I don't think there's no shame admitting that we make mistakes, that's where you learn from. Sometimes even with DYOR, legit looking projects turn out to be scams. And sometimes we just want to risk it.
During last bullrun ico frency 2017-2018 many people were saying that ICO scams are now over and next time people will be smarter. However now there are more scams then ever, especially rug pulls in uniswap and pancakeswap. We just don't call them ICOs anymore.
My failures of judgement contain 2 icos from many years ago which were obvious scams in hindsight :
Swiss Alps Mining,
Envion and one latest where Dev disappeared after i aped in to some BSC shittoken for the hopes of 2x-10 flip (i can't even remember the name of it).
Luckily i haven't invested anything i couldn't lose (to scams anyway), and i have even made money with investing to something that turned out to be scam later on. But still they are obviously annoying.
So i would like to hear your stories on how did you get scammed. Was it because you aped in without research or something else?
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Nowadays it is difficult to distinguish whether a project is real or a scam, this is what makes us selective in crypto investments, I have invested in ICOs since 2015 and I have learned hundreds, even though I have invested about 30 ICOs, and of all I have found about 20 scam.