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A friend of mine recently joined a bounty project and wore their signature for good four month making 15+ post every week and accumulating his require stake for the week for the entire bounty project. Just at the close of the last week of the bounty campaign he found out that the project was a scam. Ever since then, he feels very awful and despairs bounty projects.
Today, i was hoping you could share your feelings about your experience with scam bounty projects. You might want to leave behind words of motivation for my buddy to ginger him back into the business of bounty work.

I've also experienced the same thing. After learning that it's a scam, I can't do anything that is clearly anger and regret that always haunts my mind.

DISCOVERING THAT WAS SOMEHOW BAD THAT I NOW HAVE TO SELECT AND DO RESEARCH ANYTIME I WANT TO DO A BOUNTY.

You can see 90 percentage of the project not achieve the softcap and the scams. If you want to invest and make money must carefully you need to read the white paper and future exposure of the project.

If you don't find these things your fund will not be safer side for your information.hence careful about you to make posts.

Of course I will be mad and really disappointed if I found out that bounty is a scam considering the efforts that I have made, however I thinks such lose should always be taken as a learning curve and in the next time should always evaluate the bounty before joining to lessen such occurrences.

It's not about the bounty that I found out it was a scam, but the ICO that I invested with.
Though, I haven't invested so much but it's already a month-salary here in my country.
And then, I just reconciled with myself because reading hateful comments/posts from the investors, I found out that some invested like 10-25k$, and now, it's worth almost nothing.
So, I'm not alone with the situation, even if you feel cursing the team. The thing is they don't know you and they have the money. Just move on. It's a part of life.

One of the saddest things in crypto is the exit scam of projects. I've once experienced the same things. Did weeks of promotion for Impressio, only for the bounty manager to post on the thread at the end of the campaign when stakes were being calculated that the Impressio team have disappeared on him. This implied that months of work done was in futility. I felt really bad and had to evaluate my strategy thereafter so as not to fall prey of such scams in the future.

just move on and find other bounty to join. don't let your mistakes get into you and affects your life. you have to learn from it so next time you will avoid joining scam bounty. it is still a good thing because you only invest time and not money.

I will recheck myself because i didn't learn carefully before joining the campaign and didn't realize it is a scam project. No way to change the fact that it is scam, i will not blame, just find another legit campaign to join.

It's hard to find a legit bounty for now in oppinion. Since i participating bounty, i just got scammed once or twice. Most disappointing moment in my experience is the price on market was dumping. And till now, i dont know what purpose who made dump the coin with low price.

There were such problems.  But not with a signature.  Of course, this disappointed me.  Lost time.  But this is the reality of hunters.  Do not despair.

obviously annoyed, especially if the project that we follow takes a long time but it turns out it is fraud.
but it can't be helped, this is the risk of this job, after all here we don't issue big capital, only the quota for the internet and the results we get are huge from the bounty, if the project we promote it successful.

a little tips, before joining the bounty you should first study and also select a reputable dev. because this forum also cannot compensate your work.  ;) :D

It was very disappointing, of course. I have experienced it several times. Hard work for weeks without results will certainly reduce the enthusiasm to continue. However, to achieve success requires hard work and patience, making bad experiences into learning is a good thing to do.

Well, that's just how bounty is. There is no guarantee that you will be paid for the project that you have participated for various reasons like bounty being scam, project didn't reach the softcap or the bounty manager is the one who is scam. I also participated in a project wherein I receive the tokens but they are worthless because the team already abandon the project and it would not be getting listed anywhere. There are no guarantees here so you should find a bounty manager that already has a reputation of paying the participants and handle legit projects and hope for the best.

I feel ashamed to myself off course because the time and effort that I allotted on the certain campaign was non sense or useless although it makes a burden for me because I didn't get anything but it also helps me to recognize on what is real and what is not it also serves as a lesson for me that I should choose the proper campaign so that there is no regret in the end and my time and effort will become worth it.  

Making 15 posts every week is really hard work, I know the feel and how disappointed your friend for not earn anything from it.  My first signature campaign was suspended, the task is 15 posts too but I have to make at least 20 posts because sometimes the thread or the post is deleted.  Now I will not join any signature campaign with more than 10 posts a week.  I hope your friend can move on and have a succeed project next time.

also useless if you want to be angry, because we also will not get anything if for example we file a claim. so I just got out, and looked for another ico and kept trying.

I once joined a scam bounty after I joined for 14 weeks. They said if they would not hold an ICO and the project stopped, then I laughed because I was very weak and gave up before fighting but it didn't make me sad because there were still many bounties who would give me profit

"keep on trying and don't give up"
maybe your friend is still a new member so he can't analyze more carefully about the bounty project he is running, I strongly suggest that before following the prize project please read the whitepaper and see his team

Well yes, I could agree that keep on trying and never give up. There are a lot of bounties that I have applied and was scammed. Even though the whitepaper and the team and also the website are well design and assembled, at the end of the day there are also scam projects like that.

usually projects a SCAM that I feel there are some things that are not active. Usually also in group a telegram does not update. And there are some who even his website could not be open. And sometimes there are a few teams that escape, no news.

You know whenever you join bounties there's a risk of wasting time and it is like lost of money as well. I haven't experience any scam bounty I don't know why probably lucky to find good bounty and also I did some research about it. But what I can share is that if the project is too good to be true I think that's one of the signs that it is a scam btw I was one of the victim of hashscam(hashcard)

Whitepaper and you can see the developer background of the project is the most important when tend to take part bounty campaign. Then the Bounty manager also you have to see it, try to take part in a bounty campaign that is pursued by people who have a high bitcointalk rank without redtrust like legendary members or Hero member, I'm sure if you join a bounty campaign with the criteria that I say will be far from scam project.

I also participated in one ICO project and it turned out to be a scam. I worked for this campaign for three months. I was very hurt. But I did then realize that I should not be upset. I just forgot about it and continue to participate in other bounty campaigns.

It’s really frustrating to encounter such a thing, because you have to spend a lot of time each week to complete the bounty, but in the end you find that it is just a scam, and you won’t get anything, of course, I think bounty manager must bear certain responsibilities.

I think that in such a situation there were all the bounty hunters that have long been on the crypto market. It is very sad when you find out the following news. I also participated in one project for several months, and then I learned that this is a scam. I was angry!

It seems to me that every bounty hunter passed through this. I also had such an experience and it was more offensive that the SONDER project did not scam which collected a hard cap, but the manager just disappeared and everything. Now I think this is much more offensive, I also had 10+ messages.

I like that I joined one project. According to its conditions, the project was promising. This project lasted about 4 months. And after it was completed, everything died down, but I was not upset. On the contrary, I gained more experience. And the interest to projects has grown even more.

you have to be prepared with that, there is no loss for the bounty hunters. imagine if you are an investor, you will experience a large loss of investment in your money. so, here is a valuable lesson for everyone to be more careful in every speculation.

Indeed that's the good part of bounties, if the project is a scam, your money will be safe.
But even if you don't lose any money, you will lose a lot of time.

This is really very unpleasant, you have spent time, but nothing, the most hateful is that no one can come out now to stop or expose those scam, it seems that being a bounty hunter is also very risky.

I don't even know how many times I've met Scam projects. some projects do not pay the award, some pay but do not run on the stock exchange. In any case, you just need to be prepared for this and despair, as well as consider other sources of income.

I think almost all of the bounty hunters have experienced a scam ico. this is a normal problem, there is nothing we can do but ignore and follow other campaigns. because I think the risk for a bounty hunter is as you say.

It is not quite a good feeling
You feel devastated
Feel angry at yourself for wasting precious months waiting and working only to find out you get nothing at all
But I hope it can be better

The main focus is life is fighting and not giving up no matter what
Keep working hard

Certainly there is a sense of remorse for the projeck that we have helped or have invested. the risk of time and also our huge money is lost so we must be able to take advantage of the situation

it is the risk of the bounty hunter, therefore we must be more careful in choosing a bounties, take time to research and discuss with your local community. remember, not only are bounty hunters disadvantaged, but there are many investors who lose their assets.

Well next time, do signature campaigns with projects that would nost likely succeeds especially ones with an MVP, credible and verified team, especially CEO, background, unique and with real world use cases and applications project, and verified partnerships with what they supposedly have. For all other campaigns, just do them, you can always join with a hundred of them and not worry if it's a scam, just with unique ones like signature campaign, or translation and such, be careful when choosing.

This is a terrible attempt. Your friends should choose a bounty manager before taking a bounty campaign. Those good bounty managers rarely have scam bounty because it will affect their reputation.

This thing is happening so much in bounty campaigns. Recently, there is one project like this, that is Maestro. I don't know it has be scam or not but it had not paid anything for participants

maybe in this case very2 feeling heart. But if you or your friend follow a lot of project, i think 1 scam project not make you crazy. But vice versa.
first time i'm follow the bounty project, maybe just up to 3 project. And my first project is DGPT (in Q1 2018 1 dgpt = $75 maybe) and i get 1255 tokens, and my friend get 10k+ tokens, you can imagine how much we got money from dgpt. And i call it "LUCKY".

But, for now .... my bounty project up to 20 with good selections. So, scam possibility won't happen

My advice, don't give up ..... we also feel what you feel, you not alone !!

I think we feels the same right, we feel like mad, angre and discourage, but this is crypto there is so much risk that we can gain, and we must accept it no matter what, but what is best there is that you better to learn experience through it.

Well mate, I also experience the same as what you said. Scam bounty make our effort useless and our heart melts. But it is part of the risk in entering cryptocurrency. But don't lose hope because there are still bounty campaigns that are legit and paid really good tokens. Just do thorough research and investigation before joining bounty campaign.

This is a sad experience. I'm not the only one like you. I also had similar cases. Unfortunately this is part of the modern world. Everywhere there are swindlers, and the crypto currency is not an exception, but on the contrary - a tasty morsel for them.

Many projects not achieve a softcap even if a project is not a scam, but just unlucky...
And bounty hunters receive nothing... Sad but true...

I felt like my time has gone out of the window, but hey, that's the business we are in it. You have to choose many projects to minimalize the chance for scam. Not all of them can be scam.  ;)

This is true, after working for 4 week on the bounty campaign you will just found out that the project is failed for some reason and most of them are just a real scam. I experienced this thing before, and I feel disappointed because my work is just useless and I don’t even get at least a dollar. Well, this is the true cryptomarket where a lot of people failed but most of the time bounties are really profitable so don’t give up easily when you just incur a situation like this.

I have also felt the same thing in the ico project which took place in Q3 2017, at that time I was very happy to get sgg tokens even until the end of Io they managed to get bounty hunter enthusiasm. after the ICO is finished and the sale is successful the release token is on etherdelta but it turns out they are leaving the project and not building their company at all. at that time I felt like a failure and didn't have anything but I kept trying and doing it again. and until now I have survived and have cryptocurrency assets.
Note: Not all projects run smoothly or successfully. if you want to get results you have to start from all campaigns.

Mistakes are inevitable. we all fall and get up, shatter our illusions about reality. but this will not go away, so you need to change your attitude to what is happening and the campaign to the activity. tell your friend not to miss other opportunities while he's sad.

I experience that many times ago and im very anger becuase my effort and time is go to waste but instead of giving up, i join alot of signiture and social campaign and a earn alot of money, always try and try until you succeed. Bounty is free always give try.

It was regret as well as helplessness. This is terrible feeling when you can't do anything

It's really depressing when it happens, hopefully that served as a lesson to your friend and to us as well. Sometimes we can avoid things like that. Next time tell your friend to do some researching and studying when looking for bounry campaigns. Your friend should also consider the team and the bounty campaign manager.

Dear friend,
How did you feel when you found out it was a SCAM? Yes, that is amazing first. The next is angry. The final is giving up. But in the later, I do not mind about that. All feelings are good for me and all to have hard thinking about the crypto.

I faced more than once the experience like that. In bounty beside of hard work, we need luck too. Therefore when we got scammed means we aren't lucky and have to move on as soon as possible. Find another bounty and wishing we are lucky next time.

This is why I research on my own regardless of how good anyone say about a project. Still there are some scammy projects because of which I loose my hard works and there is nothing other than regret at that point.

Well mate, it is part of the risk in joining bounty campaign as a bounty hunters that sometimes we are not get paid and it is a scam. The worst scene is that the bounty runs for 4 to 6 months and our efforts will be lose. But don't give up, it is just a trials on how much you are determined to get profit in joining bounty campaign. To avoid being scam better to checked everything about the ICO projects before joining there campaign if it is legit and have a promising platforms.

I feel disappointed because I've wasted my time for a useless bounty. It really sucks when you found out that you will not receive any reward because they are a scam. Working hard for the project is very tired, but this is not the reason to stop finding good bounty.

I believe that you need to publish the names of the scam companies here on the forum. There are even special branches for these topics. It would not be bad to know the name of the company your friend participated in

i have joined 2 signature bounties in a row.
which turns out to be a scam.
its really felt exhausting when you find out.
but i cant explain how i feel its very sad, frustrating and i dont know.
i charge them to experience.
well i hope my signature now turns out to be good.

If you are willing to participate in a bounty campaign, you can see that the team of developer and the concept of the project is the most important. The bounty manager then sees it and tries to join a bounty campaign where people with a high bitcointalk rank like negative trust, as legendary members or heroic members seek. I am sure you will participate in the bounty event. The criteria I mentioned, are far from fraudulent projects.

It is very sad to spend your time for scam project especially if you participate in its bounty campaign for a long time (more than two months). But think about investors. Maybe some of them spent much more time to earn money that they invested in this scam.

Recently I am following 1 project and it might be (just might be) the scam, I have been in this for quite a long time and I saw the dev sold up the coin with dead cheap price. I at first feel lucky because my low price order get filled, but then price keep dumping till 1 sts...and keep dumping a large amount.

Well, i do feeling some kind of angry buts thats life, we pay for the experience. Now, well, I think of guys heavily invested into that project and feel sorry for them, well, kind of released for me as I did not lost much....

I once experienced this, suddenly the team just ignored carrying away project funds.

but there are also several projects that up to now have not been registered in the market, but the team is still active on the telegram.
there is a difference between the two, one is obviously fraud but one is a failed project. we must be able to distinguish which fraud project and which project failed.

Four months and 15+ post a week is at least 240 posts in total.  I think I will burn my laptop if I were your friend.  That is hurt but I hope your friend okay now and starting to search a new project.  Good Luck!

something that is normal if we are disappointed when the project is a scam, he works on a signature for a long time, of course he thinks if he does not follow the project he can follow another project that is more profitable. You don't need to worry about being a Bonty Hunter, you can imagine if you as an investor in the project is more detrimental. so you should be able to compare with people who are worse off than you. You should be more careful in choosing a project because it will waste your time if you are wrong in choosing a project for the signature

I when get on scam I feel not bigger disappointment, no more than that. It just working moment. That is from losses at work nobody is insured.

There is a feeling of sadness, frustration and loss of enthusiasm, especially if you join for a long time and this is a good learning to be more careful in choosing which one is actually running the project or the scam. lately, many ICOs are lacking in funds to sell tokens, this may be due to a lot of distrust from users, so the bounty is not worth it so it's better to look for other ways to produce crypto.

I have participated in the signature campaign 3 times but all of the bounties are Scam, I have never received tokens or money from the signature campaign, it is very tiring and sad, can you imagine it! You work hard for months but you don't get paid, I think the payment to the bounty hunter must be arranged again, so that the bounty hunters get their rights as workers who expand other people's companies.

I have also experienced things like that and in my opinion this is the risk of being a bounty hunter and we can only be patient and try again, never give up and be more careful in participating in the bounty campaign, in my opinion do not give up is the key to being a bounty hunter

 i couldnt agree more

I did worse at some point. i managed to put some money into a ICO scam and of course..regret later :)
I'm sure wasting so much time for this project makes you feel really bad. it is legit, most ico-s are scam in the end :)

As a serious bounty hunter this experience should be one thing that should be normal to you. I have been involved in a scam project more than four times, it was the 1st scam project that affected so much because then I thought every bounty published on bitcointalk forum is verified and can not be a scam. After that first incident I began to see scam projects as part of the business risk.

Working with Bounty Campaigns, I periodically encounter scam ... I treat this situation absolutely calmly, because I did not invest my money in these ICOs. But, if you look at crypto investors who invested their money in such a scam ICOs, then it becomes very painful and insulting for them ...

Scam bounty is sad,but you didn't invest your money, so you aren't that sad compared with investors.
 I've invested in otho 8 month ago and it was exit scam. i understand your feelings

If i join a bounty scam, i would be unhappy and sad. But as i didn't invest any money into it, it would still be ok for me.
But i would be more sad for the real investors who did put money into this scam. But how can we determine if an ICO is a scam or not? It is impossible to know it for sure.
That's why it is better to do bounty as a hobby.

I usually don't get myself into ICOs, but the only 2 times I invested in an ICO they were both scams... yet somehow I didn't lose a penny! lol

The first one I invested in was before the last bullrun in crypto, I invested 100€ in the form of 500 XRP, the project never even started and the 500 XRP were worth 1000€ a month later!! Good thing the escrow behind the  ICO run a refund and I got my XRP back. If they did a refund they were not really trying to scam anyone though.

In the second one I invested the bare minimum of 40€, that one was a true scam! It was a payment platform using a debit card and after they opened their online beta platform and I checked their HTML code.... it was disgusting... I instantly sold every coin. Good thing I made 400€ through their signature bounty campaign! ;D Today it's worth 1/10th of what I sold.

I felt like a fool who was caught up in the euphoria and greed. Totally my fault.

I already experience in a campaign this i feel angry because all what i have done is useless. Its waisting time also. So next time we need to know about what is all about the campaign before we join.

I already felt this experience many times.
I felt that i am a fool who is wasting time on bounties.

Probably I experienced the same feelings as him, but nevertheless I continue to deal with signatures, and I hope that the project will reach the end successfully!

Apparently. There is no way anyone would waste time and resources on a scam project and not end up feeling bad at the end of the day. This is why it is necessary to always try as much as possible to limit the likelihood of experiencing scams by doing due diligence on the project before even being a part of it in the first place. Even though sometimes it may still not end up good, but it is usually rare if you do proper diligence.

At least he did not have to wait for a long time to receive the token and realize that he was scamed. Do not give up and try again, he will receive worth rewards.

There is no way to change the fact that it is fraud, I will not blame, just look for another legit campaign to join. That's why you should always do research before joining any bounty.

I agree with you! When I came to this market, I was warned that most likely I would lose my money. ... We will be more careful and we will succeed!)

If i join a bounty and suffered myself and i now found out is a scam i will be highly dissapointed in myself why because i spend all my night doing that bounty.

Clearly you cant do anything about it you only have anger in your mind and nothing else but there was a lesson learnt to be very observant before getting involved in any program thanks

It is really a very bad feeling. But no one is insured by this. I have personally participated twice in such scam projects, but you've already lost your time anyway, and you have nothing to do. Unfortunately, the scam projects have increased. Therefore, very detailed research of the project and its team should be done before you decide to invest your time in it.

Well it happen when i first come to bounty campaigns. A bit disappointed and "miserable" when the effort he spent was wasted. But after that i learned experiences. Do a quick research before participating in an ICO, even doing bounty campaign or purchasing their tokens.

Just like others feel disappointed and sorry for my self, after a long time of  hard work and sacrifice at the end is scam, but that is life sometimes you have to accept it and try again.

Unfortunately this can happen again and again. No matter how well you inform yourself beforehand. The scams get better and better and they learn from their mistakes. Nevertheless you should not give up right away. There are still very good bounty campaigns, which are serious, also pay and afterwards have a certain value. It takes a little until you have found them, but they do exist. So don't give up, there are always setbacks in life and belong to it. Only those who stay on, can also be successful. Maybe that helps your friend a little.  ;)

Before you participate in this project you need to study it thoroughly.Participating in the subscription you need to study it more broadly.As tschatelno as if you are going to invest in this project.

It happens many times. We can not control or predict what project will be what in the coming days. However when you enrol yourself into a signature campaign then you should be focusing on every other detail of the projects and see whether they are legit or not.

In signature campaign we get only one chance while on the other hand when it comes to social campaigns then we have many chances and multiple sign ups so that can be balanced with other projects easily.

So must checkout the signature campaigns properly.

My first signature was DepiOnion. Then there was a fraudulent project in which I participated for 3 to 4 days. When I found out, I laughed and found something better. If I had to take part in a fraudulent project for a long time, I would have cursed ;D them and started looking for something else.
This can and should be relate calmly. Lost some time, but life continues, there is experience, now we more strong ;).

I always got irritated when I found an scam site of I have been cheated by someone hacker. But, I want to let you know that I already get hacked my tokens by a hacker who has already stolen my token worth of $7000 till now.

I was scammed by Block broker ICO. actually i got texted from block broker CEO and offered me team membership at cost of 15 ETH, i just had to handle the airdrop and bounty. I was very new at that time, i was like happy that i got a job but when i realized scammer it was too late for me because Blockbroker team ran with raised money and i did not get single penny of my work.
I felt like if i found ceo of Blockbroker i would kill him brutally. Now i really research project before joining them. because I don't wanna get scammed and be a part of scammer team..

Four months of hard work didn't get paid is really, really bad.  My failed project's experience only about 2-3 weeks signature campaign already make me want to quit because that is my first bounty.  But then I try again on this second project, I hope it will be a good and success project.

This is of course sad, but do not take all the companies to heart, be glad that you have not invested in it. To be more loyal to such things, you need to participate in many bounty companies, not in one.

feeling that way is normal, because everyone here are spending their precious time to do their tasks and support the project they choose. everyone is feeling the same way if we found out that the campaign is scam.

I have never been in such situations so I do not  know the feeling but my friend was there and there was not something good at all, he was really disappointed in the amazing losses that was in the result of his moves with money which he earned in very hard way.

As for motivation, one good person said golden words: How to motivate yourself to do something? - No way, stay in the ass.
It is necessary to draw conclusions, why he went to this bounty company and not to do it any more.

I have taken part in scam bounty more than once, the first time i met, the mood of mine was really bad. After a period of depression, i continued to participate in the bounty.

You just have to get o with it, some will be scams and some will pay really well to make up for it.

I have also experienced the same thing. After knowing that it was a scam, I could not do anything. So be sure about the project before you join it.

I definitely feel very sad, and mad to those people who knows not only than to scam innocent people, it is sad because you have lost what you work for, just the thief that hacks what you've done. I hope that there will be no more scammed persons in this forum.

If I experience that, I will be very disappointed, surely everyone will be disappointed, but make this a valuable lesson to be more careful and careful in participating in the bounty campaign, see the project concept, white paper, the team behind it and the bounty manager

Disappoinnted, angry, but should move on. This world is anonymous, decentralized
 If a dev want to scam people ? It is very easy and difficult to detect by law. Many times scammer disrupt my world in crypto. I invest in Hazza till now no news about the project. Many dev want money without real projects that why they scam investors to steal their money

i will be sad ofcourse, i will report the scammer so that he will be banned.

If you do not find that the project is fraudulent at the launch stage, then it will be difficult to prove anything. Your friend needs to collect his thoughts and continue to work.

Honestly I felt so bad when I first of all got scammed. It was not a good experience for me at all. Anytime I remember the event, I always blame myself for coming across such a scam bounty. Somehow, my scam experience was similar to yours. Ideally, what attracted me to that bounty campaign was the fact that the token price at ICO is 1$ which has made me to think that was a big catch for me. I participated in the signature aspect of the campaign and my stakes were always updated .Unfortunately for me, two weeks to the end of the campaign, I found out that the website of the project has gone including the telegram. It was such a painful moment for me because I gave it absolute concentration.

When you intend to join a bounty project ,especially signature campaigns, you should understand and analyze their project because now there  are many projects are scam . I hope your friend will be okay .

It hurts truth be told, after investing so much time,resources and energy into a project and waiting for the money you want to make, all to find out that the project is a scam.. Is so frustrating and discouraging

I was so killed there, it was a very good kick for me and I have decided that I will never be scammed one more time, since that event I am good with this task.

When I know it is a SCAM I feel so frustrated,aggrigated, mad and even losing hope and belief of what I'm doing. Eventually, you will realized that it only a part of an  experienced that I have to learn from it. I can do anything about what I lose but I can do know to prevent it in the future and will really know how to work on it especially my investment. It is feel good to think the positive side as it will attract blessings.

I was very angry and worried in the same time. In that time I have lost almost 70% of my money including real cash and there were not any ways for solution of such loss.

When I first met that situation, I was very angry and went to ask for a reason from them. But now, when choosing more carefully, I met fewer phishing projects. If I meet them, then quietly accept, not care anymore.

This is indeed very frustrating finding out the campaign you promoted for months was a scam, so far I have not yet got scam but I already change my signature two times because I found out that those campaigns are turning scam or there were bad feedbacks.

I will feel bad though but I won't  let it weigh my down. I will just picked myself up again, find more legit campaigns to join and continue with the  good work.

I will be mad, sad and really disappointed if I found out that bounty is a scam considering the efforts that I have made, however just move on and find other bounty to join. don't let your mistakes get into you and affects your life.

I got into one recently that required KYC just right before the end of the bounty and a lot of people weren't aware of that, so when a few days passed the managers said they wouldn't be getting more approvals, leaving a bunch of people without rewards. :-\

I have experienced this before.That was my first time to invest on crypto currency.I have invested 1 eth and i bought during the ico.I will not mention the name but it was like a bubble now.I know it that its a scam since the team are sending their funds to binance to trade and told us that they will use the funds to trade and earn big funds for listing fees but few days their social media accounts were  closed and already scam project.That is why we need to research and read read read

Well since then many people are facing like that especially the people new in crypto or doing a bounty. That's why it's important to find a good and have solid project/team because the a success of the project is your success too.

Ofcourse, one would feel sadness and anger. But knowing that it is a in the fiestplace possible to happen, and is something to be accepted as something inevitable,  For such reason, an investor or bounty participant would just accept and forget about the l9ss profit. Everything is virtual so we should already accept the fact that such things are happening for a reason.

Of course I feel very angry but I often dont' wanna waste my time to think about these shits so I often try to find another better bounty campaign to join :))). Although at the moment there are so many scam bounty campaigns but it's not mean that it's impossible to find out a good one ;)

There was nothing happy. People lose money there verey often and they are not constant to do it despite on losses. That's why amount of investors has become lower.

If I will found it that it is a scam, then I will feel very angry and disappointed for I am so careless in researching and knowing the bounty.

Four months and 15+ lessons a week have at least 240 posts. I think I would burn my laptop if I was your friend. It's heartbreaking but I hope your friend is ok and starts looking for a new project. Good luck!

I think it's normal to feel depressed and disappointed on this. But how it affects you will depends on how much effort and time you gave to that scam project/coin. For me, things like this especially these days are everywhere, this is one of the risk in investing crypto currency.

Many have gone through even worst but they are still moving forward. One failure shouldn't stop us from reaching our goals. I have been scammed once but that did not stop me from continuing my crypto journey. All these scams, failures, etc. are ingredients to make us better in this field. It's a psychological, mental, and emotional game. If we are weak in one area, we would most likely be easily affected. Preparation is key.

I felt very bad, discouraged, down, in fact I can't even totally expressed how sad I felt when I discovered not was a really scam.
For example, about two months ago, I participated in bounty campaign for more than three months with a lot of efforts. At the end of the day, tokens were distributed and we were told on their telegram community that the coin will be on exchange in the next one week then. What pained me most was that I didn't have money on me then but I have to borrow some amount to buy gas into my wallet so that I can send the token to friend that will help me sell.
All of a sudden, the project manger and his other team members were no where to be found till today. The useless token is still in my wallet till today.
I just cited one instance, there are a lot of instances like that both from airdrops and bounty campaigns. It got to a time I stopped participating in airdrops.

To be generally speaking, the number of scams in cryptocurrency is getting increased in a great manner. Although I have found myself to be scammed for I did made careful research and made sure that I read the whitepaper of any airdrop and bounty  I did. If peradventured i find  myself being scammed, I will not be happy at all.

never give up maybe it's the best word for bounty hunters who follow scam projects, so they can be motivated again because there are hundreds of projects that we can follow and not all scams.

Yes, I too fell for such projects and wasting time and energy on them. But take it quietly, in any case will be mistakes, we must learn lessons from such cases and try to recognize fraud before started to work.

:)) truely sad, dude. I used to invested in a scam project. And I lost all the money. At that time, I hd nothing in my hand and had to work hard for 5 years. And now, it' been 2 years, and I have just signed the contract to work under control about 10 years more. Bravo :)

It very hurting when you hard work goes into vein, as the project turns into scam. I think every crypto hunter/investor has faced this type of situation. Now it is hard to find legit Bounty. We should move on & try to find good bounty by studying about the whitepaper, roadmap of the project.

We need to know that 75% of the newly created ICO projects are fraudulent, remember the fraudsters are very smart, it is difficult to determine from the start that the ICO project is a fraud. if you are not paid, it is the risk you receive as a Bounty Hunter when you first register for the campaign

Dear sir,
How did you feel when you found out it was a SCAM? Oh, this is a situation that everyone do not want to meet. For me, I feel angry firstly, but the after that I feel free, nothing. I realize this is a normal thing in the crypto. We must realize them and say no with scams.

I think he should gather his strength and learn his lessons. I also worked once for a bounty company for three months and got nothing, you need to join the bounty a month before the ico.

Check there social media posting, if they post only once in a while and the requirement say they need to share and retweet 5 times a week and they only posted once... The project are candidate in listing for scam list!!!!

Though your in signature campaign try to visit also other campaign... And check scam accusation board for it.

There are still many other real bounties pays and has better potential. the scam is already a risk that must be faced and surrendered at this stage there will be no point to it. bounty is a broad field and learns how to analyze the bounty of good so it could avoid the scam to the next opportunity.

I myself participated several times in signature bounty campaigns that lasted more than 3 months and did not get a reward for my work. Your friend should learn how to perceive the bounty campaigns as an additional earnings and do not expect constant payments.

I will also feel sad like your friend if you know the project I am following is a scam. And I will think dozens of times to follow the project again. But this incident will not make me traumatized because this is a great lesson for me. So that I will be more careful in the future.

In the real sense of it there is nothing you can do there is no means of you expressing your anger or venting it towards them its done and its done nothing more.I felt angry and i moved on that was it

I felt disgusting! I put denaro signature and participated otho airdrop and when they scammed me i felt frustrated...
I lost my time and some people even lost money, I also lost a bit by investing in Otho

Everyone do not wish that their bounty had work with will be a victim of scammers. And i thank it very much that i never one of the victims of it, but if ever i found out that i was scam of course no one is happy on that but embarass, but for me it is my lesson and challenge and force for me to work hard to know some techniques how to prevent this rampant scammers.

When I first found out that a project I was invested in as a scam, I felt betrayed,, and didn't want to believe at that time, because no one prepared me for that, and I hadn't really imagined the possibility of getting scammed. It made me retrace my footsteps for sometime, and little less excited about the system. But thank God for all, it made me a better investor, and with lessons learnt, I make better choices now.

That is one of the greatest pain, working and layer find out its a scam

Maybe almost every bounty hunters experience this thing, well it hurts to know that after working for 10weeks with that campaign, suddenly you will just find out that its a scam, you really just wasted your time for that. Its hard to accept it if its your first time but if you already experienc that in this market, it will be just a normal case for you. You have to accept it and move on right after you feel sad.

Of course it is very sad, but as an investor in a project it is a risk, and of course it is an experience for me to be more careful in choosing a project

It is usually a very sad and painful experience. I have gotten involved in some scam bounties too in the past. But I didn't allow the failures of those scam campaigns to ware me down. I picked up and continued again.

$hit happens  :'(
That's the way it is in the cryptoverse.
Advise your friend that he's lucky that he only lost some effort and time.
There are those that converted hard earned fiat to crypto and join ICO's that turned out to be scam!

IT is very frustrating and disappointing to know that the ICO is a scam.
I am a bounty hunter and once the ICO is failed or a scam the bounty will also be free.
But we need to be cool and move on, and find a new bounty or ICO to join.

Sadly, these types of scams are now more common these days. You have to be more discerning especially when joining bounties of unknown coins. My suggestion is to do due diligence and thoroughly research the coin, it's business model, it's team, everything.

Also, only joining campaigns that are run by reputable campaign managers is a must. Make sure they pay you weekly!

I think everyone here has felt it at least once, but as a bounty hunter or as an investor we must take lessons with what has happened to us, we don't need to be discouraged by what happened, but we must keep trying to remain calm even though Actually, in our hearts we strongly condemn these actions

Its best not to worry about it, some are scams but some give out huge rewards so it balances out. Just get on with doing the next one.

Yes we feel that way also, as bounty hunters that the most discouraging part. But we must still intact or be aware to choose bounty. All the hard work and effort are end nothing so next time we must aware every bounty we been joining. I believe its all matter of luck choosing potential bounty nowadays so must have deep research on good project. Goodluck

Damn just cant imagine I'm replaying that moment..It was my second bounty ever and after seven weeks of work,the message just popped in on telegram
 I was like WTF ;D..Just got soo furious that i decided to stop the whole thing but with motivation from a friend i continued and my first bounty was a success as well as multiple..

It is a very awful experience to work for a project hoping to earn big from it, agitation and expectations very high and all turned out to be a scam. It is very pathetic.

it's a big mistake because it's tired and time spent for the project but they will know that it's a scam later. so be careful about investing or raising bounty campaigns.

Tell your friends, I have done a bounty signature and more than 5x have experienced a scam, this is very painful we work months but do not get a salary. make a lesson that finding money is difficult and we must be more careful when choosing a project to follow the signature campaign. Keep the spirit

well, you should do deeper research and proper whitepaper analytics and if it's still scam, then just let it go, at least you did everything to avoid it.

I've also been scammed. But each time I find the person closest, confide in them, then watch a movie, fish or do anything for the comfort of mind. When we calmed down, we started looking for a better project. Every step is a lesson for us

Personally I have never stumbled upon scam but I think it's pretty nasty feeling. I just can suggest everyone stay calm because there is a lot of scam here and everyone may stumble upon it.

I also experienced the same situation. But I found out that the project was scam in the 3rd week. And I stopped wasting time with it, It's terrible when we finish the campaign and in the last week we know it's a scam. Like a sense of betrayal, So we need to spend a lot of time researching the project if we want to start with it

I got many ico and bounty campaign are scam, but I am feel its usually and normal happen at cryptocurrency. maybe we have been more know how to find next time the best and good ico for making investment project.

How I felt? not really bad, because I always had in mind that a project could fail or become scam before completing the campaign, that was a risk I knew I was taking and what I think everyone should do.

indeed for projects that scams I often get but fortunately they have been detected before I have been in the project for a long time, but don't give up with such circumstances, but we have to look for a better and more successful bounty project

same thing happened to me, been post for a good 1-2 months then almost at the end of the campaign i noticed that it was a scam all along... now i've learned my lesson before doing a signature campaign do some research.

my mind was about to blow up when i found out that the project i was working on for 3 months was a scam all along. but we cant blame them cause, we cant be scammed if we did our research about the particular project. we cant stop scammers form what they do best, what we can do is to avoid being scammed.

There have been a few projects that friends of mine invested in, even though I told them it was an obvious scam. One of the more memorable ones was Hexcash because it was offering ridiculous amounts of profit in a very small time frame. Any rational person would know that these claims cannot be true, hence you cannot trust the project from the outset. Just be rational when investing bro, it's not hard.

I know how it feels dear. Because I have faced the same situation. I was doing a signature campaign of a project and after ending the campaign we all knew it was a scam. No any project admins or bounty manager replied us ever.

But you need to know which scam projects are scam to stop and can not waste useless. In addition, advertising for scam projects will inadvertently harm investors, investors will lose money when investing in those projects. You need to be responsible as a bounty hunter

It's really hurtful. I haven't had that experience yet. I participated in a maximum of one project for 22 weeks and then received $ 200. This of course little, I would even said very little, but nevertheless what the money I received.

There is plenty of scam out there. Worthless tokens trading on Idex. Airdrops that start on bitcointalk and then get moved to discord and a sale of masternodes, 10000 ETH giveaway on Twitter, fake selling of bitcointalk accounts... The list is endless. Nothing wrong with bounties but DYOR before you invest your time.

This is very sad, and everyone will not like this situation. After all, how much labor and time and hopes were invested.

Funny to see someone that scammed my account talking as a victim about being scammed.. thats called Karma dude, did you know??

And what remains to be done? I do not pay any attention to it, if projects with suspicion of fraud are encountered, I just stop doing them. I'm looking for a replacement. As the saying goes, "if it happened, it will not change"

Never got scammed here. Poor guy, must have felt like shit for him. I would have been mad too. But to be honest, he has to blame himself. There probably were some signals which showed that the project will end up being a scam and he might have ignored it(maybe a extremely good pay which he did not want to lose). He should have properly gone through everything before joining the campaign. Hope he learned his lesson and will take precautions in the future.

Naturally, its a must that you must feel bad for it because after doing those works for a long time and face such disappointment, its definitely going to affect the hunter but this is one of the setbacks we witness in bounty hunting. We all have to live with it and research good bounties before going in

Everyone will be devastated if they find out that the campaign they are joining was a scam so always read the white paper before joining the current ico you are interested.

 There are a lot of scams out there. From free airdrops to fake ICOs. One really needs to be careful about these. If one wants to apply to these airdrops then I think the best way is to not send any crypto to any address. Also, for the ICO's confirming the contract address in all different platforms of the project would be the best way to go.

if I find a bounty project that is scam then I will be angry, sad and sorry because I have worked hard for the bounty. many people stop working on bounty projects because they are afraid of being disappointed again by another bounty project.

This is very sad . After learning that it's a scam, I can't do anything that is clearly anger and regret that always haunts my mind.
Report to moderator after wasting the whole time on one campaign like that. 

That is why experience is needed before embarking on the cryptocurrency industry. It is not only traders / investors alone needed to acquire experience in this crypto world. Because the experience protect everyone.

It is really bad working for such a long period to discover project being worked for become scam. Token got from that kind of project become worthless, it has happened to me with harshrental and it doesn't stop me from working for other potential good project.

as a bounty hunter, i think it is hard to know that the project is scam. i only join in signature campaign if the project has a whitepaper and also if their tokens has a exchanger.

Same, i felt anger and disappointment because all this time, i wasted my time posting and following rules in the project for nothing. This time, its hard to know if the project is scam or not, its hard to trust some projects but we cant do anything but to accept that there are so many people who wants to deceive other people for the sake of money .

Very much it is not pleasant, you worked and advertized the project long time. You spent on it the time in hope to receive payment, but did not receive anything.

I actually experienced the same.. Doing bountys for several weeks, then a month or two after the bounty, i found out it turned scam. It hurts at first, but i tried to move on. As a bounty hunter, you should be doing several projects. As the saying says, "dont put your eggs in one basket". So if one fails you have a back up. So for now lets keep moving forward specially if same thing happens again.

It comes to regrets after all those effort I give And down to scams .I spend more time and sleepless at nights just to post with there promoting projects .By the next participation I would like extra careful and keep reading there platform to be proven that it's good to involve.

Don't blame on bounty manager. You have to take your own decision.
Moreover I try to participate like 2-4 weeks in each bounty, this eliminates risk to work for a scam for free.

I feel sorry for you. I experienced it too,after you joined in a bounty campaign you putted all of your effort and some sleepless night you are hoping that it will benefitted you. But in the end unexpectedly it was a scam project that is so awful and make someone depress. Thats why always be careful to all the bounty that is suspicious make time to read in their annoucement thread and make research to it before you participate.

He chose this bounty company. So he didn't have enough knowledge. Now there is experience.

I haven't had such negative experience so far, most likely it is all about luck, we never know if the project is a scam or not. I would feel sorry about the time I wasted on it.But we must take it easy,it is crypto and anything is possible here.

This is the exact reason why I refrain from doing any of the ICO projects. It is better to do weekly paying projects because they assure you that you would get the payment even if it is less.
Better get something than getting nothing. My current campaign is one such campaign which gives payment after two weeks.
Although Payment is not very good, but at least they would pay at the end of two weeks.

of course before all that happens we have to find information and analyze the project that we will follow whether it is a scam or not. split from experience and choose what we think is promising.

at least now he has the experience to choose a good bounty. because not all bounties can end well, there are some of them who only make bounties for personal gain, and many will be harmed if this kind of thing continues. be careful and make it a habit to do research first before choosing a project, will avoid scams.

yes that's true, it's always very disappointing when such situations happen, but on the other hand the only thing lost is time, not money and not health for God's sake. Besides this is a great experience and in future it will help you to choose ICOs and bounty campaign more precisely and you will hardly ever be scammed again when you reach enough of such experience. Think positive!

that's the risk of participating in bounty campaigns, you should be ready for the things that might happen to the project. being part of signature campaign has no guarantee that the project will become successful or scam in the end. you should forget about what happen and just move on.

It is very sad for sure because it has been working for so long, it may be around 1 month or more and it is a scam.
We can only hope that someday we will do something like that and be careful to follow the Bounty campaign.

   What could be the better term for GRRRR. It's really dis appointing. Imagine you spend your time for posting every day, coming up with the required post for the week then later you'll know it was Scam... But, i never give up, if i give i will have nothing in return, and once i continue at least i will have something to hope for at the end the project.

Unfortunately, i have already experienced something like that and it does not feel good.
But since this experience i pay more attention to which bountie i participate.

Here can attend only one thing sense of , this anger and rage, after all when one takes work for 3-4 months and then don that all in vain.

I have never been scammed on the ICO that I invested money on.  But I was scammed for some bounty effort.  It wasn't a big deal for even though it was around 6-week effort.  But I felt sorry for all the guys to put their money in.  After this first experience, I became more careful and choosy on the bounty that I want to participate on.

Everyone feel bad when he found that a particular project go scam at the end and your all work goes in vain and it happens to normally every bounty hunter in his life but it is a part of life and we cannot do anything other then anger. We can come out from this if we go with trusted and reputed bounty managers as they always do some research before taking control of any bounty.

I also experienced that, I was working on a project more than once and in the middle of the project, I found out that it was a mere scam. The feeling was not good knowing that all your handwork and efforts will be  thrown away. In the other hand, I also felt thankful that before the worst thing happens, I knew it before hand. Worst  thing that might happen is to be tagged with red trust in your btt account. So in taking up projects, we must be very cautious. Good luck!

Some of us also experience that , it taught us some lesson  but somehow its make me sad because you put some effort on something and then you gain nothing. It will teach you some lesson that be wise in joining bounty projects.

I once did a bounty program that I did to the end, did all of what they required, made sure that I never missed a post, made sure that I got all of the stakes for the project and then when we were all waiting to get paid we discovered that the project was a scam and that they were never going to pay out. I felt so bad that I had wasted all of that time and did not do any bounties for a while.

If I know that it's a fraud, then I will stop since I find out, then I have to do something else if it happens to me, I feel sad sadness, but I can't give it up, I will start again and be more careful again in choosing a project

Dejected and cheated, enraged and revengeful. But also sober, full of longing for a better tomorrow.

If I participated in the bounty campaign for me it is quite normal, most of the projects in any case is a Scam and our task as little as possible to get on such projects. if I invested then there is already a shame

the best way is to participate in the projects of reputable managers. or prestigious management teams, they will choose the project for us. We do not need much analysis, just that's the project of the teams doing well, we can join without worry.

This is a very unpleasant experience. I have also encountered such a situation, a project called bitcoinhomeworkde, so now I basically give up the bounty task, only the signature task I will do it occasionally.

scammed is a risk, so i will sad but not so sad, because i know chance to get scammed is still so high nowaday, all i do i move on if i get scammed by a project

Well, after I discovered I participated in a scam project, I can't do anything than feel bad, thinking about the time I devoted for it and turns out to be wasted efforts. But the good news is that I moved on!.

Nobody feels good after you put your effort into a project and it turns out to be a scam.
But this is  real life where huge percentage of projects fail.
We have to move on and be more cautious in selecting the successful ones.

There was a bit of frustration, especially when doing bounty for them. But this market lacks many legal regulations to bind ICOs, so I'm not surprised that so many are trying to scam people so.

Why keep the person who leaves is his decision and need to be accepted as is. I have a lot of projects that became a scam in which I worked, but still life goes on. According to the theory of probability from many projects and at least one should still shoot and cover all the previous ones in the financial pyramids. So you should not despair because of one project in the future, there are a lot of good projects on our street.

I was a victim, after doing my task for almost four months then i found out that it was a scam. I feel so frustrated almost give up but i just find it as a big challenge for me. That is why now i was now very selective  of bounty that i enter too. I look for those who have working products to ensure people that they will pay one day. Hope i will not fall into scam trap again.

It's discouraging but, I worked for a project for three months and one day, everything disappear. Even the telegram groups was closed and I was automatically deleted from them. But you must move on and kept participating in bounties campaign.

I certainly feel exceptionally tragic, and distraught to those individuals who knows not just than to trick guiltless individuals, it is pitiful in light of the fact that you have lost what you work for, simply the criminal that hacks what you've done. I trust that there will be no more defrauded people in this discussion.

Offense i feel disappointed and sad even you experience that scenario do you think you feell happy ofcourse not
We all knows is scamms are part of being biunty hunters to earn profits
Bounty hunters invest in the project time and efforts to promote the bounty project
Let's ask to people investing in the bounty scamm what they feel ofcourse more than that'll you feel you have
The lesson  in this scenario next time make sure the project is legit to avoid disappointment

I will feel sad and think that the work ive done is just a waste of time.
But that will not stay for long, i will start moving on and find a new one and work for it.
Crypto currency have many opportunities we should not stay behind and always move.

After working for a project for a few weeks or months, when we find out the scam of the project, all of us feel guilty and we can not do anything other than anger. Only your hard work can be seen worthless.

It was not a good feeling. Imagine putting so much time and effort into something and then finding out that all of that effort has been for waste. It was a terrible feeling and it put me off signing up for bounties for a while because i thought at that point that they were all scams and there was no use actually trying to get into more bounties again

i  think   most   of   people   have  experienced it    and  sorry   for  you  first  and  than  i  do  not  know  if  we  have  something  to  do  after a  scam  so  just  becareful andmake  good lessons  maybe all we can  do.

certainly annoying, but I think this is a part of the risk that we have to accept if getting a ico project is a scam, the bounty hunter doesn't experience a loss just losing time with just free. imagine if you are an investor?
therefore knowledge is very important in this industry.

I can't do anything. For those scammers, using ICO to implement a scam is almost 0 cost and 0 risk. Once they complete scam, they will disappear immediately and you will never find them again.

I would be really angry if i did not receive anything after all this time. So far, i have not had to experience something like that and i do not want it either. If that happened to me, maybe i would stop work for bountie campaigns.

I got angry and feel bad about it and then move on to join another campaign, I have already zero my mind that I can't get all of them right, I only need to get few of them right and with this kind of mindset, it means I have always prepare for the worst.

there must be corrected from yourself, including the mindset you have. should you know when the project you are following is a scam, you must change the method of analysis before joining the project and making that mistake a life lesson. if you are only emotional and then forget then you will fall back in the future

Luckily for me,  I have never been scammed, and as such, I do not  have a scam experience to tell. However, it hasn't been funny reading these stories of how people got scammed and lost their funds. Please, as much as possible, let's try to keep ourselves safe out there, and stay away from these scam projects.

If anyone in that position might even I will also feel a hopeless situation. However, if it is not sustainable as it will develop even more cannot produce. much of the bounty of ain and with even bigger results to be able to follow and better soon get into it.

Of course very dismayed and maybe you will get angry. But this has been experienced by all the bounty hunter or investor ICO. But I don't want to go on in the dumps because getting project fraud. And we must rise again and do not give up to find good projects.

of course I was very disappointed and sad because I felt that it was detrimental to us, I think, in the current conditions it takes investors who have great confidence and patience as well

For the bounty participant it is normal but still rare if you have join a fake project and not paid in the end, it make you disappointed well that's true but you only lost your time and probably some internet package, but it will more painful if you are investor that join the wrong project, not only time and internet package but lot of real money is lost

my feelings must be upset, angry and disappointed. after all the attempts I gave were all fraudulent I would have been upset.

I have felt it several times, and it's very disappointing. but there is no use if it continues to be mourned, make the experience not happen again, like researching a project that we will participate in. and looking for motivation through this forum by looking at some of the friends here who have been successful

actually I also participated in a bounty campaign from an ico that has a very good rating on an ico site, after participating in the signature campaign it turned out that the ico was a scam. however, what happened has not been able to be repeated again, so suppose that the incident was a lesson to be more careful in choosing ico, and do not be interested in an ico based on the rating alone, because rating is not the only one that determines success or not the ico.

Firstly I want to point out that almost all bounty hunters will fall into the trap of scam ICOs at least once... Yes I've been a victim before and the feeling is sad because you won't be getting a dime for the hard work but nevertheless that's not the end you have to start researching yourself and stop depending on some ICO review sites

friends do not despair. of all cryptocurrency percent will survive 20 percent. And they will make you very rich.

I feel sorry for your friend mate, but take a look at this, ive been doing bounties since last year, and ive been encountering a lot of scam projects in my work, yes i feel sorry for me, but if i give up, what will happen? there is nothing to happen, we need to move on, not all things in this world are worth to surrender. So be it, move forward and be more happy, so that blessings can be achieved all the time.

The first time it happened to me I felt very bad, losing reasonable amount of my time and energy in the project but ever since I've learnt to move on. I don't expect much from bounties so I just keep an open mind, if it's scam so be it if it's not good.

I agree with you that the feeling is not pleasant when you realize that the project in which you took part will not pay you anything, but you nevertheless need to continue working, and leave everything as a sad experience!

 :(Disappointed, that's when I feel when I found out that I was scammed, what I thought was legit I was wrong, but then what can I do, but to try again next time and be very careful in choosing the right campaign hoping that this time is right. and continue to work it out patiently.

I feel sorry for my wasted time doing bounty tasks of the project that has turned into scam.Before it happened a couple of times. That's why I always try to make a massive research of the project before joining its bounty campaign and it works well.

Bad. I think nobody is happy, when you discover that an ICO or Bounty is a scam. Thats why we need to be more selective in searching a good project. We need to read the whitepapers, check the community stats, the team members, rating websites and so on.

We need to move forward and learned a lesson after knowing that the bounty is scam project. It is really disappointing to know that you waste your effort supporting the project and end up for nothing but we need to continue. We have to search another and make sure it is not going to be scam.

Just smile if you find a project that is a bounty scam, I know that you feel upset and angry because you have done a job without being paid, useless despair just makes you give up. trying to make that experience make it a lesson for the future, there are still many better choices

If this happens, I do not feel much sad, but I try to understand where I was mistaken when choosing a bounty company.

When we do ICOS campaigns, there are really times when I'm shocked because I've been around for quite some time. But when i found out i was so upset and desperate to be cheated by the scammer and it help me to judge them is not real.

Well it always advisable to study the white paper of any ICO you want to invest in carefully in other to know it potentiality in the future most of the icos that most likely turn out to be scam are easily discovered from their whitepapers and at that always invest in icos projects that are utility token's in that way you can research more into it relevance in the said sector and discover it potential for future use.

When I found out it was a scam I was like meh because I already knew that were a lot of scams coming into the market right now and sooner or later I am going to end up signing for one of those bounty campaigns. I just removed their signature, looked for a better project and started to do that bounty campaign. You shouldn't let one bad seed discourage you from making money

In my case at first it looks like disapointment come along but as the days pass by we can feel that they are not happy but let this thing happen for a reason, it means you can make things as an inspiration and look for better result in life.

I see from their social media, if they keep up date information I'll follow it. But when they never up date information I'll check it on telegram channel, how good their respond with members? if so many complaint comes up I'll leave it. I never check from their web or you tube channel because mostly only fake information I get. We should have parameter that we can't break about bounty program. It will safe our time and hard work, maybe our asset. Be careful and always prepare for the worst.

When I found out that the project in which I participated is a Scam, I was very upset and angry, I was sorry for myself, because I did a great job and all in vain.

To be honest, I’m not really upset because I initially tune in to the fact that half of the projects will not pay me the promised tokens and when they really don’t pay out, I’m absolutely calm about this

It could not be scam, it could be that they never reached softcap making them hault the project. I have been in such scenario before and it's not a pleasant feeling

This feeling is too bad, wasted time and effort, and then was told that "this project is a scam", which is tantamount to doing nothing for anyone, but many times our anger does not solve any problems, there should be a penalty for scam that would be better.

In addition to endure me, don't choose me!
Because the supervision of cryptocurrencies is difficult, it is difficult to guarantee the interests of investors!
So be careful when investing in cryptocurrencies!

Of course we will feel sad. you can think we already do our task and then got not payment or that bounty is really scam. Yes some of us only invest the time not the money. but it will feeling that we are working without nothing. so thats why better research the project first before invest or do the bounty.

Of course when you face such things while participating in some bounty campaign and understand that you have done some tasks and got nothing as a result of such situation like the project turned to be a scam - it is one situation. But when you invest somewhere and you understand that you lost, it is more sad. But as for me I make the analysis of the situation that has happenned and just move on, just keeping in mind such an experience in order not to repeat such mistakes.

Spot on. This is very important, from all situations, even very unpleasant to learn a lesson. Experience even the worst, still experience . It is these people who will remain engaged in cryptocurrency

This is just what I can say, Study carefully the crypto currency and research every ICO Campaign to avoid being victimized by scammers. We should learn from our mistakes because that is the key to our success!

Many bounties and ICOs are boldly scam today.

And by just staying in this section, you'll see different stories on how they've come up with those scam campaigns. Learn from the experience of others and get yourself a favor of doing research before joining any campaign that you think suits your standards.

My first bounty project was a scam. They had a contest for the most creative tweet, the winner could receive a good prize in the project tokens. I won this contest and in a week the bounty scammed. It was shocking for me, the first bounty is a scam but its the ICOs world and there are a lot of scams

It is one type of experience where we show some interest in other projects because with this experience we might start researching more about the project. An experienced person will overcome the problems he faced previously, so in cryptocurrency we have to move to a new project which has huge potential.

I've been scammed for several times and those were for signature campaig, LOL. Sometimes I feel I wanna quit and so angry, but I am quite sure that the results won't betray the business.Because sometimes I  got quite much miney from bounty, and I think that was my rewards for my patience before that. So I will always keep in spirit here

I swear :D and start looking for another bounty. There's no guarantee that it can happen to all of us. If you want to reduce this risk, join the campaigns of known bounty managers.

It is very difficult for me to motivate myself, the project works more than the promised term longer for 3-4 weeks or more. And then I start to form an opinion that this such project is a fraud. I still continue to do this project and hope for a good result. I think that the project should work in the process of ICO no more than six months.

I am honestly saying I got scammed too many times. I have been working a project for more than 4 weeks and after 4 weeks I heard that project got scammed. In that situation, I feel very pain because of my 4 weeks of hard work went in vain.

firstly, is the feeling of angel and blackmail by the team or the people who introduced you into the project and made you spend money in the investment that later became scam but if i was to give my own opinion i will say that whoever wants to invest should do his own research first before committing resources to it.

tjat was not big amount of mpney but i remember tat i felt so angry furious and helpless at the same time that was nor easy

Of course there are many such cases and scams, but what about people whose wallets are hacks? what they? your friend has not lost anything except time, yes, time is money, but only the strongest and bravest do not give up. therefore, you need to be able to take such a fact that it happens and not take anything close to your heart, let your friend think that it was the greatest loss, the easier it will take it, the easier and calmer it will be to live, not only in the cryptosphere. let him try meditation) and I'm serious.

I also fell into that situation, really depressed and angry. I've been doing a project for 6 months and then I got the message, it's scam .
To avoid wasting your time on fraudulent projects, learn how to find reliable projects.
Join the bounty of the famous BM
Learn about the DEV team of the project
Check website traffic

I have encountered many similar projects. The way to find out soon is that you should follow up on the telegram and ask the manager about the development of the project, if the administrator does not respond or the information is incomplete it may is a scam project.

i hate it, scam everywhere.
i am a bounty hunter feel many time scam project.
we work for around 3 - 6 month and no pay.

I myself have experienced what you feel. I was a victim of a scam project even though I had carried out my duties as a bounty hunter for three months without any empty weeks. I am very routine to do my work. It turned out that I was informed that the project I was following was a scam. I was very sad at the time because my efforts were in vain. But, I am among those who have high resilience and do not want to linger with sadness or adversity. Less than one week I have risen to be more enthusiastic about joining the crypto currency again and be careful again in choosing any bounty campaign project. One sentence of motivation for you, rest assured that God does not sleep and knows your hard work, God will replace your business with greater fortune. Therefore, now you can better organize yourself to get up and join the bounty campaign which is certainly more careful.

I would feel a little exasperated that it would take time for the scammers. Usually, I will find all evidence and write a report denouncing that project. Even BM receiving advertising for that project is also responsible for spreading a fraudulent project.

I joined some campaigns in the past and it is clearly a scam. The only time I was able to determine it was a scam was the moment the bounty manager himself informed us that he already sent the bounty rewards computation. He didn't gotten any response from the ICO and he already told that he has done his job and its now in the hands of the ICO team. Four months has already passed and there is still no update. I accepted that it is a scam and just moved on to the next bounty. I will settle for short campaigns for now.

Many and I including had a similar situation. It is certainly very frustrating, because the time was wasted. But on the other hand-this is a good lesson, because after such situations comes the understanding that you need to be more careful in the selection of the project, and analyze all aspects: the site, white paper, team, advisors, ratings, etc

It's quite sad when a project that you liked and you decided to take part in this project, and it turns out to be a fraud. So much time wasted. This year I have already started to get used to it.

almost every member in here might have been scammed by participating in bounty campaigns one way or another. It is very sad that these things happen because it results in the total waste of time and resources. You just have to be careful in the bounty campaigns that you participate in guys.

Doubt I have not join a scam bounty since I started bounty, but if i were in his shoes, I will feel very sad but I won't give up, I will put more effort to research about bounty before I will join anyone in the future.

FELT BAD but needs toMOVE FORWARD.
I know some of the people here may not agree but somehow we need to be more careful next time. Yes, it is the scammers' fault but we still have our fair share of fault on this. Some of us just join the project and didn't bother to do a background check or investigation if it is a legit bounty project. Since we have our own inequities, then I may say that we need to face the fact that we have been scammed and we should move forward. Learn from it and be more vigilant next time.

Knowing that scam nowadays is everywhere is not a secret, but it doesn't make it easier, once steeped on it. Thankfully i didn't loose too much time on it, it was only 2weeks i lost and made 3posts a week. I was disapointed, but happily not crushed..

I am angry and feel humiliated when i found out that my campaign participation is a scam. The hard work was not paid off. But this will not stop me from particiating again.

If the project was being found as a scam ICO, then I'm one of their participants as bounty hunters of course I will be frustrated and disappointed for the result happened, but even no matter I felt pain I still do nothing about it but to move on and learn from it. Besides, in every failures there's  a good result in the end as always.

I also felt very badly when I spent the time on the project that sent the tokens but its have no value. Now I carefully analyze every detail of the ICO. Main thing is working project!

Usually it is not a surprise, that comes suddenly from nowhere, that`s why i can say that i felt some strong feeling. Also, i had no time for this, because i had to find a new bounty or project

you will feel sad and mad if you found out that the bounty campaign that you join is a scam that's how I feel, your friend should be move on so in the next time research the ICO first before to join the bounty campaign.

Well the moment I knew that it was just a scam ICO I really felt sorry for myself that I was being scammed because I did not investigate carefully about the ICO that I had participated I haven't noticed that the almost all the members of the development team are involved in fraud so that's why I was being scammed and all my effort and time are just wasted.

I see the project's main team has no link to their linkedin profile, which is the first thing that makes me suspicious about a real project or scam. If the project is real, the members are talented people, why they do not publicize their information?

The feeling is the same as if you were just robbed, so I think that in general the answer to this question will be the same for all participants of this remarkable question, this is the most brazen theft

First of all don't be so sad about it, everyone in crypto have been scamed at least once. This time it should be a big lesson for you and your friend , heads up you got expirience from that. I can recommend you do not partcipate in bounty wich going on for several month, choose more wisely and you can avoid scam in future.

I have met a scam at once and it was not something beautiful because there were problems not with the money only. I have wasted a lot of time and strengths for the project and finally it was a scam. I know that it was my mistake that I didn’t check it but anyway scam must be stopped.

I am very sad when I find a project that turns out to be a scam, especially if the project is a project that has been long enough and has value in the market, it will only harm investors and cryprocurrency

No need to feel sad because of that issue. That is general issue actually in crypto space. Your friend will learn about choosing legit projects in the future. We all experiences same things in the past. But only we have to develop our skills and we have to continue learning something about cryptocurrencies and the key point of choosing legit projects. Dont give up. Always you can find a promising project if you do your research carefully.

The projects I promoted never turned to be a scam, though some of them changed the rules right after the ICO - they decreased the reward and postponed the dates of payment.
While in late 2017 and early 2018 bounty hunting used to be a rather profitable thing (guys with member accounts could make up to several thousand of dollars per several campaigns), it turned to be a huge problem starting from this summer because of the downtrend and the impossibility to sell the earned tokens at least at ICO price.

I will feel very bad because its not easy to come on bitcointalk on a weekly basis to post 15 quality posts for signature bounty campaign. I have actually done a signature bounty for 4 weeks and I didn't get anything but that doesn't stop me. My advise to the person is to continue bounty because there are still some good and promising projects out there.

At first it is very discouraging, it causes you to leave everything like that and not get involved in projects because you think they are all the same, but then you start hearing stories of successful ICOs and that gives you motivation, at least to participate in the next ICO that hopefully is successful and will give you confidence in future projects.