The team members also if possible have identification and they have some way to be reached out to like emails or a LinkedIn profile, most anonymous projects ends up being a rug pull that dupes investors. In terms of investment, they shouldn't ask too big for their investors in my opinion because if it's a legitimate project, they can start small and slowly build up while the funding also goes up.
This is right, teams should have faces because in an anonymous space, you don't want to trust your money on people that doesn't have any faces, you won't be getting anything out of them especially if they started running away from the project. I have seen this kind of projects and they almost always end up in a scam.So far what I've learned, it's very difficult to find a really quality project. but there is 1 thing I think about, is where the project is advertised. because the place to market the product is very important, not only on bitcointalk but more on crypto related websites such as ico rating or coinmarketcap and others. the reason is if a developer dares to put an ad on the site is that they really want to make a big project and have the capital to start a project.
It's just a part of it in my opinion, being advertised doesn't mean it's a quality project. Remember thatscam projects can be advertised too so you better understand and evaluate what you're saying because it might lead you to the wrong path.I checked out one project with six team members and not a single linkedin link on the profile pictures worked. I reached out to them and asked what's wrong, so they added two functioning links and removed some of the links of the other profiles. Then I asked whether i could speak in the telegram group to the CTO, just a single question. Or whether they could do an AMA on Youtube. That is like 6 weeks ago and they haven't done it, yet of course claim to be the next big thing. But that happens all the time with projects, on a very frequent basis.
I don't know if you can talk with high ranking guys in the project if you don't have anything good to offer to their project since mostly the one who talk for them is there community managers but you can seek the answers with your questions to their live AMA sessions so even if they are there showing there real faces still we need to be careful since scammers are now upgrading to gather more money by showing their identities to gather trust to the community they created. So for thinking about investing on this better invest only what you can afford to lose since that is the golden rule in investing.
