If any of you are still interested in ICO's (I hope the answer is no), then you should know that 99.9% of them are complete garbage. They've been lying about the amount of funds that they raised, project details, project intentions ect. In other words, the majority of these companies are garbage dumpster fires. Companies like Swachhcoin (dumpster fire) got exposed recently on Tipestry. They've been deleting comments in their Telegram that exposed their company as a scam. However, Tipestry allows users to comment on the app as an extension. This way, Swachhcoin and other ICO's can't delete comments that expose their project for what they are...which is garbage.
Unfortunately, they have scammed a lot of people for us to know that ICO's are scammers game, and now that they are exposed they hardly reach their soft cap, and you are right they are faking their volume to attract more investors, but investors are wiser now or do not have anything to do with ICO anymore.