FYI: I've put together an Awesome Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) Truths page. Subtitled The Art of the Steal - The Scammers' Big Lies at https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-ico-truths . Buyer beware! Cheers. Prost.
That, I feel, is the hardest part of learning more about scams and how to protect yourself. You inevitably see a lot of people who simply can't avoid it, almost going for getting scammed like a moth goes to the lamp, never learning from bad experience that you simply can't get rich quick if you aren't already rich.
or a scammer
Not to everyone.
Case in point NEM, who kept the coins from hundreds of initial stakeholders.
Then you could access http://openblockchains.github.io/awesome-ico-truths
As an added benefit, the pages version loads much faster than loading GitHub itself!