I'm hoping that there'll be in the nearest future some tracker for ICOs and their copies as this will help investors not to waste their time on such 'projects'. Is this possible?
As we can see, there are tens to hundreds of ICOs leave their announcement thread into our forum monthly. Honestly, we can not guess how many ICOs are out there. Then ICO trackers can not list whole ICOs. But fortunately, almost scam ICOs, which have either a fake team or plagiarized whitepaper, were spoted by bitcointalk's members.
In my pinion, ICO trackers are places where ICOs come to verify itself, not find, verify and list these ICOs. So, ICOs trackers are not responsible to check plagiarism. And I appriciate the ICOs trackers have the effective KYC system to verify team members of ICOs. At least, we don't worry about the scam ICOs with fake team. And now I only trust ICObench, I do not claim that all ICOs list on ICObench will not a scam ICO but it really help me avoid many scam ICOs.
One surest way to find out is running some parts of the texts on their whitepaper on some of these plagiarism sites. It gets to show exactly which project they copied.
In my experiences, I met an ICO which are working with the real team but their whitepaper is suspected plagiarism. They explained that they hire an outsource editor to write this whitepaper and do not know why he use this template for other ICO. So what do you think about this?