This is always a thing we all advise ourselves or new traders to lookout for, but one thing funny is that a team that will be scam or that will not stand by their word which at the beginning was fair, friendly and attractive at site, having achieved it's aim, ends up abandoning the project and moves with the money.
The team working on the project can't be tagged as scammers or geniue and that is why investors have this issue when it comes to investment. Making your research, you'll definitely get everything that will make a project look very good, but the heart intent of the team can't be exposed or seen on the forefront.
Perhaps, they are clever enough to hide their real identity in order for them to make other projects and scam more. They did their best so nobody could notice that they will scam us but sometimes, they will fail to protect it because we already learn from the past scam experience and we are now careful, especially for a new project that promises high-profit returns. I'd see that everyone is now doing their job which makes these scammers hard work and mostly fail in their evil plans.
If there is a good launchpad that you use and if you could get the KYC and even the security of it down then there is no problems. Like for example I use pinksale, they have safu badge, kyc badge, and a few others, which means if a project has all of them at the same time then they are doing great and there is no problem at all.
I obviously do not think that it will be done in any other way if you want to invest, it has to have all badges so I could trust it. If they do, then that means in order to get those badges they had to provide so many proof and even give control so much that they can't technically steal money from anyone and will use it for correct purposes.