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I have been here at the forum for a while now.
I Was Active On Bounties.
However this is what happens.
Some or almost half of the Bounty Programs I joined, turns out to be a scam.
Some Members Even duplicate my credentials/reports and the worst part is,
Some attempted to KYC my bounty payment.

This experience is exhausting and frustrating.

You guys?
What do you think we can do to prevent or stop such scam projects or people that imitates us?
And what are your experience with them? and what did you do?

If you are referring to the services being a scam then, try to find a bounty running by TokenMarket, BountyPortal or reputable bounty managers on the forums but If you're speaking about the members impersonating other members then there isn't much that can be done here. If the manager is vigilant, that shouldn't affect the original participant in anyway.

I've experienced those things as well. Not as bad as you though, at least no one imitates me or something. Well, at least i never found out that, so i don't know if that happened or not.
But i ever joined a bounty program for long, it's hard and exhausting, with lots of post and other complicated rules. I joined them for quite long time, months, and it turns out to be a scam. I really expect much from that but well, here goes nothing. From that i became so upset that i stop joining bounties for quite a time. But well now i'm back and try to be even more selective and careful before i join a bounty so the same thing won't happen again.

Thanks for the tip, and ill try to follow this managers. if i see some of their bounties.
And yeah i wish the managers are vigilant, but i cant blame them that much. cause of the volume of participants is quite hard to manage.
but yet its really annoying

If you're credentials are being duplicated and scams as well, i'm assuming you're doing bounties for TokenSuite. They're pretty lazy doing their jobs as campaign managers and consecutive scam bounties. Its reputation is decreasing every second, but i don't know why people still patronizes them.

That's because the participants are lazy as well. See bounties run by the TokenSuite are so dumb, even less post counts receive stakes. Doing your job untruthfullly (doing and d2ob less effort to do) lessens your job.

I guess start working a normal job and stop using these forums as a bounty spam fest.  I'm sorry to hear of your experience but this place is filled with so many scammers its crazy.

Maybe you should not join every shit and expect a good return. In my oponion it`s the same as you invest in an ico. dyor before investing.
The good thing is you use no money for it. The bad thing is you put your time and work on it which is nevertheless money just on an other way.  :-\

Well it does not matter as long as that the eth address you had was right in the spreadsheet and not being changed as we all know that there are many people doing scam and that relatively going to do anything just to gain the tokens or the coins from you. We should expect that there are many cheaters in this unknown process or system. If only it is like facebook with pictures so that we can identify the real people behind the accounts.

Well thats the thing, the problem is. yes the original eth address and all other credentials are there.
But the problem is, specially if the bounty is around 3k+ participants. They cant check, if its the real one.
Think about that, a second(the fake one) with same credentials and different eth address.
it is possible if the manager wasnt able to identify the two. the fake one could earn stakes by just doing that.

Im working my daily normal job. and im not using the forum for bounty spam.
im here to participate, and every bounty i join. i join legitimately and i put some time and focus on it.
and yeah, this place is filled with scammers.

your fate is tragic.
this is a business that has no guarantee, so it is not certain you will be paid or not. my advice to know who bounty manager who already has track recor, please search digrup this. Just follow the bounty campaign. although this is not a guarantee but can minimize you avoid the scam project, because they must have dilakkukan project checks that they handle

You cannot tell the bounty campaign is a scan right there and then. There are bounty campaigns that really is a scam but most of bounty campaigns here in the forum is legit. There are lots of reason why bounty campaigns cannot pay you because they have a cap for their tokens and maybe there are no investors invested on their tokens that they are promoting.

t is frustrating indeed to encounter a scam ICOs.  Basically we have complied all the rules to achieve such reward and ends up nothing. But I don't think we will stop doing bounties because of this.  For now,  the best thing to do is to be select the project well,  the project team and the bounty manager.

Yes, they are a waste of our time, they don't have heart to those who get scammed. We should be careful on our private accounts, especially our passwords. It's very frustrating because we do our best to receive our own rewards, but they don't give that to us.

Mostly it is very hard for us to know which bounties are scam so it is hard to know which ones are before the end of the campaign when they don't end up paying out. What we can do though is when we encounter such scam bounties then we should make sure to report them and put the word out there so that others will know not to sign up for these scam bounties.

to minimize bounty fraud should be analyzed ICO project before deciding to join the project, although there is still a scammer indictment but that is only a small possibility

The scams are just getting too intelligent to handle.Yesterday they stole the things from MEW using a snooping techinique of users using Holo VPN.It really sucks

You can always tell the bounty manager is someone is impersonating you. There are a lot of scammers out there but if they don't succeed i think they will flourished if we will be vigilant.

KYC your bounty doesn't necessarily mean that the project is scam. Many legit projects do that. If there are clones of your profile, well you need to deal with that. Also if you join scam bounty, I think it's only your mistake as you weren't able to make proper research

I agree to this. In addition, you could also try to research on the project first before joining bounty campaigns. This will help you to know on whether or not the campaign is a scam. Also try on reporting the members who may be abusive for them to have a red trust.

I agree that the Best way to not be scammed is to make your own quiet deep research of the project because you are also investing, not your money but your time and it is much more expensive. Or you can rely on the other's opinion and choose from different bounty and ICO portals.

I have already  heard many times about guys copiing reports and Accounts at bounty programs, but fortunately didn't saw them, or May be i didn't look attentively enough. Any way only bounty managers could do some thing against this kind of participants and of course we need to check Spreadsheets oursefl to find our clones and report to managers.

The only thing that still allows these scammers to exist is because the spreadsheets are always displayed and as such identity theft is high. If the spreadsheets can be hidden and opened once the bounty is over and stakes calculated for people to view their entries, I am sure this duplicates and scammers will be put to rest.

The most ico is basically scam so being paid a lot in a good ico is mostly about luck. You should research more before joining in any kind of bounty

Most of the ICOs are scam no doubt but it totally depends on your research about the ICO before you join their bounty.

Managing a high number of bounty participants is not reason enough not to do a very good job of detecting spams and scammers. If the participants are too much for their staff capacity to handle, they should reconsider hiring more staffs or limit the number of campaigns they handle to their staff capacity.

I think it's hard to stop them, because the characteristics of cryptocurrencies make it difficult for you to verify their true information, so it depends more on your experience. You need to use experience to judge whether a project is scam.

I am sure that soon the administration of the forum together with the regulators will come up with some new norms to counter such cases. What you have just described is now a disaster in recent months. I do not know of any such project where such attempts of fraud have not occurred.

That particular platform that you mention above pays only a penny due to heavy participants. They have no limit in bounty hunters, and that is not right. They should at least make the bounty profitable. I would prefer hunting limited slots bounty campaign than joining automated/over-loaded platform.

I can say that it is a common thing for bounties. From what I get to know here you need just to be prepared for that to happen. I was initially preparing myself that up to 30% of the bounties I join would be scam.

we can't stop this scam projects. they will not stop until there is still some to scam. scamming is easy money to them. what we need to do is research well to avoid this scam projects. if you want to join bounty campaign find campaign manager with good reputation. there are many of them here look for it. also avoid campaign manager that are newbie there is a higher chance it is a scam.

We can't really define if the campaign or project is reliable or not, some great projects really keep low profile in terms of bounties and some fake just show off and do much of promotion to get much engagement and investors, its really stressing that we only get a little after using our time in helping the projects to reach their goals.

This is the reason why I believe that bounties and airdrops are just the first step into the great and vast world of cryptocurrency. You need to get understanding, as fast as possible that investing and trading is better.

You are wrong by tagging the project itself scam project. Such acts are always from fraudsters among the bounty hunters I believe. They would check spreadsheet and fill form with other people’s details.

yes it is very annoying when we have spent a lot of time, energy, and mind to follow a bounty campaign that turned out to be a scam. whereas I have many hopes to get results. but it gives me lessons to be more careful in following the campaign. it's important to check out the developer team, and the project's white paper first.

I have been in a bounty which in the end turned out to be a scam. I immediately removed my signature upon knowing that in order to stop advertising scam projects. I hate being used by others into something that could stain my reputation. I have no concrete procedure on how to know what project is legit and what is a scam. Even campaign managers are being fooled so if they are fooled, there's no doubt many will be fooled as well.

For those who are using someone's account just to cheat, I report them to campaign manager. I scan the spreadsheet one by one just to verify each entry. Yes, I scan the spreadsheet one by one, literally. I do not want cheaters in a bounty I am participating  ;D

Thanks for the tips. Specially on the bounty providers, you provided.
And ive already reported such acts, and i get a good results.
And yes i research the project before joining them.
thanks a lot guys

the project will not be stopped scam to keep popping up. can do is merely avoid that project. Indeed the hard way but this must be done in order to get results. deepen the analysis to find the best project in order to avoid viewing from this scam because the important thing to do.

Before a bounty campaign, you should check the team members, the BM, the popularity of the project on social networks... But even then you're not sure you won't be scammed.
Anyway try to go with quality over quantity or like you said you'll be very frustrated

Thanks Guys for the tip.
And pointers, its really hard to fight off scammers though.
Wish me luck. And good luck to guys.

YEAH! Actually the scammers are really exhausting
because in our generation you cannot easily trust someone interms of your financials; in just wrong move all money you have can easily banish.

Yes they are, but let this think as a challenge or obstacle that you should avoid to be able to safe your investments or coins in this business and also to be a successful investors too.

i have same problem with you, many ico turn to scam and many people cheating the spreadsheet using my work, sometimes i've think social media bounty must be removed, because many cheater on this campaign session, and also on article campaign, but cheater on article campign is not as much as on social media

Sad for you, I have never face this when participating in campaigns whose manager is Amazix, tokensuite, sylon, etc,.. (they will be banned from all campaign). You should choose professional managers and be highly rated. Good luck!!!

I prefer running bounties manage by AmaziX, Cryptoservices and Bountyhive, since I have been working with them, I never had any bad experience. You can try them out.