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I agree with you bounty hunters give lots of efforts to this project since last year but they're ignoring  :'(

It seems buddy will be the one of the projects who think scamming bounty hunters a good idea.

So far, projects follow the same path always lost trust and never got any benefit from it. I think it won't be different for buddy either. I hope they change their mind.

This kind of event isn't new to the community. I have read this kind of complain many times.

Are the administrators of the telegram group are part of the team or they are hired just to manage their telegram group?

As far as I know, they are the project team.

The date for bounty distribution still not yet determined and I just know about that's the last message that has already created by the buddy team. I guess the team was delaying it. But anant must give a clarification regarding this.

I respect a whole list of such projects. Another member of this list yesterday was a project called Asobi Coin, they also refused to pay. Yes, and a few more projects on the way. With this bezprederom can fight only one way. Prepay. In the amount of 50% of the pool. And only proven managers should work on projects.

I think they are just the employees that tasks to manage the telegram group.

It's either they are denying the thing that they know or they aren't really informed.

I understood one thing. As soon as the project starts to play such a game, it is worth forgetting about it. It is possible to post in social networks that they are frauds. This will destroy their reputation. Coins will be traded for 0 and they will leave the market.

This project is suck for me. They said in the end march for distribution but until now @anantsingh no answer this question.
I think no want to buy buddy at exchange after peoples know what team doing of bounty participant

If this project refuses to pay then I will not participate in any bounty at all....Already tired of seeing constantly deception!If there is no official response from the team within a week, I suggest you start adding the tag #BUDDY SCAM

For me, probably, the situation in the market as a whole is no longer news. A very large number of projects today behaves in this way. Therefore, I hope that people will respond and teach these guys if they refuse to pay.

There is no excuse for the behaviour of  team.. no info regarding the payment! no answer to our questions.. channel leave unmanaged for half year..  bounty management is pathetic, and this deserves to be exposed.

This management team shouldnt run any other bounty never again:

CryptoMaze official (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2036239)

If they have no intention of paying bounty hunters, then it's time anyone of the team to create a scam accusations in the scam section and post your proof there, the dev of Buddy in this forum has not login since February, so even if you give him red tag, it's still useless

CryptoMaze official also run away  :'(

Maybe it scam all bounty hunter.
Group: Wapinter is scam too, they steal token from translator and never public Spreadsheet for translation.
So no one know and cant report them.
Always delay (at least 6 weeks or more) calculate stake for any bounty program.

I hope it's not another project that scams the bounty hunter. I do not see well that the team has eliminated almost all the publications of their social networks in which we work. I said to myself ... Oh no, this does not look good and it hurt because it was my favorite project. I am a web development student and I was very interested in how I could contribute as a member of the community.

KYC
When other administrators wait to reward their bounty hunter and if there are any who have lost to meet their KYC, they give it a second chance. Pity! This did not happen in Buddy. We are only a small part of the token distribution only 4%.

Unfavorable cryptography market
There are many brave developers who are struggling with this reality whose flag is a hard job and the conviction to believe firmly in their ideas, demonstrating transparency and in the search of the so desired mass adoption.

Community
The bounty hunters can grow a community loyal to the product, in short, all these projects are created to meet the needs of a community lover of cryptography and we are also included. After this experience, How can we belong to Buddy?

These are my most sincere thoughts after the long wait.

Regards.

I think it would be very bad if they don't pay up their bounty hunter because the project might not be able to go forward, most of the people that are in the project actually came in via bounty and they would believe anything the bounty hunters said to them about the project of being a scam since they haven't received their coin yet, I think the team behind the project should look into it quickly and resolve the issue before it's being escalated.

The spreadsheet link has no stakes and token allocation, so I am assuming that it's not yet finalized.
If they don't have a final spreadsheet, the more it will be hard for them to distribute the tokens, it's the basis of distribution.

new message from telegram bounty admin:

Bounty guys, we have not forgotten you. We are reevaluating everything! Will keep you posted.

They're just stalling. This is the easiest way not to pay

Another risks when bounty campaign is managed by newbie accounts especially managed by their teams itself. Bounty hunters will be difficult to contact them if the there any situation that unwanted like this time, I see the bounty manager this campaign was not active almost 2 months or maybe he/she has left from this forum. Unless if bounty campaign is managed by someone who has reputable in this forum, I guess the situation like this is so impossible.

Who is the manager of Bounty does not matter.
The problem is that they don't want to pay the hunter.

Today I saw an important message from the project CEO in the group. They have already changed their minds about bounty hunters. Let's hope that they still pay us the tokens.

I never saw the message, but I will take your word for it, so it looks like they have changed their mind, so glad to hear that.

So I'm just curious and checked the price at coinmarketcap:

$0.000200 USD (-11.57%)

I still do hope that they will keep their words eventhough the price is going down hard in the current market conditions.

they're now saying lets wait some more time hope things turn into our side just saying!

So many complains about various projects screwing people over their rewards and they still think it is good idea to stay in such campaigns for half year. Human stupidity surprises me every day.  ::)

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I tag them but as I can see account is inactive since February and everything you can really do here is to wait. Keep me informed if they send tokens.

Can we escalate this. They're obviously scamming us

If any of the actual victims wants to open a flag, I am willing to support it.

I got scam with their team, name not listed in their spreadsheet. When i asked via PM/Telegram group they just say "please write on appeal from". I wrote it on appeal form, but no response until now. Not only that, in my opinion their project really disappointed, as you saw their token price was really really bad

I also got scammed by them, no responses, no explanation, nothing. Such a scam project by them.

Bounty hunters are being ignored.

me too, they left with our tokens and now we are alone on bounty channel. This people should be punished and catched by the police. They left with some Millions dollars and our tokens.
#buddyscam

I work hard to help promote this project only find out that this is a scam. I hope that the people behind it can sleep well at night knowing that there are some people who invested on their project. I hope that they will not receive any death threat coming from the investors they scammed.

This is a perfect example why investors stopped investing ICO projects. I believe this ICO runs in months and this means it's a long period bounty and I understand how bad the bounty hunters feels as they are helping this project to succeed but this ends up as another scam project.

This one though is listed in exchange, https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/buddy/#markets,, but with very low volume.
If they'll not answer this, this project will eventually going to die.

This was already so long ago. I made my mind that i lost time with scammy buddy).

This project looks like a big scam! they have hurt a lot of people.

This is the main management team according to their website. www.buddy.works

https://imgur.com/a/m4tCx3I

Their telegram in korean https://t.me/BuddyCoin
How bitcointalk helps solve this problem, while they are still roaming out there.

It’s sad to see that a project like this scammed everyone openly and no one is able to do anything. The state of crypto will never look bright if such projects can take money from under your nose without any remorse.

This is LinkedIn of the ceo https://pl.linkedin.com/in/szczepankowski

Buddy - Class Action Complaint

We, (Advisors, Consultants, Investors and Former Employees), are seeking to file a class action and sue for damages, unpaid fees and return of investors monies paid to Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy" and associated companies Bdy Sp. Z oo Spółka Komandytowa, Bdy Sp. Z oo etc.

We will seek to prove that Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and possibly some of the "Buddy" employees and "Buddy" and all of its associated companies Bdy Sp. Z oo Spółka Komandytowa, Bdy Sp. Z oo etc, committed fraud after a $14,000,000 initial coin offering including but not limiting to the, Buddy ICO, Buddy STO, Buddy Utility Token and Buddy Equity Token.
 
We will ask authorities to investigate Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy" employees and "Buddy" and all of its associated companies and relating to actions that defrauded advisors and investors by selling unregistered securities in the form of Buddy Tokens. While Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and the "Buddy" employees and "Buddy" and some of its associated companies was supposed to develop a platform which would be an open DevOps marketplace, "A Decentralized Development Automation Platform" Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy" and some of its associated companies never built out the system, we alleged. We will prove that Instead, Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy",  "misappropriated investor funds for personal use," which included investing in and developing commercial and residential properties.

We will look to prove that Szymon Witold Szczepankowski misappropriating at least $10,000,000 for his personal use.

We will file a complaint alleging that Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and Buddy "made at least four misrepresentations in marketing" the Buddy token, including but not limiting to, claiming that Buddy ICO had "partnered with industry leaders such as Amazon, Docker, Github, Microsoft, and Google, is a winning development automation platform that serves a rapidly growing market valued to become $345 billion by 2022"

We claim that Szymon Witold Szczepankowski operated four securities fraud schemes, including the Buddy ICO, Buddy STO, Buddy Utility Token and Buddy Equity Token.

We will report Szymon Witold Szczepankowski to the SEC for failing to register the Buddy token sale as a securities sale, and will look for a permanent injunction, disgorgement, civil penalties, to permanently bar Szymon Witold Szczepankowski from acting as an officer or director in any public company, or from participating in any future token sales and or fundraising scheme.

Furthermore we will submit a full report and history of the action of Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy" including but not limiting to: summary, history, records and statements of payment made to accounts and digital wallets of Szymon Witold Szczepankowski to the United States SEC, The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego KNF), The National Revenue Administration (NRA), Poland Ministry of Finance.

We are also forming an official press release in both English, Polish, Korean and Indian claiming that "Buddy ICO" was in fact an ICO Scam.

Join the Buddy Class Action Group for more details.

https://t.me/joinchat/GW8OoRYsPbtf1Iobfd-Xog

Those are some huge charges and statements.

Szymon Witold Szczepankowski and "Buddy",  "misappropriated investor funds for personal use," which included investing in and developing commercial and residential properties.
Szymon Witold Szczepankowski misappropriating at least $10,000,000 for his personal use.

Shocking! This is open theft from bounty hunters & Investors.