How to indicate scam /fraud or not is quite difficult nowadays. because the fraudsters/scammer have developed to become more reliable.
So the way to analyze it is enough with "we really need to know the real identity of a person or company that we are going to invest in".
However, today's identity is easy to fake.
but as long as we want to try to dig deeper into the related information. then it can minimize us being deceived in the future.
In terms of the exchange here in the cryptocurrency that's hard to know dude, but to make sure it is one of the legit one always use the platform exchange in which they are listed on top just like at the coinmarketcap and coingecko is one of the good for this matter. now in terms of choosing projects, always check their whitepaper if they don't have it, avoid it and ignore something like that.
I agree with your opinion.
But for extra.
We must identify who is behind the project we will enter into to invest.
Now a lot of tokens/coins have been registered with CMC and CG but it turns out they are scammers.
Because I experienced it several times.
I invest in coins that have been released in CMC and CG but it turns out that the owner of the coin withdraws liquidity or someone sells the coin on a large scale so that the price drops drastically.
Then make sure who owns the project. and the background of the project owner.
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