Numerous number ICO from 2017 were reportedly scams, if not those project that were able to raise just enough funds to start the project died off after 4 months of its operations. There are some reports that numbers of scam projects from 2017 have surpassed the total number in volume despite just halfway through the year of 2018. Its quite alarming. Is there any possible way to filter or screen projects before running their ICOs to avoid scam?
You can't possibly evade those kind of scam ICO's. All you can do is find a good project and try to hope that it will never turn into a scam project in the end. And also try to find a good manager that holds most of those ICOs that are successful.