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Hi! I decided to say this out because it's really terrible.  I recently joined bounty and upon checking the spreadsheet,  I discovered my Telegram's username has been used by some one here in this forum. This isn't the first time I had experienced it. I must have lost a lot in in projects I have joined due to this evil.


I still have the bitcointalk username of the impersonator. Do you think I should make it known to everyone here by posting the username?

Report it to bounty manager mate, make sure the manager banned that ethereum address used there. It happend alot here, many cheater and bounty abuser at this forum, and that makes us who work hard and honest suffered. Cheater from multi account, stealing other people username and many more. So next time you found your username use to participate in bounty campaign but its not by you, just report it to the manager by PMs or write at the bounty thread.

Its a very common problem experienced by many bounty hunters nowadays. Such worthless thieves.  Best thing to do is to report it as soon as possible to the bounty manager for him to be banned or be given a negative trust.

The person above me say it all, you should report it to the person who manage the bounty campaign. Maybe the reward not that much just a couple of bucks. But even just some penny can make people do lot of bad thing, me my self allready have through that time, from username stealing etc. So ill write my ethereum address at location section in my profile, if someone use my username but the address is different thats mean some one stealing from me.

I think if you wanna accused someone of using your username or accounts in bounty campaigns then you should post it to the Trading Discussion>>Scams and accusations thread with a complete details and proof that the person  your referring to is really doing what you have accused them doing.

Never heard about that weird stuff really. How can they use your Telegram account name? Do you mean they've stolen your TG account or what?

there have been many cases like this, most of them using a link profile of a Bitcointalk account with a similar username but different (usually with deleting or adding one letter). if happens like this, you should immediately report it to the bounty manager or the ICO developer team.

Hello!Yes this thing is very bad!One guy copy my username its good i see intime this,pm bm and he response and ban that guy,i know one man who have trouble with stealing photo from facebook and someone use in airdrop hes photo lol :D

I think the issuer should first lock in the correct/agreed address of the contributor, before the contributor proceeds with carrying out the bounty task.

Thanks I really appreciate your responses. I immediately contacted the bounty manager once I saw it though till now he still hasn't responded.

Indeed this person has to be reported.

Thanks Guys

I think author means that he firstly registered on bounty and then tried to register here with the username of his Telegram but the name is already used.

Its not like that, let me explain you a little. For example this A company run a bounty campaign, and one of it is telegram campaign, you get stakes by joinin the telegram group, but not all in that group joining bounty campaign right ? maybe they just want to know about the project and everything. So this one cheater allready put his account inside that group but he think i can get more stakes just by put other username who in this group at bounty registration form. So just like that he cheat and abuse the campaign. Creating new telegram account require you a new phone number but creating new ethereum address as simple as flip a hand, so he create new ethereum address and just put other person telegram username in it.

Terrible to see what people will do for a few bucks. Hope that the user gets what he deserves.

Always, if you find people who illegally use your data to participate in the bounty campaign. File a complaint with the manager.

You have no idea mate, someone willing to do anything for that money, and sometimes its not about the money he get. Thats just his habbit, hea like cheating so he do it. And you cant say its just a little money, how can we know that person just take one other person username ? how if he take 100 or more ? thats possible right ? for example he get 1 usd from one account you times 100 and he got 100 bucks.

I think the first thing to do as advised by several others is to report to the bounty manager with all evidence laying claim to your account. However, if you wish to teach such person a lesson, you can lay claim to the account by asking the Bounty manager to change the ETH address to yours because your account was hacked into and it has been compromised.

So about this cheater... do you have his/her username? If you have, I think you can post that username (or profile link) here.

Scammers are everywhere. Even in bounty programes you can find scammers, with me happened the same situation, so don't worry about that just let to know to the bounty team.

Unfortunately that is quite common, and usually bounty managers request that you place your profile link and your ethereum address on your "location" entry, in your profile. This way, even if someone uses your username, the bounty manager will use the address listed in that entry, and not the one provided. Of course that not all bounty managers do this, so you should report it. Usually they use accounts with higher ranks, but I guess that they will just use anything, since it' free money, and they don't have anything to lose.

You should first report to the bounty manager, then you send a PM to the pretender and warn them they have been wrong. I think that person will not dare to repeat.

There is a lot of people do that to earn more money so if I were you I will use my telegram username the same on my bitcointalk so I have a proof that my username on telegram was stolen by someone else, and you have a big proof to complain it, it is happen to me many times my identity was always stolen in some greedy people and sometimes i was highlight in red because of double entry but I always complaining because I didn't do multiple accounts.

Yes, you should report it to the bounty manager. It's an act of condemnation.
Then you will also send the link to the BCT account to the bounty manager, and he will not be allowed to participate in any of the bounty threads.

This is terrible indeed. What the fuck.?
This is embarrassing to real user who expect at the end to have reward beside its name but the problem it was impersonated. I think this is also a lesson for me. Thanks for your experienced. Hope that it will be fix soon. Good luck.

How can somebody steal your telegram account? it's sounds weird. I think the telegram account is related to the phone number you used when u sign up.
it is not?  ;) .
I saw some scammers who are trying to get bounty rewards like this.

the only you can do is to report the campaign manager to delete that impostor in the spreadsheet, same like happened to me that someone using my username in telegram that I joined telegram bounty but the campaign manager painted red that impostor so I'm glad that he is always active.

You are misunderstanding. The impostor didnt steal my TG account, rather he used my TG username to join a bounty.

This is very outrageous, this situation is unambiguous to be brought to the bounty of the project manager and as a result this person should be banned in this company bounty, and if they continue to do the same, then this person will probably be banned, you just have to be active on this attitude.

Do not mind them and report it to the manager so these people would be banned from these campaigns,these people wont stop doing this kind of things until they are caught and banned,if you dont take actions they wont stop using your telegra account.These people deserves to have red trust or negative feedbacks from the DT members so they can participate any campaigns.

There are so many people are getting the same problem like you dude. So many cheaters in this time. I know that the majority of those are coming form 3rd countries. My name has been used by the cheater to make a duplication in the spreadsheet and changing its ethereum address wallet to receive the bounty. it may better for you to reveal the name of the cheater account and then you can try to get help by DT2 member to give a negative trust.

Yup it has happened to me as well. The bounties are still better since it is managed by mostly experienced managers so I do not think it is wide spread but the airdrops are worse. People seem to just copy the bitcointalk username and profile link and register it on your name. I stopped airdrop participation for that.

Yea same with me on stk bounty someone using my username for media bounty, Really shameless. Maybe to make a deterrent try to look at the address eth then search for the main address and foilla you can create thread scam accusations (Maybe)?. But before it is better to report it to bounty manager first.

Good for you that you noticed it! I've been to such situations as well. After that I make many efforts to monitor the spreadsheets... Once these scammers have even stolen my article! But I wrote the manager and the problem was solved quickly. Hope you never lost your money. Good luck and be attentive!

A similar situation was with me, but I have all noticed and warned the manager on time, and he immediately threw him out of the table; in my opinion, such scammers should be punished and, moreover, very cruelly

Well, same has happened to me a few times before, i was really a confusing matter that someone else is claiming rewards of my work. I guess you are using a temporary mobile number for telegram account, online numbers can be accesses by anyone and your privacy is likely to be stolen. In such case, you should immediately cange telegram username to a new one so that previous username becomes invisible

Not cool at all - surely report it. IMO it would be alright to have "bounty-scammer" topic but that is up to the mods.

Its surprising to see that you are still awaiting concurrence to revert about something you feel cheated about. Please go ahead and act upon this outrage.

Pff,  nobody cares.  All the same thing has happened to me recently at Kryll Telegram bounty. I just wrote to bounty admin and the member  (hero member,  which makes the situation even more disgusting )  who applied with my login,  was banned from the campaign.

its happen all the time since bounty begin.
sometimes i also find my name in bounty that i never apply.
so many people cheating just for bounty.
if u find it,just report to bounty manager to delist it.

I also have experience like you. we must be observant and should be wary of the person who stole. we can report to the moderator and we can make someone banned from the forum.

If someone used and access your username without any permission and direct approval from you, it is actually acts of stealing, that kind of person used other account without permission is taking advantage in order to gain additional income, even it is not good for someone else, and that kind of people are similarly like a hackers. And we know already that the management have a direct actions on how to solve in this kind of bad activities that made by some people who wants to take advantage and steal other property.

We shouldn't condone this practice, you should report to the admin asap to stop thing practice in the forum

You can write to bounty manager but mostly they are not in a hurry to help. You should try to join to good bounty so that there are no such problems. Although this is not easy.

Everything is simply solved. You write to the bounty manager, if it's necessary confirm that it's you and the manager removes the villain.

Just contact the bounty manager and he will work this out. Don't hesitate, that is part of his work.

If your username being used by someone else mean your registration is double. 1 is really yours and another one is other people.
The manager can ban you because of this. I know its not your fault but if you dont report this to manager then the manager will think that you try cheating by doing double registration. Please report it before you regret.

Nothing surprising. My account was also subjected to such an attempt at fraud. But it is relatively harmless. Someone is trying to just make money on your work so that your articles and posts work for him. They just indicate your data, and your wallet. This is not new. Of course, it is extremely unpleasant that there are such parasites that are not capable of anything useful to humanity, but your struggle with them will not be fruitful. But if you yourself participate in the ICO, it is better to talk with the manager, so that everything is in order. It is better to be safe.

better report it to the moderators, and creat another new account for you to use. people like this is like rats of cryptos, doing something cruel just to earn even though it means stealing someones property, i hope all of this people will be remove in this world.

Yes, this is often the case with people who register in companies. Mosquitos simply choose to guess the user's nickname and steal it for their own personal gain. Resist this and immediately write to the manager of the bounty.

I have not experienced that you can used the same username.  Maybe it is not truly the same because there is a capital Letter or a period in between.  In bitcointalk forum, you can not register with the same username and you have a password that protects you.  It is also a requirement that the ethereum address is shown in your profile. Anyway, bitcointalk forum has a board that could put sanction on the use of the same username.  Why not report it to the board forum for investigation.

Why that person didn't use some of the Legendary account usernames? That scammer would profit more in that case.
Just saying.

LOL, I think rank is for signature bounty. For telegram bounty, token earned will not relate to Bitcointalk rank.

Inform his nickname on the form. The community will decide how to be with him :) But, there is one nuance. Did the person intentionally use your name or was it an accident? You also need to immediately report to the bounty manager.

I've always had a feeling of contempt for the faces that allow fraud.In this case, you need to inform the Manager of bounty and monitor the process of truth restoration. I think that in your case people could just make a mistake when filling out the form, it happens often, especially when you have to fill in late in the night.

Yeah in the last 2-3 months the scammers here in bitcointalk are hot to use someoney Telegram, Bitcointalk or Twitter name because they wanna make some quick bucks with more accounts. Report that guy and it should be fine.

This is not fair!
I think the best thing you can do if you really  want to take part in the bounty is to inform the bounty manager and possibly the ICO devs team via their forum, to change the particulars for you and ban the scammer completely.

I also just saw someone use my name and all to join a signature campaign:

2/24/2018 22:29:31   qiwoman2   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340890;sa=summary   Legendary Member   8350   tahhapala@gmail.com   0xbA9d2f46F2cBF465a97C4E054AF24d0e57ec80B4   Rejected                           

Thank GOD THE IDIOT got rejected but now we have new kinds of scammers entering the bounty scene and it's really getting to be so pathetic now. Why don't these motherf8ckers go work like we do and do an honest day's work instead of stealing our identities that we have taken so much time and effort to build on this forum to use it to their own ends and then you wonder why BOUNTIES now a lot f them require KYC. With a shit ton of cheaters can you blame them introducing KYC?  :'(

Is this someone used your Wallet as well, if yes it is a good news, joke aside, you should report it to the bounty manager, he will help

I think you gotta tell your issue to bounty manager. If you're lucky and manager will turn to be a good guy, he will help to figure it out. But he also can say that now it's too late and there's nothing he can do.

Reporting it to the Bounty Manger would solve the issue and end the cheater's deceitful way of participating a campaign using someone else's credentials. This is also one of the job of Bounty Manager to see to it that every participant he/she have on the spreadsheet are all true and legit.

This is a very bad act, bounties hunter do this alot to accumulate more gain in any bounty, as many people have already said, just report the issue to the bounty manager, am sure they will find appropriate solutions to the problem.

you should report it to bounty manager so the people who stole your username got excluded from the bounty.
it also happen to me recently, when i open spreadsheet of a bounty that i join there's another people using my telegram username. i dunno why there's people who stole our work and rob our earning.
it become popular lately people stole Telegram or Twitter or Bitcointalk Username.
this kind of people should got banned permanently from this forum.

I faced same problem. That was so bad for anyone. Needs every manager checking the profile clearly and check Mew address for that.
Everybody should conscious about this things.
People who worked this, he is really a bad person.

there are two possibilities, first, you register twice and the second is really in use by someone. you better give tau manager so that all can be completed properly.

Some bounty need account replies, so do not worry about it

its been a normal technique of the scammers and hackers on bounty campaigns using other telegram username,as they are not easily be noticed because of many participants,and because most of the bounty campaign managers are too busy handling more participants in they're projects.

Yeah right mate.and some bounty campaigns now requiring KYC so there will be no multiple accounts and scammers may be alert of not having a chance to vicimized

I hate those guys. They steal the labor of others. Please notify the campaign manager.

I just had the same thing happening to me, someone using my nickname + link to my profile to try and get it in THE SAME (how stupid ?) campaign i'm in at the moment.

I didn't even try to understand how/why and did contact the bounty manager right away.

No answer yet, but i still believe the current bounty manager for the camapaign I'm in, is honest and competent as this scammer (error ?) was already redlisted.

You should do the same, bounty managers are people you can talk to ;).

Is it not common sense for a telegram bounty to require you to state your telegram name in the bitcoin talk thread? Just for the sake of stopping identity thieves like this? Its a simple thing to do, and if the bounty doesnt provide it, its probably not even worth joining due to lack of security thinking.

I think so dev too, it could be because of your mistake of registering 2 times, but if you feel used by others you can tell bounty manager that you follow. so you will know what happened and the problem will be resolved. this kind of action should not be allowed, if this is allowed to be more and more people who are harmed by the act.

One solution could be to post your ethereum address on your profile so if you report the incident then it will be solved faster as you should be the only one who can put that into your profile.

This is really annoying. It's good that you noticed this. If you complain, the impersonator won't do it anymore. I hope this isn't happening anymore.

My username also has been used by others and I reported to the dev of that project. Luckily, the rules finally changed and those who use others' username didn't get any reward. So just report the fact and make those people wasting time on nothing.

You should report that in your bounty manager so there will be no conflict with your application in your bounty campaign.These people are taking advantage the situation that is why you need to report so these people will be permanently banned from this forum,i know how it feels when your identity is being used by someone,report it to the bounty manager and the moderator so you they can take action against these people.

Unfortunately, such situations occur often. I consider it necessary to expose all these intruders!!
Recently I encountered the same problem, it's really awful to prove that you are you.  :(

Someone using your telegram username means they will provide their own wallet address in the spreadsheet, so duplicate username will exist. Once the auditing is done by bounty manager if he found duplicates may be he will ban you instead of a scammer. So keep monitoring the spreadsheet daily just to avoid being scammed. Since someone scammed you just inform bounty manager he will resolve the issue. It is better if you could mention your wallet address in your profile just to know the actual owner of the account, of course, the scammer won't use your wallet address because you are holding private key of your wallet and only you will be having access for it. ;) There are some people out there who don't want to work honestly and hard, and only want to cheat and scam others we can't avoid scammers somehow.

Who will he report to bounty manager? Himself?
OP said someone used his username for bounty, he can't really report no one, bounty manager can only remove his username from spreadsheet but as he is probably not wearing signature of particular bounty he will be removed anyway.

it is necessary to discontinue actions that are very detrimental to others, because this will make bad and bad precedent for those who have, this action is definitely no purpose for the benefit of self, just like doing this like get immediate action and should not be repeated because it will make a lot of followers if there is no action.
exactly once it should be informed to the admin for action.
hopefully no action like this in time, to be able to work honestly is a necessity.

You can report that person to your bounty manager,these people shouldnt be given a chance to earn money in bitcointalk.A lot of cheaters are here in BCT and we should be aware of posibilities that our accounts might be used already before we join to these campaigns,there will be some people who are taking advantage with the system's hole.

Report to the bounty manager, Do not let that cheater receive the rewards that should be yours. If you just let it go, it can repeat it again and do something else to deceive the other person. And it is only right to say his name if you have really strong evidence proving his cheating. To give him punishment, and not happen again his work.

I think you are not quite right if you put it on this thread, maybe you can write your outpouring and complaint to reputation forum, or send personal message to the project manager concerned

This should immediately report bounty to the manager of the company, as well as to immediately inform the administration of the forum, in order to remove this person, or rather delete his account, so that he does not do this any more

The op only said that thier telegram user name use  for the bounty not  bitcointalk profile . I think  it's better if the OP add atleast the username of that person so we can have an  idea who is that person. That account should be tagged for cheating and using other persons telegram acct.

Thanks guys for the responses. The BM has finally responded to me. Things would be rectified and I am all good now. As for the impersonator,  I will post his bitcointalk username name here.

There will always be people whom will do everything to take advantage any situation so they can get a lot of money by using other's people.What you can do is to report these people to the bounty manager of the campaign you are joining so there wont be any problem regarding your identity or you can also report this to the mdoerator but make sure that you have proofs,screenshots.

At first I did not understand how this could be, but then it dawned upon me. The fraudster has a lot of account telegrams, but only one account on the forum. Therefore, he uses other people's names and links for the forum, so wallets and telegrams substitutes his own.

Oh, dude. Scammers are even more than I thought before.

That is awful,most of the people here are starting to get annoying because they are cheating just to get a lot of money from these campaigns,shouldnt be like this because the forum is being flooded by the shitposters who just want to earn money for their food.Report these people to the moderator and your bounty manager just to be sure that there wont be conflicts with you.

Someone needs to come up to solve this exploit. Someone had a good suggestion, using the location field in your profile for your Ethereum address. But I think there could be a solution that doesn't rely on BitcoinTalk.

The first thing you have to do is to make sure you`ll get the tokens, so put your wallet address at location section in the Bitcointalk profile in order to prove that you are the real person. Then report the cheater to the bounty manager and to a forum admin so he can be banned from forum and bounty.

Ya, this is a bad thing because maybe bounty manager think that your alt-account join in same bounty, and you you can get red trust, I also found my telegram username being used by others and i immediately told the bounty manager that wasn't me. Dont worry, after you tell bounty manger, that account will banned from champaign

In my opinion you should contact with campaign manager before coming here and posting about your concerns. The only responsible person who can solve problem is campaign manager and i am sure he/she will help you gladly if you can prove account ownership.

I meet this very recently, very often, especially the Telegram campaign! I realized that the main thing at first is to fill out the form, and then add to the channel, otherwise the criminal may have the opportunity to fill out the form first and use your Telegram!

Report this to your bounty manager,i too have some experience were my username were used into bounty campaign and got rejected already.So when i applied i was tagged as cheater,not knowing at someone has intentionally put my username in the spreadsheet but the manager has considered my appeal,report this to moderator so they could investigate.

There are many scammers that do this kind of things, the participate in bounty campaigns with your credentials and with their ETH address.
The big problem is that you can't do anything to stop them. It's up to the bounty managers to have a scam list of ETH addresses, that's pretty much it.

this is not only happened to you mate. so and report it to bounty manager and  Proof yourself. He will check entries and ban the cheater.  Do not give your telegram related mobile number to others. Hide your mobile number from telegram. and check bounty spreadsheet at least twice per week. good luck mate

Attention! Required! First, the main thing is to fill out the form, and then join to the channel, otherwise the perpetrator may have the opportunity to fill out the form first and use your Telegram!

Report it! so that these users will be permanently banned from this forum because they shouldnt be given any chance,cheating to get more stakes is unaacceptable and moderators wont allow this to happen.They can easily be tracked because most of the ITs there are the best in the world surely they will be able to pin point these cheaters.

Easy way to permanently fix this is to have make all telegram names match the bitcointalk profile. No way for people to do this type of shit then but obviously makes online activity easier to track if using the same alias across all platforms.

Most often, this happens when you join the telegram before submitting the form for the bounty registration. Some people are smart to an extent that they use your telegram username and even appear ontop of you the original user in the spreadsheet. All they do is that they monitor both the spreadsheet and the group at the same time while they have almost finished filling their form, with the exception of the telegram username aspect. Report the person, but always make sure to submit the form before joining the telegram group.

Report these people to the moderator or into some DT or default trust so they can be banned from the forum,these people are cancers who just want to take as much money as they can,because they just want to earn more here,not knowing they are posting shitposts or lowquality non sense posts,surely the people in the forum would agree to totally ban this people.

Hackers and scammers are spreading here we must aware always if you experiencing that bad things report immediately to your bounty manager so that they will act quickly to stop these bad things.Because if don't act immediately your effort will become nothing or lost as well.

this needs to be cautioned because there will be many ways from the fraudsters to commit fraud that will result in losses in many people. so if you find the evidence immediately report to the manager so that later the fraudster is removed from the campaign.

Scammers should be totally ban here because they shouldnt be given any chance to earn from the bounties,report it to the bounty manager and surely they will take some action agains these people,greedy people will always be anywhere so you will need to be vigillant so that you wont be scammed here.

Thanks for the info. I did not know about this fraud.
It is designed for those who do not never check spreadsheets.
Now I'll be careful when joining the bounty in the telegram

Now I see a lot of people like you. Those who take the username of the account to register for the bounty with another ETH address to earn your labor work out. Typically, an account can only participate in a signature campaign, so you need to double check the ETH address information on the bounty spreadsheet if wrong then report to the manager to denounce.

You can report these people first in your bounty manager,second to the moderators which can take some actions immediately and third to the default trust members so that these people wont be able to join any campaigns in the future,a lot of people here are experiencing that including me so we shouldnt let these people to continue wrong doings like this.

Actually this situation is  i already experience it now,that theres someone,who want to jeopardize or scamming my btt username,i already report  to the bounty thread or personal message to the bounty  manager,this only the best things  we can do,and am i thinking why some people doing sucks into there co-person,why that they join properly in bounty hunting,they want an instant prizes without sweating in there own,thats things they doing they will regret in last because they can gain a bad karma into there self not now,but in the end.there always say that everthing will done to your brothers will came back to you multiplied,and thats a bad  karma.

There will always be some people who will take advantages all the holes in the system,we need to be vigillant because i have experience this a several times,so what i did is i reported these people to the bounty manager,plus the moderator has taken some action so they have banned these people in the forum because if you didnt report these people they wont stop doing that to you.

If you are on the same campaign, then reporting it to the manager should be easy if the said manager is accomodating enough to hear you out. Bounty campaigns should include these basic information on the registration form since it cannot be verified by linking your account or something.

Might be the same people who have used mine in some bounty campaigns,they are doing that because they might think that they could have get free money without doing anything,we need to be sure that these type of people will be permanently banned here in the forum so less spammers and scammers would be here.

Create a topic with your issue in the Meta subforum and allow Lauda to ban the user that is trying to use your credentials. Though, this type of scammers are hard to detect.

Cheaters should be reported immediately to the moderators or default trust members so they can easily track and permanently banned these people who are taking advantage some of the new people here,they shouldnt be given any chance because they just only want to earn money,flooding this forum with shitposts,cancers asf.

What's the point? Do you understand that the scammer has used somebody's Bitcointalk profile too and linked it to your Telegram username? Someone does the same with my Telegram account, and I am 100% sure the guy in the spreadsheet with my Telegram name does not know anything about it.

Using someone else’s username is an illegal activity and there are severe consequence for anyone doing so. You need to report this matter as soon as possible as this is against the rules and it is unacceptable. You need to keep your account secure by changing your password again and try not to disclose your username or password in front of any one in order to stay safe in the future.