Topic: 80% of ICOs are Scams - page 18. (Read 12215 times)
We cannot control the ICO growth rate. I also feel that there are many ICO foundations, this phenomenon is increasingly mushrooming and not followed by careful planning. I myself feel that this ICO will fail in the middle of the road. I only suggested to the ICO team to create ICO carefully because if the ICO is still premature, it will only bring losses. It is better to plan longer time but this ICO is successful than the ICO which is not yet ripe for the planning to be released, it will only cause losses and the work of the development team is also useless. We recommend that as a development team we also have to think long and not just follow the ambitions. Besides that, if this ICO fails then the one who gets the bad name as well as the development team and the development team will also get a red stamp. This will actually harm all parties.
It was a good article. Thanks for sharing.
I'm wondering when the project that shared this article will be listed on an exchange...
I'm wondering when the project that shared this article will be listed on an exchange...
Yes and Yes again. ICO now shows itself from a very bad side.Scammers are trying to make money on this, thus do not provide opportunities for the development of good projects. Many investors simply do not invest. You pay attention how many bounty extend, break terms. Why? the reason is in the title of your post.
Now is the worst time for investing in ico. Projects can not collect enough invested for the launch and the project is closed
You are correct though about it, it's even more than 80% are scams, I think there have to be a regulations to flush out this system, there is some new methods of scam ICOs now it's called self drop ico, that's another scam
Well, you still need to choose the right ico, especially to see who is successful in such a market and who chooses good ico for him and you need to go
It seems to me that the scam of projects is much less than 80%. Now there are very few successful projects. Now it is very difficult to find a good ICO.
I think 90-95% of ICO projects are scammers at the moment. Therefore, you need to be very picky about choosing a project, otherwise you risk losing all your money. Most of the projects are now scammers, or when entering the exchange, the price immediately falls below the ICO price. Therefore, such investments should now be treated with extreme caution. Be very careful and recheck everything several times, then you will increase your chances to earn.
Saw this study on twitter... https://twitter.com/Zeex_me/status/978981735101878272
I've seen a lot of people asking about how many legit ICOs there are, so I thought I'd share
Quote from the article: "The study begins by breaking down ICOs into 6 groups: Scam, Failed, Gone Dead, Dwindling, Promising, Successful. “On the basis of the above classification,” they wrote, “we found that approximately 81% of ICO’s were Scams, ~6% Failed, ~5% had Gone Dead, and ~8% went on to trade on a exchange.”
"Scams were defined by researchers as “Any project that expressed availability of [an] ICO investment (through a website publishing, ANN thread, or social media posting with a contribution address), did not have/had no intention of fulfilling project development duties with the funds, and/or was deemed by the community (message boards, website or other online information) to be a scam.”
DYOR people ...
I agree. Now a lot of scam projects and therefore if you are afraid to invest in ICO, it is best to buy coins later on the market. I've seen a lot of people asking about how many legit ICOs there are, so I thought I'd share
Quote from the article: "The study begins by breaking down ICOs into 6 groups: Scam, Failed, Gone Dead, Dwindling, Promising, Successful. “On the basis of the above classification,” they wrote, “we found that approximately 81% of ICO’s were Scams, ~6% Failed, ~5% had Gone Dead, and ~8% went on to trade on a exchange.”
"Scams were defined by researchers as “Any project that expressed availability of [an] ICO investment (through a website publishing, ANN thread, or social media posting with a contribution address), did not have/had no intention of fulfilling project development duties with the funds, and/or was deemed by the community (message boards, website or other online information) to be a scam.”
DYOR people ...
Therefore, I prefer buying coins on the market. Yes, if the company is successful, then the price of the coin is higher in the market, but I do not risk losing my money.
I have also read about this study. I totally think it is true. you can get this idea from participating in airdrops and bounty campaigns. This used to be very profitable. But now everything seems to be a scam. It is sad though. Crypto used to be very valuable. Now this is just a place for fraud.
Only 80%? I'd say that's a conservative estimate. I prefer 99% 
. Seriously though, it depends how you define a scam. Some are straight up scams from the get go and just want to run off with your money whilst others just seem to be some project someone has halfheartedly dreamed up and hopes that people will just invest in it to get it off the ground. Most people who run ICOs will have absolutely no idea what they're doing and the project may just fail due to incompetence or inexperience, or once they have the money they spend it badly or just figure it's best to keep it without throwing it away on some shoddy idea that will probably just fail anyway. If most of theseICOs were legitimate businesses or ideas then they would likely just go the normal route to get funding or their ideas off the ground, but these days it's much easier to just quickly throw together an ICO and hope people bite.
. Seriously though, it depends how you define a scam. Some are straight up scams from the get go and just want to run off with your money whilst others just seem to be some project someone has halfheartedly dreamed up and hopes that people will just invest in it to get it off the ground. Most people who run ICOs will have absolutely no idea what they're doing and the project may just fail due to incompetence or inexperience, or once they have the money they spend it badly or just figure it's best to keep it without throwing it away on some shoddy idea that will probably just fail anyway. If most of theseICOs were legitimate businesses or ideas then they would likely just go the normal route to get funding or their ideas off the ground, but these days it's much easier to just quickly throw together an ICO and hope people bite. Saw this study on twitter... https://twitter.com/Zeex_me/status/978981735101878272
I've seen a lot of people asking about how many legit ICOs there are, so I thought I'd share
Quote from the article: "The study begins by breaking down ICOs into 6 groups: Scam, Failed, Gone Dead, Dwindling, Promising, Successful. “On the basis of the above classification,” they wrote, “we found that approximately 81% of ICO’s were Scams, ~6% Failed, ~5% had Gone Dead, and ~8% went on to trade on a exchange.”
"Scams were defined by researchers as “Any project that expressed availability of [an] ICO investment (through a website publishing, ANN thread, or social media posting with a contribution address), did not have/had no intention of fulfilling project development duties with the funds, and/or was deemed by the community (message boards, website or other online information) to be a scam.”
DYOR people ...
I've seen a lot of people asking about how many legit ICOs there are, so I thought I'd share
Quote from the article: "The study begins by breaking down ICOs into 6 groups: Scam, Failed, Gone Dead, Dwindling, Promising, Successful. “On the basis of the above classification,” they wrote, “we found that approximately 81% of ICO’s were Scams, ~6% Failed, ~5% had Gone Dead, and ~8% went on to trade on a exchange.”
"Scams were defined by researchers as “Any project that expressed availability of [an] ICO investment (through a website publishing, ANN thread, or social media posting with a contribution address), did not have/had no intention of fulfilling project development duties with the funds, and/or was deemed by the community (message boards, website or other online information) to be a scam.”
DYOR people ...
Every day there are always developments both from the ICO and from Crypto. The number of existing ICOs continues to get additions. The new ICOs that have sprung up now seems to be getting better in providing features and also delivering more complete information. Indeed there are some of them who are scams, and now the number is also increasing. Scam now often happens to those who are not ready to face the tough competition in crypto, they are also less creative in giving ideas, so not many investors are interested.
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I have been following dozens of ICOs since more than two years ago, the first time I invested ICO was Chrono Bank, then We Trust, Edgeless, Minexcoin, Populous, Bitcad and so on, and of course the scam was an investor risk but this made us more careful in placing money.
I'm a follwers of the ICO you mention ans your answer concerning the ICO you mention are not straightforward. However, I believe investing in genuine ICOs is pretty easy if ones is not after the money all time because the first to do is about the team involve, the ICO manager and the project concept.
Yes, I agree that recently a lot of ICO are scams. therefore, many countries to protect their citizens prohibit ICO. and now people are carefully studying ICO projects that would not get to the scammers.
I agree that now every second project is scammers, before this course was not, for me it is a very big problem,because it is becoming more and more difficult to choose a project.
My suggest is also invested a few times on ICO scam, to overcome it we should really read and understand their whitepapers and properly check the team that aired on their site.
Many ICO are scam but not 80%. many of them are failed to reach their target sale that I is why they have to declare as a failed ICO sale. It is not considered as scam because many failed ICO give back the investors money to avoid legal case that could bring them in jail.
I also think that most people on the forum confuse concepts and call everything scam, although initially a very small percentage of projects are released with the primary purpose of deceiving users. Most of them simply do not have an interesting idea and a strong team. These are just weak projects that are very easy to identify on a lot of different signs and just not have anything to do with them!
Many ICO are scam but not 80%. many of them are failed to reach their target sale that I is why they have to declare as a failed ICO sale. It is not considered as scam because many failed ICO give back the investors money to avoid legal case that could bring them in jail.
I also think that most people on the forum confuse concepts and call everything scam, although initially a very small percentage of projects are released with the primary purpose of deceiving users. Most of them simply do not have an interesting idea and a strong team. These are just weak projects that are very easy to identify on a lot of different signs and just not have anything to do with them!
sometime ico really unique is already practically offered, but the technology is slowly gaining strength. Plus, investors are becoming more legible. the number of scams and fraudulent schemes in the ICO grows in arithmetic progression, so clearly ICO-industry needs a competent regulatory mechanism, and what will come with it, time will tell.
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