't an assurance that a certain project could grow, it sometimes may fall depending on the market condition.

As long as these developers are not prosecuted and jailed, even if they revealed their true identity and do a lot of webinars and conferences, we are not really safe, projects can still turn out to be a scam.
We have seen these on so many projects like Bitconnectcoin, in my experienced Konios, Bitmillex, Weidex, these are project s that does a lot of webinars but where they now.

I identify transparent project with how much coin sold for investor, looking which exchange listing and we know how much paying fee for listing each exchange market, if coin sold out we know depend how coin price on ICO then we look for listing which market. After count for paying with exchange owner have amount in their address ether balance how much the have, will they use his money for buy back coin after down or not.

I think you should find out about the address and where they live, search their photos by google. Investigate the people involved and draw conclusions. A lot of projects take advantage of the poor, pay them and put their images in fraud projects.

If I mentioned some projects you could not have known it was a scam, some even got listed on big exchnage like binance and now confess on the mode of hire by the team to crowdfund. Your research is limited if it is only on internet

Your thoughts are very common to most people here but unfortunately, the actual work is too difficult, so finding information and images is not as simple as you think, it takes a lot of time and tools, I don't think people's time allows them to do such complex tasks. Instead of trying without results, I prefer to wait for others to verify for me, if you pay close attention to the topics in the forum, you will see some people are always hunting for fraud projects, pay special attention to the team of a project, in return they can through that verification to receive merit

The world of cryptoqurrency is very anonymous and this anonymity is not only in forums, communities, transactions, projects, and even the faces of developers & teams. so, there is no really appropriate way to identify them, including identifying through video calls. it is not entirely a guarantee if they are valid. so follow your heart & it's important you make sure that they are the team responsible for some of their previous experiences.

Yes we can guage them by their previous projects and other factors like qualifications and other details like their real life portfolio by doing more research as we cannot just go by what they mention in their ICO page and yes if they want to gain more investment and if they are genuine then they have to come out of the anonymity and reveal themselves.

Some fake team members might use a powerful strategy which will make it very difficult for  investors to find out they are fake. For instance, if they do real-time videos, keep social channels very active, etc just hiding behind the mask, it won't be easy to know they are not real. A fake team for me implies the team is not ready to put in funds gotten from token sale in project development, and not how active they are. I think it's high time we got this straight, if we go by how great the white paper is for instance, it won't be easy to detect a fake team.

In addition, there must also be permission from every project that wants to do ICO or IEO and other funding methods so that they cannot cheat with various concepts which are only rubbish to fool many people. and what is clear is that this surveillance starts from everyone to be able to escort him

From personal experience I can say the following since a large number of projects passed through me. And you can almost immediately determine which project is transparent or not. Yes, you can quite rightly determine the photographs as the entire project team is fake. And also by many other factors you can determine. But recently, scammers have begun to deceive so much that they almost fall into their trap. And only then you realize that this project is not real.

what you say is true, there is no sure way to identify a transparent project team and some other factors may only exist in us in determining projects that are worth following and not spending all of our money on a project. I see the project through the background of the team's experience and not just the appearance of the project whitepapper.

We can easy to know with fake team to identify scam project before investing, they always give us social media account for every team and owner, we can check with their media account from facebook, twitetr and isntagram account, we know how trusted them with history of their social media account, have create in long term or just new account create by team and ICO owner, never join with ICO where team use new social media account.

For this case it is rather easy to detect if they are using a photo of a famous person, we just need to check it with a tool to check the authenticity of the photo and if the photo is fake it will appear several photos similar to that but with different identities.

This is indeed the most difficult and most investors are fooled by this trick, but if you examine it carefully then other alternatives you can learn what they really do. If they provide the new innovations and clear solutions, then our doubts can be reduced because of this. Another way you can also verify their office address, if you live outside the country, you can search and check it through google street view.

That is the evolution of scammers, meaning they will create a unique way to make sure that they will not be identified easily that they are scammers.

But frankly speaking in these days, it's very difficult to check 100% that this certain project is a genuine one even if they are using their own names and pictures there is guarantee that they will not run our investment money once it will reach to their hands.

One of the easiest way I can think of is holding a q and a or webinar where people can ask questions and details about their platform, so we'll know if these people are real experts and they really know what they are talking and they have the capability to launch their project and sustain it in a long term.
But these is not a guaranty that they are not going to scam people, they can get their project in the exchange but they can delay their roadmap with their weak alibi of market is not good.

Scammers will get attracted to anything and so was the case with ETH platform as majority of the projects started to make money in a short period of time and they hired people from here to promote the projects and get more audience.

The biggest problem was that the users here were helping the scammers in the form of community managers and bounty managers and the lies on how much money they raised were exposed later and got tagged but these stupids helping these scammers for pennies was just ridiculous.

I seriously doubt that anyone needs the photo of a homeless person, people can easily source pictures from social media, old articles and generally everywhere.... I think this rumor is far from the truth!

Projects with legit identity cannot be trusted as good project but the sad reality is we don't have better choice than this method to find scammers but everything here is risk so we are going to take or just invest on the old projects?

you can detect when a team is transparent because their real faces are displayed on their website and also their names. You may even be able to find their Facebook profiles or their Twitter profile.

I am using ICObench site, there team of different projects passing KYC, so when team are honest they are passing Kyc and have high rating

ICO ratings suck,they will give high rating if they pay them high amount so this is just investing small to make more,You have to DYOR in crypto investments.

The anonymity does not go for ICOs, every investor has the right to know the team behind the project and If they are not willing to provide information about themselves then they are not fit to be funded. Its disheartening that those with known identity still scam let alone those not opening up. Some top members of this forum are known so this community is not actually anonymous.

Indeed. It is their duty and responsibility to be trusted by people who are interested to invest their project. They need to build trust and transparency so we should know them well not only on their linkedIn but also they need to have AMA, or any live session regarding what they are doing and vision about the project and as much as possible they should attend blockchain events too.

Identifying the real identity of the team project is the first step to gain the trust of their investors. Without giving any information they just make it clear that they are not sincere in developing the project and they will only show the community that they cant be trusted.
A transparent project gives any legal information and updates regarding the whole project to its community, its their responsibility and priority.

There is no way to know if a project is a scam or not. No scam project will even notify you anywhere in their spread sheet or white paper that they are not legit. The best thing is to read well about the project and if they are convincing enough, you can join. If not, you need to trust tour gut and take any decision you consider needful

This is my own definition of transparent project team
1. They always put investors first
2. They always listen to investors opinions
3. They aren't shady, even if there is fund issue
4. Head office address are legit and they allow visitors, just to show they are real
5. No fake advisors or fake pictures or stolen IDs

Firstly, no transparent project will start with a landing website with non professional ui design. Secondly,  you check the team profiles on LinkedIn if it's corresponding with what is writing on their website. Thirdly,  the social media handles when it's opening or newly openly. The whitepaper is very important and the Roadmap how it's structured. A transperate project should have these vital features and more importantly, the advisors you need to check the handles of their social media.

I think a transparent project comes from the transparent team! There are partners and support from transparent, headquartered and verified organizations! In addition, live Q&A events should be created during project development.

I suggest doing sharp research on the project that you will invest in.
Scammers will always have a way to commit fraud. The important thing is, we must always be careful before investing in new projects.

good points to apply in analyzing the project, I agree to the project team that listens to complaints from investors, because basically the investor and the project team are a collaboration for the progress of a project, then discussion to solve problems together is highly recommended.

Before we discuss how to intensify that a project or scam there are things to remember, that these scammers are people who have long been in the crypto world and there are also scammers who are part of the team of a project that has succeeded, meaning the scammers These are the average people who already know the ins and outs of how to organize ICO, IEO and the like. To find out how a project is a scam or not, in my opinion we first look at the website and their activeness on social media such as Twitter, Linkedin, if the project is indeed real they usually always update about the event or activity of their project.
Do not be easily fooled from photos, this is indeed very often the case where a photo roap is affixed pasted into their whitepaper and entered in the ranks of the team, the original phot and patch for today is very easy to see.
it might at least help to identify whether a project is a scam or not.

Last three points are the actual play mark. There should not be anything shady or fishy about the project if it is real.  All the addresses and contacts must be valid ones. Though faking oneself is no more a hard task, still the project should be clean from such doubts. Faking IDs etc is easy for social engineers. Every project shows as if the investor holds importance equal to god. Obviously, customers are the key to success.

this is indeed bad, but this is the online world and online businesses that do not provide the opportunity to meet or even do socialization for just one time. we also have the opportunity to cheat with fake photos and I don't think they have a problem with it. it's just that KYC can't fool them, but is it fair if we do KYC but the team doesn't? I think the team is also obliged to do it to find out the real identity of the team members who run the project so that everything becomes more transparent, and we know who the project developer really is and what their background is.

if everything is already running and we get scam, we also can not sue anyone. from the start, it was also difficult for us to say whether this team was really serious in developing the project or just a scam. therefore I strongly agree if the development team also does kyc and is shown to investors and bounty hunters.

the work gives with release of update as uses with decision on developer work on customs with the administrative system as expecting with least on waste as requesting on exchange to collects with spares of funds on collection as extending terms of entrance to work on customs as the repetitiveness of casuals with the daily entry into field of business.

For me personally it might be difficult to identify a team project that is transparent and even impossible. Especially when scammers use photos of other people or photos of people who do not have a place to live, a homeless man who is paid to be photographed and used for things that are not good, although it can help a homeless person, but this method is not the right way and can hurt many people, both those who participated in the project and also the people who were photographed.

The legit project should care about the development of the project first, everything else comes later. The opinion of the crypto community can affect badly to the decision of the team and the contradictions will happen often. The real people behind the project always organizes meetups, conferences but only fake team avoids if there is a need to do such a thing.

Yes, as there are some core team who would like to be anonymous too, but for as long as I can see that there is really an existing project that there is development ongoing, and I can see it not just screenshot then I will still the project. But, of course seeing the identity of the core team is a plus, as you might have the chance to know them well and to do research about them about their credibility and expertise.

New projects always make offers that are very tempting and sometimes even make no sense, but I agree with you before investing in new projects to conduct good research and analysis. even though we have reviewed it sometimes we are still deceived by lies projects. especially not with study and caution.

Projects need to have a clear definition of transparency for investors to trust and follow. Please make the project more interesting and do not publicize directly with people offline.

I have think about this and i can't find an answer, how will you know that a team cares about investors without trying them out first? promises comes first from every project's team and you will have to give it a try to know the end game

learning from mistakes is strongly advised to stay alert to fraud projects. by always reviewing every project that is followed, over time we will understand the signs of a scam project. for beginners who are lazy to learn to analyze, get ready to lose capital

Nobody can determine, it's like buying a cat in a sack you might be able to do it but in reality it won't be the same.
Experience is also needed in predicting a project even though nothing is true right accurate.
At least knowledge increases by conducting research

To identify the transparency of a team, I think you can see it by going on their telegram group and asking some questions. They should entertain any type of questions even stupid ones. And I think that they should be the one that is engaging to people on their group.

It seems not enough to identify a project via telegram alone. because the nature of the scammer is very cunning, he even pretends to be someone very shrewd. One way to avoid fake project teams, first I look at the biography, find out about its whereabouts, and do research carefully. the latter, often asking or discussing fellow struggles in the crypto world.

and don't forget to look at some traces of their previous careers, if only looking at the activeness part might be in my opinion not enough to be sure and don't forget the portion of their portfolio because the thing that I think is most important to be able to determine the purity of the team

The only way how to verify if the team is legit is by checking their profiles on Linkedin. Their profile should be verified, with long and rich history. But we have seen many times that even the team looked trustworthy exchanged their credibility for quick and easy money.

What stated above is exactly what it is. although all projects should be transparent because first of all, they all want to be successful also for the investors and supporter which is the bounty hunters. So for them to be trusted they should be transparent at all matter especially to the information that investors needed. There are projects that are fraud and making some information not legit and that is the worst case they can do or even worst they are taking all of the money that investors gave them. Every team should be transparent at their investors so if they are going to open another project the investors they got will still support them.

Yeah, of course, you also need research in order to see if the project is real. That's why you may ask these people a lot of questions on their transparency on their work. Remember, you're the only person that can bring yourself up or bring yourself down. That's the first thing you need to know. Another thing in avoiding fake projects, it's a good way in looking at the team itself, there are a lot of scammers that are using the same pictures as some scammed projects used.

I typically ask some questions in their telegram channel. If their answer is convincing, then only I will think further about it. Especially, questions about team members could be highly beneficial.

Just finding a project with "transparent project team" does not guarantee you that the project won't scam. I have seen projects were the teams were completely public but then they ended up scamming people (not directly but in an indirect way where people couldn't blame or point out the team but they were at fault). Even teams like those can fail to deliver (probably on purpose) and waste all investors money.

Honestly, why will scammers go to the trouble of displaying teir real identity on the internet when they already made up their mind scam people?thinking about it now makes me somewhat believe that most displayed pics on teams website are not theirs, best way is to verify those pics to get the metadata details.

I think this information is provided just as an example).You have never seen photos in the ICO of truly homeless people.And that's a fact.So you need to look at the team from a different angle.Watch their activity, number of friends, date of registration.This is the minimum number of steps required to determine the veracity of the command.

The answer to this is very simple. You read comments and opinions of those who did deal with them and know something. If there's nobody like that you have to investigate yourself.
For starters you can check if their photos and credentials are real. If they're lying about their previous projects and experience or don't want to give their real names it means they're not trustworthy.

It is really tricky and difficult to determine the legitimacy of the project on pictures alone. I wonder if the project team could present a video of themselves like it's a normal day on the office or some information/promotional video. If they could explain the project extensively. Or, make live video updates on social media platforms. Though, these are not enough proof, at least it is a start.

Usually a legit project will just do that. in the past there are plenty of developers making an interview of themselves or with their team therefore people could know whether this person is a real thing or not. But, doing that did not mean that we can trust the developer blindly because even there are some developers that despite known by the public and his face is already published still scam people because they are probably criminal. so, always be careful and look after any possiblity regarding a project.

It is so easy today to introduce yourself if that is the intention. It can be as boring as KYC or project team puts some effort in it.
If in EVE Online fleets of thousands of pilots communicate same way we do, only they are more efficient.  :P Which dev had ever made a funny video from home LAN party when some smoked guys are playing with blockchain?
Not many I think.  ::)

Well, even the photo CEO of Exchanges can also be made as an advisor that makes people trust the projects they develop. indeed it is very difficult to ascertain whether they use real people or only photos. because not all scammers easily fool people. sometimes their ways are so subtle at the start of a project that no one is suspicious of the identity or transparency of a team.

See the team of Liber T token on www.liberttoken.com you will see all are genuine. Social media profile should speak for themselves.

Well, I don't just trust the team because they have so much award and recommendation in linkedIn, I don't just look for what was their educational background, I want to know their real expertise in that kind of project, I want to know their real identity and how much they are dedicated and devoted with the project they will launch. Making AMA will always be a great thing for me so I will know their real purpose.

Yes but do not forget that there are projects in which the concept is aimed at anonymity.Therefore, providing their services, the team really wants to remain unnoticed.(in any case, I do not justify them, I just want to emphasize that there are such projects and they have every right to be anonymous)

Of course, it is difficult to detect whether the project is real or scam only from one side, the best thing is to ask for advice from seniors and experts in this forum, if most say scam then I will avoid it.

It is difficult to distinguish good projects from scams today because scam projects sometimes prepare everything well. But if the developer team continues to communicate the project to its community and also has a partnership with a reputable company, I think the project should be considered a worthy investment.

Yes, now it is very difficult to distinguish good projects dan scam.
I have my own opinion how to know the project is good or scam. first we see the concept and the product, whether it makes sense and can be used in real or not. many project teams actively share information every day but that they are not really develop their products correctly. don't just focus on the "project team background", look at the whole and we also need to be smart. the project might look legit but in the end no one knows.
a transparent project team is might be a team that dares to show themselves in public, without having to hide behind skype video calls (fellow project team) or behind a green screen.
they force us to show our personal data (KYC) when we want to invest, on the contrary they should also be brave to show their identities in public so that there is an equal responsibility. fair enough, i think.

With all sincerity, it is very difficult to identify those using fake identity because no matter the solution we provide, they will always be ahead because before you provide the solution they are already aware of the system of the solution. Though some experts are doing their best to fish them out but the rate of the success is very low.

I usually prefer a project that hosts AMA live broadcasts for questions and answers to all its communities, so that it's easier for the team to look truly genuine, not cheats, so the problem here is why many projects often hold AMA but their prices also go down and many people say scammers , because we are in the bear market, so it's not just a matter of fraud sometimes we don't really know which is the original project and which is the scammer's project

For every teateam members provided by a project its important that investors take out time to verify if they are real or fake before investing in that project.  And how can an investors verify the authenticity of a team members presented by the project. First and foremost is to verify them on LinkedIn,  check if their profile are real or fake.you can also make use of google image to check their pictures on Google so as to see of it tallies with the name of the team members on the project website

Finding transparent ico is difficult now, because as you said it uses a different identity and what's worse is that they hire homeless people to be their front and captor all the blame of the member of scam campaign.
So investing today in an ICO is like a gamble that sometimes you win and lose.

It is very difficult to see any project that will give all those things that is listed there because many of them all claim that they are working under the decentralization program which requires the full protection of identity if any cryptocurrency user be it developer or end user, but I think that they have also taking advantage of this too much by scamming so much people under this disguise and enough is really enough.

If we can stand on our feet as an investor that before any project can get our own penny, they should be able to go by that three rules even if they have to forget the issue of decentralization and operate in a centralized way for us to really be able to fully identify them and confirm them to be a genuine project or not.

Some team might be transparent but lack ideas of what they even claim they want their project to do. I am currently on two of such projects at the moment. Their project contents are now completely different from what they currently offer as a result of changing of their entire tech team. We that supported the projects are now counting our loses instead of profits.

I agree with this!. As you can see there are list of team member, developers and core members in their whitepaper as well as in their website, you may view their linkedin account but it is not yet okay to rely on that, they need to conduct AMA for us to identify them that they are saying the truth and all the credentials and pictures posted in their site is right , in that case we may know that they are transparent.

Almost ICO never transparent with their team and owner always use fake data for publishing to their investor, we got many ICO use other information to make investor interested with their ICO or IEO project. Some ICO never give transparent coin sold detail to public whit how much their coin sold and how much money collected from ICO investment.

Scammers will do anything to scam people, as if to be a legit team with has a promising project, but they plagiarize the project with a little changes of it. It's hard to identify a transparent project team and am not good with it even they are showing their faces, it's hard to tell if they are real. Scammers really want to make money easily.

yes, scammers always have many ways to fool every victim, on the one hand the crypto room is free and no one set it up so the opportunities for scamers to cheat are always wide open. it's important for all of us to be vigilant in everything, because scamers are everywhere. never be careless or invest money in the wrong place.

I don't think it's wisdom. because they think they have done good by utilizing and helping homeless people, but on the other hand they are scammers that have harmed many people and run off other people's money.
and in my opinion there is no effective way to identify every photo contained on the landing page. because we don't understand whose picture is put there. if I identify the project by seeing who the manager and the team are if I see he is an experienced team and manager then I will join. but this also cannot guarantee the successful project experienced team sometimes fails to develop the project.

I think to see authenticity on the part of the team is to see videos, photos, and original form when there are project events. for example they do promotions in a country, as much as possible you can see them there. but this is still basic and to do more research you need to find out the background of the team

a project that is done really seriously will certainly be a lot of events held. and they can easily interact with potential investors. indeed the achievements of the team on the previous project became a reference for determining steps. because the team already has credibility, then he will work on potential projects as well

for scam project yes, most CFOs or advisors display their identities, some of them I think are trapped by scammers, but of course they still get paid a certain amount.after selling them successfully I think the scammer will benefit from what he spent on "hiring "cfo / advisor, the rest mostly cfo / advisor will play as oppressed people and try to avoid and don't want to be blamed because the project they handle is a scam. and to identify it, I prefer the classic way of choosing the right project" have the original team without a single person fake there and also active in following blockchain events and certain events.

There is no proven way of how to identify team members. You can check their social media but this is it basically. Furthermore, there is always a possibility that even real people can scam you, which happens more and more often.

As many already wrote there is no standard protocol to identify a scam project team. There are now AI based face generation apps that create unique faces and are difficult to trace. May God be with us while we trust on ICO team and invest in it.

From my point of view, there are several criteria that help to identify advanced and attractive solution. All starts with the idea, but from my point of view, it is also very important to have a look at the roadmap, the team, the plans for the future and, of course, evaluate practical value users can get

Evening mate. For sure such approach makes sense. However you know, I also pay attention to innovations and modern approach. And from my point of view, there are not so many platforms that are in the same time innovative, valuable and transparent. Are there many from the ones you follow?

Not many. I follow only 2 or 3 platforms and the most attractive one for me these days is Housinet. Solution is pretty promising and in demand these days, having rather high and objective ratings.

Housinet? Hmm, sounds familiar, might have heard of it somewhere, but cannot remember for sure. What exactly is solution staying for?

Basically the team is setting new standards on property management industry. The main competitor advantages are usage of cryptocurrency as a mean of payment, automating of end-to-end rental process, blockchain to provide much more data. But of course, these are just few points, better Google what the platform is offering, cause there are more know-how