Any Proven Method To Identify SCAM 🤬 Projects At ICO Stage Or Even Before⁉️

[gwdf1]

So please share your experience on how to identify a scam project at or before ICO.

My method is a careful research. I investigate documents, web-sites, partnerships, audits, community, social media. Also I rely on some bloggers that give their own opinion. I know that it is impossible to protect yourself from all scams even if you investigate it carefully as there are some scammers who act very sensibly, so it is difficult to identify their fraud, so the main thing is to comply with risk management and not invest more than you can afford to lose.

[nurulhmani1280wat]

fraudulent projects are hard to detect when the project owner will not cheat you at first, I say you should invest your money in old projects, such as projects that have a guarantee including a strong support team on the project they are working on. You have to be extra careful in investing in new projects so they don't happen again.

[so98nn]

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Answering to your question as everyone stated its very hardship to pull out this job you will almost most of the time end up with the projects which are scam. Crypto is all about deep research these days and more or less your luck to enter into perfect project. It's better to see the project go live on an exchanger and which has good volume of trade. If you get tangled into low price pre-ICO schemes then definitely its huge risk. Obviously this risk can give you pretty decent amount of money as you are buying at special prices, but its not a guarantee. With that said, its better reach out projects which are already in the market, having good social presence, good support center. That gives you better probability of hitting profitable portfolio. You may need to wait for the returns but surely you will minimize the risk almost next to zero.

[coin-investor]

We all know that Crypto industry is full of scammers l. But everytime they able to cheat newbies and sometimes more experienced ones as well.

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

It's possible as long as you are taking enough time to research if the project is worth investing, check out the team, their roadmap, their whitepaper, the source code, it will take time but it's worth it as you save money and your expectation, and you can also save other investors from investing, also be sure to look in the scam section and see if the project that you want to invest in do not have a scam accusation there.

[dlite560]

Thanks a lot for all of you for sharing thoughts.

Personally I find this free tool 👇  very helpful to analyze a project.

https://tokensniffer.com


Best thing that it can do in my opinion is this 👇




After reviwing, you can have good amount of idea about a project.

It certaily looks like a good tool to analyze new projects. Can help to identify a SCAM project.

[Pffrt]

It's not that easy to identify a scam project while it's not that easy too if you are little clever. Scam projects will always have a shit idea to share which they can never make live and they will leave things unorganized. This is most common things. However, you have to check out the team carefully and whitepaper whether they have copied it from anywhere else.
There was a guideline by @coolcryptovator which I can't find at the moment. I will update once I find it.

[Jackl87]

We all know that Crypto industry is full of scammers l. But everytime they able to cheat newbies and sometimes more experienced ones as well.

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

I don't think that there is a way to 100% avoid investing into a scam project. Of course there are ways or things that you should do to minimize the risk of picking a scam project to invest in but you can never be 100% sure. I would advice to always look up the whitepaper, look if it is well written and not only a 10 page copy and paste whitepaper. Then look at the team, check their linkedIn or Xing profiles and see how old those profiles are. Ask critical questions about the long term goals and how they want to accomplish them in their telegram group and see if the Dev Team is answering and what they are answering.

[jaberwock]

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

Many projects launched on daily basis. Some are extremely successful while others are less. But many SCAM projects are being launched as well just to pull out money from the pocket of innocent people.

This has been discussed several times in this cryptocurrency forum, like really, a lot of times. Like some. People have said, you should know the team. Knowing the team is in important. These scammers have to hide their identities and they do that by impersonate other people who are well known in the crypto space. They use fake identities on their websites and social media pages.

So, it is up to you to do your research and dig further to know whether they are genuine or not. If there are some icons they claim to work with, you should visit those icons page and know whether they are really involved in the project, always try to verify things.

[Silberman]

We all know that Crypto industry is full of scammers l. But everytime they able to cheat newbies and sometimes more experienced ones as well.

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

Many projects launched on daily basis. Some are extremely successful while others are less. But many SCAM projects are being launched as well just to pull out money from the pocket of innocent people.

Recently a Scam project "DXSWAP.NET" did exactly the same.

They also run a bounty campaign on Bitcointalk forum tu prove their legitimacy and gain more attraction. But ran away right after the pre-sale ICO.

Bounty Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5373220.0

They took heavy amount of money including my $200 in a false manner.

Proof:



I am not much worried about my loss but I want to prevent others from being scammed.

So please share your experience on how to identify a scam project at or before ICO.

There are  many strategies that allow you to identify the majority of the projects that are scams in the market, but it is impossible to detect every single one of them, but why is that? Because projects that could be legitimate and that pass all your tests can still eventually become scams if one of the developers goes rogue, however a few of the things you can do to avoid most scams is to look for anything that has been copied from other websites, things like the white paper, the website itself, pictures and resumes of their developers.

You need to also look at their claims and see if their goals are reachable, for example there are many projects that promise profits and this makes them a scam by default as any serious trader or investor will tell you it is impossible to guarantee profits in any market.

[24Kt]

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

Many projects launched on daily basis. Some are extremely successful while others are less. But many SCAM projects are being launched as well just to pull out money from the pocket of innocent people.

This has been discussed several times in this cryptocurrency forum, like really, a lot of times. Like some. People have said, you should know the team. Knowing the team is in important. These scammers have to hide their identities and they do that by impersonate other people who are well known in the crypto space. They use fake identities on their websites and social media pages.

So, it is up to you to do your research and dig further to know whether they are genuine or not. If there are some icons they claim to work with, you should visit those icons page and know whether they are really involved in the project, always try to verify things.

One red flag for me is if the team is using fake photos, so you have to do quick browsing of their team members over the internet. Once you found out they are using fake photos, then, that project has high chance of pulling a disappearing act once they got a hold of money. Also, if the roadmap or whitepaper is very generic in nature, like copy paste from someone else's project, then, it means the team didn't put much effort so they can easily abandon this without warning.

[crzy]

It's not that easy to identify a scam project while it's not that easy too if you are little clever. Scam projects will always have a shit idea to share which they can never make live and they will leave things unorganized. This is most common things. However, you have to check out the team carefully and whitepaper whether they have copied it from anywhere else.
There was a guideline by @coolcryptovator which I can't find at the moment. I will update once I find it.

You really have to analyze properly to know if that is a scam project or not, you can also ask the community about it and this seems more effective especially if you ask people here about their opinion on that project. People who might not know this forum are more prone to a scam project, especially if they just ask on social media where there’s a lot of fake accounts. Knowing a project as a scam is not easy but you have to do everything, don’t invest easily.

[Slow death]

nowadays projects become more evolved scammers for example it became normal for scammers to create a project, after that they have all real team members and after collecting funds start not working on the project quickly, they leave the forum and just stay on twitter and telegram after a long time people realize that the project is a scam

[Snappycoco]

Started by squid coin, this trend is becoming outrageous. Many scammers are coming here in the forum and lots of people are being scammed. Well, there are lots of thread here in the forum that offers comprehensive information to avoid scam project. First of all, do your research. Doing your research about the project will somehow reduce the risk of losing money. It gives you the hint wether you invest in professional team or just a typical guys who could create a website then offers something out of nothing. There will always be a silver lining.

[Silberman]

Is It Really Possible To Identify A Scam Project Right At The Beginning?

Many projects launched on daily basis. Some are extremely successful while others are less. But many SCAM projects are being launched as well just to pull out money from the pocket of innocent people.

This has been discussed several times in this cryptocurrency forum, like really, a lot of times. Like some. People have said, you should know the team. Knowing the team is in important. These scammers have to hide their identities and they do that by impersonate other people who are well known in the crypto space. They use fake identities on their websites and social media pages.

So, it is up to you to do your research and dig further to know whether they are genuine or not. If there are some icons they claim to work with, you should visit those icons page and know whether they are really involved in the project, always try to verify things.

One red flag for me is if the team is using fake photos, so you have to do quick browsing of their team members over the internet. Once you found out they are using fake photos, then, that project has high chance of pulling a disappearing act once they got a hold of money. Also, if the roadmap or whitepaper is very generic in nature, like copy paste from someone else's project, then, it means the team didn't put much effort so they can easily abandon this without warning.

Any sign of low effort coming from the developers should be taken as a red flag and should not be ignored, fake pictures and resumes are very common among scammers as they want to make it seem as if the supposed team behind the project has a lot of experience when this is not the case, so in the case you find any indication that the developers somehow are illegitimate then this should be more than enough to disqualify that project from your list of coins in which you could invest, this may seem to be way too harsh by some, but it is the only way to avoid most scams in the market.

[Mahanton]

COMMON SENSE!

This is what you do need because you could really determine or notice out whenever;

-poor quality project
-anonymous devs
-unrealistic goals or roadmap
-high token price
-Inactive responses and other shady behavior.

You could determine these things if you do make use of your common sense.

[sherenikaw]

for me, i saw a project from a team that handled it whether it could be trusted or not. after that I will monitor the tele group because there will definitely be a tele group there. a team that is good or not can be seen from how they answer questions from people in the group. it can be one method to see if the team is trusted or not. but now more scammers are getting smarter here so it will be more difficult to detect whether the project is a scam or not. What is certain is that knowledge and experience here are also very much needed in choosing a project so as not to fall into a scam project.

[Rahman11]

There are several signs that investors should look out for to determine whether an ICO might be a scam.
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6 Signs that an ICO May Be a Scam
Weak Website or White Paper. ...
Absence of Named Developers or Team Members. ...
No Clear Roadmap. ...
Skewed Mining Structure. ...
Uncapped Fundraising Goal. ...
Evidence of a Pyramid Structure.