Cryptocurrency Scam Coins

Dead Coins are the most common, this is for a number of reasons. If a coin or token has little information on why it died, it falls into the default abandoned classification.

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) are the high risk/high reward place to invest with over 60% ending up dead coins before they even get a exchange or to the first birthday.

An accurate guess is that over 90-95% of jokes coins end up dead, so before you invest in a joke coins make sure it is not a joke. If it is a joke at least make sure it has some top developers.

Lots of dead coins are scams. The information linked above points out some of the ways that people have been scammed and what to look out for when buying to a coin.