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# Wall Street Journal - CRYPTOCURRENCY NEWS - ICOLINK

> Wall Street Journal - CRYPTOCURRENCY NEWS - ICOLINK - ICO ⭐

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Friday, 28 December 2018

## [Wall Street Journal: hundreds of ICO projects have signs of plagiarism and fraud](/ico-news/hundreds-of-ico-projects-have-signs-of-fraud.html)

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) conducted research among more than 3,000 cryptocurrency projects and found out that hundreds of companies are copying parts of the Whitepapers from each other, promising inflated interest on investments and showing signs of fraud.

It is reported that analysts edition downloaded and studied 3 291 whitepaper - an information document that describes the company's goal, the composition of the team, the technical specifications of the project and so on.

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