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More and more Bounties turn out to be SCAM.
In the years 2016-1917 the era of the ICO began, and the launch of projects was very different from what we see now. Much attention was paid to the promotion of the project in social networks and in all forums. To date, everything has changed. Advertising ICO in social networks is prohibited, and good projects are trying to find good investors themselves. Therefore, many projects refuse to conduct Bounty and Eidrody. Projects begin to carry out closed ICO (for example, ICO Telegram).
But many projects continue to use Bounty to attract investors. And on my vzdlyade 50-70% of these projects SCAM. The project plans to raise money and disappear with them. Therefore, they do not mind paying a small percentage of Bounty and Airdrop.
The conclusion from this is that the choice of Bounty for work should be very careful. Do not waste 20 weeks on an empty one.
Sorry for my English.

yes more and more ico are created everyday, some of them are scam, actually more than half of them. no one can really tell which ico is a scam, because it looks like a real one. they are running like a good ico and operated with complete team and has a papers.

Absolutely agree with you. Now it is difficult to distinguish good ICO from SCAM. Scammers keep pace with the times.

Yes, there are now quite a number of fraudulent ICO projects, and so are the bounty scams attached, so we should be careful in choosing the bounty to do, if the wrong project is choosen or cheated. We will lose time and effort

Yes it is ! But we can't say totally that most of them are scam , some of them are successful on launching the ICOs that's we bounty hunters are always saying that those bounties where we had not paid are scam. Remember that the outcome of the bounty campaign still depends on it's ICO.

I don't know how the first bounty project run but I have a friend who know first about bounty and they said payment of the bounty not as much as the first they get. Sometimes bounty stoped in the middle of the road project beacuse not reached softcap and also sometimes we get trash. Iam newbie and I have yet get first payment of what I'm doing,hopefully in the future the bounty hunter get paid a proportion of his hard work.

the current era is too many ico spread all over the world because that is very difficult to know ico & bounty which is potential for us to invest and hunt prizes in the bounty campaign, hopefully there will be a system that is able to select ico.

more scam bounties may be because the ico project failed, did not get enough funds to continue the project. as a bounty hunter, you have to be smarter in choosing projects to be promoted so you can get a payment from your work.

It is absolutely true that many bounties prove to be failures, but I do not think the intentions were bad or fraudulent.
Quite simply, many people have thought that starting an ICO is a simple method of collecting money and they started without sufficient expertise.
So, not so much scam as incapacity.

a scam in the sense that it doesn't have valuable value or do you think that the price isn't right? At this time there may be quite a lot of ICO who have less good results and generate worthless tokens if like this you have to be smarter in choosing a project to follow

Yes this year there are too many scam bounty in the market more than past years. The reason for this is that the projects that make ico are more than last year. And unfortunately many of these projects are scam. The other reason is when the projects that make ico can not find enough resources than these projects are cancel. Unfortunately, they don't send token in the bountyhunters when the project is canceled. For these two reasons, the number of bounty that do not send token is increasing every day.

Selecting those ICO should be in strong and vigilant resources, because as I've noticed most of the projects right now weren't able to become transparent to investors. Upon observations on some platforms, they've been showing up their progress on their website particular on the pre-sale and main sale fund collected. With that strategy, investors and bounty hunters will continue to support the project and yet more new interested people will be wiling to have engagement for the project.

At that time the number of ico was not as much as now, and don't forget that crypto prices is very high, many ico projects easily reach softcap and even hardcap can be achieved, the bounty hunter payment is high automatically, because the payment is based on the number of tokens sold
They not always planing to raise funds and run away, because many ico have failed because they can't reach softcap, eventually the developer returns funds from investors and bounty hunters who lose because they don't get paid from their work
Totally agree with you, the bounty hunter must really choose a really good project, so there are still income from bounty hunting

The easiest thing to avoid in this crypto space is fraudulent activities but we neglect the obvious task and gamble

Before participating in bounties or any icos, there is need to have intense first hand information about the project , their product and what they offer to the society, the team, roadmaps amongst other functions
Don’t just hop into bounties gambling

Work for it
Do your own research

Here's the Scam project: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5025296.0, in which I participated. One thing pleases that generosity should have been two weeks.

Yes that's true and this is a "Stern Warning" to all of us. Including ICO Investors and not just Bounty Hunters that due diligence must applied in doing Both ICO Investing or Bounty Hunting works. Because if the platform turn out to be a Scam. Both sides are losing  in Investment(Money) and Sweat Equity.(Time and Effort).

Yes, that's really true. So many scam ICOs right now, but i think that caused by too easy regulation and rules in making and publishing the project. For ICO project maybe need the new regulation to minimalize the scam project.
And for bounty hunters, never believe 100% with the project. You should always learn the background, roadmap and their whitepaper first. And then check the activity of their social media.

Well, yes, many projects are now scammers. But if you look closely, that is, good projects are hidden. We just need to study the projects, not all projects have refused bounty promotion.

Choosing a good bounty campaign and not a SCAM is very difficult right now. Even a good project with real goals fails because the softcap has not been achieved. As a bountyhunter we must look at the project objectives and the teams that join in, whether we are sure to follow. and when we have chosen the bounty we want to promote, we must do it right so that the ICO project is able to reach Softcap and even Hardcap.

We can avoid scam just by good research. In the old days for ICO not that much hard to raise funds. Last year market was in the uptrend only and ICO got too much advantage of that. Many tend to dive in ICO without research. After all, no one wants to invest time. Just need profit and profit. But things now changed. Market not like last year but since people yet not changed. Even after research also we can't catch the scam projects but still avoid the many scams. And save what we invest even money or time.

While it is very expedient that due diligence be done before engaging in bounties, sometimes I feel it's difficult to spot the scam while doing research. A project could tick all the right boxes for a good project and could still exit scam. It is also important to distinguish between scams and weak projects. That a project didn't do well at the exchange, doesn't necessarily imply it's a scam

This is unfortunately all true and the scam ico/bounties are becoming more and more.
It has become really hard to find a good bountie/ico.
The number of bounties where you can really earn something is very small.

Generally there are a lot of reasons why it is happening so. All this year the market is going down and we have the negative cashflow on the crypto market. The total pie is becoming smaller and smaller. ICO managers usually do not pay money to bounty hunters in time and it is happens that they do not pay at all. I can intimate you that ICO managers are able not to pay at all and you cannot effect on them because there are no mechanisms which could control them. I consider that such a situation must be changed otherwise people will not trust bounty campaigns at all.

It is normal, as many people know about bounty and ICO, there will be many bad people and they will create ideas that fool investors and bounty hunters. I see ICO scam the most is early in 2018 and now it has dropped quite a lot because everyone has experience ICO rating

       Even if is legit at the beginning then they were not able to reach the soft cap so it will need long time for selling of tokens or just like other projects that they Will disappear because of lack of investors interested of the project.

This is the problem with signature campaigns, you can spend months writing about stuff collecting stakes in the process but in the end after all that work, you get nothing. And sadly, you can only do 1 campaign per BCT account!

Most bounty hunters are becoming very frustrated with the bounty scams. Most of the bounties are becoming a waste of time and it is very painful to waste 20 weeks working without a reward.

This is stale news Bro. Most of us know this already. Just as you said, great caution should be exercised so as not to fall financial victim.

Organizing a scam ICO is very much easy to earn money for those scammer and swindler out there thats why theres a lot of shady ICO right now that are being organize because its easy money for them to scam. You have to be vigilant in investing with this kind of ICO. Always investigate and be alert.

Registered lots of projects recently and it turns out to be that 80% of it turned out to be scam and i felt really bad its so unfortunate that we are having more scam these days and its really really bad

Many factors cause ICO to become a scam, one of which is a bad intention of inviting investors, stealing and running away. But now there are also good ICOs that fail when entering the market either due to unfavorable market conditions or wrong strategies when listing the market

Yes it's kinda hard and challenging to participate in bounties nowadays because you are dedicating much of your time to it so if it the project fails anyway, bounty participants are left frustrated because their efforts have been in vain.

You can avoid ICO and bounty scam by researching the background of the people involve in the company. But most ICO scams comes with no team or they are anonymous and I'm 90% sure that it is a scam

There always will be scam bounties thanks to those people who enter bounty not relying on the quality of the project but relying on reward amount. And do everything to reach needed amount of posts(including creating topics using "bad English" from google translate ;))
When all bounty participants will check projects they participate in - all this will end in a magical way

Be more careful in finding the existing bounty because nowadays more and more bounty campaigns also commit fraud to promote their ico. very detrimental to the participants who have followed it

getting more careful in looking for bounties that are not deceptive and not scam because nowadays more and more bounty lists are scam and I think this should be stopped because it is very detrimental

now the bounty campaign participants have the ability to distinguish legitimate and scam projects.

If all Bounty participants can carry out extensive research before participating in any Bounty program, I think life would be more easier for everyone of us because the percentage of those that will jump into those scamming Bounty program will be fewer, hence making less awareness campaign for those project and also reduces the involvements of other potential investors that might find interest in such projects.

Yes there are too many ICO's appeared and created day by day and it's hard to distinguish what ICO's is good and scam. But there are some and still good ICO's that is promising and giving payments, always be careful on what ICO's you join to prevent scam.

Yes, it's time that something has changed in ICO to come up with some serious checks before missing the project for advertising

Indeed, there are a lot of ico who are holding bounty campaigns and there are so many that they are deceiving, but before we do a bounty campaign, of course we have to analyze every campaign we have to understand what the ico work system is, we have to know who the team is to make sure to choose the manager already have high confidence

This problem today does not add optimism. It's getting harder to earn bounty hunters

I know some people confuse scams and bounty projects that do not achieve soft-cap. I know a project that does not reach soft-cap but they are still listed on the exchange, causing many bounty hunters to think they scam them.

Scam projects have been before, but so many that now it's a bust if you do not continue to deal with them then the scam can simply destroy the bounty

You should choose the best ico so that your time will not be wasted and you can use for the worth it on your time. Get a more information on every bounty because regret is always on the last. Understand what they want to do for the community.

Ofcourse, since no one is filtering it. Even this furom cannot hold the scam bounty threads. The can't determine it will I don't think that they can't filter legit bounty threads in this furom maybe it will start it here.

Yep, that's why I never join bounty again in this year because of them are scam and there are many of them out there. Before joined a bounty you must 100% know is the project really good or not, and when the ICO live, is the project will get enough funds or not. Also repeatable project is trash, never join a bounty with that.

The bottom line is that we should be careful when we are choosing bounty campaign, actually it is not easy to work for a very lengthy week without payment for work done.

Thank you for your reminder, I have participated in the bounty project, they all have to pay tokens as a job. Nowadays, it is difficult to predict whether the tokens obtained are valuable. Working in cryptocurrencies requires a spirit of adventure. :-[

I absolutely agree, there are too many scammers today, and it's really sad, because people lose trust in crypto in general, and some nice, profitable and really worthy bounties just go under the radars. Despite there are many methods to avoid scam, many people still lose their investments.

It's true that this year has been bad enough for ICOs, many bounties do not even reach the soft cap and so they get qualified as scam, because they end up canceling the project, is that really the market is bearish and investors are falling too, that's why you have to take better care of your investment and see if the bounty you're invested in is going to reach the end.

i think what you mean is 2016-2017 not 1917. yes there are scams around us but i think it is a good sign that there are investors that is trusting the technology. i think it is the time to have a strict regulation regarding icos the prevent this such unjust doings.

That is why I only use bountyhunters as my platform for bounties. And even in that case, I don't invest much of my time on bounties. Just some tweet here and there, a little posting k  this forum that I would do anyway. You are not going to get rich off bounties, but at least the bountyhunters team will supervise the tasks and you AR assured to not get scammed of your time!

yes bro there are many ICOs scam, but im sure that there is a prospect ICO too
we must be smart to choose in order to not get scammed

you are right and this is a problem that we cannot avoid, hopefully, all forum members can be better at choosing a bounty campaign, not because of the experienced bounty manager, but rather the information provided by the project they are supporting. but sometimes some good bounties do not pay participants well and are in accordance with what they get and do not match the spreadsheet for various reasons

Currently, the crypto-currency market is very popular and since it is not controlled by anyone, it is much easier for fraudsters to act.

People should have more research before joining a campaign. Most of the bounty hunters don't care anything. they join without any due diligence.  That's why they don't get paid too. Before joining a campaign have a good idea about the team behind the project.

Indeed, the condition of the ICO in that year was very far if we followed last year's project maybe we could get a pretty good project because of the small ICO volume at that time because I had been in the prize for a long time so I wasn't surprised if more projects were scam because in 2017 there are many projects that are scam around 2018 with many ICOs available in 2018 so to choose a good project will pass a fairly mature consideration because we enter the project will also take a long time.

Yes of course more & more bounties seen in the market but more of them is not successful in the market. because results of many bountissues get zero due to made by scammers.

There are a growing number of poor quality bounties and it is worth mentioning that they all exaggerate the amount of money supply for bounty, in addition to bounty management is not good. Sometimes questions of participants are not answered. Poor quality bounties are often difficult to be listed on reputable exchanges, with a high investment, but the develope team of ICO does not have any notice about that.
  I still have not mentioned the ico of the virtual project. In general, the current market of ico is very difficult for us to choose a good ico to join and get income from it.

First, the english of the creator of this post was pretty good. Probably better than mine.

Due to the profitability of cryptocurrencies it's kind of obvious that people will want to step in, including the ones who don't particularly enjoy playing fair. The interesting thing about them is that they are constantly improving. Which means that the step ahead of scams and/or phishing attempts it's necessary that each one of us educate ourselves about the threats out there.

The truth is, as long as it's so easy to conduct regular mail spam and/or fake websites/ICOs successfully with profits - It will continue happening.

I personally don't like the Bounties who pay after months. It's a lot easier to understand where you are standing with weekly payment. Only with enough people putting pressure towards that goal it can happen. Sadly, too many inside those kind of bounties just use bots. Which makes it easy for them to occupy spots and do the work listed.

Still there are many scopes to identify the scam and good projects.
I want to participate in the bounty program means firstly I read the white paper and team members whether they are legit or not. If all the details are fine there or not you need to analyze the information and then participate the campaign mate.

Simple but exact to the point, since crypto is not regulated or controlled more and more new projects has been created to have investors interest
they create more bounties so they will be look good and attract newcomers, but all they long its just an strategy to collect funds and to scam both
investors and participants who work for their projects.

A lot has changed in the space between 2017 and now. Scam projects really into the crypto world in this period too and it has seen a lot of people lose by way buying into fraudulent ICOs and bounty hunters wasting precious time promoting a project with worthless tokens. Some even outright disappear without issuance of the bounty payments like Impressio did. The best for every bounty hunter is to be critical of every project before joining bounties, in fact, you can discontinue mid way if things don't sit well with you.

You are right, there are a lot of scam projects, but there is always a choice. If we have experience, some knowledge, we can distinguish this project, and those who just want to collect money and hide.

More and more ICOS turn out to be a Scam. The problems of bounty hunters compared to investors ' gaps seem to me to be more petty, although in fact the problem is one - the scammers.

Today, the Internet is literally peppered with offers of investments in start-ups, promising projects, trading in crypto-currency, mining, etc. Alas, but most of these proposals are deceptive. With the advent of the global network, scammers quickly realized the prospect of deceiving a large audience of naive users.

Your English is better than OP's.

The fact is, most bounties are not actually scams, but are instead failures. There is a big different, one indicates malicious intend, whereas the other does not.

The terms and conditions of most bounties typically state that if the ICO fails, the tokens will not be distributed, which is just obvious really. Why would they spend ETH sending out completely useless tokens?

I dont know about your arguments regarding some prohibition of ICO marketing but I have noticed some scammy behaviour of some bounties which is to state that bounty will be like 600k$ and fine print that if the stakes will no exceed the tokens ( which in these cases is impossible and would require 10's of thousands of poeple) then we will make this calculation stakes=tokens.

You are right, unfortunately, there are more such projects, but choosing what will be really valuable is not an easy task. Time to analyze the project will take much more than participation in generosity. Especially it became noticeable this year

So true. That is why the basic way to investigate if the ICO is scam in not enough already because they are like a real one. Itis very necessary to study first the ICO before you invest because of this kind of scenario. With this it is very important to be wise and smart to avoid scam.

It is your selection for the bounties to take part in it, due to more and more bounties there are more scams, one must be selective for the bounty and must check before taking part in it,  check properly te team, project and product of the bounty only then there are chances of success.

That's right, there are lots of ico just scam and don't pay, and if you want to get results, then before following the bounty, you have to take the time to do research on ico that you will follow, and it's better than you are stuck in a scam.

It is unfortunate that more projects are turning scam while others are not achieving desired results. The crypto space is really going through a hard time now. But to many who believe in block chain/crypto should keep their faith strong.

I am a wolf that two years ago the crypto-currency and ico companies were the property of a narrow circle of people who worked for the development of crypto-currency and earned good money. But when the information began to diverge, there are many people who want to take advantage of the situation and earn a bad way.

Definetly agree with you, now a days not a single or two but lots of scam bounties are runed/engaged.
At the time of joining these bounty looks like more promising and real, but as days pass on these guys shows their real ugly side and vanishes, it has become much difficult to recognize the genuine bounty.

unfortunately now is hard period for bounty, market at the bottom - and not many project want to make an ICO, need to wait rising of market

at this time many gifts are scam, because the development is increasingly in demand by people, therefore the gift maker uses enthusiasts to seek profit. Indeed, we should now be careful about the gift and we must know whether the gift is fraud or not.

Because everyone who knows how to make a website and make up a decent story and use case and set up a site, create a fake team, with fake background and earn money by scamming investors who are looking to get rick over night.

It is true. A lot of bounties are going scam, because the ICOs are not able to reach the soft cap. It is said, but there are also a lot of great bounties, where you can earn a lot of money. Investigating the project, before start doing a bounty will help for sure  ;D But no one is safe.

it is sad but true however do not think that every bounty or ico is a scam one there are still anlot of good icos

i am not a fan of blaunty campaigns but i think that every person should try them in order to get necesssry experience

Unfortunately in this trap come across a lot of beginners who have learned that there is a free way to make money and you can participate in all the bounty in a row. They have heard that many people have already earned millions on this. Therefore, they come with the hope that in a month they will buy a Lamborghini and live for their pleasure. But people do not take into account the fact that times have changed. Previously, there were few projects and they really worked to realize their idea. Now everyone wants to collect very much money and therefore now it is very difficult to find really worthy project among any shit.

We are currently undergoing a very handwringing process for cryptocurrencies. Scam projects are making a hash of the market, which is already in trouble

Yes, the generosity of a long time do not bring such results as before. Scammers are one of the problems. The second problem is that now a lot of people are involved in the bounty. Therefore, places in good projects quickly clogged, the one where there is a limit on the number of participants. And where there is no limit bounty hunters get very little. I think we need to look for other ways to make money.

That's right, buddy. The market is now too fierce, daily there are many fraudulent projects launched to steal money participants. They are so sophisticated that it feels like a great and good project, only to lose money before realizing it is a phishing project.

That is why it is very important to choose carefully the bounty campaign that you will promote or else both you and the investors will suffer the loss of money for the investors side and waste  of time and effort for the bounty promoters.

That's true, and that's why we have to study carefully the ICO project before participating in its bounty campaigns. The number of promising ICO projects is limited nowadays, so the mission of bounty hunters becomes really harder, but it is still possible to make some money by joining the good bounty campaigns.

this is unfortunately true. more and more bounties are scam and do not pay bountie. even large and successful projects that have reached their hardcap, do not pay the participants or take a lot of time with it. it is sad how the bountie participants are treated.  :'(

Yes, it is very sad, but it is. Many projects simply do not pay for the work, or reduce the remuneration several times. This also applies to successful projects that have conducted a good ICO. I really want to believe that the situation will change when the market begins to grow again. We can only wait for the changes and it is better to choose projects

The problem is that now most of the projects do not collect the necessary amount of money and therefore there are problems. And those who collect money do not go to the stock exchange because they are afraid that the coins will fly down

Currently there are too many real ICO projects with their bounty, but the result is that these ICOs are not successful but can not pay for the bounty hunter.

Unfortunatelly, it is true. More and more ICOs become scam. But I think that bounty hinters should choose the most interesting among all ICOs. As for me, I choose projects which reached softcap, have mvp and great team. Also it's important to check the product of this ICO.

The current ICO projects are very difficult at the moment when investors are more intelligent and thorough with their investment, in addition to the market decline has less interest in ICO. This causes the bounty to fail as the ICO fails

I have not participated in bounty campaigns but it seems that what you are talking about is happening with more frequency which is a real shame because a lot of people invest a lot of time trying to promote the project and they do it to the best of their ability only to not receive their tokens at the end, but this is not really surprising because as we have seen many projects in the past year were scams

It is sad really, to see a program, and be a part of its bounty, and after so much times and effort put into it, one will only discover at the end of the day that it was a scam project. Definitely a sad story to hear, and be a part of. I wish that something could be done, and done urgently. We need to kick these scams from our street.

Instead of saying bounty scam it's worth saying ICO or project scam. Just bad research or we blindly follow any project leads to the scam many times. Normally people give 15+ or around 20 weeks time in bounty. But work not worth if project turned to scam. But what if we do low work after getting project. It is worth more even we work 5 or 10 weeks.

we want to do it again, it is indeed a situation like that, because the longer the market is growing, and the more competition there is also. so there is also someone who uses it for his sake, even though it is detrimental, but the irresponsible party never thinks about it.

there is a lot of bounties from already listed on exchanges projects, try to work there, recent times it is the only one way to earn in bounty campaigns, coz yes a huge share of current bounties are scams or will not pay.

Exactly in crypto space icos are most dangerous things. You can loose your invetments if you are investing during ico process or you can loose your valuable time and effort if you are joining their bounties. so we need to be really careful about that.

There are too many unsuccessful projects in the cryptocurrency market in the past and that is the cause of many bounty scam campaigns. Because the ICO project is unsuccessful, its bounty campaign and airdrop will fail and participants will not be rewarded.

the number of ICO more and more and it also makes the bounty became increasingly numerous. but it is all indeed not everything yielded and in line with expectations. within this selective in bounty is the main thing that should be done. because only relying on the following other people just wouldn't be able to make bounty produce and thus often fall in the scam.

Many bounty campaigns do not pay the participants for their campaigns because their projects do not get funding according to plan, I think that is correct and there are no problems.

maybe what you say is true but I am sure that of the many outstanding ICOs there will still be a bounty campaign that will still pay and can produce the right profit, this is the risk of the bounty campaign so you should be able to deal with it as best as possible don't be afraid of scams at least you have tried and tried your best.

Until there is any regulation of ICO, such a mess will happen.  The crooks will steal money from ordinary people and investors. The most annoying thing is that every day it is more difficult to distinguish a real company from scammers. And in the bounty and generally lost all desire to participate, because there is no income, but only wasted time.

That is indeed many project that are fake/spam. also ive got bumped into that kind of project several times. But i learned to used that experience to learn to be better in the future, so i won't get bumped into that kind of project again.

Now very few projects are paid at all. And if they pay, the price on the market is very low. Bounty has become a disadvantage

You investing your main resource in the bounty, your time, so choose wisely and with good bounty manager. I don't even look on airdrops now, don't want to waste my time.

The cryptocurrency market has become very popular, but still not safe, so most scammers do their dirty work here.

Yes, that's why you need to be very careful the type of cryptocurrency project you involved yourself with,you should be able to carry out a due diligent search before doing any crypto project. The crypto space is right now full of fraudulent individuals who are not ready to work but wants to gain from the hard work of others.

The fraudster will certainly continue to exist because it can generate huge profits, but I also believe that as the market develops, there will be many ways to deal with fraudsters. We only need to wait for the cleaning of the market now.

Recently the number of scam ICOs has been increased. However, there are still good project. But yeah it's so hard to tell which ico is a scam, because it looks like a real one

Years 2016-2017 were really good for all cryptocurrencies such as ICOs and low market coins. Also things like airdrops and bounty campaigns were really profitable like heaven.

ICO with big bounty and airdrops are likely to be a scam.

This is nothing but a consequence of popularity. This can be traced not only in relation to cryptocurrency, but also in any other sphere. If there is a demand, there will be an offer. And along with it, and offers low quality and development.
In addition, popular destinations attract all kinds of scammers. This should not be surprising. Where there is money, there will be those who want to get it at any cost. You just need to think and not to believe every word.

that is why we need in-depth research techniques for the ico project that we will follow, especially now that day by day many ico / bounties have sprung up.
there are times when the bounty also gives a huge profit, so don't be afraid to try, in essence, we are required to look for a bounty that really won't turn into a project scam.

Yes there are so many bounties that are scams right now so before you participate in bounty campaigns be sure to read their whitepaper then check who will be the bounty manager and check his background to know if the bounty really works to avoid scam.

Yeah, the number of ICO is continuously increasing every day and it also happens to the bounty campaigns. It's our duty to choose the best campaign to join in, don't forget to understand it well before participating. Let's be more selective to avoid any scam.

if you hope that rewards are worth it, you should improve your quality, I think you are using a signature but in reality you only do reports for social media campaigns. this is sickening, you scream about scams but you yourself never do the task correctly. correction again

I think number of scam ICO projects are still lower than scam ICO projects. LOL. It's also a good way to make all bounty hunters become more careful when they wanna choose any bounty campaign to join :). At the moment, it's really hard to find out a good bounty campaign to join but it's not impossible.

that's the risk for bounty hunters like us. at this time the ico project project was busy and almost every week there was a new one. various innovations are involved for development and these benefits are inseparable from ico which leads to a scam. this is part of the risk we have to face at any time.

Indeed, many projects are scam because their projects fail, and to avoid them, it is better to spend time at the beginning to conduct research on the ico project that will be followed.

It's just because investment into ICOs is so much less than last year, most of them aren't raising enough money, wouldn't really call them a scam.

It need to research first among those many ICOs that created everyday and join only those quality project. ICOs reviews will also help to check if the project has impact or hype in the market with the review from the team behind.

nowadays it is very difficult to find bounties that end well and end successfully, many have to be scrutinized and many must be analyzed to get good bounties

Did you get in one of those scams? I have ever got it for twice. Just make that experience as the big lesson for me to become more and more careful. CHoosing bounty is as difficult as choosing ICo projects for investment.. We must analyze not only the project but also the team and it community.

Yes, this is a big problem that exists today in the cryptocurrency world, I think that this is a temporary phenomenon, although it would probably be more correct to say that this is a problem. which today really needs to be addressed.

It's pretty hard to see that more bounties are turning to scammers. Because most of them fail in this, before joining in bounty campaigns kindly check the white papers of the project, if you don't check it will become risky.

We should not forget that the majority of advertising in social networks is prohibited because of the same massive ICO scam, and the telegram conducted a closed ICO because it had a ready-made product for which, without any difficulty, found investors and more than planned!  So scam gets bigger only as a result of the fact that more projects appear!

Yes that is because majority of the coins turn out to be scams anyway and no one is willing to invest in the scam projects so they are dying out and not making the money that they were expecting to make from it. Also there are some bounties that are just taking advantage of people and not actually going to pay out the bounties that they have promised.

It is true, not only bounties turn out to be a scam, but also ICOs don't keep their words and turn out to be a scam coin. It seems for me that more and more coins are failing and don't develop product at all and instead of right actions toward brend awareness, product placement and development, they just waste money on their demands,buy cars, houses etc. What is more, with current circumstances projects don't raise enough funds to develop product .

There are really problems in the market of ICO projects, as it is difficult for projects to raise funds in such market conditions, respectively, a bad situation with bounty campaigns. Not only are most of them crooks, it’s almost impossible to get a decent reward right now. When the market recovers, the situation will improve on all fronts.

what do you mean? i dont get it -_-

yah, we are must be carefull of scam bounties, many scam bounties here

I agree. That is why I only join short term campaigns so that it won't hurt that much if it turns out to be a scam. It is very hard to work for 15-20 weeks in a bounty knowing that it will be the scam by the end of it. No matter how good you are at distinguishing a scam ICO, scammers are one step ahead of you and making their ICO look legit.

This is true. They learn how to imitate the things the real one are. They are a good imitator in which we will have a hard time identifying which is the real one. Therefore we should be critical in doing things, or somewhat be critical in choosing where to invest or which ICO to join. Try to look for Team background before investing on a ICO.

Yeah its true so many scam projects nowaday. As bounty hunter i struggled with this situation. But for now i still continue the task i have nothing to lose here. I hope this situation change less scam projects like good old time.

Yes, a really sad situation with bounty, because many projects, I don’t understand for what reason, probably there’s only greed left and it’s because of their greed that people just can’t do anything to just pay their bounty hunters.

Yes, majority of them are scam and what we need to do is to determine if its worth our effort and time. Working for bounties takes months and it really hurt us if the bounty ended up being a scam. That is why I never joined a bounty that has will last more than 4 months. I will only join them if there is only 1 to 2 months left so I can join more campaigns in a year.

 right. We need to be careful in choosing the right projects to join. To be honest, we are no different than investors, and we need to analyze them carefully before participating in an ICO project and offering them. :D

I can't agree more with you on this. You are very correct because a lot of scam ICOs have been parading themselves in the crypto world and they usually attract bounty hunters with huge bounty allocation. But still, there are credible projects that still do bounties with handsome reward.

The funds are profitable, which just proves the horrible efficiency of ICO in absorbing public funds, so many scammers will enter the ICO field because it can swindle money faster than traditional scams.

You wrote that advertising in social networks is prohibited. What kind of advertising have you written? About banner advertising? Instead, you can use indirect advertising. To write high-quality texts on the topic of investment and about your project, in which crypto-technology is referred to.

In fact, the number of fraudsters is not only 50%-70%, they are more than we think. This is also a major cause of ICO collapse, and these behaviors are also implicated in ETH. We have no way to stop this from happening, but we may be able to reject ICO until the existing rules are changed.

Scammers strategies are so will made which people can't hardly to find project as a scam easily.
It could be in big help if the community will work together against fraudsters and ico's will be filtered seriously to see if it is legit or just a scam.

Many projects fail, selecting and participating in potential projects to minimize risk. I usually consider before joining!

That's right, it seems like I experienced what you experienced, and now I myself also choose a bounty campaign that really has a good team, so as not to promote a scam ICO, besides choosing a bounty manager who already has good trust in this forum as well we can make it as a reference

Absolutely the bad nut among us always trying their best to take advantage of others. They introduce their own project and try to scam others of their earnings. Many people really fall as victims due to ignorance as they just bump into any project they see.  Before you join any project please take a critical look at it.

I think that most of coins wich were created last year was only useless projects without any technology. And when market went down everybody saw it. If we talk about bounties I think really good projects don't need bounty.

yes nowadays there are a lot of bounties that are scam. as a bounty hunter we have to be smarter to choose a bounty campaign to avoid a bounty that is a scam.

But finding the right one wont really be that easy eh? Bounty campaigns success rates on last year is much better but people do already find out that this is a good way on earning money without the need of investing and project builders or scammers do see this out as a good source of scamming millions of money with less effort by means of deceiving.Its really hard to accept the fact that you are not being paid on the work you have done as a hunter.

It is true, at the end of the day there are so many bounty scams that will make investors nervous to invest their shares in cryptocurrency, this can be a future thought for the bounty manager to choose which is good to make investors more confident in them.

Sometimes this can make the bounty participants feel deeply disappointed with the negative bounty, as participants I sometimes review the project to avoid scam

This year, all the scammers switched to creating projects, and we even without knowing it advertise these projects and earn them money. It is better to choose one project normal than to participate in twenty suspicious

Yes, there are lots of projects bounty in the present, but most of the scam. But if we take a little caution and participate in good projects, then we can easily get rid of these deceptions.

More and more ICOs are on the market. And thats why more and more ICOs are scammy. And when ICO is a scam, also bounty campaign is a scam. So thats the reason.

Yes, there is such a trend,as practice has shown, this year is especially a lot of them, as everything falls, even normal companies can not collect the amount they need, what to say, everyone says that this year is difficult for the cryptocurrency market,but everyone is waiting for that there will be bright times

I think as bounty hunters should be smart more. Because they are so many fake ico that can be understand that as a fake ICO by easily doing little research. But we can see lot of bounty hunter who participate with those kind of bounty campaigns. so my suggestion is doing research as a investor before participating any bounty campaigns.

It really is. There is a percentage of ICO, which are fraudsters and this percentage is not small. Now nobody regulates it. It can be really difficult to identify scammers or not. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct more detailed research, and not to invest in beautiful words

Let's see the meaning of the word Scam-(scam – fraud) is an investment instrument that for any reason has ceased to fulfill its obligation to investors.I understand you equated everyone with a fraud.And those who paid tokens but did not start listing,those who did not collect soft cap.If the numbers you give are based on your own experience, then I feel sorry for you.Apparently you don't know how to pick a bounty.From my observations I can assume that a Scam a maximum of 10%.In the future, choose ICO more carefully

More and more bounty hunters tagged because of promoting for scam projects as well. At the moment, don't think that you can earn cryptocurrency by joining a random bounty campaign that you think it's good. Bounty hunters also need to have knowledge and experience to survive. It's more and more difficult but I think it'll be better for professional bounty hunters :).

Yup  a lot many bounties turn out to be scam, but the biggest mistake here is bounty hunters not reviewing the bounty campaign properly. There are enormous ways to detect if a project is going to be a scam.
A bounty hunter should research on the project he is opting to do the bounty for in similar way an investor do research for the ICO he is investing. Here you do not invest money, but you do invest your time and hardwork.
If you are not sure about the bounty, only join bounties from successful bounty managers who have a record of paying bounty hunters on time. This reduces your risk of being scammed by a big margin.

Hi, I completely agree with the message above that Scam maximum 10%.
There is no need to participate in 200 bounty campaigns at the same time.
better to participate in 20 reliable bounty campaigns.

It is certainly a matter of great concern for bounty hunters. As by participating in bounties for 10 or 12 weeks, if you don't get rewards then it really hurts. So, one thing you can do is research well before participating in bounties.

Apparently a large part of good projects is even without the bounty,at some point it was bound to happen.

Yeah sure, i feel like you.
I am as like bounty hunter feel so sad for now, so many bounty get scam and our time for bounty is zero profit.
I hope next time bounty will getting better than now.

If you recall 2016 and 2017, then work in Bounty companies was much more interesting. Then we earned a certain income for our work, but today our profit is soon approaching zero.

the is one of the reason bounty hunters are afriad of joing bounties this days, a lot of bounties are joining and also most are scam. to diffrientiate the scam from the real ICO is even difficult

2017 is the year of ICO. This year was indicative. This year all came to the conclusion that with the help of ICQ you can make good money. The scammers decided to take advantage of this. Due to the spread of Scam projects, it was forbidden to advertise ICO in social networks.  Left is on the forums. Prefer to spend fees now in telegrams

This year, the bounty of the company were much worse. Find a promising project is almost impossible, or rather they are so few and then, it is highly likely that you are also deceived.

There are hundreds of bounties available in this moment. Do you expect all of them to have a real project and idea to build the next bitcoin? At least 50% of them have started with the intention of raising money and then stealing it. You can't say it's people's fault because some projects look really good and there is nothing wrong you can say about them but at the end they still prove to be a scam. Still, if you are careful enough I am 100% sure you can reduce the risks when investing by choosing the right ICOs.

This is bad, I hope it will stop because nowadays its really hard to look a good bounty. We need to be aware of scam projects because its not a joke to waste your time and hardwork to a project that at the end they will not pay you back. Let we say, even though you are a senior here in the community still you can not determined if the project was scam or not.

This is a very actual problem, it is very disappointing to waste time and not receive a reward for work.

Yes, that is true, for me it seems that all the scammers come to bounty industry only because it's anonymous and they can run away with the money without any risk.

There will always be good ideas and there will always be bad ideas, it is only left for you as an individual to either know how to identify the good ones from the bad ones. I would say nonchalant attitude and laziness is what has made a lot of bounty participants to end up participating in a project that is not there to bring anything to the table and all the team is just after is to siphon all the money they can in the long run.

Scam is something that we cannot remove at the moment, and it is left for each individual to always do their own diligence before being a part of any project. Most bounty hunters usually do not see themselves as investors, which is the reason why.

We should expect more of this in an unregulated market that no one is liable under any law. As bounty hunters, our right is not protected and there is no one to figth unless we do by ourselves.

Scammers ruin everything, some investors lost their trust in ICO's because of those fraudsters, they think all of the projects are now scam because of them can't totally blame them as some might lose tons of money from investing in buying their promises and return of profits once the ICO establishes and engaged their project, they are careful now and scared to invest again, projects should have some concrete assurances that they are legit and the part of the investors to engaged very careful with knowledge.

in fact, it is, but it does not mean that we can make good money on the other 30 percent of bounty just the opposite. It seems to me that you can earn thousands of dollars on these projects if you take it seriously and complete the tasks

I agree that this market is oversaturated with low-quality projects and scams. Therefore, there is no place for investors with a low level of professionalism. Such investors lose their money very quickly.

Unfortunately this is the case, most companies are scams, you just need to be more careful

A lot of scammers are now in the sphere of ico and bounty of companies... It is necessary to choose very carefully which projects to invest in and which ones to participate in

Yeah even famous BM become victims of fake company wasting their effort and time for nothing

It's really sad that there are a lot of fake projects out there and it's more sad thinking that there's nothing we can do about it. Someone should control these new projects and they should be required to submit some proof of legitimacy with valid ID's and stuff.

Yeah I agree with you about being a scam also because there is no real profitable value in the end. There are so many ICOs that although they pay the investors and bounty participants, the coins they are paying is almost at no value.

For now it's Wild West during "Gold Rush". Fresh and relatively "Easy" money attracts vultures just like century ago. I believe that eventually it will balance itself out, when investors start being more careful buying another "patented medicine". Even so, not everything is scum, lot's of products failed just because of incompetence, while being all good intentions at the start. Evolution will rule out again. Just my 2 cents.

A lot of ICO are just scam projects, that only take the money from the softcap/hardcap and disappear

There are still many ICO which has bounty produce. the problem is also a lot of scams and it is quite similar so it is certainly a good analysis is required to be able to choose the best bounty. especially because of the influence of this scam also make investors hesitant to invest enough and this will have an impact also to the other ICO, to be honest, is nice but does not reach the target as investors reluctant to go in fear of the scam.

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This is the biggest problem now on the market, I believe that if the issue of fraud, the market will very quickly grow and develop. Fraudsters are very much impede development and deter investors.

Try to take a survey and find out how many investors actually research about a project or actually reads the whitepaper. The result will surprise you because the majority don't, a team's expertise and skilled could spell the difference between a beautiful idea and a realistic project. The Mfchain team is a good example of an excellent team. Working towards the mass adoption of cryptocurrency that mfchain represent of  is a win for all.

There are scam projects out there; it is only left for you as a bounty hunter to identify them. A lot of bounty hunters are too lazy to do research and proper digging before putting their time into a project and as long as that keeps happening, they will keep flopping and then blaming the community when they should be blaming themselves for being ignorant and gullible.

This is a non-regulated market, and it is normal to see scams in such situations, but what you should be asking yourself is what are you doing, to make sure you do not get to be a part of it? Probably when DT2 members start negging those who promote scam, maybe they will know how to dig properly first.

reading with sadness. I strongly agree with your opinions and suggestions. Bounty hunters must be very clever to choose a real or not real project. The more days the ico projects are scam. And makes sad again the bounty hunter has been working very long and has no reward at all, I think why such people are not afraid of sin? Only god who repaid. Keep the spirit for all.

- I think that no one has enough credibility to manage all the new projects, people are always cheating each other in the virtual world, to trust someone here is really an impossible story, it's too dangerous, so even if there is a manager for new projects, people will still not believe what he's saying. In addition, the project team will not send all necessary information, this is their idea and you have the right to participate or not participate, they do not need to prove anything to you or anyone else, although the present situation is very sad but we can not change anything

Very sad statistics, but I hope with market growth this kind of statistics will be changed and there will be better number of good bounties. I hope so, that's why I don't leave this market

You are absolutely on point. The level at which scam bounties are emerging now is increasingly becoming too much. Everyone just want to make money at all cost irrespective of anything they will do to achieve their goals.This is a note of warning for us to be on our guard at all times. We the bounty hunters should meticulously choose any bounty we want to be a part of so as not end up engaging in vain labour.

This is due to the current market conditions. Due to the fact, that a lot of ICOs are failing to reach soft cap, the bounties are also turning scam. Just select the projects better and try to participate in projects, when they already achieved the soft cap.

I agree that many projects are just scammers who want to steal money from investors and hide. But all such projects are not all scams. Many of them are simply unable to survive in the market. Here not as in life - opened shop and work. It's more complicated than that. If the coin will not be in demand - she's dead

Indeed, this year many bounties that are scam are different from 2017, many bounties with big fees. I think now only follows the bounty from a trusted bounty manager. it can prevent us from being trapped in a scam bounty.

Wont really be that easy supposed to say yet ive considered myself to be an experienced bounty hunter and researching all the possible stuffs when it comes to bounty hunting but saying not to choose up scam projects wont really be easy because there are lots of them seems to be legit or have potential but it do still end up on being a scam.The edge you have if you do know how to check out necessary things will always be an advantage among others.

there are so many scams that are bounty so be careful to be smart because they have a lot to do for you to promote before they extend the second one they do not give the token until they are forgotten.

we can not really avoid it so we have to be careful because many people are struggling. how many months did they have the time of the hour after the scam was joined by a bounty that should be confined to people who are fond of mad.

That is how it is these days, you look at the bounties and think that they are good, start doing them only to discover that the coin is a scam and all of your time and effort had gone to waste. I wish they would put in some kind of regulation for the bounties so that we can be sure that only the good coins are allowed to put up bounties.

This is becoming worst and we should do a diligent research about those many bounties that we have and somehow find the right bounty that will give us the reward of our participation. I like to join on those bounty that has credible advisors and team.

there's no need to worry because it's been a long time since many ICO projects ended up being a scam project that made them one of the shitcoins.
Well, you're right.
we are really required to be careful in choosing ico for bounty hunters, because they will only get coins that are useless if they don't choose ico properly.

sometimes i also think that bearish market (like today) will set all dots on "i", delimitting good projects from bad, and bad from worse (scam ) :)

You are right, to choose a good bounty campaign at the moment is very difficult and you need to be careful because you do not want to waste your time. Thanks to this forum and the Internet, you can distinguish fraudsters, the main thing is to properly use the information that is.

As bad as it sounds, now is the time. The wave of HYIP has subsided and is saving energy for the future. And the crooks and weak projects meanwhile, fill a niche

Most of the projects today really look more like scam projects, since today many projects simply cannot build softcap. I still understand that this is exactly the problem, but of course in human greed.

ICO is an apple of the eye for scammers This is the easiest way for them to scam at a large rate without too much effort since the one who push the advertisement are real bounty campaign participants. That is why you should be picky when you join an ICO investment or campaign.

So, that's why you have to do a deep investigation before venturing to spend months of your time on something that probably won't be so profitable, sometimes it's better to spend that time on something else, but it's also important to know how to recognize the ICOs that are really good, because they still exists.

I agree with your point of view, there are too many scam ICOs today, so the Bounty Hunters just waste their time on promoting these projects without any reward. It is important to choose the projects carefully to avoid unpleasant occasions.

there are many scams and of course that is very worrying but I don't want to just stop because I am sure and even see there are still many bounty from good projects

so long as they are managed by a responsible team the bounty will not be a scam and I am sure that the bounty program that I follow will give me results because sales almost reach hardcap and most importantly it won't scam because I believe in the bounty management team

I agree, I’m even having a hard time picking a good bounty campaign since 2018 has started. They’re more likely scams. It’s either they’ll extend for a long period of time or won’t give any rewards.

Of course this factor is upsetting , but you need to put up with it and take as much as possible bounty that you lead and do them because with some bounty you earn good money

You must visit the bounty platform called Bountyhive. Most of their participants are satisfied with what they are getting fro the bounty they participated in Bountyhive. Also, their projects has low probability of turning out to be a scam.

I think nothing is frustrating than working tirelessly for a bounty campaign and someone's work become fruitless because of unreal team lying to investors as well as bounty hunters.

Doesn’t sound very realistic tbh. You mean there no scam at all? How come?
Campaigns premoderated or how do they get rid of potentially fraudulent ones?

Even I have been scammed a lot many times in the past. The main issue is that the admins are not doing anything about it. Anyone can post an ANN thread here and there is no screening. This needs to change, if we want to minimize the incidents of scamming.

Yes, I fully agree with you. Choosing a bounty company is really hard work, and most importantly requires special care and caution. Since he was not just in such situations, when the selected bounty was not as good as originally intended. So now I use the phrase " measure seven times, cut once."

I agree with the author. there are a lot of scams among ICO now, bounty hunters are often deceived.
 it became very difficult to choose a worthy project. we have to participate in a large number of bounty,not to miss a worthwhile project.

I just think that with the bull and so many people seeing how much you can end up making from cryptocurrencies, a lot of people started putting out coins into the market with projects that they cannot sustain and when the projects started to fail they could not do anything to save them, and along with these failed projects came a lot of failed bounties

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Bratan, check your initial text for misprints before translating ;)

This looks like "palevo" if you know what I mean :)