What can we do to stop scam projects? almost nothing. Many types of real projects do not even want to create a website and a whitepaper, they just take or buy a project website that either ceased its activity or simply disappeared. They buy out the domain, make minor edits, change the name and that's it, voila, the new project is ready and few people will remember that the same project existed several years ago. You can raise funds and deceive people, so the only way is to study all their information well and understand how hard they tried)