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Hey guys to all bounty hunters just wanna ask if how did you know if the project is not a scam or its legit?Because doing some campaign is not easy,so using some extra time to those who are scam project is really ridiculous right?

Most of the time it's hard to tell.
However, I will judge by the number of telegram groups, if the popularity of this project is high enough, I think it can be completed by ICO. Generally speaking, the projects that have been raised by ICO will pay you the relevant reward, so I seldom worry about this problem.

I just joined my 1st bounty signature and my criteria for choosing the bounty I join was I see a lot of good members promoting it and see lot's of high rank member choosing that bounty also.

It's hard to tell which one is scam or not.
but there are several ways that is
find info about the bounty and check its website as well as the background of the project. and see who the manager who manage it. because quite a lot of managers who have good reputation

Hi friend.
I joined a lot of bounty campaigns and I have some experiences. Hope it useful for you.

Check info of that project carefully:
Country, community, IP address, traffic website...
How many people join with you in that bounty...

You can use some website to check info of them.
I recommend to use alexa.com to check country, community, traffic ...

Have a nice day.

It is not so easy to tell if it is a scam or not, what you can do is doing some deep research, including reading the whitepaper carefully and background investigation to the dev team.

Pay attention to the product. Will it be interesting for the consumer or not? Examine the team and advisers. Very often, advisers meet in several companies. Study the white paper and the road map and draw conclusions. Then, on the basis of these conclusions, decide whether the project is worthwhile or not.

What you must do is read the whitepaper and see how professionally presented it is. Is the English clear? Are there common grammatical errors? The most important thing is whether you understand the problem that the project is solving. Make no mistake, it's easy to think that a project sounds too complex for you to "get it", but more often than not with a scam there will just be empty words that sound intelligent but are really meaningless. That is why you must get that "ah hah!" moment when you read the whitepaper, and realize.. "so that's the issue they're solving". After that, research the team, verify their LinkedIn is real (check to see if they really do hold a position in the project according to their profile). Lastly, join Slack/Discord/Telegram and see if you can chat to the team to also verify they're real. All of these steps will help to mitigate the chance of joining a fraudulent bounty campaign.

Here one hundred percent you will not guess. I use the service that sends me a selection every Monday. So far, never failed. All projects were honest. But to bounty hunters everywhere are treated like assholes.

Even though the topics/articles which I posted below are not directly related to your questions, I believe it is a good resources or discussion for you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119896.0 | How to Spot a Scammer by Tomatocage
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1963768.0 | How to know if the ICO is scam (discussion, sadly it is inactive)
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/how-to-avoid-scam-icos/ | Cryptocompare articles on scam ICOs

Regarding your questions, there is something to consider before you join a bounty from my experience, including but not limited to:
- The manager's reputation. If a manager is a newbie or something like that, proceed with extreme caution, unless it is clear that those newbies account are an official account from the team.
- Funds, whether it is escrowed or not. Escrowed bounty is the one you should look, however, there is not many out there.
- The team. Avoid bounty of a project that doesn't have a clear and if possible a great background on cryptos and etc. However, some good coins out there has an anonymous team, so this rule can't be applied to every condition.

Knowing the right bounty project to do is not very easy. There are a lot of things you have to check before you put in your hard earned money. First you have to know who is the owner or developer of the project. The question is are they real persons or fake persons. Do they have the field knowledge to carry out the project. Also you have to found out whether the project have a source code by going to https:// Github .com. What is the marketing strategies of this project. A whole lots of things to look at.

Look for the whitepaper and the background of the project,check developers and the founder,product and roadmap.

As many are saying. Do research: read whitepaper, look at development progress and existing community support. Try to understand what the project is about and that you believe in it

You are right I have been victimized two times already it's a waste of time and effort for 5 months so it's very important to do a lot of research if the ico is indeed legit, check up the team behind it and the roadmap, it's better if a reputable company will headline the ico.

You can check the whitepaper, roadmap, community, communication between team and participants, and how much the participant join to project.
A good communication between team and participants will make the project growth more good.

I think you are referring to longer period social and signature campaign which are not escrowed.
In my personal experience, Joining a campaign under a reputed or professional bounty manager or under a contributed member (copper member and higher) has lower chance of being left without a pay.

You never know for sure. But studying the project, reading the whitepaper, their site and the road map is always helpful. Check the team members and see any previous work they have done. Sometimes you can tell it’s a bad project just watching the ANN thread. Just read it careful and choose wisely.

Of course, we do not know that this project may not be legal, but on the other hand, there is always a risk, as well as the acquisition of a koin on the stock exchange, because people do not always have time to get acquainted with a coin or a token, more accurately with its legal nature, people are in a hurry to make a purchase based on the news about this project.

Me my self will look to the manager who manage the campaign it self, cause its very rare a legendary or hero member want to manage a scam project they must be do some research first before take that job as a bounty manager. After that ill look at the project, if i like it i join it. The rest is same like you mark an ICO as a scam or not, you see the team behind it the company etc.

Before I'm going bloody research to know if the project is legitimate or not but now I just find it in choosing the good bounty campaign managers because good ICOs and coin company have no funds issue or problems therefore if they want their ICO to be promoted by good  members then they could hire experienced and good bounty campaign managers like Sylon, Needmoney, Arteezy, Yahoo and more.

Indeed, in starting at ICOs or bounty campaigns that are being managed by newbies and junior members that more likely to be Scams because good ICOs or Cryptocurrency company could hire higher ranked member in this forum who has  good bounty campaign management skills.
Other thing is good bounty hunters that could help to promote ICOs are joining into these good bounty managers.

In my opinion it's hard to find a legit ICO. The legit ICO has white paper roadmap representative and developers.

I agree, bounty campaign managers and social media and network strength are both the ultimate guide on how to choose good bounty campaigns and ICOs to invest because good ICOs are paying good money into into good and experienced bounty campaign managers and their Telegram society channel has many members, otherwise it's a scam and bogus.

I analyse team members of projects first because we can't understand if project is scam by looking at whitepaper. Linkedin, twitter page is important.

Its hard to tell whether the bounty is scam or not.Maybe we should trust in some campaign manager in that case we should tell that the ICO we are joining is not a scam and we cannot waste our time to post on forum wearing the avatar of the campaign.

if I am looking for a bounty campaign, I usually think which projects will success or failure. scam or not, I think it's hard to see
which projects are successful or not, it can be viewed from their official group or social media accounts, besides a lot of followers, they regularly provide updates on the progress of their projects. I think that's all

Yeah correct it's tell not easy very hard first search good boundy manager then join their bounty

in choosing a good project I always start by looking at the reputation of the project manager, team and advisor, whitepaper and roadmap. that's the way I define the project is a scam or not.

It's very hard to distinguish these days. Projects have gone at great lengths to present fake profiles for their team, create new accounts to populate their social media etc. What I would recoment is seeing into the white-paper to find if there are any mistakes. This is a good indicator of where the team could have cheaped out.

Look for reputable campaign manager , Join their campaign there lot's of them here if you just follow bounties. Do some research,anyway even legit one will end up as non paying if that certain project failed to reach their soft cap, Do lot's of campaigns so that you have all the alternatives. Promote them well do your job , and just track every announcement of every project you join. and don't join newbie rank bounty campaign.

For me, it's just a matter of doing extensive research to a campaign you're planning to join with. I think a SCAMpaign will not waste time to establish good/quality advertisement, roadmap or even whitepaper, what they only know is to work smart and earn money. There are always indicators to identify them.

I think before joining a bounty to avoid for scammers  check their website white paper plan of thier projects and their team members.

Research on the team first as that's the first thing I do. Though, it doesn't necessarily mean that they won't pay, you can have that looked into if you are playing it safe. Also, make sure they are really behind the project or they are just being used without their permission.

why don't you make an intense research of an ico before you start promoting them, if you see a greenlight a project will succeed you can go ahead with their bounty.

Even still they might end up being a scam, like bitconnect for example.

At the end of the day it's really hard to tell for certain, takes a lot of time as well.

In fact, it's hard to judge about this. Of course, we must immediately reject projects that are only on paper (just website and WP). But it is worth bearing in mind that even a project that has a good team has a prototype, the market opportunities can not eventually become successful and do not give profit in future. So it's safe to say which project is good, and which one is not really difficult.

I also follow the bounty, my experience since megikuti bounty very good, but there is also the bounty who can’t afford to on its members and there is also as a token that late, it’s affected by on my friend, not to me, the lack of bounty is just as a token or need time 1 month we waiting for him.

Is not too hard to identify ICO scam or not, just learn their concept make sense or not and see their team fake or not. Only from concept and team you can identify, Serious project or scam project. Also see their advertising marketing like fb, twitter and youtube ads if he using that ways, i think that is serious project

Thank you for asking this question... i was hunting for answers .. cheers