Many characteristics of the ico scam, in general can be seen from:
1. The Developer or ICO Startup Company is anonymous, unknown and does not have a good reputation.
2. The aim of ico is not realistic and does not have a clear picture
3. Ico does not have Escrow for the contribution of crypto tokens.
4. Lack of transparency to investors about the stages of project work, the release of minimal code snippets or issuing demo versions (beta) of their products.