Some dishonest people in the market come up with some such projects.
Although their project currently has value, their project has no value in the mountains, they distribute some tokens and these tokens are really priceless.
I got some tokens about 4 months ago which are not listed on any exchange yet.
I have about 2-3 types of tokens like this.
I had many shit tokens in my collection where i spent money and then found out that it was an elaborate scam, everyone went through those misfortunes and we will be seeing those in the future and there is no stopping in those worthless shit projects as long as there is no regulation in the market regarding who can raise money providing tokens and if anyone is free to do so then you will see scams like these.
And that leaves the users to be responsible of what they are doing with crypto.
Because these scammers will always be there and they will just try and try to screw people.
If you want to stop such misfortunes, better take a break in investing on these projects.
Or one option is to invest in an existing and established market like btc or eth.
At least you know, that they always have the market and they will not disappear in no time.
Because these tokens, a lot are hoping for a big paycheck to come but in reality, only those owners have the paycheck.