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Hi! I just want to ask if anyone here been scammed in bounty campaigns? Some who joined the bounty campaign, did abide with the rules and did all the necessary tasks to do to qualify then at the end no payment recieved in their wallet? If so what did you do and if in case it happens what should be done?

Unfortunately, participants in bounty campaigns can do nothing, if they don't receive their tokens.
Participants should be cautious before they join a bounty campaign, after they been scammed, they can do nothing. Participants in bounty campaigns spend their time which is as valuable as the money investors spend.

I'm not but there are a lot of people. It's hard to predict which ICO will be turned into scam project (OPAIR, EBITZ, ASN). Read and understand with a project before we joining it is the best way to prevent ourselves to get scammed.
I'll report them in scam acusation section.

Ok. And thanks for the reply. But, do you have any idea or tips on a certain bounty campaign if they could possibly be real or scam before joining in the bounty campaign?

Thanks. And if they turned into scams what could have been the reasons behind? Is only the ICO not successful or there could have been other factors like, corruption of funds or the managers and developer's faults and shortcomings might be? Thanks for your would be answer in advance.

No problem. They want to earn huge money and dissapear once they have collected the money they want (Yes, it's corruption). Would be better if you joining only in a project which offer escrow with their ICO's funds. With this way, the chance you got scammed is really small or 0%

If you obey all its rules, just ask its bounty manager, ask for what you should be paid. If they reject, you can do nothing, they make the manage the rules.

Well we got cops here now to clarify it a bounty is real or not. Its not the earlier where managers can easily make scam contracts. But offcourse its not always that a project is a scam. But also users have to be smart on where they are joining ang not because they are offering good tokens and you are eager for some earnings then you can join instantly.

No one could able to point if a certain ICO would goes scam or not but heres my tip on choosing since we are talking about joining bounty campaigns then the first thing we should do or observe first if the bounty allocated on bounty alone is too big which we can able to say that its too good to be true and these are the things I do seek out first and calculate when I was still fan on joining bounty campaigns on past years.

Yes .. Ive been scammed once . I did all the post in the facebook campaign but nothing happened. At first they updated the spreadsheet but in the second week it stopped and then nothing earned from all the effort and time of posting , what a waste of time that why be aware of all the bounty campaigns that may waste your time and effort.

You still lucky because you did only a 1 week work and they scammed for your efforts which do really suck just like mine too when i participate on an Bounty campaign working for signature campaign almost a month doing all the postings and exposure but ended up on not being paid because the project became scam later on which it causes for it not to paid lots of participants not only on signature but also on all social,translation bounties.

This is scary. I wish there is a way we see or pin point out. And yes having the fund in an escrow is a good pointer that the ICO is not a scam as it serves as bond. And also always keep in mind not put all eggs in one basket. Maybe distribute efforts to as many ICOs as you can or feel comfortable with.

As far as I know, I do not have that experience, but I have some experience about zero payback because I did not meet the requirements, for example I did not make enough posts.

I never meet such a situation like this , now I think you can do nothing, they has kept their right to do anything including sent nothing to their bounty hunters.
Give up that, find another bounty campaign.

Not as I know.
Unless you are not following campaign rules or spamming forum with one line or few word posts and signature manager removes you from campaign I don't see reason why you shouldn't be payed. In case you don't get payed there is not much to be done - you can open scam accusation against them but  i don't think it will help you to receive bounty.

Ok thanks for in the additional information.

If the ICO did not turn out to be successful could it be a reason for it to turn into scam?

Oh!! Sorry to hear that 😔

Ya but you got to have multiple accounts maybe but with only one account you could not join more than one bounty with signature bounty campaign. And even if you have multiple accounts you cannot apply them all in only one bounty campaign. I've read somewhere in this forum that they have a way of finding  out if  all the accounts belong to only one person. Through your wallet i think. Better be warned than sorry.   

Ok. Thanks then.

There can't be done anything if you are scammed by a campaign. But you can give a feedback with bad trust and put in the lunk to the campaign. But only do, if you are sure to have been scammed. Its necceserry to read the rules and to be sure of not spamming posts or the non countef posts are not in the categories that are not paid.

I'll report them in scam acusation section and sent feedback red trust for him. Read and understand with a project before we joining it is the best way to prevent ourselves to get scammed.

I've been scam by a huge project - Populous

A very well known project by bitcointalk

I participated on their Blog bounty, wrote a blog and sent an email. They stated i didn't email them before the end date of bounty

I screenshort and show to them. No replies

Even after several personal messages, post, email, and i am getting ignored.

Thinking that they might not seen my message, i just posted a sentence in their slack : "Where should i contact person regarding on bounties".

My slack is logged out, and where i tried to login, it stated my account username/password is wrong

Then i receive a mail : "You recently tried to sign in to Populous, but it looks like your account for that team is deactivated. We're sorry about that!"

Seriously?

I won't let that project go in such smooth tempo, they should pay for what they have done.

:)

Yes a lot have been scammed and we can't do anything about it because there are some projects after the ICO had ended and would not pay the bounty participants. And we can't run after the developers because I'm sure they won't reply the concerns of people like us other than the investors which is mostly the case. The only thing we could do is post a feedback on a section here in this forum.

Hello guys :) especially to those who's been a long user of BTT. This thread is very informative and I just have a couple of questions. i'm still lurking to this forum and learning different ideas.

1. I noticed that there are lot of bounty campaigns. And in line with the topic, is it safe for me to say that Hero or Legendary rank bounty ICO manager is more safe to participate and less risk that they will not pay at the end of the project? Since they are carefully secure their reputation.

2. Can we also use trust system if bounty is proven a scam or they walked away from their participants? Like a negative trust to the manager of bounty? Please forgive me on this if I am wrong, just let me know the process on this.

Thanks guys :) I would really appreciate your response on my questions

The risk involve to use only one about account is like throwing yourself into lions den. Having multiple accounts with different will be much easier.

Where is the proofs you have got scammed by them?
Didn't populous was the one of successful project back then? Their price has increased more than 10x from ICO.

The first thing you could only do for that is to contact the manager and ask the reason why you didn't receive your payment for that particular campaigns but if his answer is not good then you should post a scam accusation and seek for the help of DT members so that they will be force to give what they owe to you. But make sure that you didn't violate some rules of the campaign where you participated since you will be the one who will feel bad if you didn't tell the truth on why you didn't receive the bounty payments.

sorry needed to quote my previous query as I really need to know this especially the 2nd question. Thank you :)

Correct, approach first the bounty manager on what happened into the project or into the payments why you are not being credited.If you do saw that all of the participants do have the same problem on payouts then most likely the Project is already a scam and being said posting scam accusation on the said project is the only thing you can do for now so that they would be get tagged by DT.

there's always a nicer way to try getting your rewards as most of the campaign managers loves to settle the issue in the proper way its just a case to
case issue me personally i have been forgotten in a signature campaign that's really give a good pay rate but after i send PM to the campaign manager
he pay me and apologize, but if there's nothing else left that's the time that you can create a scam accusation to that certain project or manager.

I never met such a scam, I am sorry about your encounter. Choose a promising bounty to participate in, otherwise you could do nothing when misfortune happens.

I used to participate in campaigns with the hope of making money. But I do not understand why the articles are destroyed, even delete my high-class nick anymore. Feeling like I was cheated and not wanting to participate in the next campaign.

Before joining we have to find whether the campaign is worth able to pay bounty participants. Some owner is very jealous about giving a portion in there what they mentioned at the time ICO. They kept on delaying the payments after the conclusion of ICO, so please be patient and join in the best campaign which pays on time.

I was rejected by rivetz. First jamalazzez disappear and then they replace bounty manager wiyh irfan_pak. And they update spread sheet..when i see my name. I am rejected by them. I dont know why...after i read that i was rejected ( rejected after i post 50 post ) i immadietly change my signature. And today i see the reason i havee been rejected is removing signature. And there is writen on top of spread sheet that low quality post can be qualified..i dont know what they are thinking..i hate that ico..

And now you are saying you got scammed by them? I believe the reason why you were rejected because you only make posts in local board. Then, irfan reject you for low quality post, which you thought it's already permanent and you decided to change the signature which resulted a rejection because removing signature.
Who's fault on here? You weren't patient to wait next announcement from irfan and changed the signature as soon as you saw your name rejected because low quality post which actually only temporary

Campaign manager doesnt really have the power to pay-up participants since hes just relying also to the devs or owners of the coins.As a manager hes just managing off the campaign without the relation regarding on the payouts later on.This is why this thing isnt really a problem arised by managers but its is only on the project itself.

This is one of the risk in joining ICO bounty campaign. It is hard to tell if the project is real or just going to be a scam. Scammers are getting better in doing their craft. They can do good whitepaper, websites and everything needed to look like a legit project.

just be careful. read their paper, check their team information. see news say about project. join a campaign is not just waste your time. it's your trust. people see your opinion and join ICO. if the ICO scam. that will make everybody dont believe you again when say someone invest

you can't do anything if the bounty campaign you've joined in turn to be a scam. and also have a chance that you will receive a red trust because of promoting scam token. so be cautious

To be honest you cannot do anything if you are not paid at the end of the campaign so before joining you should do a good research on project and check who are the team members and what is their reputation in the market as you cannot afford to waste your time and energy by joining a scam campaign where you won't get anything back in return.

Well, Exchange union coin may have scammed us.we were given like one tenth or even less of the tokens that were shown in the bounty sheets.No tangible explanation has been given till date and ut appears thats the end

That is the problem with many bounty campaigns as they don't pay in the end but if you do good research then you can identify which is the genuine one or else you can apply in signature campaign as the chances of getting scammed there is very low.

Agreed , because before we participate a bounty , we must know , predict and choose their product can success or not. its hard , if participants scammed by a bounty project , we cant do anything , we not received anything. and just can think never got a bounty project like this.  :D

The only Bounty that i joined that actually released there coin that i experienced was suncontract. I joined twitter campaign and received a token. It was really long term and luckily it was not anyone of those schemes. Also NVO was successful but i did not buy there token. We just have to be alert on the information they are writing for the community.

Not only paying less bounty to the participants but still, now there is no response from the company and till now they did not list the Exchange Union in any of the exchanges. Maybe I think the Exchange Union if from China country may be.

Is there a thread with a list of SCAM ICO's for last months?
I've heard that there're many of them, but fortunately haven't seen any of them yet :)

LOL, Most of them are almost scams, still today I havent got anything from these Bounty campaigns and some who were paid that doesn't fit to me.

These ICO's come with PRE ICO and then ICO and in the last they say we pay after a month. Some people postpone ICO to survive as a scam.

Here are some threads where I failed to get cash from them. I learnt lesson that these people just buy a domain, script with some funds.

1.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2171661.100
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2161011.msg22215413#msg22215413
3.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2171621


They were reputable members, but they don't respond once the offer is over.
If you do such types they will give red mark as they are close friends and we are new here have to obey forum rules. I don't think here are legit bounty programs to recieve money because they are avoiding to pay promoters when the day comes.
They are keeping far like 12 weeks payment and if they have funds they do pay.

If paid on weekly basis, then they are real Bounty programs else they all are scams. They even won't tell how much per a share or token, etc.

I have never experienced anything like that. Because, i just started become participant bounty campaign, so i cann't give statement about being scammed by bounty.

fraud may look not only as a direct refusal to pay for your actions in advancement of any project. Veiled can cheat by stretching the terms of the company, the replacement of the main sponsor, which puts a disadvantage, the advertising branch in the bounty left without a Manager and itself will subside, and even other ways. We choose what we like, and do not assume the best options that no one is to blame.

That is not entirely true. Yes, you can probably never get your coins or bounties as promised, but you CAN post in the Reputation thread under Scam Accusations to at least mark the project and managers. Then you prevent them from repeating their scams and save other users.

Also, if you voice out your concerns, you sometimes can get something back. But always do this with integrity. Provide evidence, use simple clear and unbiased argument, and please do not rant and use abusive language.

A friend of mine got scammed joining a campaign here and it has been like 2 month now and still got no word from the said campaign. And sad to say we cant do anything about it if they don't give out the reward. What he did is that he just let it go and joined another worthy campaign which paid him after the ICO ended.

Don't you think if it would be better if you not posted that on here, do you?

Is it bowhealth signature campaign? Or Shopeo campaign? Which one of the campaign your friend have joined?

I also follow it, often I find a bounty project that cheats, usually I stop in the middle of the journey. if it happens to make positive lessons for ourselves so that we will be more careful in following the bounty campaign

Bowhealth is so disastrous campaign imagine there allocated bounty before is millions of tokens but when their campaign ends they change the allocation and made it to thousands of tokens and that made there participants came out to outrage since they had been deceived by the devs team itself. You can check out the latest happenings on there thread so that you can get some bad insights there.

They'd get too much bad publicity if they scammed bounty participants, would make their coin price crash.

I think you can simply comment on the bounty thread only, if indeed it is not enough to send through private message, or you can create your own thread if it is necessary  :(

Yeah, i have read all of problem with bowhealth campaign. I think it's not fair to all bounty hunt, they have promised to give 1millions token as bounty reward, but when the campaign ended they changed it into only 80k tokens, because they won't burn the unsold tokens

It's sad to know that your friend got scammed upon joining a campaign here, what saddens me most is that the victim can't do anything about but to just let it go. Though I think the manager of that campaign got lots of negative trust after doing such thing which he/she truly deserves. We really don't know how it feels to be scammed unless we experienced it but I guess it is really common to experienced in this kind of community.

If you've been scammed by some bounty campaigns it sad to say that you can't do anything about it. Just be carefull next time and have time on reading all information about such campain to avoid such misfortune.

Its not actually not being payed but the previous bounty campaign which i do join have reduced up the bounty which makes all the bounty participants get mad on their decision on which i do really feel up that we are being scammed.This is my first time on experiencing would possibly able to recieve very small amount for a matter of 2 months work which isnt really worth it.

I think participants cant do anything about it so better work for the right Bounty project or ICOs. You should first check the reputation and ratings of such ICOs or you should check thier rating and the rating of their project to avoid such misfortune.

I was not yet deceived since I only recently started participating in campaigns, but all those in which I participated paid me. That's what I want to say. If you don't want to be deceived then more carefully choose the projects in which you intend to participate. Choose as if you are going to invest your money in this projects\people. In fact, you are investing something more valuable than money. Your time. And secondly, if you participate in everything in a row - you also support spammers. Don't do it please!

I admire your point of view but you really can't tell if the bounty campaign you joined is going to pay or not. I have not been scammed yet so far but there is this one bounty campaign that might be tagged as scam because the Campaign Manager is MIA and its almost a week since the last time he logged in. The campaign was great and the project was even close to reaching its hard cap. I did a thorough research on the project and I would in all fairness invest my own money if the project will be out in the market. But then again, it really depends also if the distribution team are willing to give out their reward or not.

Sometimes it takes a month or more than that before the devs pay the participants of their bounty after the ICO. Go back and check it again because I'm sure  that they had put it in their bounty details.

To bad for you mate since ETHBOOK dev is not showing up yet and how could he calculate the stakes for that if he's inactive to do his job and looks like the distribution of your bounty will take long since there absence is quitely long or maybe they escaped already since there's no track yet that there showing up there ass after they earned success for there ICO.

me, too. only the payments are delayed very long, but I'm sure they are not really a scam, maybe because there are obstacles that they can not publish, many projects are delayed, but in the end they pay, just try to be patient, while looking for some information. and if that happens do not happen again for the next, try reading the whitepaper and see if done by a solid team.

Of course you can't know for sure, but you can minimize your risks by applying the approach that I described in my previous comment and at the same time refusing to support scammers. I also leave the campaign bounty as soon as I see something suspicious with the project, which suggests that this is a scam.

Sometimes we have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back. In this case, the only thing i can do is accept the truth. Learn what happened and find better ICOs. Of course, luck is very important.

I bet there is. Well, when you get scammed there's nothing you can do about it. Why? Because once they collect money from you they will immediately disappear and i think there is no way you can do to find them again. That is why before joining a bounty/ sig camp you/ we have to be keen oriented, check all the necessary info regarding the campaign. Maybe that way you will prevent scammers.

True and I agree, that's why if I join certain bounty campaigns or signature campaigns I make sure these are not those cheap arse project and really really make sure they are not scam or if I have a hint that there is a sign for scam then I would most likely get out of the campaign as soon as possible.

The best move to ensure you got paid is choose an ICO that is manage by a trusted campaign manger like Sylon or irfan. They always make sure that the participants are paid after the bounty so if you see a newbie or jr member account manages a bounty then it's better to avoid it.

No. I really made a good decision joining bitcoin campaigns rather than bounty campaigns. They said that when you participated in an altcoin bounties, expect that there's a possibility that you will not get paid except if the funds are escrowed.

If bounties are not paid and participants can't do anything since they don't have the right, then I suggest Bitcointalk forum managers can make campaign managers deposits a refundable amount of money to be held as collateral for bounty participants.

I have not encountered scammers in the bounty, but if this happens, you can not do anything, you can not get your tokens, in such a situation you should make your situation as public as possible to draw attention to the problem

when choosing a bounty you need to be very careful and learn as much information about this project and about the organizers because in this business there are a lot of scammers I think that half of all projects are scammers, but if you are deceived then you can not do anything

my friend got scammed bro by diffrent ETH .. so be carefull and watch carefully of your ETH before you submit the report ..
im pissed of those scammers .. and also my twitter got use by other person .. if you register to campaign just check your twitter or facebook if not use by other person..
#Beware

Well good for you and someday you will encounter them off since there are so many greedy devs right now are splendid their greediness on this forum.



Actually its so hard to choose on which one pays or which one is not since some of the other scampaign I encounter are used to be good at first but looks bad when their camp ends and doesn't pay the correct compensation to their participants.

For detecting fraud project and announce it a scam you need to have solid basis not only for merely following your intuition. For you to know there is something wrong on the project in the first place, experience and knowledge on analyzing the paper and those who are part of it.

But if you know it is scam then you must inform everyone, for them to know and stop this project collecting money from investors for nothing.

It is impossible to find the scam ICO because already savedrioid how it has become exit scam, even though it seems very promising in the beginning. Sometimes it is very difficult to just which company will pay and which company will not. Even though the manager is good touch with them we have to face this situation.

Lord, let me tell you why you didn't get paid for your reward! Because there are a lot of fraudsters in the signing bonus that use your information to register the bounty activity form, but change your address to his! At the same time due to the negligence of the staff, did not check out! So the reward is in the crook's purse!

I participated in limited number of bounty campaigns on the past and never got scammed, I received all the payments after few weeks of waiting. But I know some friends got scammed from some bounties. It is always recommended to check the ICO project firstly before joining its bounty, and make sure its having good value and potential and going to success.

never faced such issue yet in any bounty .
it happens only if bounty manager is fraud or ico project failed .
otherwise there is no reason to deny our earned stakes by hard work .

you did not check their recent update ?
CEO of savedroid project now revealed it that it was just a prank to show how ico can be scam .
however investor did not like their strategy of marketing .

I've experienced it, 4 projects and this is what I do.
the first thing I do is see who the dev bounty is. and posting in the thread, if not get an answer looking for information about his telegram. if you've found the contact telegramnya, then send a message to the person ask about everything. with this message i hope i help even a little bit

This do only happen when the manager of the campaign didnt locked out the spreadsheet or be the one who do changed up with those payout address. Theres only 2 circumstances i can see when it regards on not receiving the payout.If the spreadsheet is carelessly unlocked then its possible and also there are multiple sign ups which do make up use your name and uses their own wallets which can really piss you off.This is why we should do make reports once we do see replicates.

unfortunately the problem with a lot of scammers is very acute, a large number of projects is a fraud and our task is to choose a bounty for yourself, so that you do not regret the time and effort spent, you study the information about the project more thoroughly, because if you do not get paid then you nothing you can do about it

I know that there are a lot of scammers in the industry, but working with the bounty, I have never met them, all projects in which I participated steadily paid remuneration and project managers professionally approached their work

I have not encountered such things, but I am sure that this happens quite often, because there are a lot of scammers in the bounty including, so I advise you to be careful when choosing a company for yourself because you can work for several months and in the end do not get anything for it

really? do you mean you dont experienced to get scammed ever since you engaged in cryptocurrency? you must be a verry lucky person. i believe almost all of the users who got involved in crypto are already experience to get scammed , whether it is a bounty or a signature campaign . This is because they oftenly join a campaign without knowing on whether the funds are already escrowed or not.  They didnt care about those things because they only care about the reward but unfortunately they still wont get paid at the end.

if that is the case, it is not a fraud, but you do not meet some of the rules that have been provided by the campaign manager and indeed it can harm your own

I have never experienced this before. I will always consider when joining the bounty campaign is the developer project ICO and manager bounty campaign . Bounty campaign manager is very important in consideration, I never joining bounty campaign with the manager still have less rank like jr. member, member or newbie. I always choose rank like sr.member until legendary who don't negative trust. Most of the joining bounty campaign with minimum rank sr.member then we will always be paid.

if we are not on the pay as they are a scam. we can only explain it, because there is nothing we can do anymore. we can only make it a lesson. and for the future we have to really choose a good project.

Yes,unfortunately many companies are not being honest.
What to do in such cases?
To remove their posts and give comment on forums,so that others do not fall for fraudsters.

Maybe he/she missed one of the rules given or else they can experience totally scammer staffs. But if they scammed why they cannot reported that scammed and only him is the one who reclaimed? This is the example signature campaign who cannot paid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2949276.0

In addition if the singnature or bounty you join cannot paid it was detected by the MOD's or DT in this bitcointalk and possible the accounts of the manager will be suspended or totally banned. Are they happen to the manager's you've worked?

Yes, people don't know how to research the bounty campaign before joining but after without payment, they will start making more noise about the manager and the company. That's why even some good managers failed to choose the best ICO's and start promoting their bounties, at last, both the manager and bounty participants will be left without any payments.

Though there's really some ico that's attractive and to think it's easy to look like a legit one that's why many are easily deceived plus the huge bounty allocation, so no wonder many will gets into the trap.

I always check the website, team and the community and lastly I needed to trust my instinct though I know it's not that accurate yet at least I needed it.

I've experienced also to work to a campaign for a month and I'm confident that it will pay even they are inactively logging in here in forum.

But what happened was they didn't even replied and didn't paid me for a month of enrollment so that's a lesson that only join those campaigns that pays.

Yes,once I was scammed by a bounty.It was the beginning I started to participate on campaign where I never received payment for four weeks but that project manager got negs from DT members,so it is always risky in joining bounty campaigns so we need to join on the campaigns with reputed managers.

I think a lot of people have been scammed in campaigns, it is either they are not paid or the campaign did send them tokens but they are not able to withdraw or something like that. What I do and what I always advice my friends is that they should just move on and do not dwell on the issue that much because basically we really cant do anything about it if they dont give us out rewards.

I think if your a really active bounty hunter, and you participate all the time on bounty campaigns, theres will always come a time, when you will not receive any or less bounty tokens. Its become normal these days when the market is not strong that people dont pay the bounty rewards because they are scared that the bounty hunters will drop their tokens right after it got listed on the exchange! So i can understand the bounty manager a little bit. But thats a problem they should see before and maybe they should just accept less bounty hunters.

I think theres no lessons to be learned once you werent get paid by bounty campaigns, since not all of them are a succesful project and some are scam ( which you usually didnt expect ). Thats why you just need to do your part to promote the project very well, for you to be able to get paid. Any campaign could be a scam, it all depends on the outcome.

This page may help you to post your problems with scams, you can state your statement here with a clear information what happen then our admin and DT can help spread the word:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

If you get scammed and didn't paid by the group then nothing to do just move on to the nest step. But remember scam has a wide meaning to begin with, so you need to carefully read the rules also, sometimes you think you gat scam but it was stated on the rules that this and that will happen if something went wrong with the project.

I will talk to his admin and ask why we do not get paid?
and where my mistake, after we know where my mistakes we have to change even though it was too late ask waivers to admin to give even small stake as our guard during the campaign

Got scammed many times. Not paid; paid, but tokens value equals zero; worked many months and dissapeared from final sheet.
Scam happens. Sadly, but there's nothing that can be done about it.

No lesson? In every bad things that comes you must take note of it and learn a lesson from it.

The lesson that one that can get with it is to know on who runs the campaign and make sure that there's a fund that is being held by an escrow.

Well, with every mistakes you make, you must learn from it. Im totally aware of that. But not getting paid is absolutely not your mistake. Knowing who runs the campaign and making sure the funds were being escrowed is the first thing a bounty hunter must do.
So, my point is, theres no ADDITIONAL lessons to be learned. Shit happens everytime bro. There are just times that your lucky and there are not.

were on the same boat mate because your past experience did also happened to me when i was still addicted joining on a bounty and as well as on an airdrops but now i already learned my mistake and i dont usually joined a bounty if the manager is not well known or reputable because that is always the root or start of a scam. Also,  we shouldnt always look for the reward or on the pot money because scammers uses this strategy in order to decieve us easily.

we should always have a doubt and be curious the time if ever the bounty is verry promising or seems good to be true .

I've experienced it, I'm not too bothered, because there are still many projects that can give rewards for me, because I believe whatever is done there must be balasanya :)

unfortunately I have never experienced such an incident, before following a campaign, you have to see some things from who the manager starts and whether or not ICO exists for payment, there are many scams there and you should be more careful.

I think the scam is very harmful to everyone who follows a project, and that is very hurt when we follow the project that has been running how many weeks in the middle of a project trip is not clear and leads the scam is very meru

i already experience that, well you cant do anything if they will not give your bounty rewards, even if you follow all the rules there nothing you can do.  After the scam attempt i decided to look for another good campaign. Cause i believe that patience is a virtue.

just like that, I also experienced it. like grphane power, until now I never get token from that project. for some reason, but in its ico success. may be a lesson for me his fore, that success is also not necessarily payments for bounty will not be stuck.

Biggest lesson I lent in the bounties that scammed me is that you cant win it all

Not only graphane power there are many other coins like that facing the some problems with the bounties. Before the bounty campaign announcement they will do every thing according to planning but when it comes to distribution no one will bother if we raise any issue means.

I have been following a bounty program on a project that in the end never distributed a total prize to the bounty community, the manager also gave a talk about the project we followed while in the halt and will be continued...
have also followed some bounty scam projects but still distributed bounty gift, although in the market the price is cheap.
so in the future, we have to more selection choose bounty program by following the manager who already has the quality of bounty program that they will follow.

if project reaches it target of hardcap then how they can stop bounty payment ? it is also a scam if they do so .
bounty managers should make a official deal with them on it , so that they cant deny bounty payment and legal action can be taken against them .

for the time being I have not, it is difficult to know if bounty is a scam or not but my advice more thoroughly before joining the bounty we choose

Well I guess it is also dificult sometimes to name you as a scammed person, as if a project failed and didn't reached softcap - what can they do? Did they scam you? No, but have you lost your time? Definitely

Following up a reputable manager is one of the factor that would give us some view that the project would comes successful, might not be precise all the times but high chances that it would really be heading that way.I have experienced on being scammed in bounty campaign when I'm still starting up. Due to on having rush on seeking out money I have forgotten into things that must do for you to get or join up the best bounty programs which simply means research should be always be considered first if you don't like to waste up your effort on promoting to those projects.

Being scammed on bounty campaigns is very common nowadays due to lack of management and control between the bounty and manager of the ICO project. My previous friends had almost join Envion bounty and hoped to make more profit as they calculated skates per post instead of per week as usual. This factor has made me doubt that this project is the scam because it is effortless to manipulate and skate fraud.

Yes, we are seeing many changes in bounty after they made certain of investment. They start reducing the pool to the bounty people and many time i experienced but we cannot ask them because it is their wish and has right to change anytime they want. Even it seems some potential in the project but they were very rude when distributing the bounties.

it does exist within the right of the campaign manager to pay us or not and if we do not get paid we go back to ourselves whether there is a mistake when we follow the campaign or not if you feel no check again how good the campaign form or not because it are rife fraud in a campaign.

I made a spreadsheet of the last bounties from managers, the interaction with which was positive and successful:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B4sMp4rDeYjPn3Lkbxn6Ot5KLQFERPXloIl5lUbTVBg/edit?usp=sharing

The table will be update, it will be possible to follow the appearance of new companies from these managers and to fit into the project on time.
I think it can be useful to many people, I personally did not have enough of this information in due time.
Use with pleasure!
Good luck in the projects!


If you consider it necessary to add managers or what information, write.

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3051197.0

Bounty team have all the rights to change the rules at any time of their campaign time and they also mention them in their rules so you agree them and joining them so no one can blame them for their activties so you have to choose the campaign run by the reputed managers.

better avoid bounty manager whose bad reputation is in the eyes of bounter, and join the bounty manager who has high integrity and can be trusted

Unfortunally, I have falled in some scam bounty program, after waste many many time in this. It happen often in cryptocurrency.

yes I've been fooled so often by fraud because it's now me before following a campaign I really read what the intent and purpose of the project and more thoroughly let it not just work and get no reward

make a complaint ticket to bounty manager.
usually if not paid there is a reason the developer does not want to pay a number of rewards that have been approved for reasons cannot soft cap or hard cap, but need to remember also that we can not demand more

It happens a lot, get used to it.
The only thing you can and should do is call them out on social networks. If they still care about their project, about getting listed on exchanges and about the value of their coin, they won't like it, trust me.
Too many bounty hunters who get scammed just let it go.Well they shouldn't.

Yes. I filed complaint and showed the proof. After that, the bounty manager helped to correct the stake.

But I guess it depends on project. If they don’t help, i think we cannot do anything. Just move on and join other bounties.

there is a lot of people benn scammed in bounty campaign like twitter and facebook .. they using youre user name on campaign or you're twitter to get tha stakes or the coins you've work

A crappy looking campaign is already a scammy project for me. Just look at those past bounties who prepared a neat designs and rules, if you check them out they fulfilled their obligations to pay all the participants for what they have worked for.

I saw some campaign with Hui_Hui not sure forget the manager's name, his/her rules are very precise saying that if the ICO project didn't reached the soft cap then there is no payment at all, unlike other campaign I saw their messages on telegram that they are answering with reasons not the real answers, ask if the project reached the soft cap if they say no then you just need to move on and don't bother to ask your reward since your token is like just a ordinary stone.

Yes , i already experience that many times.  Sometimes the project team which is inchargeof bounty will not pay thier bounty participants even the project is a successful one other is they took all the investors money  and abandon the project.

Sometimes it is very difficult to just which company will pay and which company will not. Even though the manager is good touch with them we have to face this situation.
But if you know it is scam then you must inform everyone, for them to know and stop this project collecting money from investors for nothing.

if you do not get paid then you nothing you can do about it.  :) :) :) :)

yes I experienced it there are some bounty projects that I follow and I obey the rules to get rewarded rewards after a few weeks running and the end of the campaign was without any news notification either in emai, sosmed or telegram suddenly disappeared without a trace, and I have try to contact the developer but without answer. and finally resigned and keep the spirit to follow other projects.

Well I have come across such projects, not once not twice so what I do is that I do pm the bounty managers to know what happened and why I wasn't paid during the ends of the campaign, I will forward my details to them which includes:
1. My username
2. My facebook username
3. My Twitter username
4. Content site
5. Telegram username and lastly you forward all your spreadsheet numbers to track your details and settled the error also you must make sure to provide your ether wallet or any wallet address you used for such project.

Although it all depends on what you did or participated before you can list all.


Thanks and I think this is helpful to you

I have ever experienced peniouan it, but I natural different, I follow a project L and follow all the rules, and after the project was completed and sales success coins very expensive and membeledag, when the division of coint tifak in accordance with the division of stau stake the first to share, I initially gets over 4000 coin L and stelah in share I just got 190 coun L and it turned out all participants to follow the project L is experiencing the same thing reduction gift coint, we wish you all tidai experiencing the same thing like me

I have experienced this problem after I followed the project and fulfilled all the rules and at the end the project was a scam, I didn't get paid at all and this was very disappointing and there was nothing I could do but could just resign.

until now I have never had things like that some of the projects that I followed all paid me as promised, but many of them were out there who followed projects that were ultimately fraudulent, those who managed the project after getting good luck and run away.

I have been experience that`s situation recently I have been join in one bounty campaign last 4 months ago but until now I dont receive any payment from them, so I`m trying to forget those things by just grabbing the other opportunity  but I`m hoping that I will receive my reward in the following days.

Maybe we need to stay calm if we experience those things and dont stop working.