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Topic: 80% of ICOs are Scams - page 67. (Read 12218 times)

full member
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July 05, 2018, 04:09:34 PM
Yes, there are a lot of scammers now. But we must be able to choose a very good project among scammers. To do this, you must constantly study the crypto currency.
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July 05, 2018, 04:07:08 PM
There are a lot of scammers on the market. That's why you need to be very careful when choosing a project in which you want to invest. Besides, the implementation of the blockchain  is not as simple as it seems. Many projects promise more than they can.
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 03:45:29 PM
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 ...

From my own experience. It is even higher, probably 90%.
ICOs success very much depend on the leaders. Even the legit leaders can fail just like any one of us can make mistakes.
member
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July 05, 2018, 03:36:34 PM
Statistic that represented in article is true. I am talking about it because of my own experience. Some period in a past I had been participated in many ICO projects. And only a few brought me any results.
member
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July 05, 2018, 03:22:38 PM
I don't count myself - but must be that's true. And this situation has bring nagative to another cryptocurrencyes and make for them a bad reputation. I think that situation will changes in nearest time, whe communitu became more wisdom on this market.
full member
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July 05, 2018, 03:07:20 PM
not all ICO is a scam because in fact there are so many ICOs or projects that have been successful so far and a few that I think are scam, and that certainly does not make us to panic in investing in ICO, even though there are such incidents
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 03:05:03 PM
not to get on a scam project - you need to carefully check all the social networks and read the whitepaper
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https://eloncity.io/
July 05, 2018, 03:03:10 PM
from what I am observing right now, many ICOs are scamp, and most of the cause is due to lack of funds or sellers who do not reach the target. and there are good ICO vendors but the team does not develop the project well. so now we have to be more careful in choosing ICO observe every aspect of starting from the development team and also the concept.

More and more projects appear on the market, and the percentage of fraudulent projects is growing. The market is now similar to the Wild West - no rules. So you have to be careful and cautious. But if there were no such risks - there would be no such profits! For this we love crypto-currencies!
jr. member
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July 05, 2018, 02:59:04 PM
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 ...

81 percent is quite alarming. Whether the study has 70-90 percent accurate it doesnt matter, its obvious that there are a lot of fake ICO's today. This is why, we follow every necessary steps to follow guidelines and to determine what is real or not. We study the project first, research a lot, read their whitepaper to know the details of their platform, check their website and their social media pages, check the number of participants and investors. Then by doing that you lessen the probability of getting into a scam.
full member
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July 05, 2018, 02:48:08 PM
from what I am observing right now, many ICOs are scamp, and most of the cause is due to lack of funds or sellers who do not reach the target. and there are good ICO vendors but the team does not develop the project well. so now we have to be more careful in choosing ICO observe every aspect of starting from the development team and also the concept.
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ONe Social Network.
July 05, 2018, 02:47:26 PM
I even want to say that at this time, perhaps this figure is even higher than 90 percent, since for a long time I can not find a good project, so be careful in choosing a project
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 02:40:43 PM
just so for the time being in the market I do not see any good proet which can really raise funds and then develop and grow in price, so be very attentive when choosing a project
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 02:32:38 PM
I advise you before investing in ICO to study the company.  And I advise you not to invest all the money in the ICO.
full member
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July 05, 2018, 01:31:17 PM
It can't be denied that most ico are very hard to be trust for. But still there are still few of them can be a tools for us to earn here, as long as

they know how to choose good ico in the forum. And to be honest, it hard to distinguish on which of the ico is not true they are very difficult to

guess in, so much better to be careful as much as possible.
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 01:13:20 PM
Unfortunately yes it does, only few of them is real project with real product and real team. Its really hard to find one of them and stay away from scams. Just be careful there are really project that really worthless.
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Binance #Smart World Global Token
July 05, 2018, 01:11:02 PM
that's true, almost 80% or higher of ico's are scam, it became in demand, and most of icos are being used by the scammers to collect more money from the community.
legendary
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July 05, 2018, 01:10:21 PM
Yes, that is correct, over 80% of the ICO's now a days are scam this because of the popularity of digita currency today makes scammers want to fraud each participants and investors. Better to research good ICO into the forum to avoid mistake on fake ICO's this time.

The problem is that nowadays anyone can start an ICO. Obviously in some of the countries, the ICOs are either banned or under strict regulations... but then there are a lot many where there are no restrictions at all.
newbie
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July 05, 2018, 12:47:18 PM
I don't believe that 80% are scams. Of course sadly there are people who are trying to take advantage of the system with little to no regulations (as in any business sphere). But I feel that people are too quick to label a ICO a scam. If a business fails and you lose your money would you call it a scam? No, it's just because they are ICOs people throw that term around.

I feel that most just fail because of it's weaknesses, such as poor idea, weak team etc.
newbie
Activity: 168
Merit: 0
July 05, 2018, 12:43:30 PM
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, there are now really many projects, but there are less than 80% of such projects.
jr. member
Activity: 121
Merit: 3
July 05, 2018, 06:23:17 AM
Yes, that is correct, over 80% of the ICO's now a days are scam this because of the popularity of digita currency today makes scammers want to fraud each participants and investors. Better to research good ICO into the forum to avoid mistake on fake ICO's this time.
I think that's not true. I never get caught by scammers. I just carefully check the project not only for fraud, but also for the importance and try to predict the demand.
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