I think you're confusing ICOs with market value. You don't back an ICO because its "value will go to the moon", you back an ICO because invents a new way for -

I think you're confusing ICOs with market value. You don't back an ICO because its "value will go to the moon", you back an ICO because invents a new way for -- Creators to get paid instead of using advertisements, creative ways to organize some kind of distributed system. The scam comes from them not completing their promises and leaving with the money and no "product". The coin's value is irrelevant (as long as it isn't 0)