I just saw this somewhere on the internet. Are there any fake coins existing? How do you avoid buying fake coins?
I think all coins and tokens are real as you cannot create something invalid in blockchains. The only thing i can associate the word fake are coins generated from wrong chain and tokens not used due to hard fork or renewed contracts. Many projects do hard fork. Some token based projects also renew contracts due to misprogramming. Those coins and token from previous forks are sometimes sold to unknowing victims at the price of the new coins/tokens.