Very useful advices! Thank you!
I also heard about the fake photos of the project team. It's horrible!
They can just take a photo of someone else's person and process it in Photoshop.
We have to be very careful!
Topic: How to recognize scam - page 2. (Read 411 times)
Hello, I want to tell about tools which help you recognize scam.
Fake team
"Recently most of scam ico use fake team from google or some other website and stock image". And you can find out fake photo with help some useful website. List tools for this -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-prevent-scam-some-useful-tools-for-find-scam-fake-ico-team-4586576.
How much money the project has raised
There was one case when team wrote that they collected $30 million, but smart contract was called only 10 times, and besides the developers, only 10 ethereum addresses had these tokens worth less than $ 2,000.
You can check how many tokens were sold, so how much they collected money.
Useful web site for this -> https://bloxy.info. Just write the name of the token and you will see all the information about this tokens. How many transactions with this tokens, holders. How many times the smart contract of this token was called. This information will help to determine how much the project has raised at least some funds.
Also you can do it direct on https://etherscan.io/tokens
What is this site
You can use "site analyzers". Its like https://www.cy-pr.com/a (carefully, the site has advertising
) and others(there are a lot of them). You will see attendance of this site, geography of users, server location and more something.
Plagiarism
Sometimes scam just copy the whitepaper, command description or anything. You can use plagiarism checker, there are a lot of them in open access(just google it
).
Thank you for read. In general, what do you think about scam? A lot of them? And how to avoid scams?
Additions...
Fake team
"Recently most of scam ico use fake team from google or some other website and stock image". And you can find out fake photo with help some useful website. List tools for this -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-prevent-scam-some-useful-tools-for-find-scam-fake-ico-team-4586576.
How much money the project has raised
There was one case when team wrote that they collected $30 million, but smart contract was called only 10 times, and besides the developers, only 10 ethereum addresses had these tokens worth less than $ 2,000.
You can check how many tokens were sold, so how much they collected money.
Useful web site for this -> https://bloxy.info. Just write the name of the token and you will see all the information about this tokens. How many transactions with this tokens, holders. How many times the smart contract of this token was called. This information will help to determine how much the project has raised at least some funds.
Also you can do it direct on https://etherscan.io/tokens
What is this site
You can use "site analyzers". Its like https://www.cy-pr.com/a (carefully, the site has advertising
) and others(there are a lot of them). You will see attendance of this site, geography of users, server location and more something.Plagiarism
Sometimes scam just copy the whitepaper, command description or anything. You can use plagiarism checker, there are a lot of them in open access(just google it
).Thank you for read. In general, what do you think about scam? A lot of them? And how to avoid scams?
Additions...
Usually, one should pay attention to the design of the site. If the design of the site is horrible and boring, it is likely that the creators did not spend their energy, which appropriately means that they are only interested in arriving to then disappear in an unknown direction. I also adhere to the position of always checking team members on social networks. Do the data have any relation to the project at all? I also never pay attention to projects from Russia, but this is probably an erroneous opinion and not all so bad. But the main thing I think is that you need to carefully read the white paper, analyze to understand that it is necessary for the world. If the project does not have white paper, then I immediately leave such projects. I also want to note that you should not pay attention when the project is advertised by a well-known person, it has no value for investors. In any case, this is my opinion, which I adhere to.
There are really a lot of scammers now!
You can also search for members of the project team on social networks, usually they attach Linkedin links.
Maybe they can be contacted and asked more about the project.
Don't be shy and contact members of the project!(especially if you want invest own money in the project) You can also search for members of the project team on social networks, usually they attach Linkedin links.
Maybe they can be contacted and asked more about the project.
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