Fake project is really frustrating if you're one of the victim especially for investors and bounty hunters.
I had read an interesting way to make sure the project is real. You can identify the project is fake by it's address of the company who is running IEO/ICO. Fake project would be indentify with this way because they put fake location. You can check it with google maps to verify if it's real.
So how do you indentify if the project is fake?
Look, you can't know for sure, even after successful gatherings and following the roadmap, that the project is not fraudulent. In my memory, there were two projects that launched a stormy activity and then became a scam. Moreover, both tokens are still trading on exchanges