An ICO without legitimate escrows always turned into a scam. Scammers hate escrows, they will do everything in their power to avoid them as much as possible. Before investing make sure the ICO coin is using trusted escrow service.
exactly this is the first thing i look when i joined ico i making it sure that the escrow that will handled my money / btc is one of the trusted escrow here because they are taking care of their names it will hard for scammers to fool them.