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Hi,

I am a bounty hunter and i have realized that almost all the bounties are being flooded by some morons who use one person's BTC id, other person's fb/twitter, and put their own ERC address.

They may be using some kind of bots to do that.

What i think he/they are doing is that they have made a list of btc address, fb address, twitter address, and telegram and then use them in bounties and airdrops. They have made some kind of automation software that now do it for them and they take up all the spots in the Airdrops, bounties etc.
They just flood them, put their own ERC20 entries in them while using other's address.

With that they don't have to worry because their ERC address can't be traced to their identity as the rest of the info is all fake.

I have found my BTC id used at quiet a few bounties now which i never applied. Same with my twitter and fb address.

I know that a few bounties are now asking for proof of authentication post but not all of them.

With the growing security issues in BTC can't we start Google 2 factor authentication for our profile as it also has been attacked and also what can be the solution to these kind of scammers ?

Cheating by scammer is now gradually being curbed by some bounty, through the introduction of KYC and for some, proof of authentication. Although, i feel proof of authentication is more appropriate than KYC, because not everyone can pass KYC.

Although, to avoid cheating the sincere bounty hunters too, KYC should have been completed before the calculation of stakes to tokens or before token distribution. So that there will be fair and accurate distribution of the total number of tokens to
sincere bounty participants.

If people were cheating the campaigns with fake profiles then it is the fault of the campaign managers so they need to do their work if this kind of scammers need to be removed as you mentioned the proof of authentication will do the job but it willl make little bit of work load for the campaign managers that is why they still refusing to add while the most reputed campaign managers doing that.

That is why you also might want to consider a good campaign manager that can spot those cheaters and prevent scammers from flooding the campaigns. That's also why it's better to use some platforms that connect your real account to the bounty hunter. In this way it can avoid duplications which somehow the easiest thing to copy when the campaign management is only using manual method.

that way the task of the bounty manager gets heavier because they cannot find fraudulent accounts one by one, and for participants who honestly do bounties, it is certainly less fun

A lot of managers have realized this case and some of them applied KYC and others bounty managers that didn't put KYC as requirements tried to implement the new method of registration just like creating a verification post that can be your evidence if you have registered on that campaign.

BCT forum has the secret question and mail verification for securing accounts. I think this is enough. Just keep your email safe and everything will be ok.


I think bounty managers can easily notice that. If he/she is a good bounty manager, he/she can reject all of scammers like these in just few clicks.

But I think we should check speardsheet weekly by searching our own information in our following campaign, in order to report scammers promptly.

cheating campaigns by stealing profile links such as bitcointalk accounts, facebook, twitter and other more often occur, even content campaigns such as blogs are often rigged by some people who like to steal their work. really sad and difficult to eradicate it. maybe we should put the btc or eth address in our bitcointalk account profile and always report directly to the manager if we find a fraud.

it is true that today many cheats are wandering around, using other people's names to get their prizes.
I've also experienced the same thing, my name is used to follow the social media bounty, and eth is used instead of my eth.
this made me very disappointed, they got a prize with our name

I have been a victim of this kind of scheme with many bounties on which I also participated...now am sure that my details might have been used with other bounties which I was not a part of. Whenever I am aware of someone using my details, I make sure that I reported the same to the bounty manager for proper action as this is something we should never tolerate not an iota. Good thing to see that there are now many bounties which is making sure that no fake can enter its program so they inspect all applicants and kick out those who are abusing the system. We must always be careful with these scammers as they can really be using our identity for their own purposes.

That's why we have a Bounty manager to check all participants right? If those cheater slipped in the campaign then that manager isnt effective enough to handle the campaign. First of all, the manager should think ahead that many cheaters will try to join just to earn many tokens as possible. We have some apps or application to check those it only depends on the manager on how he will investigate and check it well. If you knew Tyler Sanford? He is one of the good bounty manager who really screened the participants well and those cheaters will have a hard time on doing their agendas. Im not vouching for him, I just set him as an example on how cheaters going down in a campaign.

If you find a case like that, the best step you can take is to immediately report the account to the bounty manager, so that the account can be quickly handled and blacklisted from all of its campaigns before they get the reward. Take care, guys!!

You are very brave enough to recognize your identity, although this identity will make many people hate. But at least you are real. This may be an unsolvable problem. Some people propose to apply KYC. This idea is stupid. It is obviously stupid to know why the development team should spend money to promote it. KYC.

Yes me too i experience that in some bounty he use my name and my bitcointalk acct and use different eth address then i report him just always check the spread sheet

Sorry to say but there's no perfect person on earth. What I mean about this statement? We must not forget that don't trust anyone else except yourself in trading, doing bounties, and investment. How? We must be resourceful and do more careful research about what we think good ICO or bounties. Always check your registration numbers and wallets just to be secure.

I believing the introduction of KYC into bounty campaign will help to reduce the level of cheating.Hood managers are also doing their best to reduce this by putting up a verification system.

I have been a victim of this particular scam on several occasions as well, one thing about it is that they steal your work as well in the case of bounties and sometimes this leads to even you failing because you are marked for double submissions. It is quite frustrating.

Unfortunately there are a lot of a-holes in the crypto world! Many of them probably could not create their own account which pushes them to cheat their way in by using other's. I had this experience not so long ago. Fortunately I was able to check the spreadsheet out and reported these people to the manager. We need to do our own monitoring if we don't want to be victimized. Else, we'll be like puppets for these evil souls!

As a rule, if you see this, then you need to inform the manager so that he takes action on this issue, otherwise it is unlikely to be able to deal with it so far!

It has happened a lot in the past, many lazy scammers have devised this way to cheat on other people's work. And I think the campaign manager has found a solution to stop it. That is using proof authentication on bitcointalk

Are you sure that KYC is more good for bounty campaign? I don't think so. KYC will expose the privacy of every bounty participant to an unknown environment. Now, so many scam bounties, KYC is hard to guarantee security. Once used by criminals, this loss will be huge.
Better practice is that the bounty manager is more responsible.

What you are telling is correct if the campaign manager is reputed , then i think he is doing this kyc and proof of authentication now as they dont want this bot to create scam. If any campaign manager is not doing then he is not reputed and he is not worry about his reputation as campaign manager.

People are able to cheat only if campaign manager is not reputed if not their is no chance of cheating in reputed campaign manager services.

This incident have happened to me times without number in some bounties I have participated in and whenever I see such I report immediately to the Bounty/Campaign Manager in charge. In some cases I have seen them being rewarded also. But I think some Bounty Managers with Legendary/Hero Bitcointalk account have been able to curb that by asking for all bounty Participants to submit proof of authentication and I think KYC in most Bounty have also help out too.

I have also experienced having my BCT Id being used by other members to join bounty and airdrop campaigns. It's disappointing how other will just use your account without permission. I think other people just wants to have things the easy way. If they use your account, especially high ranking ones, they will be allowed to join bounties and at the same time receive higher stakes with your account. It is a good thing that some campaign requires you authentication post to verify your account.

Good thing that ive found your post, honestly, ive been a victim of this one, when i check a new bounty project, i just see that somebody is using my btt account and social media channels, they were the first who sign up my details, its very frustrating that some people like to cheat people in order to earn easy money from the work of other people.

The main reason is that bounty and airdrop required no money it just effort and you are only paid for your effort so they concentrate majorly on those that give them money.

I hope that ALL bounties and airdrop will require proof of autentification here on forum so multiaccounts and people that uses other accounts are out. I always receive email that I joined airdrops with other credential because some multiaccount uses my email for that.. I try to block him but there's no way unfortunately.

I think it doesn't really needed a bot, anyone has simply put their ETH address and impersonate someone. Been a victim myself and quickly call the attention of the bounty manager, however, and his very quick to removed that impersonator. However, I had a bad experienced from one manager who doesn't care, been telling him for weeks but still my he didn't do anything that's why I left that campaign.

It's simply. Bounty Managers or his/her assistant can just check for multiply entries and even you can search the spreadsheet and immediately call their attention.

I see lot of moron truly in bounty using other people profile to get reward and I even have one that copy every thing the the real person did to the level of medium campaign that only require clap and follow so I see them as a loser because I have them and take do expose them in any bounty I participated in but allow them to do all till last day and expose them if admin didn't get them to show them that the time used to copied others work can simply be used to do their own and get rewarded for it but copy others work will only give them nothing at last but they fail to learn .

I have also found using my Eth address in some bounties that I didn't participate. Making my account vulnerable on being red trust for the thing I didn't do. Bounty campaigns should really require a proof of authentication to prevent multiple accounts and fakes. I wish also that bots should be eliminated in this forum since it would hurt the reputation of the forum. Well, can't blame cheaters on what they're doing since life is hard.

For KYC I think it is tok risky for bounty, but If the reward is worth it, I think it is just okay, but for social.media campaign, the rewards usually are too small

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Your post about cheating in bounty or airdrops is helpful to all the members here in this forum.Eye opener for us to be aware of what's going on in bounty and airdrops campaigns.Flooding of testimonies of the members with regards to this issue.Through it we learn to them how to be prepared when this things happen to us.
To those who cheats and planning to do it.remember this Your hidden sin is an open scandal in heaven. .

This has happened many times. You never know who your social account will be used. If you were a bounty hunter. Submit to the form and check carefully whether anyone has used your data. If yes, please submit a complaint to the bounty manager. The misappropriation of information is very immoral. Everyone can report fraud in time.

Yes, unfortunately, many cheaters in my bounty campaigns using my bitcointalk or telegram user name. I'm reporting my status to the bounty manager when I'm in a situation like this. And i think definitly the bounty managers should control this cheatings. The  except for some managers, unfortunately many managers do not pay much attention to this situation.

As long as spreadsheet are displayed openly, cheaters will always gather information about hunters from it and utilize the info for cheating mostly in Airdrop campaign so as to gain enough tken for large profit.

It is impossible to exclude the possibility of joint work of managers with scammers. Such schemes are often rotated by prior agreement.

At the moment, I think the most reliable way to deal with this problem is the introduction of KYC and monitoring the reward table manually.

I've seen it a few times to the other bounty campaign and i do notice that they used a lot of addresses and put other known profiles, even with the DTs name are in the list. That's why i rather like the idea of proof of authentication for anyone who wants to join in an airdrop or bounties. Though KYC may not be suitable if there were underage who doesn't have any government or valid ID yet who happened to join in a bounty/airdrop.

I never understood what you guys are doing with your "bounty" "airdrop" Why on earth are you cheating or even participating in a campaign that will either not pay, never listed, scam project or who know what.
You're just participating to promote a scam. In real life, you could have troubles with justice.

The right solution is to report it to the bounty manager, in order to immediately cheat the bounty hunter list, then don't forget to give negative credence to the user so that he can't follow the bounty on another day

I've seen a lot of cheaters in bounty campaigns and some of them really can get away with it. The good thing about KYC and Proof of Authentication post implementing in some bounties because cheaters are now getting caught. And it's the best way to flushed out the scammers in all bounty programs.

I have lived these problems more and more. Open-public spreadsheets causes these problems. I think All Bountys or Airdrops should hide the eth-address btc link or anything. After filled form, bounty should give a number and this number should written on form. This is solution.

And if the spreadsheets are not displayed openly then you won't find out that someone else is using ur id in the same bounty campaign and then you won't even report it and its a fair chance that he ends up with the rewards of your work.

I really hate someone who do that, they only use our ID and use their address, if we not really care about project that we join, our work can be claimed by someone else, or maybe in bad case both account can get disqualified by bounty manager.

That's the truth, there was a time I found out that 3 different users had copied my bounty submission using my Bitcointalk Username, my blog site and only changed my wallet to theirs. It is very bad, I wish there is solution to such practices.

If it just eth or btc address, it's okay to be displayed to the public. The important thing is to hide link for our work and link to the social media participant, so that no one knows what he has done, and only the bounty manager is fully aware of it. This will effectively to reduce copy-paste cheater.

Even if its an open spreadsheet, it's impossible for us to check all the campaign spreadsheet every day, and sometimes we need the spreadsheet to open to check the data, maybe staking or proof of authentication will do a better job to stop the identity theft, and it's not only the manager job to stop this action, as the users we need to create way, so we can eliminate the cheater and not putting too much burden on the manager

yes right, I really agree with this post. lots of fraudsters who use this method. they use someone else's identity and replace their own ERC address.
they cheat without thinking of others.
it is very complicated to be able to get a solution from this kind of case, because it is very difficult to trace which real identity and false identity because the fraudsters do that all with very neatly.

The scams in bounty and airdrop happen a lot, and you need to be careful to avoid falling into their trap. But usually only 2-step security with all accounts is that you can fight off hackers easily. Currently, two-step authentication is most useful.

Yes it is true, I myself experienced the same thing as the author said, there are a lot of scams that duplicate my account and change my MEW address with their address, this is an act of cowardice who is lazy to work in a bounty. If there is such a fraud, we may immediately report to the Bounty manager so that fraudsters are scribbled from the spreadsheet list.

Cheating in bounty campaigns are most commonly spread in this community. It is unavoidable, that's why bounty managers should act and do their job to distinguish those culprit. Bounty managers should detect those cheaters and implement actions to discipline them.

I am very much aware of that, this is the reason I stopped participating on bounty campaign that does not have a proof of participation because if bounty hunters do not have these option cheaters will just steal his work I just hope all bounty hunters will soon implement this option

Bounty impersonators are now common in spreadsheets. I don't know why someone would want to reap another person labour. It is left to the bounty manager to make sure they check all entries carefully for duplication of profiles.

I'm have that same issue with my other bounties too. So I advice that after registration, always check the spreadsheets just to be sure your registration went through. There you'll see if there are duplication of entry. Once you see someone using your profile , notify the BM and ban those posers. I'm so sick and tired of these scammers!

It's unbearable that people cheat on bounties since they want more for themselves so they are doing it. The proof of authentication is a way to lessen cheaters on bounties. With this bounty managers could easily distinguish those who are legit from those fakes one.

Yes somehow correct, I just noticed that maybe there is some inside job that is happening there? I am not sure, whether managers just put their own bots to have an allocation of the bounty to decrease the amount to be given to real bounty hunters.

the same experience, usually I only joined in bounty signatures and social media to fill my free time, then when I saw the social media spreadsheet, my name was listed there with the other wallet address, this made me angry because I only did the task and got nothing, I don't know why that happened, since then every time I joined the bounty I continued to monitor spreadsheets and immediately sent a message to the bounty manager if something went wrong with my stake, for all of you who do a bounty, be careful with Cheating in Bounties

Indeed, i hate those kind of guys, we already work hard for the bounty and they just took the advantage of our work without doing any effort.
Usually i reported those cheater to the bounty manager.

I also noticed this some times. My data such as twitter, bitcointalk profile, etc. have been used by someone for registrations in airdrop&bounty.
Unfortunately we can't protect ourselves 100% from these actions because everyone can see our public profiles, copy&paste.  But i think that cheaters are lazy, they don't browse twitter or facebook in order to get data, they simply browse bounty threads on this forum and take from there, this is an infinity sourse of info in complete.  So it could be a good solution  if bounty managers would reject such things such as autentification proof and bounty reports on this forum. It would be better to do it privately, via email for instance, or via a form on a project's site. Also spreadsheets with results should not be posted here, it must be private too.
In this way we can close the sourse of info for cheaters, in certain measure. In the same time the forum will become much more clean  without these reports and proofs.

Cheating in bounties and Airdrops is not a good thing but most people in this forum do engage in such acts. these days most bounty managers require users to make an authentication post before you can participate in their bounties and I believe this is a good way to curb the rate of cheaters that participate in bounties and airdrops.

Right now, if you would like to take a look at the bounty spreadsheet there are many users that are doing these. But thanks to the verification when you try to register and make proof of authentication in the btt forum, you can seriously avoid and detect scammers that are using this.

most of bounties now are using account verifications, ex. email, BtcTalk account code, kyc etc. If you have found that your identity has been compromised, report it to the admins, No system is perfect, so be vigilant and be aware of scams.

Here lies the importance of KYC. Although many have complained about this will be abused but thus KYC could be one way of avoiding fraud in the bounty. cheating in the bounty or airdrop is unavoidable at the moment and is also supposed to have manager bounty attitude and wisely addressing this.

solution to avoid bounty fraud by applying KYC to bounty participants, although many do not agree with this there are other solutions such as making or posting with proof of authentication.
and most importantly the bounty manager must be more careful and filter out the participants who are real and who are fake.

a lot of those cheat are also in this forum. i've caught some of them but they are using the newbie account although its for sure they do have a high rank account.

if you keep joining facebook and twitter account to join bounty campaigns some cheat will join on bounty portals and sign you up there. you do al lthe work and they get the tokens. yes it should be checked by the campaign manager.

Yes, scamming the boy is a new business model for organized crime. The can get 100’s of thousand of dollars from the project by making 1000’s of accounts!! This is why we should support KYC!! Only way to stop the scammers from stealing everything!!

I have tried to use my email address to register my Yahoo account for my bounty activities, but I am prompted that my registered email address is full, I am surprised! Some people are using my information!
For most bounty participants, you may experience similar experiences, and in most cases, even if you report to the bounty manager, some bounty managers will do nothing, which is too bad.
So I think it is necessary to post a proof of identity link in the bounty thread. In addition, the most important thing is that those bounty managers should be more responsible.

now many people cheat in this way, and maybe this is the reason why there are those who are required to verify bounty or to claim tokens.

Yes I met something like that too, when i join into a signature campaign. After a few weeks i realized that there are new account listed bellow that using the same account as mine but with different wallet. After that I sent a PM to the bounty manager and report about that bounty cheater.
Thankfully the bounty manager is fast response and reject those cheater.

I totally agree with you!! The accounts that are whining about KYC are probably one of the many accounts that are being used by bounty "spam farms". KYC is the only way to protect from scammers!!! Now people are google translating articles into many languages and posting under hundreds of accounts. Some bounty manager are too lazy to research carefully and just let the cheaters win. It is very likely that it ISNT many people doing this, but one or a few organized groups that are trying to steal tens of thousands of dollars from bounty campainges

Cheating is not really a good move for anyone. So do not cheat because if you cheat you will not be succeed because you will not get learn the good ways on how to reach your goal in this business. Try to make on your own ways on how to be wiser and not to make people hurt. There are some people who used to cheat other people but in the end they will not be succeed.

I have seen this as well. Several tactics that these bounty scammers use:
1. They will mirror/copy your name/bounty details with a different eth address in the bounty. Objective is either you get disqualified in the bounty OR the admin might send them your bounty to the 2nd account in the list therefore, you lose your bounty.
2. Creating multiple accounts in the bounty. This we all know.

Check the bounty list always and inform the bounty admin when you see this.

Scammer/ cheater always become part of this on line world, we can't stop them. They already prepare for the worst and work with very careful, something we don't have ( mostly ). Report them not helping but at lest can give us space. I only suggest we all to protect our data/ asset with the best we can do. Never share IP/ device with others and always check link before decides to click.

i think there is a way to eliminate the multiple accounts that are scattered in one campaign. People nowadays are just lazy, stealing someone's identity to gain the reward..

You need to be vigilant always before applying in a Campaigns check the spreadsheet first so that you will know if someone using your Btt username,if you see scammers using your username or any social media profile links report to the manager directly so that they will make a action and ban those scammers because Bounty Manager's are aware about cheaters in the Campaigns,and we cannot stop scammers stealing our identity to apply in a Campaign that is lazy persons habit they are happy if someone suffer of what there doing.

But now many bounty manager that requires submit POA and also submit the google form. And there is also hide the spreadsheet. It is actually also good for protecting the privacy of the participants but the bad side is we can't monitor the results of what we do. That really confused me.

The only way to avoid this are tracing them and ban the account if they have here in BTT or Making a ban list of Ethereum who do cheat in bounties. Making a new rules in bounties can help too. This is why other Airdrop and Bounty are now asking for KYC and I'm against on it that's why we need a rules to avoid those spammers.

This is the danger of having open or public spreadsheets from different bounties and airdrops. It becomes easier for scammers to cheat the system. It happened to me many times during my active airdrop days. It is really a pain if you even have to prove your identity to get airdrop or bounty tokens since someone also used your info.

This is also a problem for all of us, because now we have no way to give these fraudsters any punishment, this is the status quo of the cryptocurrency market!

What are u even talking about?! KYC is not on an open spreadsheet?! If there is no open bounty sheet, then how can people know the stakes are accurate?! You sound like one of the troll scammers with such statements

Not a good way to control scammers, because they have control of many accounts and WORKERS to manage them accounts. Scamming bounty is a new industry!! They can authenticate different accounts behind a VPN...

What the heck are you even talking about? I am only talking about the danger of having everyone seeing the spreadsheet since scammers can also see other people's information and you talking about KYC? Even saying I am a Troll? Scammer?

Indeed, now many people cheat on the bounty. Many use someone else's account. It's actually very troubling, because the owner of a personal account certainly does not know anything when other people use the account. A good solution for bounty is to use proof of authentication. to avoid using someone else's account.

There are many scammers like them here in bitcointalk but how to find out if you were being used or your account were used in bounty hunting and among other things like using their own ERC wallet instead of your own? That's ridiculous. I have not check yet any of my campaign and other bounties thread if they used mine but I will check it from now on.

The solution here is very much simple. Every cheater has their own specific way to be traced. Whether it is by a transaction, same wallet upon registration, time stamp of registration. Also, the forum has been strict regarding this matter. Most of the moderators are checking campaigns once in a while to check for potential account farmers and cheaters lurking.

That is quite painful, the way they do to get some money through a bad way. I think that not forgive able. They wish to get something by making someone else working for them.

I also experienced this in following the bounty campaign, they took my e-mail and my Bitcointalk profile, while at ERC20 address, they have it, this is very detrimental, I think the manager will lose trust in me, or I will be considered spam. But I have reported it to the bounty manager that I followed.

Yes, I went into one bounty and there in the spreadsheets I found my accounts that were used by someone else. The bounty manager can delete me for multi accounts since there will be a match and the current eth address will be different. And to combat this, we created proof of authentication in the airdrops. But here on the forum for such a ban for one week and that is why it became a lot of bots there in airdrop. If there are 100 thousand participants in the airdrop, then there are more than half of the bots spammers.

Though I haven't catch anyone impersonating me on any bounty or airdrop spreadsheet but maybe there are some. I have seen people complaining about impostors on bounty group but I think there are two ways by which this ugly trend can be corrected, firstly proof of authentication on bounty thread and secondly Kyc, though Kyc doesn't go down well with majority of bounty hunters so proof of authentication is the best to nip the ugly trend in the bud

yeah, I agree that over 90% airdrop is cheating, bullshit, meaningless. Now I don't participate any more

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It is a big problem nowadays, people are using multi accounts to earn more from one bounty programme and I think it is unfair to the other participants. There should be a KYC for every bounty, so every hunter will get what he deserves.

I think this is the reason why more and more projects require hunters to conduct KYC, and now these fraudsters are also trying to fake information to pass KYC.

i saw it also in most of telegram campaigns, too many clones using or stealing other forums names, twitter and fb profiles. i think bounty managers will do more reviews on spreadsheets.

If cheating with KYC then we can hardly find out, because KYC is a factor that helps us distinguish between fraudulent ICO and real ICO, but there are many other factors that help us. See what ICO is a scam ICO

I think  that is one of the reasons why some managers and bounties are starting to be strict by doing a lot of actions to verify bounty hunters' identity before receiving bounties. That is why the forum also started a new system to avoid people from creating a lot of accounts for bounties.

In my perspectice if there is a cheating attempt just make a report to bounty manager. Ask him to check the spreadsheet and ban that person from the campaign. We need to check our BCT on spreadsheet to avoid cheater. Or maybe kyc is also good option for this case.

I think this problem is very easy to solve. As long as the bounty manager catches the post with the wallet address request in the user profile, it can be eliminated

All bounty form should have proof of participation or authentication to avoid cheaters to steal our works, I also become a victim, so lucky I reported it early, but how about those did not noticed that their work is being stolen by these cheaters, so only join bounties that have authentication.

There were dozen times the scammer used my btt profile to register his eth address, mostly on telegram and twitter campaign. That's why posting a proof of authentication rule for bounty hunter is important to prevent the scammer to use your btt profile to get the stakes. To help reduce the cheaters is to report them to the bounty manager by providing the proof, don't be silent.

Well, i met some same cases like you before, my name and profile link appeared in many bounty and airdrop sheets but i never join them. I messaged the manager requiring they delete my name, some deleted but some didn't.  That's only for what i found, i believe that my name appeared in many other sheets because there are thousands of campaigns in this forum, and i can't check all of them. So, i think to stop this problem, bounty and airdrop managers must require "Proof of authentication" post.

in my opinion it is the job of the manager's bounty to fix the final spreadsheet so that those who have cheated using someone else's profile can be found, and one way by reporting work on the thread can block cheating on airdrop/bounty

I had seen that kind of bounty manager, he diligently filtering those scammers. He put the scammer in the same place and then mark them accordingly.
I really thankful to that kind of bounty manager.

Yes that's the job of bounty manager but I have seen a lot of bounty manager didn't updates their spreadsheet and after the campaign just giving stakes all the participants without reviewing. Nowadays some of manager became a lazy, that's why a lot of  cheater have been successful by cheating. If you see that there is a cheater, don't hesitate to report it.

Some bounties sometimes do not display the address of the blog / website of the participants in their spreadsheets, I think it is very effective to reduce the cheaters to abuse your blog address and profile. Cheaters become one of the serious problems in the bounty, because bounty managers will take a long time in assessing and distributing tokens, the point is we must be active in participating in a bounty, when we find cheaters misusing our work immediately report to the bounty manager.

Well, it's very useful to look up the spreadsheets sometimes. At least in those bounty programs which you are taking part in. It will help you to prevent some stressful arguing with bounty managers and will save your money. And what about those cheating morons? Well, I bet there is a dedicated circle of hell for them where they are trying to convince the worst bounty managers (from adjacent circle :) ) to change some spreadsheet info.

It has always seemed to me that a two-step authentication would be quite beneficial for the ecosystem, but as you can see, the people in the cryptos are not the most interested in regulations, unfortunately that's why we are being victims of so many scams, sooner or later we will have to decide between privacy and security.

I have also been a victim of this once.  It is a big shame really, the length some people go to to rob other people of the chance to earn some crypto.  Unfortunately, where or when there is free money, people loose their moral compass and want a get rich quick way.   Many bounty/airdrop projects are wise with their checks Now by asking folks to put their ether address or coin address in their bct profile etc.   Just one of the things you can do to avoid being a victim.  

cheating in the bounty is possible almost every time. especially the most can be felt is on the part of social media. many new bitcointalk accounts in the registration of that and even many of the names that are almost the same. the obvious course is owned by one person only. not to mention the signature on which there are several wallets related intercompany account. of course, this is also a great and real fraud that exists in the forum.

I think now everything is much better than before, many admins began to strengthen the protection. I think you just have to follow the process carefully, as I do. Now, no one can be relied on except for yourself, and suddenly if you notice this, then you need to contact the admin and provide evidence.

I think now everything is much better than before, many admins began to strengthen the protection. I think you just have to follow the process carefully, as I do. Now, no one can be relied on except for yourself, and suddenly if you notice this, then you need to contact the admin and provide evidence.

You're right,. Many bounty hunters are afraid and worried about this thing because sometimes the cheater uses their account an data to get rewards in the same projects. However, if you find so, please report soon to the Bounty Manager and they will be removed from the lists. I think it is difficult to stop the cheaters or scammers because they are unpredictable. However, I'm sure that the BM will have special treatment to make it true as the KYC process.

I have no solution to this problem, but I always report it to the bounty manager to delete them, only this way I can do it

I don't think it's as easy as you think, bounty hunters already know the gap when they will join a bounty campaign with their many alt accounts, making a wallet like MEW is very easy, you can make hundreds and even thousands of MEW wallets. Besides that bounty campaign will not have much time to look for any cheating participant, only will expel some participants who have been proven to cheat without doing a lot of investigation.

Good thing you do, but it somehow some campaign managers never listen or even watch our post regarding these one due to the nature of our work and have no time to read back in previous days event. They might not read our reports regarding double entries made by some individuals and it is sad they received rewards in the end.

Such a market has been reported very early, but I want to remind you that if you want to be a professional bounty hunter then I think this is a wrong choice, know that ICO is being greatly reduced, and these tasks may disappear in the future, you will Will lose your job. Only trading is the best way to invest.

It seems to me that participation in the bounty is still quite a complex process and a priori difficult to make money on it. I think that the scammers just found an easy way to make money and a way to deceive the creators of bounty. But I do not see anything wrong, because the main thing-not to be

Scammers are pretty lazy and they are very simple to detect. I am usually checking the spreadsheet, once in two weeks to search for someone that used my Username or my twitter account. And I am finding 1-2 people every two weeks.

A lot of people try to cheat and make good money on it. the main thing-honest participants try not to intersect with such people and just do not take them as an example as it will have a negative impact on it

Yeah now a days bounties and airdrop we have seen most of them are exiting as a scam but i am not talking all are scams there are legit bounties and airdrop running on. but to participate into these you should be very careful and good researcher.
likewise I only participate in bounty which are running by amazix community management and they only accept project which are legit l.

I think this issue will gradually be resolve as bounty managers are also aware that this really happening. I know most of them have already encountered a complaint from their bounty hunters where the social media acct of the latter is being used by a scammer. I'd like the idea of having this proof of authentication before joining or registering with the campaign so as to avoid such case like this.

it depends on the bounty manager if he/she want to prevent this cheating. a good bounty manager will require proof or any requirements to prove you are legit. but there are other campaigns that don't have this requirements as a result they can use your info in that campaign.

That sucks, man. I experienced that one as well when I was just happily posting away, my friend who was also a participant in the same bounty campaign I participated on, found out that some people would copy your BTCT account name and copy their ERC address. The scam here is that you post, they receive your reward. We reported it immediately.

I'm also sick of people who done that thing. They just wanted to get an easy money without doing many effort.
I've always reporting that matter to the bounty manager when ever i found that kind of scammer.

I have experienced of being cheated by some impostors, uses my social media accounts to fill some forms. This is really disgusting. Cheaters are everywhere. This must be stop and must be reported if caught. Lets just be careful of filling up those we thought an airdrop form but in the end it just a form for them to steal our informations.

Bounty hunter I think this is not a good thing, at least for now. I have found that many bounty hunters are now struggling internally, and future hunters will disappear in the future. This is a career without a future. Only trading is the best way.

This issue is the most instances to keep watch right now in the bounty campaign. But it is a bit of obvious for this move of the scammers and cheaters. But rest assured, you work will never get copied by the work of the scammers, because the bounty managers are on to that task. We just hope all the bounty hunters are solving this issue and not just ignoring it.

Not only we are being blamed for dumping coins as soon as we get our rewards but now we are also being called cheaters because of some who are so greedy. Those people are hurting the whole bounty hunting community and soon we will lose our credibility if we don't do anything about it. I wish there is a way to stop this rampant cheating in bounties before it is too late.

I think that now at this time it is not profitable to do Facebook and Twitter, because of a lot of bots, one user connects 10-15 accounts and let me not profitable to do

I understand you, I've encountered this too. Cheater is constantly using my Twitter account in airdrop and registered in the bounty. And does it always ahead of me. I have to write to the Manager to remove this cheater. In one campaign,  the cheater and me were removed from the spreadsheet, and I couldn't prove my point to the manager, because the spreadsheet had already been handed over to the team. It is necessary that in all bounty campaigns there was a proof of authentication. If the tokens are paid for the bounty in the personal account on the project website, then I definitely put 2 fa, since several times I lost tokens.