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Hi guys, last March 23, 2018 I received an email from Altcoin_name@creditstoken.win which his message states that "You are entitled to receive an advance bounty reward from (Altcoin_Name) Coin Bounty Campaing for your participation. Go to the fowling address to redeem your Bounty Reward using redeem code: wwv.myetherwallet.com#redeem-token" When you open their website it will ask to enter your Private Key and wait for 3 hours to received the tokens. So guys beware of any person who will try to ask your Private Key. I had reported this issue to the owner of the Altcoin_name and sadly I was been disqualified in their bounty campaigns...

You are right, this is fraud. I constantly receive emails with various kinds of spam. In the beginning I became the owner of a super bonus, then I won some tokens, whose name I heard for the first time. This is a 100% scam!

"Wait for 3 hours to received your tokens" and that has the same mean if we are giving the time for the scammers up to 3 hours to move our balance to the scammer wallet. What a shady method by scammer in these days.
There are so many fake emails right now and be careful with everything.

Thank You for the reminder! Never ever give anyone nor enter anywhere Your Private Keys! Quite often scam pages have strange and suspicious domain names. creditstoken.win is a good example of something weird.

I also receive lots of e-mails everyday, I even gave up using this account and opened another one. I think people also should avoid ICOs offering like 50%, 75% bonuse to early participants.

Airdrops, especially when we're recording, are using a serious data mining system to send spam messages or earn revenue by selling email addresses and social media addresses.

thanks for this one.. we all know that private key is the life of our wallet!those scammers should teach them a lesson.

Scammers just try their luck by sending these emails to many people. If one or two they success also they will make an easy money because recently many new investors came to cryptos. Those investors may not be knowing how to secure their accounts so these scammers target those people. Just remember no one will give you free money in this world so when you get these offers just ignore it.

Iit can be a fraudsters who want to give you a bounty prize for ask you to give a private key or make kyc. There is no private key at all, so you need to be very careful. There are too many cheaters in crypto currency world

Maybe you can.give them the private key of new wallet with zero balance ;D
And the scammer will dissapointed with it

If they ask for private key or account password etc  Always avoid such airdrops or bounty.

Fake rewards and fake bounty are everywhere they fool people they are waiting people's money,time and effort but there are also many that are legit/true.All we have to do is be careful in choosing.Good luck to the where you invest.

Good that you have initiated to alert the members in this forum to know about this fake bounty reward scam. Just want to keep the members updated is to keep away from these type of scammers. Listed below some known scammers to keep away.

Avoid NewBie bounty manager program's
Avoid high rewards from NewBie bounty managers
Avoid advance bounty rewards emails or advertisements

scammers commit fraud not only by email but also by telegram, they claim to be part of the Team of an ICO project, they offer tokens and lure us to follow them.

I get dozens of emails like this every day..They get our information from the spreadsheet of bounty campaigns..It can be dangerous on an intense and irregular day..I delete without opening all.

Scam again, nice information friends, I hope my friend lebiv cautious of us should be better at analyzing ico altcoin or his team of developers, than it happens again, because I've felt it, and I have to restore my psychology for several months, hopefully we can be more careful again

No one is ask the private key and account password. But many beginners are wrongly paste the private keys in some bounty campaign. This is main reason to hack the private account but some fake airdrop and bounties are not a easy to identify in crypto platform because many trust projects also failed in anytime so suddenly close the project.

could've been ascertained it was a scam. When did receive a gift then surely based on following an activity or registration and do not need to enter a private key. just ignore that kind of stuff for the sake of its own security.

Becarefull they probably want to hack you through phising or they want to know your id. Bpunty manager will never email bounty hunter for claiming the payment. It will be done automatically i always do bounty and never give anything through email.

Nowadays scammera are trying new methods to scan your data and taking its advantage. These emails fraud are categorizee under fishing method of scams.You need to be aware about such things and most of all you should never give your codes and private keys to anyone for such fake rewards.They ask for 3 hours to transfer your all money to their account.Avoid such scammy mails if you want your money safe.

I will never trust any company or person that ask my private key its like giving away all your funds to your wallet, this is a big no no people should educate himself that private keys are private property, even asking your private key is a big no no it's a sign that its a scam project.

Isn't it weird that they give away free coins and they even mail you to get that reward  :D I think if you very into such airdrops, bounties etc. Use another computer that you don't do something about your wallets.

There are so many of this kind of scammer they are sending email to there victim like that and asking your private key even in slack and telegram they are also usualy doing that send you a messege.

Scammers are doing everything to surely persuaded someone and this kind of thing is very normal to Cryptocurrency space where they will give certain tokens that doesn't any value at all so they can persuade someone in giving them any amount, Or even your private key which is obvious and anyone can really have an idea that certain thing is a scam or a fraud!

That is so predictable to be scam. First of all, legit rewards will ask for your address but not for your private key. Never trust ICO or people who are requiring you to enter your private key. Scammers have a lot of way just to deceived people

One should be an idiot to give somebody his private key - it's like giving your banking card pin or cvv code.
Internet has been widespread for over 15 years already, but they still hope to find some "easy meat" to cheat on.
I wonder where all these scammers get their e-mail lists from?

Thanks for this info

Thanks for info, I received same email and I realized that these are scammers and deleted immediately. There is a lot of scammer at this market, people must be careful about this.

don't just get fooled by some free ..   and just trust only on MEW main site bro.

This is a scam, usually the sender makes almost the same as the bounty or ICO that is running at that time. and my advice do not open links linked in the email, if you want to check the truth you only see the official site in the sender's email and manually open it through a new tab. And do not believe a bit if the site is very similar to the wallet site.

thanks for all the info,
with a lot of fake gifts I think we should be careful,
I often get emails, but I first learned the contents
if they ask for a private key or offer ico that is too excessive or looks silly,
I prefer to stay away because I do not want to take any significant risks

Thanks for this reminder. Luckily you didn’t fall for their trap. I’m sometimes really got easily tempted seeing this too good to be true scam giveaways keep poping on my email. And whats worst is that they are not sometimes filtered as scam by gmail which can be viewed right away in my inbox.

That's true that is why I always ignore email that asks for my private key or sends them funds to a particular wallet, everything has a process for this, these scammers are now innovative always find ways to scam newbies so beware.

never ever believe anyone who is asking for your private key, this is a scam, hopefully people now should be able to distinguish legit from fake.

Scammers basically play on ones greed.
If you are not drawn away by your lust and enticed , i doubt if they'd get through to you.

That is how is see it though.

I also have opinion that if a person just keeps his eyes open and uses his brain or question all the demands of an ICO, it is not very difficult to plot a scam. Scams are actually very easy to be spotted out.They ask for credentials that are not even the requirement of the task being performed. Scammers will always try to get their hands on important and private information. Still, people are scammed and the rate is increasing gradually.

Only full nubs will eat this kind of scam. This is for ordinary people, who are so far from crypto world. I don't know how is possible to be so silly and enter your private key

Exactly...  The scammer are everywhere we should be careful especially if we are giving our personal information... Private key should be keep private that's our personal info...  If we did that we can never make our coin secure...  It is just like we are working but we didn't received our salary that's unfair... Everyone should be wise especially now that scammer are getting more...  
But imagine the strategy of that person...  In order to earn thay will gonno do it... Everyone especially the begginer in crypto should be aware of it...

When you are too good and innocent or a way too greedy, it happens. One more important factor is lack of knowledge. Cyber world is not very easy to deal with. The rate of scamming has increased over the last year and it is not very easy to track them. Cyber criminals have not only knowledge about technology but they understand human thinking deeply. That is why they hit the weak points of human nature.

Don't believe with anything you receive from email, slack, telegram or other social media unless it's from official.
Do you noticed if it's a phising link? The scammer used "wwv" instead of "www"

the most important thing is to be ware if anyone asks your Personal Key .. this incident becomes a lesson for all of us ... and always be careful because many people cheat to earn money.

Yes thank's for the advice... There are a lots of scammer who emerged now...  I can't help myself to think that this scammer will dominant us especially those person who work legally and hardly...  Its quite unfair that there a lots of person who work like that... We cant blame them it is easy to make this than to work hard...  But its not good... The only things we need to do is to be careful... Our efforts will not go in vain if we always do that...

Any new beginner into cryoto should read the 101 on crypto.Giving away the wallet private key is like giving the ATM and the pin number .And remember if it's too good to believe then it's probably a scam

Thank you for sharing your experience though it turned out to be sad. The secret code is very important. It is better to have several purses for storage. One must be known only to you.

Thanks for this but for me I would never put a private key from any bounty reward . It will be suspicious for me at first attempt then I won't continue to submit any of my details either to be safe .

If you are new you make mistakes like this. If you are experienced then sorry it is your mistake. Please do remember this: Nobody will ask you for private keys. If they do then just stay away from them. Simple right?

It is clear that it is not necessary to go to various obscure references and especially to introduce their private key.

I would also suggest to checking for when will there be reward distribution for bounty participants because some campaign are starting to lock down payments for few months after ico is completed(with smart contracts)This campaign aint open about it and a lot of people are unaware of this,they usually say that it was writen in the whitepapper and lets be honest noone is reading that ;D

Typically anything that mentions that which is not available public knowledge is a scam. No private keys and if you are asked to give an email, these are free so it is easy to create a new email address for different projects/investments.

Sometimes people are distracted, inattentive and can give the private key to scammers. Everyone must remember not to give the private key to anyone. If someone asks for it's important, stay away from that person. Maintaining basic safety rules reduces the risk of losing money.

This will serve as a warning to those people who don't know anything regarding this issues. Its actually pretty easy to figure out the scam from the legit ICO projects. Icos that ask for your private key is already fishy. So beware! Don't be stupid in giving away your private key in any bounty participation. And make sure that your accounts have 2FAs.