There's a lot of related activities that sounds being manipulated in cryptocurrency especially if your focus attention is to go after the ICOs on projects that you're not familiar with, your barely see the people's reputation online, no any form of conducted research on them, you didn't understand their project objective, memebers, and the information about it all, what you see online got you enticed and you opted in for them with your funds, no wonder many often refers to many altcoins as shitcoins because of things related like this, becareful, if you must invest, bitcoin is your first and major recommendation as digital currency which you should start with.