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Pls what are the best way to detect fake ico and fake project... We can't continue working to promote them and later discovered that it is bounch of fake... We really need tools to detect fake ico

There are bunch of articles are already written . Go through with them.
Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively. ✔ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0)
[Guide] Prevent scam!!! Some useful tools for find scam / fake ICO team 🌍
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4586576.0)

Also make habit to visit the Scam Accusation  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) Board.

There is no tools are available in find out the fake ICO but all the projects are provide the whitepaper so we can read carefully in whitepaper then only we can choose the good project. This is also enough because if your project is not reach softcap they don't list the market. So automatically bad reputation is comes in this project your total effort is waste. The best way to eliminate the fake project is concentrate the reputed manager project.

When the project is unclear about the route, white paper or team, it is recommended not to participate. And when the project does not mobilize enough softcap, the project is not working and the bonus is not available to you.

read the whitepaper carefully and look after the team then hopefully you can avoid scams

Tools are unlikely to be able to help, but a competent analysis is useful to you to make investments in the correct ICO!

I rarely join the ICO projects at this time because almost ICO projects are not clear and improper target Even They can use fake traffic views or promoters on social media channels to cheat investors Therefore I often join some projects after listing on certain exchanges .

Personally, I constantly face scam projects. Although I always study all projects well. And already, to be honest, I'm tired of working for free and wasting my precious time. We need to do something about it, but I do not even know what to suggest.

I have visited him, a tool to find an original team and that is quite useful. In an ICO we really have to see a team that is truly real, if the fake team members are certainly a scam.

I think it's difficult but not impossible. If you want to detect a good or fate bounty or ICO then you should check their admin  level first check their telegram support . If their support and activity good enough then can join without any hesitation.

You cant get rid of them yet they would continue to exist as long this market do involves funding since scammers would be just lurking anywhere and making projects that's too good for you to be easily deceived but heres an example for you to have initial research before jumping in. Always check on the team if you find out similar cases like this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5024017.0
where fake profiles being used then you do know what to do.

Its not easy to detect fake ICO and Bounty's as there are no specific instruments or tools in place for such, so what one basically needs is an Advisor that has appropriate knowledge and is widely known in the market, so he can give advice's about fake icos and someone doesn't waste his or her time on such matters

The best way to detect a fake ICO and a fake project is a thorough analysis. That's how you can protect yourself from the scam. There are too many aspects that no "tool" can check.

This is very helpful. Ive always thought that there will never be at least some hints that you are on the wrong ICO. And the scams and accusations thread, Ive seen some projects that are scrutinized there too.

Now there are a lot of fake projects. I think that they will not be able to survive in the future. Such projects inflict damage to investors and this is very bad.

Please check the Author's or founder's credentials... Check their white paper and do adequate research to ascertain facts about the project.

There is really no tried and true way to accomplish this.  I would suggest researching the team and project.  Another thing to ask is this project needed?  Is the project scalable?  Some projects just have a bad idea.   I saw one where a couple of guys were selling drones in Rio.  That doesn't make sense in any way shape or form.   

I research them first and scrutinize all possible data that they have online. Follow them in social media if they have personal exposure about their projects. Most of the fake has no exposure on any crypto events. If you have doubt never invest or promote them.

It is a difficult challenge in detecting fake ico and bounty, internet is tool where image of other people can be used to steal from Innocent investors. I have seen scammers using identity of renowned people to steal.

This is unfortunately not so simple. In order to be sure that the project is fraudulent - you need to carefully study the white paper and MVP. Sometimes it is extremely difficult to distinguish fraudsters even after a thorough study of the project

Yes there are so many fake ico and  bounty out anywhere. There technique is to have an ico and a bounty campaign in order for them to venerate and accumulate funds in their own good and ran away with the money.

There are many ways to detect ICO and scam bounty. If those projects are scamed, then professional reviewers will warn us. Also you can choose your own safety campaign by looking at the manager and reading the information about the project

I'm still looking too, what else is working, finally fake ,, the possibility of lack of learning and understanding, what's more, it's still hard to tell which one is not a real scam ..

Actually it is quite difficult to know whether some ICO projects are scam because most the  projects right now are 80% are fake or not real. But with the helps of some community sites group they could be able to distinguish scam projects or projects without solid platforms. That's why it could helps investors and bounty participants to determine if their campaign will getting successful or not.

in fact, choosing a worthy prospective project is not so easy. The project seems cool, but then he does not raise funds. or there are cases that do not pay for the bounty company

I have not heard about tools and kits that can be used to detect fake ICOs and fake bounty but it does help if we narrow ourselves to participating in bounty campaigns of reputed managers and cultivate the habit of researching every ICO we are intending to invest by reading the whitepaper and digging out some information about the team

There aren't any other ways except investigating whether the ICO is fake or not.
Users can check the whitepapers or the answer of feedback. Usually, scams are not interested in users.
Here is Ruby-X Bounty Manager who want to cooperate wit users. I'm trying to give answers to users as soon as possible. :)
I love all users and participants of Bounty Campaigns  ;D

I think you must try like @r1s2g3 suggest this will very help you to make decision are they ico fake or not. But if with that tool still can make sure usually i will make to join with some project with my feeling.maybe it's like jokes but i did it maybe depend on my experience and then my feeling decide to join or not

 pay attention to whether the projects have a ready-made product as it is some kind of guarantee that it is not a scam as well as long termed activity before ICO.

There is no tools to detect fake ico and fake project !
you must do your own research , the team, roadmap , website, whitepaper, etc.
Be smart to choose ico there is too much scam project outthere.

 You are looking for some good tools the distinguish which ICOs are fake and which bounty program are scam, as of know I think there is no perfect tools that we can use to determine which project are good or not.

Most current bounties and ICOs are now fake and I happen to all victim of these fake bounties. So sad to follow a project for more than a year and you realising it's a scam.

I think it's difficult but not impossible to detect fake ICO and Bounties. At first I would suggest to you researching the team and project. Then you need to carefully study the white paper and MVP. After that you can check their telegram support and admin. And I will say you that the best way to eliminate the fake project is concentrate the reputed manager project. Then you can get a good ICO and bounty.

why must angry when we don't get a certificate from ico or bounty fake. just assume this is still a process and we have not received a prize from this project which is due to failure or something else. just thinking positive is better.

You need to understand what you are promoting there is no tools to find out you need to make knowledge about how to find the fake ICO projects.The simple tip to find the fake projects you need to research about the team members if they used fake profiles and pictures from internet then you can fins the as fake team also you need to keep visiting the scam accusation and reputation board too often to find out the scammers.

I am always looking at how many real-users participate in ANN and does a project has a working product or at least an MVP. 
Don't participate in ICO where you see only beautiful phrases and promises. Before any investment (money or your time) you must see the real realization (prototype) and never believe in promises (on the roadmap) that prototype will be developed after ICO.

In about 40% of cases, it is possible to filter out the fraudulent ICO simply by looking at their website. If it was done by a five-year-old child, the intention of the team to collect money immediately becomes apparent, and not work on the project.

Unfortunately, there are currently no tools to detect the authenticity of the ICO project. More often, we can only rely on our own experience to judge whether a project is authentic.

Its difficult to find, but ICO ratings or ICO bench has good news on some ICO's so possibly it may help u to find if they are good or bad to join, and regarding bounty, its tricky coz recently many good ICO's due to bad market werent able to generate the amount they actually set for their Hard cap or soft cap, and thus stalled and planning to re launch themselves. Amazix provides some good bounty and so does some other reputed managers whose bounties are good to participate.

There are no tools to help you detect false ICOs. Identifying ICO projects can only rely on your knowledge, which requires your daily knowledge accumulation to achieve!

You do not need a tools to detect a scam ICO's,the best way you should do is to check there website,roadmap and the team behind if it is legit or you can visit the scam accusation that thread is very helpful to us because a lot of scam ICO's is listed on that thread.

The first thing to consider is reading the concept of their project, if its in demand by the community, and then research on the profile of the team members, some of them are fabricated, whitepaper may help you decide if their project will work well in the future or not.

Besides these links above you can see all the proved scam ico in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4981560.
And try to make all the bounty participants of the scam ico listed be aware and to stay away from participating those ICO's bounty program.

Though the thread doesn't have any tool for detecting scams but it will help investors and bounty hunters to not waste their time in participating these projects.

The best and the most effective way is to research the team properly. This is the only way to effectively detect this very well. A great team wouldnt want to run a scam ico and spoil their name.

This is the major problem hunters have now. How to detect a scam ICO and a real one have not been easy at all. But you try these things though. By: Trying to figure out the sense in the whitepaper of the team.
Check if the website is well designed.
Check on the team and see how active they are.
verify the team tokens on etherscan, some of the team are glad to prove this evidence.

There is no necessary tool that can help whether a certain campaign or ICO is not legit, maybe the best way to identify it is by means of researching because conquering on something that you haven't enough prior knowledge might end into regrets that is why try to research first before entering something so that if any problem occurs you can found a solution on it.

So far I didn't see any tools that can detect fake ICO's, but there's a lot of method how to figure it out if which one is a legit project's, like reading their white paper and analyse their project, check the background of their team members, check their community if it is huge or small, and the last one is if they're always updating their projects on their social media groups.

there are a lot of fake ico-s sadly, but with proper research i tihnk you can avoid them

If I detect ico or fake bounties seen from unresponsive teams and manipulated sales tokens. Their telegram also uses bots. I have not found an ICO application and fake bounty.

Nothing can detect them. Because they are professional scammers. You should carefully choose the projects on the ICO review pages to know more about them

read te whitepaper carefully and check the team

there is no, there is no tool or opinion to determine it is a fake project or not unless there is someone who makes a group to check whether this project can be categorized as a scam or not, especially now the gift is very disappointing need to take 6 to 4 months for the campaign and the payment is not as expected

Unfortunately, SCAM now dominates the ICO. When people started to criticize Crypto, scamers saw huge benefits, so they poured into ico and brought ico to the brink of collapse.

It is considered a scam action when creating ICO campaigns to fool the investors. I lost faith in the ICO when the current scam ICO is huge. Investors should be careful when investing in the ICO as it is risky at this time. At present, it is best to exchange the ETH then hold the ETH.

Any ICO giving 100% bonus for the investors shouldn't be critically assess. The other things to notice is third party collaborating and if such ICO has reputable cryptocurrency influencer on their  board or as bounty manager!

The proliferation of fake ICOs and bounties is sending a wrong signal to crypto world this could discourage people from investing in new ICOs its gonna be a spell doom to bounty hunters bearing in mind that there many bounties hunters taking up the few genuine ones, fakes ICOs are making bounty hunting less attractive how could imagine working for close to 3 months and at the end not being paid its very discouraging.

I think your tool is a deep study of the project and all news and crypto currency in general. since no factor guarantees 100% that the project is not a Scam

I think you must search projects in ICO rating sites like ICObench. Read whitepaper of projects and the team of projects must KYC done. There are many factors, but I think it is enough to remove a lot of fake and scam projects.

if you are a bounty hunter, of course you will promote the ICO that is running, and of course to avoid some fraud from ICO, I think you are following the well-known bounty manager in this forum

I pay attention to the idea of the project, the working product, the trustworthy team and wheather the project is developed bu the team or not, are the team members are active or not, how many members are in their community, for example.

You should do some background check to their team and if you see something suspicious ,
Then don't join them they are provably just a scam you should really be careful in choosing where to invest.

There are no tools available to find out fake ICOs, but all projects provide whitepapers so that we can read them carefully, and the best way to get rid of fake projects is to concentrate on famous manager projects.

It is very difficult to define such projects and there are no tools for these purposes. It is required to learn it on your own and after some time experience will appear. Before investing I recommend to study white paper, team members, their achievements.

For me, it is somehow difficult to tell if a particular ico is a scam or not. But I think checking through their Whitepaper, telegram group and gathering more fact about them might help.

Jusst see the team i  think it can explain all

There is a lot to be done to detect fake ICO. Sometimes, some of them can be so deceptive and hard to detect. So, what i do is to continue to carry out research on it, while still engaging in the bounty, but for ICO investment, it is best to wait and finish your research and be sure, before investing into it. There was a particular project i detected was scam barely two weeks after joining the bounty. My focus most times is on the eam, because a good team with good integrity will give you a good project. If you are sure the team, then other areas will require less stress.

This has been said on the forum for a very long time. However, no effective tools have been invented yet.

there no tools to find out fake ICO but all the projects are provide the white paper you can read carefully in white paper then only we can choose the good project. its enough to find a good project.

Unfortunately, there are no such tools that would 100% secure us against fake ICO. I do not know about such.

There are a lot of articles out there about this and actually there are no tools to detect fake ICO except your knowledge. The best you need to learn, draw lessons from mistakes to avoid investing, pick the wrong scam ICO.

What I mostly do is to check the profile of the bounty manager. I also look into the ICO radars. I mostly check them on coinschedule to know their trust scores which range fro A to E. If a project's trust score is below C, I am not engaging in their campaign.

They are a lot of fake ICO out there. You have to take necessary precaution to ensure you don't fall a victim.  Checking up articles on how to know fake ICO will help a lot.

There seems to be no tool to detect ICO scams, for now we can only assess an ICO from their history, their projects, products, and whitepapers. I always see ICOs from trusted websites, you can see info like Icomarks, icobench, icoholder, and bitcoin news. But what you need to pay attention to is the detail of a team that runs the project, because it is very important to estimate the value of an ICO.

The most terrible situation in crypto-currencies is when you are an investor and bounty hunters of one project in which you invested and it eventually turns out to be a scam project, it's very hard and very sorry for everything that we lose

You need to know for yourself, people nowadays is more genius than the legit ICOs. Try to analyze their whitepaper then if you find out that the concept is too good to be true stay away from them specially if they are not attending any conferences. You can check 1 by 1 about the team information in linkedin some they are using other people to fake their profile.

Many ICO and fake bounty are being created and camouflaged perfectly. So it is very difficult for us to detect them. Only experienced experts do it. So it is best to join the Bounty and ICO of the famous BMs here and have been successful with previous projects.

Well there are lots of bounty that are scam so we have to be careful

Sadly there are many scams everywhere in crypto market. To prevent joining and investing to fake ico and market, I think you should have a background check before joining them. Also look at the reviews and the ratings cause it give us hint about the ico and the project. To be safe enough just join some projects from successful ones.

Fake ico has only been detected after the ICO is finished, this is caused by several factors:
1. Because the sales target in the ICO was not achieved
2. bad management
3. lack of promotion
4. and failed to make smart contract or secure tokens.
this happens a lot when an ICO fails.

now it is really extremely difficult to do this. Only assessments of experts can give at least a small idea of the project without reading a pile of white papers and so on. I hope in the future in this industry will have more opportunities

I do not know how we can recognize fake ico and bounty. It is too difficult . You must carefully check the project information and collate them with the ICO review pages

I agree I'm a starving bounty hunter due to all the scams and not getting paid out on any of my work.  I hope things change real quick or I'm going to have to get a real job soon.  Sucks to lose a way of earning outside of the system. 

I think one of the main markers on the definition of fake ICO is the study of the team, as a rule if the team is real and passed KYC the chances of being deceived are reduced!

There is no universal way, you can use independent project ratings

At present there are many fake bounty and ico programs, so we have to be more careful and also have to be smarter in choosing projects.
A lot of consideration is needed to determine it, and also a very influential experience.

There are no tools to detect fake ico or bounty scam. So choose the project carefully. Be involved in projects of reputable bounty managers, limit your participation in projects with bitcointalk account rank newbie. You should also look at the website, roadmap and ico rating pages to see reviews on the project to ensure potential projects to participate.

Best way is to verify team members on linkedin or look in Google if it is real. Some people use fake team members only to collect ICO money and vanish when ICO is over.

And in addition you find a board called Scam Accusation here in Bitcointalk where some of the Scams are listed and called out. This can be helpful to check: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

So far, I don't know more clearly how to get to know a fake ICO project or I don't know clearly to distinguish between an original ICO and a fake ICO, let alone about detecting a device.
all this time I only saw the roadmap and the managing team.

There is no tools to detect fake ICO.... We just need to be careful you need to go through their whitepaper read them careful in other to know what the project is all about.... Sometimes not all ICO are fake some of them don't reach softcap so they have to return investors money and bounty hunters will end up with nothing.... The main thing is to make little research before joining any ICO.

In my opinion, because on the basis of caution, this post was made as a basis for knowing it. Because in my opinion, whether true or not, this thread was created because he knew that many experienced to know the original and fake ICOs.

I find it painful when I take part in a fake bounty, because I wonder how on earth can you create a bounty for a fake project when you know the task are done every day hoping to receive their rewards once it end. And the worst thing dey normally did is find those strictly rules for the bounty, about the ico I think one has to be more careful cause you barely noticed that they were fakes.

In my own understanding, I think through reading of the whitepaper  together with the team behind the project will tell you if it's fake or not. Whitepaper is meant to have a clear explanation of the project anything otherwise is likely to be fake.

if you don't have a technical background, you might be able to detect where the terminology is used incorrectly, or where the expression seems unclear. You can even copy and paste some of their phrases and Google to see if they have been removed from white materials or other project promotional materials.

I think blockchain networks should do something to stop all these scamers, some projects has emerged to do this role like ICOVO , W12,or MUBO.
DAICO is the solution as Vitalic stated

The best way to avoid this and detect fake projects is that before you join any of them you look around the forum and look for information about that ico, and if you find anything suspicious you do not join them, if you want to be even more sure about it you could create your own investigation and see if the data given by the developers is correct and again if you find anything that is suspicious do not join that bounty and even better share that information with everyone in the forum.

There are no general methods for now only that each hunter should do a thorough research on a project he wishes to promote. I think the admins of btt are also trying their best

You should read more about the project white paper and team profile try to these as a habit before joining campaign it can save you a lot than wasting time for nothing.

 Try to interact with the team on TG and ask some question that you can ask on what the project they are doing and if some answer are off try too more deeper question if they are really not reliable answer then you better go out

There are several threads in the community that point to fake ICOs and bounties that come out every day, if you analyze them you can grab several clues that researchers use to detect whether an ICO is legitimate or not, personally the most important thing is the team, many ICO scam clearly and for obvious reasons do not want to show their real members and that should be a big red flag for any investor.

I do not think there's a guide to detect fake projects with a 100% accuracy.
There are also legit projects also out there that failed but were also labeled as fake.  

there is no universal recipe and no one will tell you. even in a very beautiful wrapping can be garbage.

Fake ICO are harmful for investment. there no tools to find out fake ICO but all the projects are provide the white paper so we can read carefully in white paper then only we can choose the good project.

I think you should definitely read whitepaper first. And there you have to understand how realistic the project is. After, I suggest you investigate the team members of the project. Especially reading the comments about the members gives you information about the members.

My personal experience is that you should follow scam alert topics on the forum, learn how to evaluate the project via Whitepaper, ideas, profiles of project members ... with it.

If the project has anonymous team it is a pure scam that's the major thing I always for. An active team will make project become successful

it's just a small parameter. if I see the flexibility of the active team in the media communicative teams determine the success of a project. the more active they are the better for us to support.

There is no if you don't look for it, every ICO that is launched in this forum there will be several members who do research on the ICO. Usually they will make a thread if you really correct the ICO is a scam in Reputation, I suggest you to be active in the sub-forum. And other sites you can visit this https://www.bountypost.club hopefully it will help you.

Fake ICO is difficult to distinguish for there are some instances that fake ICO looks like the real one but actually not. That is why we should deal crypto place diligently. This is our duty.

there are so many fake ico and bounty campaigns coming today, we can never sure and know that these icos are fake. they all look like a real and working project to participate. We just be patient and vigilance that these campaigns are true.

There are so many bounty fake and ico so double careful for even more investors because it's not always easy to review the bounty and ico others because they think that they are legit so many people are bothering the wrong way so it's better to make sure that you just have to go ahead so that you can not make money.

Fake ICO and bounty are not easy to identify, because it will not be clearly stated in the White paper that it is a fake project. But there are many things which can be put in place to know if an ICO is actually a fake or not but this as to be very careful with.
* clearly read the white paper of the project
* the purpose for creating the token. Then note if the token will have its own blockchain or use other blockchain eg ethereum or bitcoin
* the team behind the project have to be consider. Their pics as to be clearly visible, name  and where they can be found should the project....

The very first sign that bounty scum is when you stop updating spreadsheets, then stop responding to messages. And already you start to think. And here there is a choice - either to hope for a positive outcome, or to choose a new company.

It's not just fake projects that waste our time, it is the ones that have no hope of succeeding. Some genuine projects will simply fold and collapse and all that time will be wasted. These days it is difficult to find a good one, do lots of research before choosing

this you can only guess with the help of experience

In my opinion, as a bounty hunter I use the term research and read. I always search whether they have a proper website with the whole information written legibly. Sometimes when looking to their website you see bunch of people who are their team members try searching those up in their Link in if whether they are real or not. Lastly try reading some articles written about them if there are maybe it's not fake, if there is none maybe it is fake.

we can read the whitepaper or the design of the project, whether it is the original result from their team or the results of imitating someone else's product, we can find many things to find out the ico is true or scam :-\

I believe it's troublesome however not feasible. On the off chance that you need to distinguish a decent or destiny abundance or ICO then you should check their administrator level first check their message bolster . On the off chance that their help and action adequate at that point can join with no faltering

People need to learn the difference between a scam project and a legitimate project that just failed to reach its goals, those two things are not the same even if people use them as synonymous, a scam project can give incredible profits to some people, this was the case of bitconnect, many people in the forum warned that it was a scam and many people lost money with it but there was a lot people that earn money with it as well, and there are projects that have good developers behind them and that make an effort to produce a product but they simply fail like many companies do in the real world.

I'm so bored with them. We leave our power to work, we dedicate our family to work at the time we try to make a promotion to win, but the project is disappearing. So I think that bounty teams should take a certain amount of eth, just in case.

The easiest thing that you can do, go to ico review sites such as icobench or other site.
There you can see icos reviewed by them.

I disagree with what those review usually give, it sometime look as if they are bribed to give good review in the case of monvid tokensale, monvid had good review and now it is scam project they have gone.

as I have heard recently, sometimes even ico reviews or even ico ratings can be deceive. some of them are just paying for a good rating and good reviews, but I am not saying that you should not believe in some of them, there are some of them who are making fake reviews.

I can't imagine myself investing into scam ICO almost every time and i feel the sane thing is applicable to virtually everyone. Which is why we need to learn how to analyze ICOs before investing. The first thing that should attract every investor, should be a uniquely well written  and not copied from another ICO. The content must be original. The project must also have its tokens or coins backed up with a good product and a working team.

That is the easiest thing you can do but it's also one of the laziest, you will be relying on people that you do not know about what coin you're going to choose as an investment, and that is a huge mistake because you do not know them, you do not know how prepared they are, and you do not know if they were paid to give a positive review, something that is very common in all kind of review sites, so it's better that you do your own research and come to your own conclusions.

Same topic posted a lot of times in different thread. I don't know accurately how to detect scam project or fake ico something like that. But  you can follow project background i mean how much strong development and which project real products or not. And how much good reviews and research with whitepaper.          

there is no alternative tools by help of this you can detect fake ico and bounty. you have to careful when you are going to choose any ico. try to get know about the ico properly then you will understand this ico fake or not.

Many people do not take the time to make a research about the project in which they want to invest in, they are desperate to try to invest in a project as soon as possible so they can get some kind of bonus when they do, but I have always wondered what it is the point of getting a bonus of a coin that is not worth anything, it is way better to just wait until you finalize your analysis about the coin and if that means losing some of the bonuses then that is something that you will have to live with.

Personally I believe that bounty managers should do their due diligence before launching the bounty for an ICO. If a project has no team, then they better have an amazing explanation for it, as this is one of the surest signs of an impending scam. Ideally, the bounty manager would read through the whitepaper and see how viable the project is before taking on the bounty, as nobody likes participating in failing projects.

expand your knowledge and analysis is the best tool to get to know a scam and not. It was not fully able to right but at least will know the signs on this scam or not. What's more, this is a thing that must be mastered in crypto because the scam is currently very much popping out and without stock will certainly be tough to be successful in this field.

One of the classic ways is when high members begin to sneak into SCAM projects, when this happens, it's advisable to search, because usually these members may even realize that these scammers have already been on other projects! Failure to meet deadlines also justifies doubts and beyond unviable promises.

Doing airdrops is a good way to build fake communities.. I think most bounties are real because they are a lot of work to manage.

I don't think so, because nowadays most of the bounty campaign and ICO are scam. Actually it is hard to know if the bounty is a scam in the beginning, mostly you will realize that is a scam is in the middle of the campaign.

All ICOs are fake until proven otherwise.  8) ;D

Scam ICO's are everywhere but I don't think there is a point to create a fake bounty. It's just a waste of energy unless their main goal is just to capture the details of the participants like email address, telegram and social media accounts.

Most of the bounty managers are not aware if the bounty they were working for will be successful. No actually know if the ICO will be a success. That is why not a lot of people preferred to invest on ICO and just settling for established coins or top tier coins.

Be careful, there are so many scam projects right now ... they seem to have a very good project. but after they get investors and are not responsible. they don't care about how people help him in his project

Maybe we can do more research on the project we want to invest to avoid fake project?

now it takes a lot of such projects, only for fraud and enriching themselves. those who will become victims are investors and bounty hunters who lose their money and time. now start choosing a project that already has a position because I see some projects that have run and then hold ico and bounty very little risk of fraud.

what kind of tools do you mean? in my opinion it is not a tool that is the problem, but myself. if we are careful in choosing ICO by analyzing it first before participating in it I think a fake ICO can be avoided.

yes you are correct. Now some of the ratings are giving for money. Therefore rating itself not giving good assurance regarding a ICO. Together with rating we have to look for other aspects of the project as well to identify good ICOs.

To detect fake ICO, it's best to check it out. Read their white papers, learn about the development team, check out the networking sites, etc.

So if we can't believe some ICO rating site again, it all depends on us. Or maybe if you afraid but want to buy some token from that, join it when it listed to market. At least you can safe from fake ICOs.

I could say that better to research more on the ICO before it participating and investing. Most important is the product endorse in cryptocurrency has legally exist in the industry already and extended in digital assets form.

there is no specific way to determine a fake ICO but I independently analyze with some important points:
1. ICO has a good and unique website appearance
2. Softcap has been achieved and 50% is best achieved from hardcap
3. Fast response on telegram

more selective in choosing ico can be used as a benchmark whether we are on fake ico and fake bounty or not. This is useful so that we are not trapped in an ico condition that does not reward us.

But it's not 100% working because they are also have some plan to do. Collecting funds during ICO is their target, they can scarifice their time for being active on telegram or other group for made it seem real and after ICO end they will be dissappear clearly. Nothing is certain as long as only searching it through internet.

There are now a lot of fraudulent ICOs to take advantage of our accounts, so be careful before investing in them, so consider and analyze them carefully.

That is what it should happen, but since there is no control about who becomes a bounty manager then it is very likely that we are going to keep seeing scam icos appearing all over the forum, so I understand why some bounty hunters have decided to only apply to campaigns that are managed by bounty managers that do their own due diligence before they take on a project, but even they are not perfect and may be scammed as well.

Something have to be done about scam ICOs ,its getting out of hand this days ,I'm suggesting some kind of verification? Like we are been asked for kyc to verify we are real and no multiple account ,why can't ICO projects go through such? We need FBI /Cop kinda thing in crypto world to lower misdirections for newbies ,if all newbies are fed up who is going to invest in any coin ?

Well, these days fake and scam ICOs are a major problem for bounty hunters. There is no point in promoting fake ICOs, you wouldn't get anything in the end, so it would be better if we try to spot them instead of promoting them for a few months.

You will have to do a thorough research about the project to know if it's actually fake or not before you can participate in it, otherwise you might just be wasting your time or investing your hard earned money in fake I ICO.

All ico project look very good whem they are release in the market. Its hard to detect whether its fake or legit project. Just take some time in researching and reading their whitepaper. And take a look to the team behind that project.

Analyze is key for all of that, we must  know by ourself which ico is good or not so we not stuck with it. If we can analyze which ico is good, i think it is no more problem we can choose good ico for us.

You can go to the relevant ICO evaluation website to check the reality of the project. The activity of the team members can be seen whether the project can be successful.

What is certain is that research must be done carefully, please note that fake ico can be seen with a team that is not real, the offer is too high.
There is no transparency with the telegram group or the information submitted.

This must be real team with history. Try to find them in social networks. If not I wouldn't give them my money. So before participating bounty also check info about bounty manager. Good bounty manager also helps to avoid scum but not at 100%.

There are some hint that it is a fake ICO like no team profile in their website.  The price of of ICO is high in and there is no github. Those are some examples but other scammers are con artist that they can provide github and everything and at the end they will leave the project and disappear. 

As far as i know that what we can do is checking on the indication on a project to be suspected as a scam. such as the team behind the project, the website of the project and many other things.

You have no guarantee that you will identify a fake. The greater the fraud - the better the masking takes place. At the moment, it is better to suspend investments in ICO in my opinion. Too much fraud and very weak projects.

is it good if we use a website that discusses ico as our reference, can we trust the web that discusses an ico, I usually join a bounty following the reference from the website that discusses ico

I hope this will help me too I'm new to crypto so I hope I can learn in this thread how to identify if the project is a scam

You can check their project team, many projects that scam use fake identities to fool investors. You can also view the ico rating website as a reference.

Unfortunately, there is no 100% correct way to determine fraudulent ICO.
You need to pay attention to the White Paper, to the project team, to their goals, and so on. If something scares you, then it is better not to participate in this ICO.

read more about the project going through its whitepaper, getting to know its project team and finding out about them would also help. checking out website rating of the project from a well known rating site would go a long way.

there is no specific way in knowing a fake ICO because what works for one might not work for the other. but then you can as well help yourself by doing some little task by getting to know more about the project team, study the project and its development, getting to know about its rating on a genuine rating site, these could help reduce being engaged in a fake ICO.

Many such projects are now created. There is a deception in the cryptoforeign exchange markets more and more. I recommend to choose projects more carefully.

Yes, now fraudsters have already learned how to make projects that look no worse than real ones.

It seems to me that the best way to detect fake ico is to communicate with the team. If the project team is not active or can not answer questions on the technical part of the project - it's definitely scam.

I agree that we need tools to identify scam ico. The current that checked my twitter account and found that a lot of projects were fakes and just occupied a place on my list. Then removing them took a lot of time which is not convenient and long. To participate in prospective bounty campaigne, I need to know responsible bounty managers and bounty sites with a good reputation.

many thinks to research about detecting fake ico.maybe that is one of many ways and the simplest to do.and always to ask their smart contract if they using ethereum platform.

The best way to detect fake ICOs is to study their team, business model and whitepaper in other to find inconsistencies, copied or plagiarized materials. Find out ICOs their team members must have participated before. All this information will give you the needed edge to make an inform decision. Mfchain is one project i see worthy of investment. It's still your due diligence.

You can visit site of the project and look at partners, advisors and investors sections; if they have respectful persons and companies in this sections, it is likely not scam. You may also write to these people or companies to make sure if they are really connected with this project or this is a fake.

It is hard to say in beginning that project will pay to bounty hunters or not.

There is project which is currently on coinmarketcap but they did not paid to bounty hunters and Blaim that their bounty manager make fake accounts and claim that 95% accounts were created by bounty manager.

So we can consider it scam because if they detect 95% accounts scam then why did not they paid to remaining 5%.

So it is hard to say anything

Honestly, to find such an ICO and a fake project there are no definite instructions, because fraudsters are constantly up to date and they also regularly modify their tricks!  You just need to try to be more attentive to details, and maybe find something!

You have to try, bounty in Bountrust, there are a lot of legit Bounty there, you can join the Bountrust channel telegram here: https://t.me/bounTrust

I think now there are some projects related to this. Do not trust them completely. Better try yourself.

I think for the time being we will find it difficult to detect ICOs and scam projects because there is no specific application to know that, there are only a few theories that explain about it and I don't think it is proven to the fullest, so I think we make it as an experience and never give up on such circumstances

Although there are a lot of experienced people now telling us how to avoid scam bounty, there are still many people who will be deceived, because there are so many scams now, almost 80% of the projects are scams.

That's one of the problems nowadays because there are so many ICOs that are just scam by nature. Investors are one of the affected entities in fake ICOs because they invest money. Unlike bounty hunters, it's only time and effort are just wasted.

A tool for detecting scam may not be really effective but there are many online resources out there that can serve as good guide to detect scam ICOs. Sometimes it requires extra intelligent work because some scam icos are being designed perfectly to look like the real deal and catch investors unawares.

The mere problem about tracing an ICO project whether it is legit or  just a scam is that it is very hard to find out at first. To know whether an ICO project is a scam, you have to dig deeper. I think we can do it reversely and looking at it in the other side by asking what does a legit ICO project have and if the ICO project doesn't have it then that is the time you should be alarmed.

the best way make sure that the project has beta product. it can prove that they are serious to develop their project
then you can join it and not get scammed anymore

The best way to detect a fake ICO and a fake project is a thorough analysis.
And have a look at the website of the project is secure not good investment site wep not

even using all the tips in this thread, you can still fall into the trap and lose time and money. Scammers are ready for anything to steal your money. So in fact, you always take risks and play the lottery

Now passes the ICO of the project ICOVO, I recommend you read their white paper. Perhaps what they offer is able to solve this problem.  The development team from Japan offers a way to eliminate fake projects.

if I think it's better to invest in coins that have entered the market such as ethereum and bitcoin, because the two coins will not be scam like tokens in ICO

Very profitable occupation. Many projects raise huge money but except the website on the Internet there is nothing any more. It is necessary to be careful  8)

Good question. This is worthy of further discussion. As a bounty hunter, I really need a tool to detect fake ICOs or projects, even though it's a little funny, but I think the participants in this forum have amazing knowledge about this topic to be willing to give a little knowledge.

Most of the ICO project in the bounty. So care full to choose and invest. All ICO project is not go success. So check the ICO project white sheet then easy to understand the best project. It changes the people future. So people get the more project work in the bounty. It help to improve your self.

We should have a skill to prevent fraudulent projects. Before joining, you should check out their team. Most phishing projects hide the team's information. If you find their team has no information, you should not join. That's an easy way to get to know.

There are many criteria for detecting fraudulent projects. Unfortunately, without regulatory mechanisms, cryptocurrency operations are quite risky. All that remains for us, ordinary users, is to be vigilant and not fall for tricks.

It is very hard sometimes.

Even icodrops listed a scam project and they are very picky. Still, most of the times, checking their team members is the best way to chase it.

FIRST OF INVESTIGATE ANY PROJECT BEFORE PARTICIPATING READ WHITE PAPER AND ABOVE ALL ASK ANY ONE WHO IS EXPERT IN IT.

i think if you don't work with ICO-s at all, then you wouldn't risk anything like that:)

Just search the image of each team member. Reverse image search is also a good way to understand if the team of the project is real or not. You can use many different tools for this search.

maybe u can check from their profile team and their activities on chat room and last check their social media updates

it's hard now to detect an ico or scam project. because the scammer is now smart enough to trick it so that it doesn't look suspicious, such as the team structure and website. I only refer to the manager I trust in managing an ICO or project. for the rest I don't know about a scam project, because I have never found it before.

Thank you for introducing me to the whole section where fraudulent projects are published. I am very grateful to you.

lots of fake ico and fake gifts, most of the jobs in the bounty ico campaign are fake, now it's hard to find a good ico for investment, most of the ico are scam or fake, now I just follow the job in the signature bounty campaign

Yep, everything looks the same and convincing makes it difficult for us to judge a good ICO project or a scam because most scam ICO projects are only known when the project is finished, so it is very difficult to differentiate it and now many projects end up scam making the ICO project others are badly affected.

sometimes good team brings the fake ICOs too, i ever found like that
picking an ICO such as gambling, i feel hard to find the good one

You should only do those campaigns which are done by good campaign managers. Avoid being part of those campaigns which looks little suspicious and where team fails KYC check. A lot of times I have seen that people use fake images of people to pass KYC, but that is eventually caught. So keep an eye out for it.

the market needs ICO regulation. Now there are so many scammers that it’s harder to recognize an honest project. even after rigorous analysis, you cannot be 100% sure that this project is not fraudsters

Right now, it will be very difficult to spot a fake ICO because most projects have evolved in their way of scamming people. Every project is different. But there are some red flags that when you notice, you should stay away. If the white paper has a lot of mistakea, if the team allocation of tokens is more than 30% and if the website is too young, these should ring a bell

Well, there is no particular method you can use to know because they disguise and it is difficult to identity if they are real if is reg flag in bear market when ico suddenly reach their target overnight.

not all ICOs are bad, the best solution is to follow ico who already has a government license. like MCB, just look at the white paper and the web. the team is very serious about managing this project. therefore don't miss this ico.

Proper digging and diligence can actually bring about 100% way of identifying ICO scams. The problem with a lot of people is they want to get rich fast, and they just assume as long as they are diversifying risks, they are good, and with that, they just keep investing in anything that comes to mind without due diligence on what they are investing in.

I would not even say in the first instance anyone should be so much focused on the whitepaper as this can be plagiarized easily these days, what is important is to look at the team, their experiences in the past, how you think they can easily fit into this equation and deliver in the long run and then, take a look at the availability of a minimum viable product, before you even start considering the aspect of going technical by reading the whitepaper.

I think the best way to detect whether the project/ ICO is a scam or not is researching by yourself. If you have ever joined in many projects/ICOs then you will have a feeling about them, whether it's a scam or not. Don't forget to read any sources about it, then you will understand it well.

Just investigate the project, you are going to take part in. There are still some great ICOs and Bounties to participate. I think, one of the most important factors is the Telegram community. If the Telegram community has 100 members and it is said, that the ICO collected more than 5 million USD. It is a scam.

It is true that there are a lot of ico scams, but we must be careful and this is the key so that we can choose a good bounty or scam bounty.
to be able to choose a good bounty I usually see the manager bounty. whether it is trustworthy or not.

It's not easy to detect fake ico and fake project because we don't know this in the early and we only know in the middle and the end of the ico. But we can research to find the legit one, but this does not guarantee that the project is legit. I don't know if there any tools to detect fake ico because so far, there is too many projects that potential to be the fake ico.

Now many have already learned to mask well, but still a frank scam can be identified on their own. Especially after studying the project teams. I always start exactly with the team.

The best thing to do is to be observant. If they are offering stakes that’s impossible to be given away on a promised deadline or their site seems fake, then don’t join. Anything that you find suspicious is always a reason for you to find a more legitimate campaign. Also, there is a bounty section here in the forum wherein you can find campaigns and their campaign manager. You can determine their trust ratings if they are reliable.

Actually, not all.  Yes there are some trusted bounty manager and having a green trust but sometimes they not know that they manage a scam project. All you have to do is a deep research check their site, telegram or in social media if they truly active.

One of the best ways to do so is to know tel teels or in other words red flags.
The first and biigest red flag for bounty hunters is that ther are telling that they will give huge amount of BOUNTY and they define ti as 1000's of dolalrs for each participant.
Then ther is the busisnes model, dont get in pyramid type ICOs, stay away from ICOs who promise retrun on their investment.

And then there is abunch of small things, social media,country of origin and team.

I think there's no way for you to detect if the campaign or ico project is a fake or not but for me to choose the right bounty I've always read the whitepaper if it was good or not because sometimes if the whitepaper is not good enough it is a fake campaign or ico. Just my opinion.

It was still difficult to detect fake campaign or bounty right now as they will prove in many ways that they are a legit project. But soon, if they are starting to delay something especially they are delaying the time to release something related with their project then it is the time for us to be careful and we need to take the decision, and if necessary, we can leave them so they will not get anything from us.

The worst part of those fake project is them hosting a bounty program which run things up totally, imagine someone spending series of months going fake stuff you will just be depressed and think of giving up on bounties. I have participated in some many of them which makes me even think that if any project doesn't get listed on exchange I won't buy it, but to my surprise I also get scammed with a listed coin, that's when I realized that crypto is now a gambling stuff

To avoid fake ICO and bounty. First check the road map of the projects to ensure they are legit. Read their white paper, a thread and others that will give us learning from it.I will suggest keeping in your mind the best campaign manager that you participated before to ensure not fake.

I usually search for information in the "scam accusation" section in this forum. there is a lot of information about projects that are scam, it can be my recommendation to join the bounty.

I have never heard about the tools that would help to avoid fraudulent ICO.But there are already platforms that are ready to guarantee all investors the safety of their funds in case of not fulfilling the conditions of the team that conducts the ICO.This platform is called W12.Maybe with the help of such platforms there will be more investors.Bounty participants to more carefully select projects they are promoting.It is better to spend 1 day searching for a good bounty than to take part in 10 useless bounties.Recently, everyone pays attention to quality and not quantity.

It is too hard to detect fake ICO and bounties, for my 1year in this business i have no found some tools in detecting those scam project. But i have more experience those scam project they are good in the first place, but in the end it was recognized scams.

Most scammers are not interested in the promotion of the site,so if the site is uninformative it is likely a Scam.Just pay attention to the whitepaper.The more details it laid out the more this project can be trusted.Just watch the activity in the telegram group.If the group is alive and there are many participants that it is not a sign of fraud.In general, the rescue of the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves,)See, read, analyze, draw independent conclusions and you will be less likely to fall on the scammers

Scammers will always come up with different means to deceive gullible investors, and it is only left for you as an individual to dig properly into the project's team most especially, the availability of MVP, and the fact that it is a project that will have a future.

A lot of people really do not ask themselves the question like in the long term, is this a project I would be some much ready to use and would make an impact in the way I do things or not. If the answer is no, and you are looking for long term in a project, then you do not want to be investing in it.

Monitor the ICO project is true and reliable, you need to communicate with the team frequently, keep abreast of the latest news of the project, and check the reality of the project through the ICO evaluation website.

How many sucessful ICOs you may name? Almost 90% of them have no chance to become project or to reach hard cap. It is like looking for one certain fish in big dark ocean - ICO investing has turned to gambling and I do not think that you shoud take part in these events.

Most of bounty participants do not undestand the market at all. They just see the opportunity to get some free coins and they do their best to use it. They do not even read the WP, so in the most cases they should blame themselves for being inatentive.

how can a tool help us to find out the ico is a scam or not, logically the tools are created by people, while we manually or theory still have difficulty determining the ico is a scam or not

Scum project is a typical problem today. I remember a lot of discussion of projects that will control the number of scams projects. As a result, in fact, these projects do not exist, but because they themselves were Scam projects. After all the Scam projects are attracted by the fact that we want to see or get. This is their way to attract investors!

What i am doing for the past couple months since i invested in ICO is the composition of the whole team if they are really legit people working on the said project. Seccond, their white paper will also help me identify it too and of course, the community that is involved to help the ICO achieve its vision and goals.

Yeah, that's a big concern for investors as well as for bounty hunters. I would recommend you to join only those projects that are listed on ICObench and have rated by the experts. You may also register on BountyPlatform or BountyHive, they collect only reliable bounty campaigns.

We find many fake ico and bounty campaign project and make us more quiet about some bounty campaign project for participating, we have know more detail about which one best and potential ico investment or bounty campaign project to get payment and reward.

Try to look up the ICO here in ANN thread, mostly people recognize the fake project and write there that it's a big fake.

Yes, you are right, we need some kind of regulatory authority that can be distinguished from scammers or not. But at the moment everything depends on us. Personally, I check the project on all rating sites, I follow the number of followers and when an account of this project is created on social networks.

the links you gave was very helpful mate, I will save this somewhere in the documents of my desktop. All are true according to the links on which I had read. However, it is still hard to discover if the ico is fake or not. Sometimes, even they've announced the situation of their projects, it ends up into nothing but into scam.

What we can do is getting as much information as possible about the project that we wish to join to make sure the originality of the project, that won't end up fake and we got late knowing about it.

there no authentic tool and no way is 100% certain that you will know ICO is fake. This is because many of this people are so much into scamming for so long that they know I to make a Scam project look real. Sometime you see that they plan it so well that it takes alot of time. however you can find some loopholes on their whitepaper by checking their address, doing google image analysis of team members, running plagiarism check on their whitepaper and ask intelligent questions about the project on their community group

We couldn't be 100% sure that a project won't scamming after a few days of token sale but we can find the most real ICOs. What about me I thorougly explore social medias of this project and try to find more photos of a team and proof of their works

You can hardly find a tool, but of course you need to pay attention to suspicious moments related to ICO or bounty!

I think the best way to discover scam in bounty and ico is by bounty Manager. Bounty if the Manager is good and has confidence, he'll never be in a scam ICO. IMHO

Well, we cannot certainly tell that a project or an ICO is 100% scamming or trustworthy. But determining if the team is legitimate and competent and the project is achievable then, I think that it is a good criteria to base your suspicions on.

While the idea of such a project is not bad at the same time that is not going to solve at all the problem with scam icos, after all why a scammer is going to try to become part of that platform when most icos do not do that, besides in this market people are not really friendly towards centralization, so even if that were to solve the problem many people are not going to like the idea of just one company having all the control over the icos because that can lead to corruption.

With these kind of arrangement or system then Corruption would really be on high chances but i agree on what you do said that not all would really be friendly towards centralization.
Im not really trying to use up my mind too much on thinking on how to solve this global or entire market problem when it comes to Fake Ico.

Even most of the people when seeing a team of developers having real control over market supply is already a threat
a centralized company in a world where people always talk about decentralized is just sounds like a bootleg. better stay away.

I think the best thing you can do to combat these ICOs is to inform yourself well about what they are doing and try to investigate everything you can about the team that makes it, many scammers give false information that is easily verifiable on google, that will help you rule out many scams.

I also think that the bounty manager should determine scam projects before taking on them. But unfortunately a very small number of bounty managers have a high level of project selection and analysis skills, so you should only trust yourself and always conduct your own analysis of projects.

The best step would be reading the project's whitepaper since any information you might need will be included there. You then decide if the idea is too good to be true, and if it is, it probably is a scam. Check the team's linkedIn profiles, it can also give hints of scam.

You need to do some detail investigation about icos. That is not really easy dude actually
You need to check their team whitepaper investor project company adress etc etc etc.
Please be careful while you are choosing icos. You need to research really well also please follow some ico influencers for more information and experience about that section.

At present, ICO fake and scam projects account for over 60% of total ICO projects. Therefore, when choosing an ICO campaign to invest, it should be carefully selected, consult carefully about the ICO project on social to evaluate the potential of the project and then make a decision to buy or join the bounty.

It is hard to know if the ico or project is fake. We cant continue promoting the project if it is proven as scam project. We need to be careful on choosing bounty campaigns to avoid encountering fake ico and fake projects.

Many ideas had been purported, but in my perspective, I feel the Bounty manager should be a very high ranking personnel on this Bitcointalk forum aside the white paper and the good working management Team to compliment.

multiple references only about ICO da bounty I think is the best way to get it done. There is no tool that is able to detect a scam and only yourself can identify it. Indeed it's quite unsettling and many outstanding between ICO and bounty is real. carelessly chose alone would be bad against existing results.

Unfortunately, there are no tools that will help you in detecting fraud in the ICO. At this point, you should analyze and check with yourself. And if you have doubts about the ICO, it is better not to participate in such a project.

It's a little difficult and complicated to know ico scam, especially like I am a beginner. But by researching the whitepaper, what real team or not and whether the telegram group is active or not, I think this also needs to be researched and watched out. Currently, it is still in the learning stage and exploring the potential or not.

I often follow the famous bonus managers and participate in their campaigns. This also limits the scam projects. Also I look at the community on the social networks of the project.

Most likely, we need government regulation of the ICO process. Fraud, in which millions of dollars of investors are stolen during an ICO, is a felony in all countries and government agencies are required to respond to it. It’s not at all clear to me why states do not react systematically to these crimes for so long.
However, the response should be, and soon all these frauds will disappear.

There are lots of scam bounty their and we must choose those who are really have values so we need to make a careful research about it in order for us not to waste our time complying the task of the bounty campaigns. In this forum you can find the real topic about it just read it carefully.

Just read and analyze their whitepaper. Check if the project's goal is attainable and realistic. Also consider on how they present their project. You may also do some background check on the campaign manager who will lead the campaign.

I often participate with ICO that managed by trusted bitcointalk user, they must have a good idea, white paper and reviews on rating sites.

It seems good if there is a tool to detect fake ICO projects because there are so many who are anxious about the condition of many fake ICOs. If I observe, the ICO will succeed if the team really works in developing the project, but many ICOs are less serious in managing the project so that there is a failure.

Because there are so many scam projects now, Be careful, they seem to have very good projects. but after they get investors and are not responsible. they don't care how people help him in his project

Its really sad and disappointing investing in fake ICOs and bounties most annoying  is that their media hyping is a top notch such that its not easy detecting them even the so called ICOs review sites are not helping matters It could have been better if we could have a regulating bodies to clamp down on fake ICOs.

I read what is stated on the scammers who posted their fake identities just to make a group and make a project which is bounty and  to scam a descent ones.,well done to those people who capture this fake personels,and for us bountyhunters we better do a deep research for us not to be a victim again.

It would be good if there was such a tool for detecting counterfeit ICOs, it would be useful for everyone, and perhaps there would be less scammers, but so far you have to rely on your head and thoroughly study all the project documentation before investing in it.

Detecting fake ICO project should be easy. The first thing you need to do as cryptocurrency stakeholder is to find out how cryptocurrency works and constantly upgrade your knowledge of cryptocurrency. When fake ICO comes your way, you will easily detect because you know what crypto is!

In my opinion, the best way to discover face ICO and bounty is to take a look at the bonus Manager. Verified managers will never participate in scam ICO.

I think that the most important thing is to carefully read the white paper and the technical document of the project, as well as to communicate with the team. Scam ICO will never give you good documents and the team will not be able to competently advise you on the ICO.

Now it is very difficult to determine the main project. It remains to be expected when the holding of the iso will be regulated by the state and investors will have at least some guarantees

It is hard for me to trace fake ICOs and bounty that's why I just follow some of my previous bounty managers and participated what they are manage with because I think that they are more expert.

The great way to find out if the ICO and bounty campaigns are fake is to read and researched about the ICO that you want to participated to make an investments or to be their participants of their bounty campaigns. And I think you can also stick to a trusted bounty manager it is a good way to also find out if they choose a good campaigns.

It is precisely because of the lack of such tools that this market will be filled with so many false ICOs. We want to distinguish the true and false of these projects, our only way is to rely on our own experience to judge. Usually analyzing a project needs to be studied from a variety of different perspectives, and there are no formulas that can be applied to you. Everyone has their own way, which takes time to study.

The best way is to wear your brain on your sleeve,  never trust any ICO until you do your findings and corroborate their claims with other reviews. There is no way you can guarantee outcome of any ICO but you can identify red flags and protect yourself!

usually fake ICO is shady as fxxk. no clear road map or complicated whitepaper. no social media appearance, weak bounty program. difficult to obtain coin, this are the sign of fake ICO.

Scams and fake projects are very spread on the current market and it will not be so positive for the market. They are need to be banned at all to make risks lower.

Everything comes with experience. You need to understand the topic and then easier to detect scams.

I've become tired of all these fake ICOs and Scam bounties and I asked my friend how can i avoid Scam bounties, then he recommended to me bountyhive.io there bounties are legit and so far there are no complaints against them about scam bounties. You should definitely visit their site and Join their bounties.

Yes, that site is one of the best source in terms of choosing a legit one less complain and not having a lot of scams either ICO or bounties.But still I pretty look there platform first and the coin what they promoted if that matter are most satisfied then it's up for us .

All the post are about ongoing ICOs or about ICOs, which had already ended. We need an organization that will be able to detect fake ICOs just before they will start attraction of funds. In other cases, it is pointless, because people do not have a chance to get mone back.

There are just few steps to how you can detect a fake ICO or bounty campaign. You can go through their whitepaper and also find out the concept and mission of their project. You can also check their softcap and hardcap targets and also see how they treat investors in their telegram groups and channel.

There are no tools in detecting a scam project or ICO.
But there are so many ways of getting to know them.
And it is on your way and does, for making to them know.
If you don't want to be a victim of them, you should study them and make a research.

It would be great if there was an organization that would be engaged in the control of ICO projects, but unfortunately it is difficult to implement. We ourselves should be more vigilant and carefully engaged in the selection of projects.

Fakes must be closed here because it brings a lot of lacks for crypto like the amoun of investors has been decreased with the increased amount of scams and fakes.

Yes, nowadays so many scam ICO projects are introducing just for money raising. So as bounty hunters we have to choose which projects we will gonna work for carefull so my suggestion is read the whitepaper carefully and look at the ICO team members past then proceed with what you choose. Good luck 🤞

Well now there have been too many ico projects so we have a hard time differentiating real and scam projects, especially now that from the project concept and roadmap all have their own advantages which are not very interesting, even many scam projects that listing on the icolist with good ratting

Before jumping to invest the ICOs. You need to know several thing about their project. No need to rush in buying or joined their bounties. Icos scam are hard to detect this day as they intend to use a fake team pictures and a fake tokens sold at their website to make it look very successful ICO. Make your research about the project. Study about them.

Fake ICo, fake bounty, fake coin, fake news, fake ... here is such an environment it's time to understand it. And do not whine. Or pass by

Fake bounties are harder to trace, since tokens are send lately before the ICO end. Bounty participants are not protected from fraud and it is almost imposible to define fake bounty while it is active. Unfortunately, we all need to check the project twice and even such measures may not help.

I think it's quite difficult to find or make a tool to detect, maybe this problem can be solved from some people who can analyze ico. and I think the reference for you if you can't find ico that is not scam just try reading on the web or articles about ico analysis. especially the web that has more confidence

This is really difficult to find out I must say, but personally for me, I disliked those self drop, ico campaign, they are mostly shit coins, but getting a good project to work with it's all about doing your own research, so if you fill comfortable about your findings then you good to go, my opinion anyway.

there are a lot of fake icos and bounties but i think that upu will be able to find something great and useful in the cruptocurrency wolrd

there are a lot of different projects and i believe that if you will look for attentively you will stuck into the greatt thing so do not give up

To me the best solution is that each person realizes their own investigation about the coins in which they want to invest and if they find something suspicious they can post their results in the forum, this is something that is already happening since there are now many people looking at scam icos and are revealing their results and as you may guess the results are not pretty, with most of the coins investigated being a scam of some type which is the reason I am no longer looking to invest in icos.

I don't have a tool to do this but I use my common sense. I usually just read the white paper and if it's too good to be true, then it's a pass. If the campaign manager is unknown and doesn't have an organized spreadsheet showing your rewards, automatically I pass.

I agree with your opinion, because in this year many of ICO are scam, that's why many people not believe in cryptocurrency and nor invest their money to cryptocurrency. I think bitcointalk can make some detector for us to know the scam ico.

I've also encountered situations like yours that are very sophisticated scam ICOS projects. These fake team joins and the link of the experts this situation continues to be a bad thing for Bounty and Investors. How can these projects survive on this forum that i do not understand?

This should be the general reaction of everyone but it seems people are desperate to get some coins as bounty hunters and this means they will accept almost any condition put forward by the campaign managers and they are willing to participate in some of the most obvious scams, unfortunately for them they are only going to waste their time if they do this and they are going to be even more disappointed with bounty campaigns but that happens if you do not do your own research about the project.

Fake teams visit fake meetings, so just look for the activity. Once I came across a hakaton in hall that had never existed in London. It saved my money that day.

Teams is best hint you can have. Look for members, try to contact them, make sure that profiles are true and there is no need for you to worry about it.

I usually try to look for the team as much as I could. Usually you can find a loophole in the team's description like when the accounts were created, what are their past experiences etc. Also, you can look for their contract address to see how may tx are happening to give you a rough idea. With so many fake ICO it has become pretty difficult to find a legit bounty/ICO nowadays.

We are freaking out in determining the fake ICO, but I will not include bounty, only ICO and like they said no tools or software that will lead us to a safe ICO, it is our own self can solve the problem.

I think it is not easy to judgement fake ico's. Whenever there is fluid of ico's in the market. but everyone ico launch with the whitepaper. So we should reading about an icon deeply & performance in market.

Yes I totally agree on this matter that there are really many fake ico and fake bounties out there and it is really scare if you had invested your money in this fraud ICO because for sure you will never get back your investment from this kind of ICO so always investigate first in joining ICOs and make sure that theres no member of the development team that are involved in developing fraud ICOs so you can avoid as early as you can.

One of the best ways to define a project that is deceiving already at the stage of organizing an ISO is, of course, a team. Fake profiles, photoshop, non-existent people, no public speaking. These are the main signs. Fraudsters will never show their real faces.
A bad idea can be identified by careful study of white paper.

Since last year there have been numerous case of fake bounty and ico.Many didn't paid and many collapsed.The main problem lies when people get greedy for getting more bounties or stakes and at the end all their hard work turns fruitless.Moreover many people are creating more than one account in social media campaigns and thereby posting/sharing which ultimately gives no result.Many ico could not reach their speculated or target caps and thereby closing their projects.Its better do our on research the more we can and then continue.Have a nice day all.

  I think the fake ICO usually has unclear development teams as well as those who do not float. And fake ICOs are usually very high for you while asking for a simple rejoin and do not need much work. That's the best way to know if it's a fake or real ICO. Hope this helps you

detecting fake ico and bounty is indeed very difficult, but it's not an impossible thing for us to do. We can try to look carefully at the project whitepaper, & more analysis on who the developers are involved.

There is no proper analysis to find out which ones are genuine and fake. You can analyze yourself how ico is truly original. You can see from the team, concepts and vision and mission in the future. With that one overcomes the original bounty or ico. But sometimes something is really good, it turns out it can be fake too.

I think that you need to study the documents and the team to determine the scams.

Promoting fake ico can real damage your public reputation on the media , most people even think you are paid to scam people , so to avoid this you need to do a personal review by the ico project . The founders and team profile on LinkedIn if they have any experience . You will need deep research on the project, first never be decieve with soft cap reached or hardcap reached, it can be manipulated to attract investors.

It is difficult to filter out... You never know for sure that what you are currently doing. There are plenty of fake projects that you can be aware of when you are attentive.

There is no 100% secured means for detecting a fake project. The best you can do is to study intensively about the project. Read about the white paper and check for typos as you read. Most scam or fake project are prepared in a haste, hence full of typos and incoherent information. Read about the team members. Take time to visit their social media profiles - is it a new account or an old social media account? Are they truly presenting the actual credentials on the website and whitepaper? These are some of the questions that can guide you in identifying right and fake projects.

Yes that is very important problem these days in crypto space. WE need to detect scam projects and people need to aware of that. You need to do your research carefully . You need to look their team and project. Some scam projects can have amazing whitepapers because they are paying money for that but i think you need to focus on team. You can learn from there about that scam issue.

if we follow a fake ico bounty and we have done it better we leave immediately if it is not paid, and delete all posts about the project

It seems that we should again duplicate this message, as it is in these topics youcan find the answers to all your questions, plus there is a theme to which every day added new fraudulent projects.

the best way is: to check the team, each member (google search photos) and contacts. 90% of fake icos cannot do it correctly.
they put fake people photos, give other companies contacts etc.

You can use bounty sites like bountysuite or bountyhive to be sure about projects.
Don't waste your time on each of them.

Had to develop the ICO is dedicated to determine Scam projects and rejection.  But no one will dare to take this step((( Why not create the groups themselves in this forum which will indicate the alleged Scam projects, so no one fell for their development

You need to do a study of a project first before joining into its bounty. Always check the whitepaper first and the people supporting this project. If you have in doubt dob't join because it.might be a scam.

Unfortunately there are presently no tools out there to help you detect them. Except you decide to use your personal tool. That which you can do on your own, which is research.
Most times except on rare occasion, scam ICOs make use of fake team, so as to avoid bring detected and apprehended. So if you can work on that, you might get a glimpse to it, as to whether the project is scam or not.

To avoid this happening you should join the bounty of the famous BM. You need the check profile skills of the project's DEV team. Take a closer look at their website and read the whitepaper

Lol, you need a tool to know the ICO fake? What a ridiculous thing. The only way to find the ICO fake and scam is based on social news and experience as well as the bitcointalk forum. If the ICO is scam then people will create topic to alert investors.

This is the biggest issue today. There are so many fake ICO's circulating and there is no detection. I wish that ICO will be regulated and detec this scammers. For now we must be cautious with the project teams and there timely updating.

what is clear is that until now there is still no right way to detect which ICO is fake and which ICO will work, because now we can only choose ICO by analyzing ICO projects from teams, whitepapers, roadmaps and managers who want us all which is indirectly required to be careful and more careful in choosing a good and successful ICO, because it is still difficult to distinguish one of them and of course we also do not know the development team behind it.

I do not want any coin that is fake because they are not worth the investment money. I think more coins will do real ICO's this year.

There is no tracking device to detect fake ico and fake project you just need to have research on it before joining an ICO because if you didn't have strong research on it then in result they will scam you or your effort would be wasted so criticize the ICO you wanted to join and ask many question to them specially ask them if they have legit project or just a promising one.

I experienced scam and that was so irritating because you promote the ICO's then in the end I knew that it was scammed. Your effort goes to nothing. I wish there are some tools for detecting fake ICO's. We only analyze the ICO's and sometimes our analyzing and decisions is not good.

I don't see complete tools for detect fake icos. It depends on our experience. Mainly we can do some research about team members and project's plan. And chatting with team members. These are some methods that we can do. But for newbies detecting fake ico really hard.for getting right decision we want experience too.

Quite a common problem now in the market, which does not accept, especially bounty hunters. What's the point of doing that?

You know that even tools can't predict ICO, unexpected things can happen in the middle of the road, and that's what causes a project failed and there are some who do scams

If you want to detect a fake ICO you should try to consult ICO listing sites where there are multiple reviews that had been done in it. Some ICO listing sites that I rely on is ICObench and ICO champs.

Fake ICO and bounty is now scattering and sometimes fake ico is look like very amazing ico on crypto feild scammer are really smart and they have also learned many things in crypto. In my part in order for me to identify scam I will do research about the team background and past works maybe we should also look for a good manager that has no bad record to avoid being victimized by scammer.

I don't think if there are really an authentic way to find out about the fake project but to make research

Of course, sometimes we are finding some fake ICO after gettingg reviews and we have to be very careful in researching them because we need to work for a campaign for more than 3 to 4 month. So we need to watch them very carefully to get our rewards at the end of the campaign.

I can never really predict fake ICO's and bounty. My experience is 50/50. One tell tale sign if you are in a bounty program is if the masterspreadsheet is not updated regularly, that means the project team doesn't care about it.

In fact, this is one of the most important problems of the market, which even the best investors and analysts cannot solve. Choosing a good ICO is a difficult and crucial task, for which a comprehensive study of the project, its documentation, the development team and prototypes is to be carried out.

The tool for detecting fake ICO and bounty is your experience and knowledge.
If you don't have enough experience in cryptocurrency, the results will be tricked by Scam ICOs.

Everyone discovers ICO scam by their personal experience. No tool can distinguish ICO scam, so until now there are still many investors scam when investing in ICO fake. And for bounty hunters, just do the bounty with many participants and BM prestige

We see, Most of the ICO and bounty campaign are scam. so be careful to invest your money in ICO and join a bounty campaign. before join a bounty campaign or invest your money in ICO, please do some research about that project otherwise you can lost your money and time.

Check for the real profile of the team And if you later confirm their information is fake, immediately you confirm they are nothing but fake especially using LinkedIn, then you leave. You just need to be cautious enough And you won't fall scam.

Thanks buddy.  I concur, you just said it all.  Experience is the best teacher as we all know at the same time some must be cautious enough.

Sometimes it is not the team that dont care about this, it is the bounty manager who manage it. But you still have a point about it, some new projects sometimes dont care about updating the spreadsheets.

I still don't understand why people are investing in ico these days...it is dangerous and it is not like 2017 anymore.

For me to avoid to entertain those fake bounties and ICOs, I've always read the whitepaper and also go to there website or web page to do some research if the that bounty is a fake or not.

I believe you should remove fake bounties from your topic, mprep has always warn that any project bounty posted here on bitcointalk may turn out to be scam not because of the bounty managers but because the project is out right scam. Although we have different bounty managers with different credibility (their trust scores can tell, you should watch that before joining any bounty), other than that, ways to know scam ico will keep unfolding day after day

I think there are a lot of people who have experienced the ico scam or unpaid bounties. this is the risk
of course good managers will have good quality, you can choose from a manager or you try to analyze the ico project directly.

Exact, we should avoid scam ico and bounty. Cause by participate on fake bounty, our time and hard work waste. I usually like to check team members, whitepaper, roadmap, social media activities to detect real ico.

Your question is very interesting, because there is almost no difference between fake and real ico, in my opinion it would be nice if there was a team of moderators who filtered the ico,
frankly, ico scam is very troubling and detrimental to both investors and bounty hunters

Advertiser will never share responsibility with the creator of advertisment. However, you have to find some way to obtain an insurance for such situations.

There is no certain way and it is not your responsibility. It is like marketing companies that promote tobacco are not responsible for cigarretes caused cancer. Get it?

IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO KNOW THAT THE BOUNTY OR ICO IS SCAM .WITH THE STUDY OF WHITE PAPER WE CAN COME TO KNOW THAT TO KNOW ONLY TO SOME EXTENT NO FULLY.

Weak projects are much more dangerous than fake ICOs, because they attract a lot of money, but teams are not able to manage them in propper way.

If you have some doubts right from the start of your dialogue with the representative of this ICO, then you should better avoid working with this project.

Now there are very many bounties and ico who are scams. not transparent the funding that has been obtained makes the project becomes unclear. and in the end became a scam projeck. as happened this year. there are so many scam projects available

This is how you can check about the scammer ico project

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4456502.0

And this is how you can take inside the ico without becing a victim of scamming
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896030.0

A simple thread but can make difference,this is how we must help each other from this criminals that hanging around here

Can recommend caution applies to all advertisements ICO , not so long ago when registering need to download the application from the ICO which was followed by the hacking of the personal computer , the boys caution!!!!!

The best way is, do your own research. Try to pick some important information about the project, the team, white paper, road map, etc. Many of them copying and pasting of other white paper and the identity of the owner/ceo. This is the best way to detect if the project is scam.

I have never heard that there is a tool that can automatically detect whether or not an ICO project is good, we must be able to analyze it ourselves, from all aspects related to the ICO.

Look for the reddit pages. There were one ICO, they got 17 millions, but they used bots to bump topics. Most of bots were from Russia and it was easy to detect.

This is a global problem from which, to a great regret, it does not go away, because today many projects really have all the signs of a scam project, but there are still such projects that seem normal, but I think that you should always be careful all the same.

Yes, now find a good project is very difficult. I conducted a series of works on promotion. And I look at my wallet and it's empty. Because each of the projects begins to delay payments. It is very difficult not to have a management tool.

Majority of the bounty project this year is a scam, in my opinion. I have participated in many contents creating campaigns but haven't received any payment yet. I have been waiting since January 2018. The main reason I think is lack of investment for the project. Mostly bounty hunters blam campaign managers for the delay of payment but I think they are not responsible for the delay.

I am all but giving up on bounties to be honest. I haven't been hardly paid a single bounty over the last few months and most are turning into scams or the tokens are rendered worthless. This has caused great hardship for myself and my family and if the situation does not improve by the new year I will just give up doing bounties completely and abandon the forum for posting and just browse for news. I do not think that people will want to continue promoting projects that do not pay out our or bother to get exchanges for their tokens. Something has to change soon or many like myself will leave.

You can't say it's scam or not in the beginning, because everything seems very promising and very professional. But you can see before the ICO end, if something strange happen than it's usually a scam behavior like spam is allowed in their telegram channel, or the team one by one disappeared and cannot be contacted again.

Now this is very much meamang fake from bounty or ico and in my opinion this is indeed very detrimental. many people do not get their income or profits because of the fraud

HOQU seems pretty fake to me. They wrote a block about stealing of 1500 ETH from budget, but there were no prooves, so I consider them as fake.

Nowadays there's a lot fake ICO and Bounty that's why we should be very careful of choosing because you might get one worthless and surely it will cause you money lose. So to avoid encounter fake ICO and Bounty we should have enough knowledge about it, also before we participate to them make sure we have a proof that they are worth it . Study it before we waste out time and effort.

The best way is to invest your own time in the research of a project. Even if the project is hard promoted and no one have ever checked the team members, the ICO is going to turn scam. Just prepare yourself and it would help to save your money.

Yes, this is a big problem of today's market, but no one has invented the right ways to learn the scam, I pay attention to all the little things, and most importantly to the manager of the bounty campaign, and make sure that the table is filled in time.

there is no tool for that and what is very reliable is your logic and knowledge, so you must have knowledge in ico analysts. especially if you are an investor
every choice of speculation must be involved with your experience and knowledge.

in order to be able to determine it is necessary to spend a lot of time and patience. it is necessary to study the idea of the team and the people who are in it and pay attention to what they say and do

It is impossible to be completely confident in any project, but you can always reduce the risk in the selection. To do this, you need to analyze the team, ideas, goals of the project, its social networks, white paper, website. An integrated approach will help to eliminate obvious fake ICO and bounty.

For me, the best way to select a promising project becomes a careful study of its beta product. It allows me to understand whether the project has further chances for development and success. Be sure to examine the documentation and the project site before starting an investment.

You don't need a tools to actually detect whether the ICO campaign is fake or not. By just viewing the site, reading the whitepaper, verifying the team, and also joining in the community chats in telegram, and also in following its social media, you can know if it is a fake or not.

Usually at every start of new project or when i'm looking for a project to join into the bounty campaign. I will check all the data provided by the project while cross checking any other data from many source if possible. Including to check the member of the team, is it valid or not.

Have you ever experienced something like that?
Fraud in ICO or bounty, if you have such experience then don't hesitate to keep telling me in this thread.

Always check the team involved and their site. Almost all information will be given, check thoroughly their main address, CEO, CMO and Devs. If the token is a bit dodgy when in it comes to giving information about their team and themselves better to skip that campaign and look for another. Also, there are guidelines here in the forum regarding known scammers, fake icos and fake project. Read a lot and let the information guide you through your choices.

To avoid false ICO, I did more research. First I will check the website summary and then look at the development team and see the number of tokens allocated. You must be able to distinguish fake ICO projects if seen from the token extension. You must check your wallet and make sure there are genuine investors or not. And you also need to find out more information.

Sure we can detect them. Unfortunately, there are some unfair projects on the market at the moment, but if you spend around 3-4 hours by investigating the project and searching for legal proofs, you won't lose your money at the end.

there are a lot of fake icos and bounties because people want to making money easiest way and cheaters using this. If you are an investor on the market, and you do not want to be circulated, you have to research.

You answered your own question, people are investing in icos because they are not realizing that it is not 2017 anymore and they are trying a strategy that worked very well in the past but that is not working at the moment those people will need to adjust their strategy to account for the current problems that the ico market is facing or they will have to risk losing all their money by investing in icos trying to get the profits that you could get in the past year something that is very unlikely.

You will never know which ICO is fake with your checker. It is an old-fashioned way of checking and now the scammers do everything that looks great. I have seen some ICO with over 50k members in telegram, website, whitepaper, team..etc, everything is great but it is a scam

We have to admit that in today's ICO market there really are a lot of scammers and failed projects. With this circumstance just have to accept. But in any case, today there is a chance for successful investments, you just need to carefully study the project and its development prospects.

I just came across https://icoethics.com/. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2204241)

This site exposes scam ICOs. It has a list of scam ICOs and they keeping updating it. Do check.

Actually there is no tools to detect fake ico and bounty. I think it is not easy to detect fake icos and bounties because now there are lots of fake iicos and bounties. We can't 100% identify but we can find some fake one using some methods. Firstly, we must consider about the project of the ico. Then we must consider about rating of the ico in ico rating sites and experts ideas about the project. Then we must consider about team members and advisors.If we consider about those things we can identify some fake icos.

I will not have a device that can detect fake ICO. we ourselves must be careful when choosing ICO. before joining the ICO before doing research. who is the working team and the dev if the dev has often been the manager of a project then maybe this ICO is not a scam. but if the dev team is not as famous as it is, don't choose the ICO. then read the whitepaper carefully looking for the purpose of this project and see the sales of the tokens reaching softcap or not. don't despair there are still many ICOs that don't scam.

I have long joined the crypto currency business and I have also been a victim of several bounty campaign and ICO scams. I myself as a crypto currency player for a long time is still very limited to detect bounty campaign  and ICO fraud. I will only advise the crypto currency forum to create a special and official institution that regulates the process of running the ICO and the bounty campaign. This special institution will later be tasked with giving permission for the running of the ICO and the bounty campaign. After the assignment was carried out, the agency will be tasked with overseeing the running of the ICO and the bounty campaign. I am sure that if this system is tightened then the founders of fake ICO or fake bounty campaigns will not be able to carry out the action. All ICOs and bounty campaigns will go through one door so that no one will arbitrarily establish a bounty campaign or ICO if they don't have a clear and tangible project.

The only tools is to research deeper about the project so you can found out if they are real or not because fake project has many holes and inconsistent on their whitepaper if they have and fake location and team.

In fact, there is no sure way to know scam ICO or not. Study of documents, reliability of bounty Manager... None of that matters. Sometimes, even the most recommended project can be a scam.

Useful website. Huge list with scam icos. Yesterday i checked some icos and I thought it was a scam pojects and now i see this projects like (UTpay) in this list. I will keep icoethics in my mind.
Thanks.

There are many ico who just put the name blockchain behind their idea even though that idea may not need the advantages a blockchain gives to work in the real world.

you must read their whitepaper, there clear mentioned all thing about bounty, there you can easily find fake or real project and cannot believe social media news because there give fake news.

First of all, don't be lazy searching all the details that are needed to determine fake ICOs and bounty.

In ICO you should first check the background of the ICO team if they are really exist and have a verified public social media accounts like Linkedin.

Check their white paper if the project is good to be true or very impossible to be adopted in a real world.

Check their activities if they are active in live streaming.


In bounty always trust those already trusted and repeat how you do research in ICO.

Whitelisting is often difficult to detect in a fake ICO project and a real ICO project, so I think it should be combined with the smartcontract test. That's how often I check out a fraudulent ICO project or potential ICO project, and do not forget to check out the team.

It is preety hard to detect such ICO, but there are still some methods for that.
Are team members enough transparent in their experience and collection progress?
Are there fake reviews and huge bonuses?

Base on my experience in detecting fake ICO and bounty i always look for the highest rank member who participate if the rank are purely low who participated means its 50-50 situation so much better i always refer to highest rank in selecting ICO to be work on. 

Let us make it simple for you, if you follow what others suggestions there is a big chance you won't enter into fake ICO. But it doesn't mean you won't get into scam along your way. That is why not to be lazy rather be responsible and be more diligent is your duty to maintain your own security whether it is about ICO, wallet, and bounties.

Scam projects are "getting better" from time to time, and so it is really hard to detect them sometimes. Of course there are signs, like unrealistic promises, fake followers. Maybe it is also a good idea to type the name of the ICO, and the word scam to google, and see if there is any result.

Scam ico has started to look different now which makes it hard to detect. A lot of scam icos now have a very good managements and team but when the ico ends they just vanished out of nowhere. Your greatest weapon against scam icos is still knowledge and always do your research before participating on icos.

I agree, scammers and fraud do everything they can to make their scammy ICO look legit.  They even take several high profile linkedin as if they are actually involved in the project.  One way to check is to look at scam accusation board of this forum.  Several concern members are exposing scam projects by creating thread and exposing red flags about why the project is a possible scam.  You can also verify all the details on their website but that would need a lot of effort.

It's really a difficult process to know that which bounty is scam. One usual way is to check it out on different dimension.like member on telegram, whitepaper, reputation of bounty manager but all this is very comprehensive  process. But still there is no scientific way to know about this

I have seen a lot of bad bounty managers, who manage the great campaigns. And I also saw a bad bounty campaign with a cool manager, but he was a scammer. First of all, you should check the project and it's team, and then make a decision - join this campaign or not.

There will be no tools to help you analyze the ICO project is fake or good. The best way to get paid is to join reputable management teams. That is very important because they only select real ICO projects and really want to call for capital to work collaboratively. Amazix team is a good example.

The best tool is your mind and time. Spend few hours on researching the information about the project. Read the whitepaper, check the most popular articles, check the product, the team and so on. And if you find out that an ICO is a scam, report it here on this forum.

For me, the best thing to do is when you spot a new project, make a post in the community, and take the suggestions from the thousands of users, i think it can help because we are a group of crypto enthusiast with enough knowledge to study this kind of projects, but it of course, we can accumulate  a certain action.

Some projects offer an overpriced pool of generosity, and this is questionable. Then you need to check the team, sometimes there is no information about some people on the Internet, but only a photo on the social network and an inactive account are also suspicious. You should also pay attention to reviews, ratings, reviews and documents.

For fake ICO detection devices until now no one can confirm that it is genuine or not, but from the many projects that I have studied so far there are some things that make me sure that the project promises in the future such as Profile Team on Linkedin, their analysis there "linkedin" how their activities and their track records are linkedin, if it is clear and can be easily traced, I think it is genuine and true

There is no way to detect it. But you can detect the good one by studying their team and their past. Also, you can look for definete person in team, like advisor

Yes there are many fake bounties existing in cryptocurrency. there also fake icos and it is considered as scal so try to do some effort to review.

Examine ICObench scores. Check the teams. Whitepaper to check. These are often copies. Of course, some experience is necessary. Also recognize the market

They are all over the place and with the slightest mistake you fall as a victim. One way to detect scam ICO's is with how they manage their telegram. You ask question its seems no one is willing to answer it. They also hype themselves of reaching their soft cap within some weeks. ICO ratings could also help but don't depend on it that much, rely on you own research on the project or ICO.

Best way to detect the fake ico is knowledge and hard work. With this you will know about the ico and learn how to choose the ico. Don't worry about the failures in starting, just make sure that during watering invest small amount then increase accordingly with your confidence.

it's difficult before the manager determines that ico is a scam, because overall a manager must know if the ico project he is working on leads to a scam. at least with knowledge of marketing management you can see indications of scam. and for bounty hunters finding ico scams is a disaster and risk

very difficult to detect, sometimes scammers copy existing projects, and make the project look very successful. for bounty, sometimes ICOs that have succeeded in achieving hardcap only, some are not paying, so must be careful to monitor the news updates from the ico

right with the first review, we will know the good and bad ico, but if you want to invest, I suggest not investing in ico if you don't want to lose your money, invest in altcoins that have a chance to rise like ethereum,

These are what I observe on fake ICO and bounty, the telegram group is full of bot fake accounts and Moderator that no Idea what he/she is doing, no real product and a copy paste whitepaper, the website is cheap the team picture and profile is fake they just use some pictures on google, the bounty manager managing the bounty have a bad reputation and many more just do your own research

to me, the most sensible way of discovering it is a thorough research and not just checking the present situation, but to track down as much as possible about participants past and their lifestyle in general

this year, there are many fake ICOs. and of the many ICOs that exist is fraud. therefore at least we have to be able to recognize fake ICO even if it's only a little because it is difficult to distinguish precisely.

The boundary between the fraudulent project and the refund due to not selling is sometimes difficult, and my friends and I still talk to each other in this market sometimes need the most is the luck

It is difficult to understand who the scammers and who is not. I am now trying to move for the veterans of the topic. But the problem is that there are projects that look very bad. But they pay a lot there.

You can study in detail the white paper and the development team, check the team accounts on social networks, on various platforms and media, and also check partnership with other projects.

tnere are anlot pf icos bboth good ajd bad bit i think well i hope that bad icos will cease to exist and we will have only good ones

there are a lot of bad icos ajd that is why we all need to learn about avoidimg being scammed amd ge careful with our money

For swindlers it is very profitable market. This year swindlers became more than normal projects and it very much frightens. Investors are afraid to invest.

In this market, people who are now in the market they are not afraid to invest but they just have nothing to invest. Everyone is waiting for the bulls to come to the market

The tools are widely available and in short are based on your analysis of the project
And follow it constantly
But there is another more serious problem
It is the project's failure to reach the softcap

A reliable team and a good project and an interaction on the social but unfortunately many weeks later
The announcement will be as follows
Sorry, we failed to sell
Or selling stops for difficult market conditions.

Today, the number of fraudsters in the ICO market has indeed increased significantly. But I sincerely believe that with time this situation may change for the better. Although today you can find a useful and profitable project for investors. The main thing is to carefully study the white paper, information about the developers, technologies and strategies for future development.

Yes I agree with you we must stop them to promote their scam ICO because it is really a waste of time. And I think one of the best thing know if the ICO were scam is to read and research their white paper and look if their campaign manager is a trusted campaign manager that will run a legit ICO that will pay your rewards after the end of the ICO.

It's really full of pathetic and intolerable when a project appears as fake after working a long time it means all the efforts go in vain. So I think before joining a project read carefully its whitepaper and its team as well. Authority needs to take a proper step against this fake project.

If I find out that the bounty company in which I participate is fraudulent, then I throw it. I am not a great lieutenant specialist, but if I am successful, I do not support fraudsters and their projects.

They are a lot of fake ICO out there.  It quite unfortunate some of the   fake ICO cant be distinguished from the real ICO as they are not instrument to detect that, so it quite necessary you read properly through the white paper and also do additional research on the project before you invest in it.

Its really hard to detect those ICO's and bounty because this scammers are professional, they way do their job., as a bounty hunter, all you need to do is to go on the feedbacks from other participants, we cant really prevent this to happen, it will happen without your knowledge, just be cautious and study well before you engage in a certain project you wanted to part.

The best way to detect fake icos and fake project is learn to read and to understand and comprehend. If something seems off when you are reading their whitepaper, then you know it is fake ico. It is all in you , spend time reading what they are and see if they are legitimate or not.

Absolutely, scammers are very good at making projects as if the project is a real project,they make it very convincing
we just realized that we were deceived after everything was already done

The issue of fake ICO is not based on cryptocurrency market rather on scammer who intentionally create these organized ico scamming activities. Any ICO that lack reputable cryptocurrency personality in their team should be look into carefully before jumping into such ICO!

I do not dare to make independent decisions and never invest in the initial project. I have friends who are more advanced and after consultation with them I make a decision.

The first thing, which I check in ICO is a count of managers. If you would see a russians in there, this ICO would to be scum in 70%.

yeah, because it is now increasingly difficult to choose a good ICO and avoid scammers, because ICO projects that have proven scam are only known after their sales are finished so it is very difficult to distinguish those who are not scams, must be very careful when choosing.

It’s hard to find out what ICO and Bounty are. To get rid of scammers, you need to study the startup history, paying attention to his team, third-party projects and everything connected with them. Analyze what the individual representatives of the project team did before ICO.

The best tools to detect fake ico's are own minds. Research, investigate, observe and analyze the project. Dont trust ico rating sites some of them are paid by the ico owners. Only trust yourself and even if you are 100% sure that the project is legit always invest what you can afford to lose.

There is nothing application or technology to find if the project is scam or not, well it on us , we have the ability to do research and tell even it's good or bad but for me I'm a bit confuse if it possible to find out which project are scam or not, this day one of my bounty turn outs to be scam but since I joined before I believe in them but how it turn like these

Not really a pro on this things cause I also got scammed back then but for me the identities of the project team is really important, scammers really like to hide their identities so take a look on their project if they had a meeting or presscon which involved them while promoting their projects, never ever rely on Linkedin or any social media platforms accounts since it can be made or just a hacked one.

Real People with great experience and good background = Real Good Project

Today, unfortunately, this is an epidemic for the cryptocurrency world, because cryptocurrency today has a huge number of projects that do not have utility and in general, in most cases, these are common scam projects.

You can test yourself in several ways:
1) Thanks and follow experienced professionals (Hero or Legend accounts in the forum)
2) Self test Whitepaper or team info.

In order to start understanding the ICO, you need experience, in the beginning everyone has mistakes. The main thing is not to stop, but to study all the nuances and then you will notice the features that indicate that the project is not very good.

That is hard and important issue mate in crypto space. There is too many scam projects and bounties. You need to be experienced investor to detec all of these scam projects. You need to follow ico influencers and you need to do some resarch about their project and whitepaper. But it will be hard.

Scammers are a cancer tumor for a crypto community. Because of them, many investors refuse to make investments. To avoid scammers as much as possible, you should carefully analyze the ICO. Check the team, whitepapper.Many ICO indicate that they are approved by the SEC.To check the truthfulness of the information you can go to the official website of the SEC and check this information yourself.Here is the website:https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html).Also (if you are a bounty participant) pay attention to the bounty pool.If it's too big, it should arouse suspicion.Also, if the team very often rewrites white paper and often complements and changes it-this is an alarming call.Also, if the ICO site allegedly have huge fees, it is likely that they have a large number of visits.In order to check the statistics of the site I use this service https://www.similarweb.com/ (https://www.similarweb.com/).Services on the Internet a lot and I recommend not to neglect them.

To see that the project can be a Scam is very difficult, there are projects that behave well during the ico period and it seems that the project will shoot , but in the end it turns out to be a scum example such as yumerium

This indicates the popularity of the crypto market, as well as the fact that there is a lot of money here. Always where these both factors are present, there are a lot of scammers.

Unfortunately, we don’t have such a way. All that we can analyze information and make quick decisions.  To be honest, I have not seen tokens for a long time.

I think that you should think only with your mind. Don't trust and ico rating websites, I think that you should check social networking sites of every member. And if yyou find something strange, don't participate in this ICO.

Only the team and the presence of the escrow can give at least some guarantees. Today, fake ICO has learned to mask well.

Study the links you were given. But always remember that scammers are getting smarter and smarter. And each time they cheat more and more people. Every time there are new messages about the bench

Fake ICO and bounty are very rampant nowadays. Only if there was a tool to detect or differentiate the fake from the real project, it will be very much appreciated. In the absence of a detection tool, an extensive research on the project, team, roadmap is very essential to avoid investing or promoting a fake ICO project.

Very good advice, sometimes some scam ICOs websites will use fake traffic to make them look like a huge amount of traffic. They can use various methods to deceive us. The only thing we can do is to investigate it carefully everything behind.

Although, it's very difficult to discern fake projects from real one. But, at least, I think one of those ways of identifying fake ICO projects is how real their whitepaper might seem. That's why it's best an investor digests the whitepaper before investing on a particular project. Fake ICO has really gone viral these days, and I do not pray to fall into their traps at all.

There are too many scam projects nowadays, and they are focused on scams and name scams, so we can hardly choose a potential project, so never think of investing in ICO is easy, they are very dangerous.

before you join any bounty campaign or invest in an ico you have to re-check their team, that is very important because most scam ICO or bounty have an fake team.
and don't forget to check teakm activity on group chat.

I don't think there are tools to detect fake bounties, but we can see fake bounties or ICOs by studying all the devices in prizes, for example, websites, telegrams and white paper, and marketing strategies that are too weak.

Scammers can make vivid Whitepaper and Roadmap but sometimes they can fail in seemingly simple things.
For example fake team presented on website that are taken from other sources.
Not so complex thing to check but at least couple of projects that I'm aware of did that - Benebit, Xeonframe.

Try to be more selective with the projects and read their whitepapers. I have seen so much projects, that have simply copy pasted their whitepaper from another project and people have still invested their funds in it!

It is good to keep watch on the spreadsheet. If the bounty manager still does not have update in a more weeks, it is better to find another bounty campaign. Because no update of the admin of the bounty is a greater chance it turns out to be a scam.

This problem is very worried about the community, fraudulent bounty filled the market compared to the previous year, we need to find a way to deal with them that would stop them before people work with them for a long amount of time and get nothing.

It is hard to determine which one is fake and which one is legit,
There are so many fake team and project sometimes you just have to check every team member and their background.

For me, it is very hard for me to spot a scam ICO. I joined some bounty that were just procrastinating the process. I hate to say this but scam ICO's are good with delaying tactics and for its better to join an ICO at later part of it so that  you will know how the team work. If they are delaying things, most likely they are a scam or they will fail. Scam ICO's are getting good at what they do so we need to be wise about joining an ICO.

I will not lie about the fact that today there are a huge number of projects on the market, frank scam projects that really have big problems with trust and with the SEC, so we all understand that today this is problem number 1

The best way to detect a scam Bounty is to analyze the project itself, its idea, team and GitHub. It is very important the Bounty manager to be with a high rank and without red trust, also the Bounty allocation should not be too big like 1 million $.

Since currently there is no assigned government agency or any form of organization who validate all ICO's, it is really heard to detect if the ICO is fake. Most of the time I'm studying the background, the team, and whitepaper, etc. and still end up on a scam ICO. But verifying it and checking the details could help you minimize the risk if getting into scam project. Cheers and good luck.

It might be very difficult to detect fake ICO without using tools like artificial intelligent which is capable to detect fake and scam , so we need to regroup and fight back against these people .

Alaways check this board -  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0
It is so much helpful board I think. Many scam ICO listed on that board. You should checkout their team and activeness.

There is no unambiguous method that would allow to immediately determine whether this project is fraudulent or not. In each case it will be its own specific set of features and signals.

Nowadays this is such  a big problem- Fake ico and bounty.Before investing money in  any project investor should have a better observation and check those projects properly. because today moreover projects are scamming.People are loosing money in fake ico and loosing also trust in cryppto.what is creating a bad effect in.crypto society.All the investoes and bounty hunters should  be alert about those and have to be against of fake and scams projects

You can find that user in the forum, he posts his reports were he exposes the icos that are using fake pictures or some other form of fake information to try to make themselves seem to be more legitimate, other people are doing the very same thing and are making a great contribution to the community by warning us about which coins are a complete scam and do not deserve our investment, so keep your eyes open in case an ico in which you are interested is reported by people like them.

There are few things that you should know before joining in some bounty campaign to avoid being scam. First thing to do is to determine if the whole developers are in real persons not a fake people try to search if all people composed by the projects are have a real identity. Then try to pay attention to read the white papers and also the roadmaps of a particular projects to determine if the projects are legit and not fake. And also look with their project's ability to respond in all problems especially with regulations and marketing system.

There is no tools to detect fake ICO or bounty. The only way to know what ICO and bounty is legit or fake by doing your own research and predicting what is really possible to happen next. If the benefits and uniqueness of the project is their.

I usually before joining ICO saw the manager's bounty, website, Roadmap, whitepapper, members of the telegram group and the team that showed themselves on social media, because if there was a project with a real team and office it meant that the project was really good to follow.

There is no known perfect formula for detecting fake ICOs or bounties. What you should do is to use your own discretion and research as much as you can. We have even seen a nice projects being abandoned by the team. So therefore, nothing is guaranteed.

That is one of the problem to discover if the ICO or the project t was fake because they are same or they are like those legit project and the manager was known also because I have an experienced  that I found out the ICO and the project was scammed when it's done and their is no update on the social media account even on the telegram and when I asking the manager their is no answer also. So I think the best thing to do was to read carefully the Whitepaper and the project update.

Personally, the way to choose a clear ICO project is to look at the whitepaper, because there can be seen all the details about the project. what the project is clear about is the goal or not. actually I sometimes use feeling to choose projects. but so far I have always been able to project successfully in my own way

These are great articles and should be in a pinned post in scam sections, with so many victims of scam ICO we need to look and bookmarked the scam sections, the community is helping one another on tracing scam and fraud ICO and so many are being posted here daily.

That is why it is better to join a lot of bounty in same time, because we can't choose which one is good or not. I talk about bounty campaign right, like social media, article, videos that we can join a lot in same time.

Actually, it is very difficult for us to detect the ICO is scams or not. It will depend on how good and smart we analyze the projects. Just be careful when analyzing:
1. Their team, including checking their experience, track record, and their information on the social media and others.
2. Their projects whether it is real and reasonable or not.
3. Token allocation, wallet transaction, and also supply
4. Tooken sold information
5. Community channel that you should follow.

I have never heard of a tool to detect fake ico or bounty, but there are sites that give an ico rating and the development of token sales, so from there we can detect the presence of legit or fake ico. https://icorating.com/

You can start on the scam sections, there are active members of this forum that are good in catching scam ICO and posting it on the scam section, second are they verified people check out some rating sites and check if they verified their account but do not make these rating site a barometer to find out if the ICO will succeed or not.

Read their telegram chat history, you can verify that ICO based on their telegram. Also, check some ICO bench mark out there in order to know what ICO is promising and seems legit at the moment. There are really so much scam ICOS out there and we should not support it.

it's not a way to know a bounty scam but if I decide to do it myself I do a lot of research like seeing their team and community on the telegram and I also read their whitepaper so I better understand the purpose of their product.

the fake one is easy to promote its efforts to be even better about its ico which cannot help you to undergo what is not fake, but just live our activities by detecting it for the right direction

It is very hard to detect a fake ico and bounty, but with proper research on the project itself (Checking whitepaper, team, working product, website) you can avoid those fake icos and bounty.

Even how good we are in checking and knowing about the difference between scam projects or legit still we cant be spare from being a victim of this damn scammers because more than us,they are the expert in this field.but better that there are many advices caming from members here to help preventing from being victim

Thank you for that very informative informations that is very helpful and everyone is enjoying to adventure new ideas and learnings at all. To look for good ICO would be posible if you will know what are the possibilities to drive on through gathering informations and service for more experience at all.

I think it will be difficult to see which projects are scam or not, but it will be seen if we search in detail through the whitepaper and website, the most shocking thing is the photo manipulation of the team which indeed is not the real one.

Whatever we do scammers develop. Even undergo KYC procedures. I make high-quality sites and white paper. Buy ratings. Making ICO more promising. Then they just steal and hide. So now there is no way to make sure that the project is real.

The way to evaluate a fake ICO project is to consider the development path of the project. How does it grow? What is the project development plan in each stage? . if it is too simple or unclear. I can evaluate this as a fake project. Of course, when we find out that the project is fake, we should stop advertising for the project. I do not want many investors lose money by the fake ICO. I also hope that in the future there will be a tool to help identify fake iCO. It is also very beneficial to investors and bounty hunters like us.

I think it just comes down to in-depth research and not following others and hype. Then a bit of luck needs to come into the mix

Nowadays, ICO is no risk, because they are very risky because their prices are constantly decreasing and there is no tendency to increase, so many people who buy and hold for long time still lose money. They are afraid to invest in the ICO

actually it's very difficult to guess, don't ever invest in projects that don't have a web, wp, team, and roadmap that isn't clear, it could be fake Ico who only wants to collect some money and just leave you

Well yes it is really true that there are lots of fake ICOs and bounties out there so if ever you had participated in a certain ICO and bounty  always make sure that there's no one in the developer team who are involved in fraud and scams so you can avoid yourself being scammed. 

The best signal for a scam ICO is a bad whitepaper and copy pasted team members. I know it may seem obvious but more than a half of all investors never read whitepapers and check the team members. Just make a good investigation and you won't get scammed.

Read the whitepapers! The best way to detect the scam project is to investigate its whitepaper, because 90 percent of scam ICOs are copy pasting someones documents. If you would read all the whitepapers, you will never be scammed.

If you do not mind going through the stress of doing your own research on every ICO you choose to promote, it is always the best. Sometimes, it might take much time to detect  the authenticity of some projects, because they can be very deceptive. Then it will be good you have a mentor or colleagues who can also help alongside to analyze such project for you, in order to be sure.

I would not 100% trust various rating sites. Any rating can be sold and bought. Trust only your own opinion about the project.

now the projects have become more qualitative and interesting. in addition, all ceased to believe in what is simply written on the project website. I am now the first case study all the documentation, without this in any way

You can analyze projects yourself before you start taking part in them. The easiest thing you can do is carefully examine the site for errors, its design, check the profiles of the development team and make sure that these people really exist. Pay attention to the number of subscribers in social networks and their activity, if it's just bounty hunters, you will understand it from the comments and a small number of likes.