> Is the whitepaper solid and does the use case make sense?
One of the ways to verify if a project is fake is to check if the whitepaper is plagiarized or poorly written. According to what I've seen, since the intention of any fake project is to steal investors' funds. Most times, these scammers don't like spending extra money writing a well-detailed whitepaper about the project. They either end up plagiarizing other project or write a whitepaper with no correlation between what's written in it and the project and If you can spot any of these, that's a red flag.
This is an important fact, but it shouldn't be relied upon too much, as professional SCAM plans don't overlook these details. Writing a whitepaper for any project is no longer as complex as it once was, as artificial intelligence applications have made it much easier. Furthermore, there are those who offer white paper hosting services for any project at very reasonable prices, particularly suited to scam plans. There are those who sell this service here on the forum in the "Services" board.