There are lot of exchanges and altcoins that has a fake volume it says there that many of ico's and their coins list on exchanges with fake volumes.
Most probably, it's hard to trust small exchanges at the current status of the market.
Scams are happening everywhere, hence, being here is very risky for our finances, and we should be smart in dealing with it to avoid loses.
Volume manipulation should be a crime, but until no regulation will implemented in the market, that will remain as a normal thing.
Small exchanges knows they have to compete as majority of the traders are trusting the high volume exchanges and therefore they do a dirty strategy to attract traders.
What is killing some exchanges is lack of patient, they rush into releasing their exchange thinking it will be that easy to operate and then they end up not getting volume which forms the base of how people select what exchange to trade on.
I was on a thread this morning where I read 2 comment of users planning to create their own exchange, and I was like, exchange has now become a thing for cat and dogs, even inexperienced secondary school child now wants to create an exchange just to make money from the listen fee, this might be another form of scam and the people they will be scamming more this time are developers that falls victim.