They may not be branded as scam because they are not the ones who are directly involved in the project but what do you call a person who promotes a scam? He is still a scammer in my idea. That is no different from a site.
Are we not talking about the same thing?
A site that promotes a scam is a scammer.
Truly, I follow that path. However these sites and their spokesperson get butthurt when you say this and so they have to take the diplomatic corporate attitude saying that they uphold projects for their genuineness and blah blah blah. Whether one turns a blanket scam is least of their headaches. They never asked you to invest in the project, it was the investor on whom the fault lies.
It is a scammer because it is inviting people to invest in a project by providing high ratings when in fact the projects are mere shit projects.
Now that is a good statement. When they are taking money to make a project premium, that project has money to spend, meaning it is less likely to be scam, but does not rule out the probability of scam completely.
The only thing that I conclude with this is that one should do their own research before investing and take the consequences of doing so.