It's very hard to identify scam projects/ scam DeFI projects but many websites analyser developer . They easily find mistakes of websites, plagrismed whitepaper, fake projects team management and community. But hunters can't identify it.
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How to know a DeFi scam
ICO is stone dead(RIP) and IEOs are on its death throes. Now its Decentralized Finance season and everyone and his pet cat are launching projects, and slapping DeFi on it. I would be attempting to point out the points to look out for in scammy DeFi projects.
1. Fake/Non-existent team
It is an increasingly common trend for scammers to invent fake founders and biographies for their projects, and stick it o their websites. Some don't bother at all. Having said this, some legit DeFi projects have anonymous team members. This point shouldn't be a deal breaker though.