The first red flag or scam signal is an anonymous developer behind the team.
Once the community got this concern serious many understood the project was scammy, that is why the team of XEM decided to rebrand and make it XYM. Rebranding is another scam signal. Why do you need rebranding unless you want to keep a certain amount of holders and move away from the web reference with the scam tag!
Check out Dan Larimer's, the father of the biggest scams, projects history - BitShares was turned into Steem, then EOS, then VOICE. And none of them was not complete or any of that kind. And that fact does not put away many smart people using the technology of dPoS that he invented in many legit projects.
A gun is a weapon, you can do harm to others or you can protect yourself from others.
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