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How often are you scammed for bounty rewards? It's no surprise some devs are scamming the bounty hunters to save costs. It's always upsetting to do a good work and finally this time is wasted if the devs don't send tokens. Scam means if you don't receive tokens at all according to the initial rules when you joined.

How often were you scammed in the past considered in percent of all campaigns? How many were paid? And do you have an idea to avoid it?

I was scammed before but not with bounty and never involved with it. Few years ago most bounties are paying and now such projects are mostly crap and they have no fund for the advertising of bounty cost. All they do is promise with their tokens and if they fail to succeed, they will stop the bounty and fail to pay the stakes.

A lot of bounties today fall into scam and never give their promise and I think that we've all experience like these.  Yes,  it is really frustrating to do works and give our efforts doing task for many days and receive nothing. That is why we should take a deep research before participating bounty.

I was once scammed but only once and ever since I have learnt and become even smarter
What matters at the moment is stable market because only that can say can altcoins give good prices

Lately payment of bounty rewards takes longer than expected
Bounty managers seem to have gotten lazy and lax

Just try to put all of your effort on the good bounty remember you can try to identify which is a trusted developer and which others were not.
I can say it becomes your responsibility to join in the trusted bounty platform. that means you can try to say that as your effort to save your works.

approximately 50/50. half paid and I earned well on this but the other half unfortunately did not pay anything

Yes I was scammed once but I just rubbed it off my shoulders and moved on. See, fraud, scam and the like, are all part of this system particularly in bounties. I would assume that most of us know from the start the possibility of being scammed. Now, why do hunters keep on joining bounties despite knowing this? Simple, because we know that though there is great risk of being scammed, there is also a good chance of earning big. Now for something that we only need to invest time in, I don't think it's too bad of a deal.

About Two times. I have participated in the scam bounties and I worked for free for two times. It was so sad. But, at least it leads me to be more and more careful when going to participate in Bounty. After getting that such bad experience, finally, I got my bounty rewards and I still hold the coins. Just be more careful and smart to choose the legit bounty so that you can avoid the scams.

Never was scummed, there were situations when ICO didn`t meet with softcap and tokens automatically transform to nothing, but was never scummed

I don't know how many got scam projects. I experienced dozens of scam bounties, so I don't really remember the number. I realized I must do something to anticipate other scam bounties. Do right own research and more careful are the solution for me. In this way, finally, I can lessen the possibility to have scam bounties.   

As experience, most scanmed encounter in airdrop. So much better to participate in bounties even though some not pay but  its better than airdrop. And interms of avoiding, make a time to review on the project youve participated by checking there white paper, roadmaps, people involve if legit, review via social media and project status if its operatinf currently in the market.

There are 2-3 scam bounties, in which i took part. Others was good and paid in time.

I earned $ 20 in six months of participating in bounty campaigns. I believe that the scam projects en market just an incredibly large number

I would have to say probably 25% were scams (I NEVER RECIEVED PAYMENT THE TEAM BOUNCED NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN) THE OTHER 50% NEVER REACHED THEIR INITIAL SOFTCAP, OR THE PROJECT WAS A FAILURE! 20% I am still waiting to find out as they extended the ICO (DUE TO CURRENT MARKET SITUATIONS). And roughly 5% have actually hit an exchange.

So I would have to say the moral of the story is  stick to bou ties DO NOT INVEST! AND WHEN AND IF YOU RECIEVE YOUR STAKES SELL IMEDIATELY. AND BUY IN WHEN EVERYONE ELSE DUMPS AGAIN!

I have seen so many scammed bounties. I think we just have to keep trying our hands on new ones. We might just be lucky to break through.

I have never paid a single project, so I am very upset and depressed now. I participate over half a year

I've been scammed multiple times especially with this bear season. Aside from that there are plenty of bounty payments that I have not yet received as of this time even though the ICO sale have been finished for 5 months.

In my one year of experience in bounty program i've never tried of being not paid or reward, and i am very thankful of it and hoping that unlike of what i've read such forums about such problem of being not rewarded. On how many i already paid luckily all are being paid with a good price. How to prevent such problems? Search and study first before joining such program.

Yes, I was also cheated several times. I also hate those cheaters. Just afraid to waste too much time on projects without results. Stick to it anyway.

The bonuses campaign has made me have a large income in the past. But in the present situation, many frauds have occurred and I have few times received nothing. There are too many cheats on the market.

Nowadays, it is very much a luck to join a successful bounty campaign, almost many of the ICOS today are not even reaching their softcap and some of them is a scam too. We, bounty hunters should not be deceived by the beauty of their words but to be knowledgeable to filter out the good projects.

I have experienced scams very often, almost 70% of all the projects I have participated in have ended in scams. it is very difficult for me to predict the characteristics of a project. at this time I was following a project that had reached the softcap, to prevent scams.

I have never get paid doing any bounty before ,the ones i did in the past rob me using KYC which was never implemented at the beginning of the campaign and the news surrounding us this days about scammy bounty manager is spreading ,I hope it get fixed somehow

Until now I am still learning to be able to find out about scam projects or not, this learning has not produced results and for bounty prizes, it is still in the process of participating in the project and hoping to get prizes with the results of my own sweat with the project that I brought WPP.

It has happened with me more than one time. One time, the ICO got cancelled or postponed indefinitely after doing the bounty work for over a month. Another time, it was mismanaged and delayed by so many months that I lost track of things to do to even get my bounty. Anyway, one can only try to pick good bounties but cannot be lucky all the time.

This are still existed up to this time which my friend of mine got zero stakes and has a complete of working days up to the end of the campaign. So be careful of this famous Bounty manager "S". I don't want mentioning his or her name because i  am not the victim of this scammed. i'd my friend to address this situation.

Well I've only finished 2 bounties so far. One paid out well and the otger had an unsuccessful ICO so they scrapped the project.

Of the few projects that I have participated in, there is only one project that I have received that has not been paid yet and is already in the distribution phase, in this case of course we need patience to be able to accept the payment because of course it is through the process

I am often deceived by bounty activities. Since August, I have completed more than 11 kinds of bounty activities, but now there is no activity to reward me!

Now a lot of projects are easily canceled. Reduce and delay payments for each participant. and the worst is the projeck if it's a scam. participants will not get their payment

I have never count how many times i got scammed by the bounty campaign.
I just tried to keep on moving than keep on being hold by those scam and get me no where, I think that is just wasting for our energy.

Hmm... In the past I have worked for 4 bounty campaigns. Of this, only one campaign paid me the tokens for my work (Traxia signature bounty). Two (Token Union and Magnus Collective) turned out to be scams. And I am still waiting for tokens from the last one (Blackbox foundation). So from my experience, I would say that 25% of the campaigns actually paid.

To me, about 40% of the projects I participate in are scams in many different ways :( Some ICO projects are completely scams, others cut or eliminate the hunter's reward.) Some bounty managers Deliberately change the result by inserting their work into the campaign.

In all of the signature campaigns I joined before and until now, I never get scammed even once (believe it or not). The secret behind it is always making sure that the campaign manager don't have a negative trust, the funds have an escrow and the payment rates are not to good to be true (not too high, not too low — just the average). I also make sure that I only join in campaigns with reputable managers (e.g. yahoo62278 and Zapo).

I know that facing a scam is very hard to avoid but for sure it is not impossible to achieve as long as you are thinking twice for every actions you do :).

Be wise in managing the bounty that you follow, first examine the project then manger bounty, it's safer if the payment is already escrow, especially for signatures with a long time.

I've join signature campaign for 2 month and they not pay me anything even 1 token
No answer from team member about bounty distribution.

Getting the answers in the right percentage as you seek it will be a difficult task, except you have a core mathematician here who can spare that time. I think it is a thing of regret to do a task and not get paid for it. I have experienced that two times here. But what happened was that the developers scammed investors at the end of the ICO and ran away. This now makes me want to stay away from bounties paying in coins not trusted and listed.

I was never interested in being a bounty hunter so till now no such experienced of being scammed by the devs. People should stop bounty hunting if they get scammed like this.

Previously in accordance with bounty payments or others,it was disappointing if a project one of the teams ran away instead of carrying investor funds and the results were stuck in a scammer.The initial entry of the exchange was actually so unusual that having a hunch this is a scam project whose results are really scam sad,disappointed that scam projects should not be in this business.

Sometimes, I did not get the bounty that I spent time, effort to join. This makes me more determined to learn to gain more knowledge, experience an interesting market but have more cheating. From then on I will have a more accurate choice.

Several times i think. But that not makes me down, i used that to motivate myself to get better over the time. and because of that i could minimize on getting scammed right now :D

I scammed many times I participated on different campaign I follow the task need, but after the bounty ended, I did not receive payment for my hard work. There a lot of bounties to be join but other turn into scammed right now. I would suggest is to be careful on choosing the right one.

  yes i am, i was experienced that not in bounty campaign its lucky to can recieve token from the project you work with. Its very hard to conclude or determined the projects is scam.But infearness to the others somed platform paid their obligation and responsibility to paid their advertiser in the right way.thanks to the very kind projects

Couple of times. i havent got any payment due to pro long ICO or delay or even failed ones. the bear market is one of the factors into it

before taking part in my bounty of airdrop hunters, all the airdrop shared on the channels that I followed followed all the way to when my telegram account was full of projects and could no longer join channels or graphics, but surprisingly, from the 10 projects I followed only 10 tokens which was sent and it made me frustrated finally I tried to hunt bounty at BTT
if viewed 50% percent in airdrop and 30% in bounty

You can't avoid it, because that was it decided by dev team, they planed scam bounty reward and you can not know. Solution is move on, forget about that campaign and continue participate more bounties.

It is very difficult to get a due award in the ICO signature campaign. ICO now lasts a very long time - up to five months, or even more, but in the end we are paid tokens for several tens of dollars. This is clearly not worth the effort. I am very reducing the amount of work in cryptocurrency. Now, in most cases, ICO teams are trying to deceive us by any means, especially their KYC checks after the end of the ICO, which are sometimes impossible to perform, especially get them. Probably, while it is necessary to switch to something else, while in the ICO there are only fraudsters.

this often happens, usually they are late. Have you ever found that the bounty that you follow locks their thread and may not ask anything about the bounty, while you have not received a reward and also don't get news from the team.

Almost we have the same situation on this 3rd and 4rth quarter of this year 2018. Most bounties are wasting of time and effort around this website, but I stay because of different opportunity or I mean find a different option to earn with. Just for example, I can enter in investing and  trading since I collect a quite good amount of capitals.

This thing makes me look forward to a possible good output. More or less, we can earn with a smart moves and avoiding the same mistakes like fraud projects and etc.

Forget about every project that has tricked you is not a good solution, you will continue to be deceived by another project if you do not make an evaluation of another project. You should make a way to not be cheated and provide solutions to other people so that they are not cheated by several projects. I guess to make cryptocurrency grow and develop one of the most important factors is fraud, every new person who is new to cryptocurrency will make a firm decision to go from cryptocurrency without them returning again when they see a lot of fraud happening.

ye some campaigns that i joined they did not distribute the reward, it seems the scam ICO's these days are rising.

I often find a bounty of scam but was lucky not to get inside. Learn more in crypto and always look for information is the most decisive step in order to avoid a scam there is. Perhaps many have already several times joined in the scam and should it be used as a lesson to anticipate the next scam.

i joined a scam bounty before because of a lack of knowledge. so now if i want to join a bounty campaign i research first to have a higher chance of avoiding scam bounty. there are a lot of scam today that they look like real so researching can help.

If this is the definition of scam we are going to take then I say I got scammed many times already. As to percentage, it's more or less 50%. I have not receive any payment from the first few campaigns I joined when I was starting. I still get scammed until now but the number has been reduced significantly.

The truth is that up to 81% of ICOs are fraudulent. So the scam was unavoidable, and I was cheated a few times. ICO scams are commonplace, but bounty managers are deceptive then unacceptable.
To avoid this I often make bounty of the famous BM, depending on the pool will be divided more sure to receive the bonus.

Sure! Even if they succeed, once the token is listed on the exchange, you will only see dumping, no one buys, no one invests, project development is at a standstill, dev has no care about the market, they don’t want to care about this at all, for them as long as the token is listed on the exchange is a success.
These are the chilling ico we have seen, they will tell you that all this is caused by the bear market, but what I want to say is that, on the contrary, the bear market is caused by them.

   I don`t believe in what most of you wrote here. I received all bounty rewards until now, I never was scammed. You people
need to wait and check rules, some bounty campaigns distribute tokens after ICO ends, not when campaign end.
   For example VTOS bounty campaign finished months ago, I didn`t receive tokens from them, it will happen in late December.
I need to wait month more for that, some campaigns will give tokens next year. Read rules before you accuse anyone to be
a scammer!

Much appreciated, you need to be very cautious about the scammers. We need to research about the project and their previous projects as well this scammers have made the entire crypto market disgusting.

I've received everything I've done so far.  It's a matter of checking the integrity of the parties involved.  If you don't know anything about a certain group or project, it may be best to steer clear.  Speaking to users or sanctioning poles may be good ways to gauge the counterparty risk in question.

It's no longer a new thing as a Bounty Hunter. For I have been scammed times without number and I have also received my token from many projects too, only few have given me some dollars while others either dip due to bear market or project not working yet. I was among those that got Scam by Bitpaction exchange months ago, not to mention Ionchain and many others. Just this morning I woke up with the need to find out that Capital Research Technology have existed scam just yesterday here as all their social media channels including website have been deleted. The space is crazy and I think there's more of luck this days compare to what research can do.

This has become more and more rampant in bounty now which I think the dev are doing it deliberately and nothing more , bounty has now been taken has scam and useless thing as all project don't want to pay as promise again, which I think must work on to stop it but most of the bounty manager are not even feel concern since they get paid and left bounty hunter to their problem.

I usually sell immediately after receiving the reward, because now the tokens are discounted after a period of exchange, so I will sell them soon for better prices. That's my motto.

To be honest, I have not been fooled by any bounty, I'm looking for good bounty and join. 1 year I just joined about 3-4 bounty and it was enough for me