The proper steps to take is to get the news, verify the source and Do Your Own Research
Then no one would fall into scam icos
Agree. In any kinds of investment, investors will have to do an extensive research. In crypto, the importance of doing our own research even doubles, as crypto is a new investment and technology arena.
On your last point, I also want to add that if we want to help crypto to flourish healthily, a proper DYOR will make people trust us, because the more investors are critical, the less scam ICOs will be. It's just a natural selection, in which bad ICOs will eventually perish, IMHO.
I think natural selection is jjust the best way to define been careful
we need to make right decisions which wil ensure all fake and bad icos perish without any investors.
So we need to urge all to always make research about everything.