We have a set of criteria that we use before listing but everyone has to be careful before putting their money into anything. We see ICOs and Token sales as a great form of crowdfunding. In the crowdfunding environment there are always bad characters, even on more regulated sites like GoFundMe. It's the nature of money and humans. My advice is to educate yourself and create your own set of criteria before investing.
Hopefully your efforts and hard work will be paid off, a good mindset, hopefully you will succeed in overcoming all kinds of problems in the future and make this project stand tall.