This is a timely and informative video. In a recent Steemit post I created on this topic, I mentioned that there are a lot more ICO promoters in Steemit - especially in the 'promoted' section. I'm not implying that there is something wrong with this. Just that, like you have pointed out, caveat emptor - be careful before you part with your hard earned money. Get the due diligence done.

thank you so much as a newbie every little bit helps.

yaah ofcoure !ICO scams are very common and will only become more common as the crypto industry grows!
i  am new to cypto and learnt whetever they are potential scams or not!
thanks for sharing with us! you are brilliant!

U can’t avoid scam. Everyone here is for the money including the scammers

Ivan? 

Why don't you like do some technical analysis of top 10 hyped ICOs, etc. every month? I know you are busy man but the greatest help you would probably do to this space is if we can collectively expose a few scams and probably this way a few of these scamers will be discouraged..

It doesn't have to be financial advice, it can pretty well be an opinion based on your exceptional industry knowledge due to which people look upto you..

Amazing friend, if you help me many and with this information in my head I will be more attentive. Thank you! follow me

nice.

a very good post .. and this is really very amazing, with this we can know how it works .. thanks a lot my best friend

MY personal ICO scam alert is on when:

- designers of project are anonymous
- there is no open source code of wallets,cryptocurrencies etc.
- there is no any contact info
- there is no roadmap and whitepaper
- ICO works as lending platform

I will never invest any money in project with atleast one of that points.

nicely done

Yes I check your points too and if the Project has a Homepage that looks creapy I also dont invest. They raise a few million and dont have a proper homepage, like a free page or so. 

SSL Certificate you must explain didnt get that where can I check it?

Given so many projects currently in the market will fail, giving us tools to ID the ones likely to do so is a great community service, Thanks Ivan!

I will show your video my friend!)

I was reading this:
http://www.ibtimes.com/ico-scams-more-10-percent-raised-has-been-stolen-report-2643833

The title says it all....but I think its a new world. Over the time we will learn an grow...

Great info Ivan!!!

Absolutely great information, I’m glad you made this. Simple, but many people have been scammed because of not doing their research.

Great post it's frustrating watching people fall for obvious Ponzi Schemes and then blaming it on crypto as a whole!

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With the rise of "boarding the crypto train" even when people don't know what the heck it is, it's good to educate everyone about it. Thanks for the useful information!

Great info!

Now @ days ICO buying is like playing in casino .if it came as per your expectation than its good .but if anything goes wrong than we start screaming scam scam etc.

Thank you Ivan. I think the most important aspect for people to understand is what do you get? What will the token be used for. Technology is nice, but it does not help if you get nothing for it. I think the Etherdelta example was an excellent one - I love the business model - but the ICO was not attractive. Then the changed the whitepaper later on, it looked better than, but still....

Thanks...

Thanks for the info. Very helpfull

I've discovered so many scam phishing websites on twitter recently.  Also check to see if you have common followers in the crypto community if you go to a twitter handle.  Scammers duplicate the more popular ICOs and coins!

I think is this kind of information people that are starting need, unfortunatly the most of the people just want quick return without any research and work behind, but we all need to spend sometime and try to learn everyday a bit more. 
I really appreciate your video, thank you for giving useful and important information.

Nice post great awareness regarding icon scams.... 👍👍

Great post @ivanli. Thank you for the heads up.

good post, and you deserve the dream you want, and I will follow you,
 sorry, I'm new in steemit, will you help to improve my ranking? thank you