Forum rank in not indicative of anything, I'm a lurker that does their due diligence on ICO's from time to time (you'll probably notice that from my post history). I'm also quite new to the crypto scene having only been looking at it since start of 2017 (not so much on these forums). There are a lot of other scam ICOs out there, most people mention these already (Substratum for one).

I had a quick look again and noticed something suspicious yet again...

https://etherscan.io/address/0xb910dF6dA0d82366b9C453780e2F954528120c44

Have a look at the top contribution for 0.051 Ether (https://etherscan.io/address/0x203ee4c8ad8337ef195021c802438cc5d0830a17) - someone explain why someone would contribute when the bonus was 25% (according to https://detectortoken.com/ico/) and then again when it was 10%?

Nothing adds up here, the same pattern here: https://etherscan.io/address/0x543e113e7de94887ae95d7eef272e67ded31a673

I'm fairly convinced that they're contributing to their own ICO to make it seem they raised so much.

Anyhow, all that aside, it seems their token cap is 10 million, which by their conversion makes to be 14285.714286 ETH. Let's round that to 13000 ETH to account for bonuses and what not.

13000 ETH with today's rate is $4.94 million dollars, for what exactly? A script that takes some exchange data, performs some calculation and sends a response? At most it would be valued at $1000 to $5000 from any sensible developer. $5 million is just laughable really. Not blaming these guys, every ICO is doing and why not? Easiest money they'll make and they're set for a lifetime of luxury without having to step a foot to work ever again.

There are only a very small handful of ICOs needing anywhere near a million or more in funding, the majority is just buzz words to get your money. Why do you think DetectorToken is constantly posting with 'HUGE NEWS' and not mentioning what it is? You've guessed it. To get you to contribute more into their pockets.

Before you think I'm targeting DetectorToken, have a look at my post history for a token called TribeToken which were raising millions in the name of charity with a whitepaper that actually talked about their ICO structure exclusively.

I was looking at your Crowdsale, I'm suspecting foul activities here.

It appears as if you're contributing to your own ICO to make it look like you're getting contributions constantly, here's a few examples:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xbac5c1d7ebcbafe1952d64e1cc03355300509f75 (the transaction at the bottom sends 0.5 ether to another account, which in turn also contributes to your crowdsale)
https://etherscan.io/address/0x0661a3b71c12c8f746bc7a7203c8a43896b19e02
https://etherscan.io/address/0x51afac1f20c3c69d2955c3c9471cb592865243e3 (buys and contributes constantly to the same crowdsale over 6 days?)

Your Crowdsale is has a lot suspicious transactions like these. I'll let people decide for themselves (note: I'm not accusing Detector of being scammers, I'm just saying that they're contributing to their own ICO to make it look like they've received more investment than they actually have to make it attractive for investors)

First of all, I'm not disputing the fact that you're re-using code, it's a good thing to do. There's a clear difference between re-using libraries (such as the well-defined OpenZeppelin Solidity contract foundation) and blatantly just copying and pasting and changing a few variables. But fine, let's assume this is not an issue.

The next problem is that your 'contribution page' is a blatant rip from SkinCoin's page, now I'm not sure what excuse you want to pull there but as presented by the screenshots above your text is pretty much bang on the same. Can't be a coincidence, you would've thought any ICO worth their salt and serious about it isn't going to start by copying and pasting other people's websites. I can understand the coding, Solidity might be a new language to most (even though it's not and it's just Javascript for the most part), so it's always helpful to see reference code and understand what's going on.

The both added above seems like you've noticed that SkinCoin made some decent money and you literally copied them, which is the only conclusion that makes sense to me as a potential investor (and for the record I have saved all the pages in a quick video in case they're magically changed tomorrow).

The best of all of this is that you want NO escrow and have the public trust you and on top of that you JUST changed your 'minimum ETH goal' to be ZERO. This just screams SCAM to me.

I'd love to hear other people's opinion on this.

Oh and what about LinkedIn (or similar) pages? I'm not seeing any credibility here either, this is just a SCAM to lure people to giving you money and making it off.

All I can say to everyone is beware.

WARNING - TRIBETOKEN IS A SCAM - READ TO FIND OUT WHY

I had a look on your website, and it reminded me of another website I was looking at some time ago, namely SkinCoin.

Your website is an EXACT replica, WORD FOR WORD with SkinCoin. What's even funny is that your GITHUB contract is EXACTLY the same as SkinCoin with a few variables/things changed to mention TRIBE instead.

Without further ado, here's the proof I gathered:

https://i.imgur.com/g26fWK0.png
https://i.imgur.com/ynX5fSv.png
https://i.imgur.com/QxDjz8K.png
https://i.imgur.com/OGyGYRU.png

Watch how everything is almost the same as SkinCoin, even their diagram follows the same design pattern

SkinCoin's Crowdsale code
https://github.com/Steamtradenet/smart-contract/blob/master/contracts/Crowdsale.sol

TribeToken's Crowdsale code
https://github.com/TribeToken/Tribe-Token-Contracts/blob/master/Contract/Crowdsale.sol

Pretty much the same, don't you think?

SkinCoin's contribution page (read their Contribution Rules and FAQ)
https://skincoin.org/ico/#contribute

TribeToken's contribution rules and FAQ
https://tribetoken.org/ico/

Pretty much an exact replica...

You guys should be ashamed, stealing in the name of charity? What an immoral thing to do. I'm always skeptical of ICO's and do my due dilligence, but this one takes the cake...

I'll be reporting this to as many channels as I can find, this ought to be closed down immediately. I hope you have a pretty good answer why you copied over SkinCoin, to me this smells like a quick scam to get the money, no wonder you don't want any escrow for the funds sent and frankly I'm worried that NO ONE ELSE caught this.

Sorry, I meant an escrow for the funds (ETH) transferred to Tribe's contract address (rather than the tokens we receive). As it stands there is nothing preventing an ICO from taking all the money and running away (no offense to you guys).

What about escrow and such? I apologize if this was already mentioned before.