Scammers list their scam on exchange, people buy it for BTC, Scammers collect BTC, Scammers sell BTC for Fiat while bringing BTC price down. We can sit here and blame investors or what not but real truth is they won't go away unless we come up as a team and eliminate them.
Fastest way to eliminate scams is report exchanges that are listing them. Once they can't be listed on exchanges they will have no place to go and they will die.
So, it's time we come up with a plan to save BTC and I believe if everyone does it soon we'll see rise in BTC price.
Step 1 - Keep track of Altcoins scam
Step 2 - Put all the evidence in one pile
Step 3 - Wait till it gets listed on exchange
Step 4 - Report Exchanges to FBI with all the proof that you've collected (including pump & dump)
I am not sure about this anymore mate, I think this time is behind us. People have gotten smarter with their money (or they have lost enough not to do it again). I mean this was very popular in the last year, but take a look at the alts section, there is no more IPOs or ICOs.
The last scam like this was a Bitbay, yes bter was involved but even they are done as an exchange.
I would be more worried about the 7,000+ BTCs they have stolen than couple of hundreds of BTCs from the bitbay affair.