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As a new bounty hunter how will I know if the ICO I joined for bounty campaign is not scam aside from studying their whitepaper. For those who are professional in bounty have you experience being scam from the bounty campaign you joined? How to avoid SCAM Bounty so that our effort and time will not be wasted.

Check the details of everything they said to the community so far like when they share a new partnership with other companies that will support their project. If it seems to good to be true then check the legality of the news in your own ways. See if the project has a good community support like in telegram but it should be a legit support not like they are just added to the channel against their will. Another thing is that I pretty much depend on who is the campaign manager of that bounty campaign because most likely they are very careful on accepting projects because they have to maintain a good image on their name.

Join bounty campaign with the most trusted and reliable campaign managers If youre a bit lazy reading white papers and studying everything. There are number of people who posts a thread with the lists of reliable campaign managers. By following their campaign, it could be less risky with scam probability.

maybe you should be more careful in choosing a good bounty
memnag see whitepaper is very important to mengetaui project but see also from ICO rating it is whether good or not

this does not guarantee a good ico or not back to the developer whether it is really serious in running the project or will only take advantage for its own

I'll give you one simple advice. Check all team in Linkenid. You could see easily the professionalism of the team  in their profiles. See how many friends, how many publications they have.

It's the same as if you were investing into the project. If the project will succeed, the bounty will succeed too. Do research the ICO and if it seems legit, you can participate in bounty.

This is very good advice and I would totally agree. Also with my Wife, we check out a few things now. How big is the telegram group, has the ICO raised any funds, Who is the bounty campaign manager, ICO BENCH report and rating, how good is the team and how big is the community. These are some of the things we look at. We do not always get things right, but with time and experience, we are slowly getting a bit better now. You can never get it right 100% but you can do more research before taking on any projects as you are giving up your time to receive the rewards, so you need to value your time, nothing is free.

for bounty hunter beginner, I suggest to follow bounty manager which is well known and trusted in distributing bounty stake.

join this link might help to follow the bounty manager that has been trusted: "https://t.me/smersy_bounties","SMersy Telegra"

     Some projects was failed and we are not paid for our campaigning,then we feel they scam even they are not and ever since they have a good start and have a nice flatform. The truth is very difficult to identify whether the bounty is scam or not.

I have no enough knowledge about what is bounty scam and a good one, I only one hundred percent trust on the campaign manager who handle the campaign, because mostly of my friends says that needmoney is the name of campaign manager who positively handles a campaign with high working experiences and honestly provide the total contributions of what they had promised. So, we can also determine that the campaign is good, by looking only on the trusted campaign manager.

White paper does not bring anything useful and interesting about the project. Very often this is the same as written on the site

First you need to see who is the manager of this bounty campaign. After that, you can see the ICO rating on rating sites. After that, see their terms.
But in fact, all this is much more complicated, and it happens that for the work done, ICO who have reached the hard cap, are delayed with payments. Therefore here everything is strictly individual.

You'll recognize it after you read all the whitepaper and website. Following them on social media is a big confident. but make sure that you keep asking them on telegram to be more updated so that you won't worries at all.

Bounty manager can't guarantee you that campaign won't fail, they are a manager and can be scammed the same way.
TokenSuite already hosted few scam bounties, last of them - Denaro, raised over 8$ million and gone with the wind ( PROOF https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2833315.0 )
There a some great advices here already, but what you should also look out for is - huge bounty pools 5$ millions and more, most likely it will lead to scam.
I would recommend you always try to do your little research before you join bounty campaign, and don't fully rely on bounty managers, no matter how good they are.

you will never know if the bounty is scam or not unless the ico is finished but still doesn't have exchanged for a year :D

Well, that's all part of the risk. for now it is quite difficult to distinguish which ico really has potential on a scam. essentially the role of the manager is also very influential in this case. so it all fits with experience regardless of knowledge and insight

I'll be perfectly honest with you... there are no guarantees.  Even the best looking ICO campaigns can turn out to be duds.  

So far I've participated in about 40-50 bounty campaigns, of which 3 were definite scams, a couple cheated only the bounty participants, a few more didn't reach soft cap (no project - no bounty), but the rest paid out in accordance with the bounty OP.

Of course, some only paid out tokens worth pennies (literally), whilst others paid handsomely (thousands of dollars worth of tokens).

The most certain ICOs, IMHO, are when it is an existing business that's implementing crypto with a view to raise funds for expansion.  ICOs in the deregulated power/energy sector are good recent examples.

A regular presence at blockchain conferences is also a good sign, as the scammers may not want to outlay the travel and conference costs if they aren't sure how much they'll get as a return on the scam project.

Sorry @kingzues09 - Reading white papers and their website and following their social media means nothing - a well developed scam will have plenty of believable info and a constant stream of social media hype.

Somestimes we do already research about all fundamental the project but that not 100% guaranted the project will successfully and paid the bounty reward, now too many new ICO everyday and we dont know excatly which is the best one and has massive potential. To maximize the reward from bounty campaign i joined alot of article campaign, by joined many bounty will maximize the reward though any of them does not paying. Some review of influencer also will help to find best ICO and good bounty.

nobody knows whether bounty is good or scam until the bounty is over, maybe the best option is to choose a trusted bounty manager, so can minimize the scam, because a good manager will do own research before receiving the job, it has more value because we do not need do a deep research, although we have to do a little research to be more steady on our choices

simple trick from me is you can follow best manager because best manager is trusted and fair, then you can follow popular bounty, usually popular bounty will success and not a scam

I have encountered some scam projects. They usually delay the delivery of the token and then they silence. Although the ICO is very successful, they are oblivious to the support community that promotes them.

Honestly we know if it is good bounty or scam bounty after the end of ICO because from the start they are so kind and always active but after ICO end they will gone also.

In my case i  always look in the details of the bounty if it looks promising and unique platform that was the first thing i do to choose which bounty is good for me the second is doubke check the the back ground of the team specialy there previous working history and background.

These days there are many scam bounties are coming even with good and legit website with  HTTPS site. But, there is no particular criteria for choosing of a legit bounty. I always choose bounty with good ratings that are published in the Cointelegraph and Tokenmarket.net.

First of all what do you mean about scam in crypto world?

Usually scammers have not money for promotion in top news sites like cointelegraph or forbes.

of course experience is part of every action investigation conducted on ico project. as well as with basic knowledge. but it is generally difficult to check which ico actually leads to a scam. back as I say, experiences are instrumental and very helpful in every choice of the campaign.

This is so true, from the airdrop I joined, after ICO you can no longer access their telegram group and their website.

Scam bounty

A scam bounty can be deceptive in that it appears to be worth participating in - as the bounty hunter will have taken a look at the white paper and carried out a number of checks. But it is easy enough to produce words on a document, create a half-decent website. I think nowadays we need to check things such as whether they have attended any summits or blockchain tech conventions - real photographic evidence of their booth, etc.


Good bounty

As I outlined above, look for projects that tick all the boxes in regards to website, devs, white paper etc, but also that they are physically involved in promoting their project by attending events.

A good bounty will ususally be run by a trusted bounty manager. There are a number of threads that have discussed and provided a list of good bounty managers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3216052.0

I, personally like the following:

need money
Lauda
wapinter
Siddu
token_market
blockeye
sylon

I would also advise you to talk with representatives of the project, if they are not hiding and ready to communicate and have all the information and their views on the development of the project they are definitely interested in achieving their goals. My signature is example of good team and positive project!

I have learned a lot from you guys. I will check the bounty manager, ICO bench rating, Linkedin profile, whitepaper, funds raised so far. Hope this helps me to minimize joining scam bounty campaigns.

the real thing that makes the project fail is the team that they are not serious and run away from the responsibility of the project they created and they publish. I myself can not convince you 100% of the project will be successful because that decides is the team. my advice can only tell you, trust the experienced managers.

I think in joining the bounty campaign is very difficult to avoid ICO Scam, for me All ICO who do not pay me and who pays me with tokens, but the tokens can not be sold is the ICO Scam.

To determine scam - not very easy. The only thing that helps me to evaluate the project is the results of pre-sale. I try to participate in the project only at the stage of ICO.

To single out scam is not easy in cryptos ICO, I mostly make my research of finding out the team behind the project, the ratings of the ICO, the social media usage and how much they have make in pretty sales in total, all this help me out in selection of good bounty campaign

Before joining a campaign, I research about the work team and the administrator who directs it, taking into account that high ranks give more confidence, and it is also important to know how responsible they are when updating the spreadsheet each week. in this way I know the degree of commitment they have and then I study all about the project

there are great bounty managers that have never run a scam bounty before . eg @colorlessk .. he has good reputation. as and read about bounty managers with good repu and follow them . just as simple

For new people in this industry, the safest way is to follow reputable bounty managers and join their campaign.
And in time you will learn how to filter shady campaigns from potentially good ones.

You must do your own research before joining every bounty campaign. At least looking on to the ico rating web may help you, if you do not want to research it by yourself.
But there's no 100% guaranteed that the project will be success. It depends on the promotions, and dev team itself.

Well I have to say that checking and studying ICO is not enough to determine whether if its bounty is scam or not . You might join legit ICO bounty but the manager who is running the bounty might be shady and not honest you will end up in a nightmare regarding counting your stakes and staff like this .
So studying the ICO itself is a good first step but the second step before joining its bounty is to see who is running the bounty program .

You should check the ico rating of the ICO if it is safe or not. It should have at least above 3 rating. You should also check the ratings of the team and compare ratings with other rating sites. If it is good then you can go ahead. But it is still a risk even if an ICO have a good ratings. You can only lower the risk by checking ratings and choosing the campaigns managed by a reputable manager.

Sometimes it is hard to figure out a scam bounty
I did participate in altowl campaigns
Terms says payment of bounty  a month after ico

They had WP, legible website, and ico went well over the course

Then suddenly telegram and other devs and admins went awol till date

So check on the personality and previous projects of each bounty manager
Before embarking; it helps

Do some research,never trust ICO rating sites because most of them are getting paid by these scammers, dont waste your time,dig up some information check the team behind the project,.review what is needed to be reviewed do not rely your decision to other people.If you saw some redflags you know what to do,dont hesistate to pass.

Hi Ma'am A!  :D It's hard to find out when a bounty is good or not, For me I do research about their team if it is legit, I read their whitepaper, examine their website and check if the communications are complete in case of a problem I can contact them. There is no 100% guaranteed that the project will lead to success so I suggest to get many bounties as you can. :D ;D

In order to be safe from scam bounties, you need to know first its bounty manager. There are some list of trustworthy bounty managers. These bounty managers will not let themselves be involve in scams. If you follow these bounty managers, you can assure that you'll be safe from scams and your work would not be wasted which we do not want to happen after spending lot of time and effort in doing bounty campaigns.

Check the github repository,so that you wont get fooled because scammers wont have their own codes,probably just copied from somewhere else,never let anyone fooled you,join to those quality campaigns because 1 good campaign is enough compare to 3/4 scam bounties that you might have because you didnt do your own research.

And what prevents you from studying the technical documentation, look at the quality of the site and get acquainted with the team. But even if everything looks very nice and professional, this will not give you a guarantee that the project will not exactly turn out to be SCAM.

WHitepaper is good but it is just a whitepaper. Scam ICO developers will leave the project after they collected funds and make new ICOs. They leave the project in the whitepaper with the long roadmap. People will forget about the ICO , their site will close after the contract ends.

Check the team behind it,never let any fake profiles fool you,becauase you shouldnt takign any chances because time and effort should be paid very well as long as you are doing your task every week you are going to make a lot of money and that is for sure,i dont want to participate with these campaigns because most of them are scams.

I think this is very difficult, sometimes there is a convincing project, but it leads a scam. Sometimes the project is not convincing, but it pays. I think personally, you should do all the bounty, whatever the project, while still there, except the signature campaign. Because the signature campaign can only follow 1 signature in 1 period.

You cant prevent those scam bounty campaigns as most of the ICOs are turning into scams,you should be doing a lot of research so that you wont be getting bad campaigns because these are only going to waste time and effort because you wont get paid with the efforts or the hardwork you have earned for.

Some ICO's succeed on their token sales but failed to sustain their project after the ico period and turns into a scam later on. This market is full of risk even if you study hard the market sometimes it will only depend on how good the project is.

I Must say Scam Bounties are like GPN coin, Legit Coin etc..... which ask to send etherum or to eat coins from the acount of people. and the Good bounties are Artis Turba, Rebl, Hydro. and the Best Bounty is only one name THUG COIN. Thugh coin have no  ICO they dropping all coins in bounties. Overall Thug Coin Offered Best and authentic bounty always.

Thru researching,you will need to do everything to search everything about the ICO,team or people behind it,the product,and its vision should be considered.Github account and social media accounts should be active,and should have some posts pictures of the team,do not rely your things with the bounties,instead get some job.

I agree because lots of good ICO have partners in their project if you see that is good you can participate so you cannot waste your time but like other said it depends to the project because ßome ICO even they don't have partners in their project they will successful. The best you can do is research deeply to the project so you know if is good or not.

Scam projects are unavoidable,that is why we should take our own research to lessen the risk because even those good looking projects might turn into scams that is why i am going to do everything i can to see those redflags.So i can prevent those campaigns from getting my time and efforts wasted,theres too much scam projects which is why we should be checking the background of the people behind the project,.

There's a possibility that the WP looks good because it's a plagiarized WP of other good project. Take for example coralex.io WP it's a plagiarized WP of Aion Network. Also they have "No KYC" crowdsale.

Aside from checking whitepaper the best thing to do is to background check the team behind the project. coralex.io listed some of the famous people in crypto as an adviser but those people publicly disowned any connection with the scam project.

In my bounty hunting experienced. Only one project turn out to be a scammed. The other projects just don't have enough sales or it become shitcoins because of the team's mismanagement/have not followed the roadmap.

Yes like you said before you can even know it on their whitepaper, the whitepaper is their main power how far they can go and can moon. But i have another way beside read the whitepaper, i can see how active they are on social media to promot their Tokens, as far as i know its 90% legit if they active on social media, replying an comment or sometimes they make a giveaway/airdrop on their social media.

You can avoid scam bounties by joining bounties being managed by best managers such as ubercool, deadley and needmoney.

I may not be a professional in bounty campaigns, but from my experience in the ones I have participated in I research them like I would research an ICO I would invest in (read the whitepaper, check the team, ICO rating, etc.), but after a couple of so so experiences I also research the bounty managers and the conditions for the campaign.
Unfortunately even with the research, you may still be scammed or the reward may not be as high as you were hoping it to be because the ICO was not as successful. It can be frustrating because you invested a lot of your time in promoting the ICO but that is a risk when you are participating for a percentage of tokens sold during ICO. So it is important to check that as well.

Even bounty managers are becoming a victim of scam ICO so its inevitable. I admit that I was a victim too but I always keep trying to minimize the scam ICO before joining the bounty. My best advise for you is to do your deeper research with the project, team members, partnership, road map and what are the project's unique characteristics for them to hook an investors. Choosing a reputable bounty manager is also one of the keys like TOKENSUITE and AMAZIX group.