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> likely to suffer wire fraud charges

One reason we require anyone raising money to disclose their names on e.g. a Form D is to enable efficient enforcement. With most ICOs, it is anyone's guess surrounding who it behind it. Investors are intentionally walking into difficult-to-enforce cases. Prosecutors will be selective; fraudsters know this.

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ehhh, ICOs typically are quite explicit about the team behind it, with pictures, photos, names, etc. If you tried to do an ICO without clearly showing the team, it wouldn't collect much money

Sure, definitely impossible to put random person's picture and some generated name under it...

It's possible, but it doesn't seem to be happening in practice, if you look at ICOs that have raised a lot of money so far.

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