I have some suggestions for this

1. Avoid to deal with unpopular project, the popular project will always come from legit project. The community will always try to invest into the legit project and you can see this and this makes you more easy to discover the legit project and avoid the scam project.
2. You can know that track record from the team. This will help you to avoid the scam project.
3. These days so many scammers are using rugpull method. To avoid this and never try to invest in the meme tokens or project with non audited code.

Try to do what i have been writting above and i hope that that will help you to avoid the scamm project and that will also make you feel easy to find a good project. If you are doing do your own research and you must make sure that you have been doing it with all of components in the project.