Well I hope it isn't a scam, cause it's the investors that will suffer, I don't really care about SPARTA.

Even if it is not a scam you still took all precautionary steps to ensure you can scam without having to face consequences for your actions. Why would you mention such things anyway in your Whitepaper? You can see that there are plenty of ICO's that don't take these precautionary steps to ensure they aren't harassed by financial or legal institutions. You didn't even explain the most improtant thing and that's the escrow service, so you basically founded a company to deal with the escrow of two other companies you founded? Sorry but if anyone does that you should stop reading and leave, you can tell me all the fairy tales of fortune but that's speculation and an escrow founded by you to deal with the transaction between two other companies you also founded, that's a fact not a fortune fairytale.. altough it might be to you...
I just think your whitepaper smells of fish and there wasn't any salmon.

On another note actually on topic in regards to what you write here. It isn't about that you haven't started your pre-sale or ICO yet. Thank the lucky stars you haven't cause by then it would be too late. And yeah there are tons of scams going on in this envoirment so it IS ACCEPTABLE for people to accuse you, people are warned and can then check the facts again for themselves. You didn't explain anything here you just started a tantrum, why don't you explain your escrow service? Why not hire a real escrow service independent from your company's, set some real terms for them to release funds and ask THEM to announce those terms.

Heck you can even check here on bitcointalk, plenty of escrow services with a good reputation.

From your pov, saying that this is all for rea.l I get the <thank you token> but atleast hire an escrow service that's independent and doesnt have a disclaimer on their site they are specially founded for sparta, that they are inrecongizable from sparta and publish the terms because as far as I know you haven't really done that. I get aswell that you did that in regards to legal issues but why not just hire a real escrow service, if you'd taken the time to actually be transparent instead of saying you are then you might have a great fund raiser and the costs of an escrow would be arbitrary.

You are asking people with pre-sales and ICO's to put faith in you. You say it yourself in your whitepaper its about money not; we tried but we failed, but atleast we tried.
If you turn out to scam, regardless of if you are one or not. Its the people here that suffer and you can go browse the forums there are plenty of cases where money is hacked, stolen or scammed. And it sucks. So go the extra mile, cause if you can make a reality of your words, you will be glad you did it.

The name I can understand it isn't uncommon for businesses to name themselves after mythological or historical events/places etc.
But they have even secured themselves from legal liability so they can scam because they told you it the token is worthless and it serves as a thank you, nothing more.

Hello, I am warning you about a potential scam here's the evidence I have collected:

SpartaICO is having an ICO to fund Sparta Startups which are both seperate company's and legal entities controlled and owned by the same people.
The idea is that <Sparta Startups> will fund startups to then profit 3-6% when they are being taken over by larger companies in multi-million and multi-billion dollar deals.
That the SPARTA token will be offered but not enforced as a means of receiving services from <Sparta Startups> to the startups affiliated and funded by <Sparta Startups>
Though this is optional and fiat money can be used aswell. It is also mentioned that each startup is independent and can fundraise for themselves in the conventional way.

The idea is that SpartaICO will issue a token swap, Ethereum for their token SPARTA. Now here's the problem with this.
In their whitepaper and I will quote the following is mentioned: ''<>'' are used to indicate which company and relative labels concering anything other than that.(their whitepaper)

It's not like they didn't just mention that the token has no value anyways and is only a thank you towards investors/donators.

Now they have basically set themselves up to carry 0 responsibility towards the investor, the use of the coin and any regulations and legal liability.

They will go on in their whitepaper about how <sparta startups> will purchase the token from <SpartaICO> and that <SpartaICO> can't be held responsible for <Sparta Startups> to mass buy the coin and that it won't classify as a buy back because its a legal different entity/company.

Now in regards to the use of the coin as a means of payment for services with <Sparta Startups> they state it will act as credit/loyalty points or pre-paid as for example with a phone. Any of these suffice.

They say that any startups which are independent entity's from SpartaICO and Sparta Startup still have the ability to raise money conventionally and that the use of SPARTA token is completely optional, though that is not explicitly said when you refer to it as loyalty points. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

Now there's also sparta credits which can be in turn obtained using sparta tokens but in my opinion this is arbitrary and only serves to make it seem like the TOKEN will have actuall purpose and make people buy/invest/swap/donate.

They will go on about this a bit more making investors believe the SPARTA token will have actuall purpose by a supposed demand from the entity <Sparta Startups>
Either way it won't really matter, SpartaICO is Sparta Startups only not in legal terms, the founders are the same (there's more.. a lot more...)

Now they mention they have hired an escrow service, called Paidwiz, with a website www.Paidwiz.com (hold on, it is about to get very interesting)
For those unfamiliar with escrow service and escrow ensures payment between two company's acting as an independent party to ensure fairness etc etc.
Most of the time an escrow won't release funds untill certain milestones or other terms are met. These terms are not specified anywhere in the whitepaper.
They do MAKE IT SEEM like they are specified, but that is not the case.

In the section: Full transparency which is the second last section you will read that they detail here the approxiamte distribution of funds.
Here we go:
Here you get a list like how % goes to staff, marketing etc.

Now the release of funds upon founder sole discretion, they don't mention which founder is it Company A the SpartaICO, is it company B Sparta Startups? OR AND YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED IT IS IT COMPANY C PAIDWIZ  WELL LETS HAVE A LOOK AT THEIR SITE!

DIRECTLY COPIED FROM THEIR SITE IN ''ABOUT''

PAIDWiz is in Alpha stage, we are not open to public. Our platform is made available for exceptional circumstances!

We are a member in Sparta Startups accelerator ^, and we are making our platform available exceptionally due to a demand by Sparta Startups. PAIDWiz is a payment gateway, and maybe much more than that.
Our team is currently indistinguishable from Sparta Startups team, due to the nature of incubation and acceleration ^ offers, that means that ^ team are taking care and guiding our development and will do with our growth, till we are able to fly on our own.

So basically if you read this correct they are saying that they are the same people from SpartaICO and SpartaStartups.
There are social media options which would normally lead to an account but there are none.

The team <SpartaICO> and <SpartaStartups> consists of two people who want to manage 300 startups?

I may be mistaken and they are all honest but even then the potential of being scammed, robbed of your money is incredibly large. They have secured themselves from all legal and regulatory liabilities, they issue their token clearly pointing out that it has no value and should be considereda Thank you. They say it is a tokenswap.

The only one's that are going to buy from you is SpartaStartup, there's no guarrantee they will as there's no guarrantee that any startup in their incubator will use the token.
There's no guarrantee that they will enlist any startups.

To put the cherry on the cake I will go trough the supposed startups in their incubator currently:

Startupz.org same team as Sparta Startup won't see anything independent here.
Fightscancer.org page is amateuristicly made and doesnt hold any info, about page is empty
PaidWiz.com I just told you about this, this is SpartaICO and Sparta Startup, just not legally. (also serves as their escrow service with sparta being their only employer and not accepting any other jobs.. why oh why?)
marketingants.com - not open to the public
2fund.org also a crowdfunding company... doesn't hold any information - not accesible to the public
Kidzi.net - some internet site tells you to manage your kids internet, mobile acces and whatnot - because we love our kids. No about page, nothing just a single page with some crappy slogan.
Opinionz.net also just a frontpage, no about or anything else.
biolabz.com - Just a homepage, clicking anything results in an error - about page shows error (my internet was fine)
babymy.org - again nothing really to see
Justicefund.net again just a homepage, clicking anything results in errors.
www.hidevideos.com just a homepage
arads.net just a homepage, clicking anything results in errors
answerzis.com  just a homepage
languageshub.com just a homepage
sos1.net just a homepage - clicking anything results in an error

And it ends there. may I add that all of them have ''rounds raised'': 40k/1m$/ Spartastartups
And all of them have some stupid stuff at the question ''why sparta?'' answers like : we need fighters, excellence seeks excellence 7 OF THEM 7!!!! answered FROM A TO Z
what kind of answer is that? 7x the question ''why sparta?'' was answered from A to Z

Their sites all come up with either nothing or their team. the whitepaper is filled with basic grammar mistakes. It's a mess to look at.

In my opinion; this is a scam and I advice anyone who still wants to participate in this ICO to be very very cautious.