I think you should find out about the address and where they live, search their photos by google. Investigate the people involved and draw conclusions. A lot of projects take advantage of the poor, pay them and put their images in fraud projects.
Your thoughts are very common to most people here but unfortunately, the actual work is too difficult, so finding information and images is not as simple as you think, it takes a lot of time and tools, I don't think people's time allows them to do such complex tasks. Instead of trying without results, I prefer to wait for others to verify for me, if you pay close attention to the topics in the forum, you will see some people are always hunting for fraud projects, pay special attention to the team of a project, in return they can through that verification to receive merit 
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Until now I don't think there is a 100% accurate way for us to find out if the project team is real.. but the LinkedIn profile of the team on the project I think can increase investor confidence in the project, although not exactly 100% accurate, the existence of LinkedIn profiles has helped me identify a team on a project.
But 70-90% (at least) is good enough to know that a certain project is just a scam or not. If we are about to dig deeper for a certain project we probably know that if this can be trusted or just another fool. But sometimes it is hard to think that even a successful project and have good team members never survive from the market competition. I may say that transparency isn't an assurance that a certain project could grow, it sometimes may fall depending on the market condition.
I think you should find out about the address and where they live, search their photos by google. Investigate the people involved and draw conclusions. A lot of projects take advantage of the poor, pay them and put their images in fraud projects.
I identify transparent project with how much coin sold for investor, looking which exchange listing and we know how much paying fee for listing each exchange market, if coin sold out we know depend how coin price on ICO then we look for listing which market. After count for paying with exchange owner have amount in their address ether balance how much the have, will they use his money for buy back coin after down or not.
If the project is a scam, it would be really silly of its team to show their true identities. In most cases, they just find some pics online and use them as the images of their “Chief Financial Officers” or “advisors,” as was seen in Empire Card who used a picture of French actress Sabine de Poncins, little known outside of France, as the portrait of their proud imaginary CEO Patricia Harrison. There have even been reports of Ryan Gosling “working” for a project as a designer under a completely different name.
Some scammers are, however, way more intricate. They know it’s quite easy to reveal a fake pic so they just hire people to pose as their CEOs, CFOs, and so forth. Rumor has it that certain scammers even pay homeless people to pretend they’re leading a disruptive startup to a bright and radiant future. This fraud is much harder to call out, but at least those guys help homeless people in some way, so here’s your silver lining.
As long as these developers are not prosecuted and jailed, even if they revealed their true identity and do a lot of webinars and conferences, we are not really safe, projects can still turn out to be a scam.Some scammers are, however, way more intricate. They know it’s quite easy to reveal a fake pic so they just hire people to pose as their CEOs, CFOs, and so forth. Rumor has it that certain scammers even pay homeless people to pretend they’re leading a disruptive startup to a bright and radiant future. This fraud is much harder to call out, but at least those guys help homeless people in some way, so here’s your silver lining.
We have seen these on so many projects like Bitconnectcoin, in my experienced Konios, Bitmillex, Weidex, these are project s that does a lot of webinars but where they now.
Until now I don't think there is a 100% accurate way for us to find out if the project team is real.. but the LinkedIn profile of the team on the project I think can increase investor confidence in the project, although not exactly 100% accurate, the existence of LinkedIn profiles has helped me identify a team on a project.
But 70-90% (at least) is good enough to know that a certain project is just a scam or not. If we are about to dig deeper for a certain project we probably know that if this can be trusted or just another fool. But sometimes it is hard to think that even a successful project and have good team members never survive from the market competition. I may say that transparency isn't an assurance that a certain project could grow, it sometimes may fall depending on the market condition. 
Until now I don't think there is a 100% accurate way for us to find out if the project team is real.. but the LinkedIn profile of the team on the project I think can increase investor confidence in the project, although not exactly 100% accurate, the existence of LinkedIn profiles has helped me identify a team on a project.
The easy thing is if their team often does AMA LIVE and also they attend the blockchain forum that's where the real face of each team can be seen. if there is rarely this information, it might be doubtful whether the project exists or is only a fictitious one. but despite that the fake team is now very often encountered
even they are using thier real identity there is no guaranteed that they are not planning for scaming people as i said before it will only looks like ligitimate but it doesnt mean they are . And those people who give their real identity sometimes are the one who get more investment and gone with it.
verifying the transparency of a team seems the most difficult thing in these crowdsale, even the ICO rating sites and professionals I followed had failed at one time.
It is difficult to tell which one is legitimate or not if you are referring to the team profile. Some team developers even do video interview or conference with their investors to ask as many question about the project. I think a team who doesn't hide in somebody else's profile is somehow what I can say transparent.
This is going to be so time taking and difficult act to have voice conferences with the investors as most of projects keep their investors hidden. So we can search about the project in Google and we can talk to the management about it. Make research as it’s not good to be blind for investing better use old projects not new one. A transparent project team is the one which feed its community with all the needed information about the project and its progress without keeping none as secret. Transparent projects allows its community members to feel free and ask questions in the telegram group and in a calm and professional way answers them.
Transparent team also gives any update to the community regarding the improvement and development that has been done with the project. The community is given all the needed information of the team to confirm if they are real, and also the future plans of the project.
A transparent project team is the one which feed its community with all the needed information about the project and its progress without keeping none as secret. Transparent projects allows its community members to feel free and ask questions in the telegram group and in a calm and professional way answers them.
It's very hard to identify a transparent project team, when the members are "nonames" and nobody knows them - that's almost impossible. So, if it is so, I would rather miss this opportunity 
The easy thing is if their team often does AMA LIVE and also they attend the blockchain forum that's where the real face of each team can be seen. if there is rarely this information, it might be doubtful whether the project exists or is only a fictitious one. but despite that the fake team is now very often encountered
It is very difficult to get rid of those who are greedy like them (con artists), the most effective way is to get everything back to each other, let us earn money together but not by deceiving others, we work together giving crypto knowledge to each other, sharing experiences, isn't that better than cheating.
A transparent team is a team that is completely open in everything, both in performance and everything in the whitepaper, but now a lot of ICO's are really transparent and this is used by people who are not responsible for cheating everyone, I think crypto should be even more serious in solving this problem maybe by having more terms and conditions for creating an ICO.
The only time I believe a project team is real is looking for their project on icobench, once the top team member like the CEO and CTO has passed KYC exercise, I trust the project is real to an extent but without this, I'm always sceptical about project team members.
You will never identify which team is real or fake by icobench because this isn’t a trustworthy way. Icobench added most of the projects in their trust score but all of them are not real project. Even they manipulating in positive feedback which is paid. I think real project team member identifying is more difficult because if they are not explore identity in their project how you can be expose? But in generally most of the projects team reveal their identity in through by whitepaper or website. Because first of all investors looking for how much professional project core team. 
The easy thing is if their team often does AMA LIVE and also they attend the blockchain forum that's where the real face of each team can be seen. if there is rarely this information, it might be doubtful whether the project exists or is only a fictitious one. but despite that the fake team is now very often encountered
even they are using thier real identity there is no guaranteed that they are not planning for scaming people as i said before it will only looks like ligitimate but it doesnt mean they are . And those people who give their real identity sometimes are the one who get more investment and gone with it. 
The easy thing is if their team often does AMA LIVE and also they attend the blockchain forum that's where the real face of each team can be seen. if there is rarely this information, it might be doubtful whether the project exists or is only a fictitious one. but despite that the fake team is now very often encountered
The AMA sessions are not enough for the project investors to measure the trustworthiness of the team but the options are limited to this circle, unfortunately. Making new challenges during the ICO will surely increase the traffic of the project website, the transparent team never ignores the request by the investor side. Just looking in the social media pages will not be enough for me to identify the team members.
this AMA has been use also to fake images to look like there are legitimate and really working for thier project and roadmap . Ive been see many project that have weekly AMA some of them is considered scam already.
in fact there is no perfect way to identify reliable and real team projects, because most fraudsters have ways that others might not know like they originally wanted to cheat on the market. it's just that we can still avoid a bad project if we find something suspicious about Whitepapper, Team Background, or the poor work of the developer.
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