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More and more Project are not paying Us bounty hunters for are work example of that 👉 ATHERO this project fooled us keep saying dates of distribution, is their any way to get even with this Scammers or is their any way to get them reported so that people will see what they really are?

It is sad that people who spread the words of ICOs are not getting paid, i also has the similar experience over bountyportal.io. Well what you can do is , go straight to Scam Accusation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) and file a thread against the project with full details and if the member who was the manager is also involved in this type of more shady activities then he will surely get a negative rating from DT members.

Thanks for showing the right way, I hope someday their will be added security for hunters in bounties to assure that they will get paid for their work

Go to scam accusations section here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 and make a thread about the scam and tell the details. I hope the project owner will come to the thread and explain what the problem, good luck mate. Sadly there are so many project and ICOs scam out there, bounty hunters need to selective to choose a bounty.

well you can't expect scammers to ONLY scam those who invest in them and not scam others like those who "work" for them! when you decided to advertise a scam project for a scammer running an ICO scam, you should have expected to get scammed like this. that is how these people work.
the only way to fighting back is to stop being desperate for the tiny amount of payment and never participate in advertisement of any ICO.

I participated in bounty campaigns that turned out to be scam. A thorough analysis of the project is the only method of protection known to me.

Before exposing their scammy works,you should gather more proofs of information about the said case because if you don’t have then for sure the stone will be thrown back to you as these scammers are great in their own bad ways so beware.

But if you have already proofs then follow what @steveabrahams says here

Its not the first time that had happen, there are more since 2018, they were not paying they just postponed their ICO but of course that is just an excuse. They may not ever come back which is really one of the reason why a lot more followed because they got away with it. Who knows those team are already creating another project and id an ICO again and then left again. So they fuck bounty hunters over and over. Is time we bounty hunters also check the details of the team, ask video interview from them before promoting.

Its a sad situation, even me im also participated that campaign we are the same victim here, But we must go and move on. But if you want to make a scam accusation im sure many will support you including me, if you want you can shame those people by sharing their true profile picture and share it in social media.

It's sad to say that a lot of bounty hunters are experiencing it until now. Even investors are having this kind of struggle which is unacceptable. That's the reason why we have to check a project well before joining. There are times where we can't do anything but just to accept the fact that we're being scammed. It's better to get rid of fake bounties.

In the first place they don't even showcase their team members, they just create a project and in that part you should be able to determine that it will not going to get good in the market. I think you should need consider first your decisions as a preventive measure to avoid these scam projects in the market, or else, suffer the consequence.

Is hard to stop this, but i think this can stop only if people not join this bounties, i also joined a bounties and work over 3 months and still not get tokens, they say will start public sale on June this year, i will wait to see if they will pay.

You can't do anything when a project is not paying or extending the campaigns again and again,sometimes bounty managers will get blamed for this but project team will get bad reputation if you can provide enough evidence that they are scammers.

You should know that there are now many cases with ICO fraud everywhere so there is nothing you can do with as much as you can, now you can only let everything happen without having to ask everyone for advice here, maybe you just get losses in time and mind and outside there are more severe than that by losing a lot of money because they have been invested, have not found a solution to reply because they are fake by utilizing anonymity.

Sad truth is we can't do nothing against them, the proper sections has been mentioned and I see that OP already recognized it, but with his sentiments, there's nothing we can do regarding to this scammers, what more for those investors who invest their money and nothing to received from the team, the only thing you can do now, is to move forward and try to find other projects.

Get some proofs and then put it into scam accusations.
That way they will be marked with red and cannot do it again in this forum.
But I doubt they will pay you for doing that.

All you can do is to stop them from making the same scam.
Also talk to your manager about it. If there is no escrow then just say goodbye to and move on.

Enough is enough. Scammers are openly fleecing traders and bounty hunters. But no authorities are bothered so far. Scammers are affecting the whole crypto market. As a result of this, many people are still afraid of involving and investing in it. If people lose their faith in it, there will be nothing left of it. So it is high time authorities should act to control and book scammers.

That truly is the only way.  Not that I follow the ico space much, but I do see enough scam accusation threads to know to keep my distance from any of them.  Can anyone point me to an ico that has improved a business sector or done anything important?  Probably not, because the entire space is overflowing with legions of scammers starting up one ico after another. 

The only ones profiting from this are the scammers themselves.  The investors and the credulous and desperate bounty hunters are left with less than dust.  It is sad that they prey upon the desperation of bounty hunters, but until those hunters stop falling for the same old tricks nothing will change.  They can start up all the new scam accusation threads in the world and it will do absolutely no good.

i imagine why some iCO like that would just non apologetically waste people's precious time and wouldn't even look back. especially in moment like this when the work is not really with an encouraging result in the market. its certainly unfair.of course we know there are some ico that may not be able to reach their hard cap but, its simply nothing but a scam running away silently with people's reward. 

I definitely agree! I think most of this perpetrators are the same group of people doing the same things all over again - creating scam projects for their own benefit and rip off investors and bounty hunters alike. I also think that bounty managers would also do the necessary research first in the team members before accepting to do a job for a particular project so that we may avoid future issues that may arise after the bounty campaign.

What exactly is your issue with Athero?

They are delaying bounty payments?
They declined to pay bounty hunters?

Hackers are rampant in Bounty's projects and are very detrimental to hunters because hunters who work support their products. Everyone must hate hackers and want to delete them, we must be compact to create a community or group in a telegram or another way is to have institutions that specifically punish hackers.

This is a very bad situation. I waited weeks in the Vertex signature and sent 1 of 10 of the prize and wanted a lot of extra stuff in it. Platform registration, KYC, Verification transaction ...

Unfortunately, we don't have anything to do with the reverse hype. Nevertheless, no project has been successful so far that has caused problems with bounty payments. So I don't know if luck is a coincidence. But how can you trust someone who didn't keep his promise?

You are absolutely right and what i recall is that Athero ran a comprehensive and extended campaign lasting for over 4 months and thousands of bounty hunters were promoting it due to the promise of nice bounty reward but in the end they kept making false promises and paid nothing i think the culprits should be identified somehow and their should be proper criminal proceedings against them and if they are still unable to honor their claim then they should be jailed.

There are enough topics on the forum where scam projects are published, you can try to post information about this project there.
However, if they have already ended ICO, then they will most likely not care about that.

I think that the founders of this project are gone and the project is already dead. there are no trading volumes on the exchanges and nothing is heard from investors

Most projects are dying off and investors are also running away due to the recent or current state of the crypto market. Aside that, there are many scammers in the industry that is ruining the business. We need to be careful and hold onto the genuine projects we investing in.

I hope Bounty Manager are more protective to their hunters and at least make a good deal that their is assurance that the hunters will get paid so that this incident will not be repeated

1st They delay the payment
2nd They are not answering to the message of their community manager and Bounty Manager
3rd They don't have updates on the community
4th They didn't pay us on the day that they said AGAIN "April 20" (they promised!!)(and were fools to believe it)

There's not much we can do, now there are many fraudulent projects and many bounty hunters don't receive rewards, unstable cryptocurrency situations have an impact on all, projects fail, lack of investors makes us have to be more careful in choosing a project, we have to be more observant in learning a project

It's quite unfortunate to hear news on scam ICO's walking away with bounty rewards. It pains me that there's little that can be done to recover the payment from the team. I have a dream that a time would come when only legit projects would be able to organise bounties in this forum and every reward which is earned  would be paid to the participants. I know this may seem difficult to accomplish, but I know, we would get there.

No longer an easy task finding good projects that will pay for their participants, like what you have said, there's no way for dragging them after they did not pay the rewards that supposedly allocated for the hunters, the scammers are free to go away with the money and enjoy all those money that most of the bounty hunters are waiting, payments that they've deserve since they've done doing such task.

some managers request payment using escrow and that one form of bounty hunter guarantee will still be paid. but unfortunately, not all managers do that, and not all projects with escrow are good.

I'm glad I never joined athero project bounty in the past because I was busy participating in other project, I don't like the project so I ignore after the present bounty I was promoting came to an end, there is nothing to do to this scammers anyway, you should be more careful next time, Desico did the same to bounty hunters

Lots of projects don't pay bounties, just like lots of projects don't deliver what they promised on their ICO. Pick you bounty campaign carefully. If you are unable to do so, just give up, because working for free is really bad for your soul. And pockets.

first choosing a campaign is very easy, even definitely getting paid, but now choosing a campaign must have special expertise where the ICO market is very bad, and not many successful bounties.

I encountered this also and we the bounty hunters waited for at least 5 months before we receive our stakes. At first all the bounty hunters should secure the bounty pool for them not to be fooled by fake projects the solution for that is to use an escrow to make sure that the project is legitimate and you will receive your stake. In case of that, you can create an open accusation in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 and give all the details in this case the project will be aware that their project has a stain of scam and will be alerted and in result they might give you the rewards at no time.

I didn't say that this is the solution but to make them alert and take it seriously.

The way you promote their project, do the opposite but with the same medium. Make your signature a way to put up the project's name in a horrible space. In that case, they could realize that they should pay bounty hunters because of their power to advertise and make a market profitable.

Then don't patronise them, simply as that. It is 2019 already, almost all of the projects are really scammy to begin with that's why it's no longer profitable to join bounties now. And now the IEO or STO is creeping into the system, it's possible that ICO will die soon. So if I'm in your shoes, just stay away and don't join bounties anymore.

Bounty hunters not getting paid for they hard job have become a very serious challenge in the bounty world, many ICO team's will have bounty hunter working for them for as long as two to three months and at the end never distributes they country to them. The only way to get even with them is to open a scam accusations against them with authentic proofs to back your claims up.

This is a very disheartening thing, we spend months working seriously to promote a project and they just decide to deprive us of what is our entitlement. Something needs to be done about this unjust act and I think opening a scam accusation thread is the best thing for now.

Making a thread reporting at Scam Accusations is the best thing so you will get points from all hunter bounties, if the owner's reality arrives and provides information it can be ascertained that the project will run as it should and if its not visible then don't expect more. There is a lot of garbage in their ETH shitcoin deadcoin tokens like a dirt cryptocurrencies.

Many of us bounty hunters still hoping to ban scam projects and scam ico's. I think there should be moderators here that are assign to get rid of those scamming team. There would be many ongoing scam projects if these scammers continue to pursue their project.

Bounty hunters are not to go to waste. They are there to help and promote a project and in return they get some rewards. But some projects are like they treat bounty hunters as nothing and hesitate to pay for their work. They go to the extent that their sales has taken place not because of bounty hunters, but because of their own efforts. So please treat bounty hunters as promoter and supporter.

its not only athero there are so many projects promise their hunters to pay their reward but they are paying.. just spread that their team is scammers.. next time try to choose the reliable bounty manager

The manager is also not a good choice, some projects held by big managers have also been scammed, and we cannot blame the manager, where they are only paid to manage the bounty, and rewards are not guaranteed to be distributed and have a price.

We need to be more careful, share the information, maybe together we can quickly understand that the project is scam. We need to tell people our point of view so that they can draw conclusions.

It is really disappointing to put our efforts, advertising their project and in the end we've got nothing. I've been in bounty before and I've experience a lot from scam projects, its a lesson and learn which we must have to look first their team, the entire project before participating with them.

Maybe we are all aware for their strategies and to put an end for their bad intentions. 

Even if you report them, the deed has been done and it will be like medicine after death, the money has already been transferred to them and no amount of name damage will affect them, they will only change the name, come up with another project, do the same thing and run.

I keep advising people to only participate in any bounty campaign by first looking at the history of the campaign manager, you check the series of projects he has carried out in the past, check the percentage of its success to its failure to decide if the campaign coming from such manager can be trusted, otherwise, we will keep wasting time on projects that will never pay us.

Unfortunately, such situations have become common for bounty hunters.I think many faced similar situations.The best way to punish them is to unite all participants and for all possible resources to write about their deception,to try on the forum to get support.I understand,it's a shame,but to punish hard.

i've been scammed by athero too, i participated their signature campaign, and they didn't pay all the participants in their campaign they always say that they have a meeting but no proof and they don't update us about their ICO.

The only thing we can do is report the project so new investor for the project won't decide to invest instead they will go for other project, and most problem of bounty hunters if they are gonna get paid or not, we need escrow for the bounty token so the developers wont be able to scam their bounty hunters, only look for bounty campaign that has escrow so project like these won't be able to gain traction at their ico stage.

God deals? What deal do they really want to make that will guarantee that hunters will be paid, any project that refuses to pay the hunters was never a good project, there are no good projects that will withhold what belongs to the hunters, I know that some of them does not pay on time to protect the system against early dumping, but hunter are not the issue here.

We all have a part to play in this, we hunters too, and we need to stop pushing our protection to manager, the only way you can be assured that you will get paid is when you participate in a good project, so both managers and hunter has to play their role in researching very well on the project before participating.

If you want to make money on the cryptocurrency market on a regular basis,whether you are an investor, trader or bounty hunter, you need to choose a project consciously, and not act on luck, you need to have information.Platform https://pyyro.com, provides news free information.

I agree that prevention is one way to deal with this problem. Bounty hunters should thoroughly research the projects and ensure the teams are legit. Also, any project that does not care about its reputation online is obviously unworthy as an investment.

There is something i will say to this ‘DEAL WITH IT AND MOVE ON’. Else groping over this kind of delay or scam may cost you other great projects where you can gain a lot. I say delay because, they may be afraid of dump after distributions

Hmm, here's my suggestions:
1) Report such scam campaign in the moderators so they can send that campaign a bad feedback thus they can no longer advertise here. It means a lot because there are so many possible customers they could get there and since they lose it anymore profits they could generate is greatly affected.
2) Inform your circle of friends, your co-members in your local board or anyone you can influence in social media that particular project is a scam and tell them not to invest.
3) If the case was so really severe where there are a large number of getting victimized and the money involved was so huge then better if you will now consult for the anti-cybercrime unit of your police authority.

   "Deal with it and move on" sounds like the best thing we can do. I`m doing that! Not every ICO that fails is scam project. Until now I participated
in couple project that are now dead, what happened is that they didn`t rise enough money and they couldn`t continue with project, what can they do?
Some of them are transforming their projects, improving and they give it another try, some just quit and find other job.
   There are many projects, it`s hard to find the best one that will be successful. Sometimes we recognize good project, sometimes we miss.

Put it out on the scam accusation board but make sure you have a good proof saying that the team behind it are scamming you or else it can bounce back to you if you made a false accusation. Just make sure you are preferred with your evidences when you open up some accusation for a particular subject.

whether such a project has no rules that punish these naughty projects because I think scam projects are very detrimental to many people and make many people become anxious and lazy to go back again to continue their dreams because the naughty projects that are developed are many.

Another good way to protect the bounty hunter's interest and all the efforts exerted in joining any bounty is to ensure that the bounty fund allocation has already been escrowed for the purpose of giving assurance to all participants concerned. Such an act in good faith also bolster the image of the project positively and likewise motivates the bounty participants to do their best in promoting the project.

for now I think there are no regulations that bind the ICO project. therefore it is very important for the regulators of a country regarding the development of their country's ICO project. So far I think that only Korea has regulated the existence of ICO projects in their country.

After already completing the hard work for them I don't think there I anything you can do rather than opening a scam accusation against them, even though I don't think that's going to help a lot since they are prepared for it. Better spend a little more time researching the project you are working for before you work for them so that you make sure you will get paid at the end.

for that you have to investigate it first and try to discuss on the telegram channel.
I know the project is good, but as you said I didn't hear about distribution for the bounty campaign
currently there are many similar projects that do not distribute rations for bounty hunters. some rumors lead to scams, hopefully not right

I'm still waiting for distribution for the ATHERO campaign.
a few months ago I saw them scheduled this April. but until now this has not been done by a team or developer.
I think we should try to discuss in the campaign bounty threads or be telegramed to make sure

Apart from going to report them on scam accusations board; we need to step up our research work before joining any ico

But this is entirely hard, deex is so promising and has also refused to pay
Such as payfair projects too andbeven brainspace team has disappeared

Wish something can be done

How can we fought back for those people who are abusing our participation in their bounty campaigns so for we to fought back on what they are doing on us, its better to stop participating in bounty campaigns and start on trading so that we may surely know how we will gain profit, but before that happens it is better to gain some knowledge and study on how those people are starting trading and what are their experiences in doing trading, especially their techniques and tips on how they are gaining profit. If you will start trading try some of this kind of trading platform darb (https://darbfinance.com/?=crowd)finance in which you can easily withdraw and deposit your cash or you can cash in and out without any hassle. So what are you waiting for? Go and start trading for now to fought back those bounty managers who are not paying those people who are participating in bounty campaigns.

This is the problem I have with many project in the crypto space, and the reason why I also advise people not to take bounty as their source of living is because of this kind of things, imagine you spent a lot of time participating in a bounty with the hope of getting paid in the future to feed your family and you then see that the project turned out to be a scam anyways.

Bounty hunters should make sure they do a research about a project before trying to waste their time participating in it, because time is anybody's most valuable asset. Honestly there would not be any working way for all of us to fight against scams in the names of ICOs and bounty programs but we can be sure about not wasting our time and efforts.

It is the culture of some project owners and managers to eat bounty hunters reward forgetting that what goes around comes around. I have experience things like that in the industry. Some even initiate tough KYC to get away with hunter money. Some will pay the least of your token on the spread sheet while some will pay few persons and leave others.

So the core we can get revenge on scammers is that hunters do not risk being paid even though they have worked hard, but they just leave without notice, this is just the usual thing.

The best thing you can do is just report and spread the word in the forum (you already done that) so that other people will get to know about it and then avoid them. Sadly I don't know if there is anything that can be done about these scammers, they are still going to go free with the money they have gotten so far and that's it. The best thing you can do is create awareness and people will avoid that project, oh and that is not the only ones, there's still many of them around and lots of people, especially those who are not careful are falling into their traps.

After you and everyone else have completed all the work for them,its completely useless to go and report them since they've already disappeared and now everyone knows they are a scam. Sadly, there is nothing you can do at this point since they are already long gone with all the money you've worked for.

I heard this project has deceived a lot of people who participated in its bounty campaign. It is a pity, however, there are a lot of scammers in the crypto market, and sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish a good project from fucking deception.

I was not surprised to hear a number of ICO projects that committed fraud. This kind of thing has taken a lot of casualties not only on this project but on other projects there have also been frauds like this.

We can only do reporting or notification on special topics about projects that commit fraud. But, after we submit the report and notification I have never heard of a follow up from anyone who handled the fraud that has occurred. Reporting is only to prevent more victims without a solution.

Sadly there's nothing that can be done in legal perspective. I can't remember the number of bounties I participated in that have refused to pay me, most of them I have angrily left their telegram group. It's really bad because bounty hunters do a lot to promote projects and get treated badly in the end.

sad truth is that there is nothing you can do to force them to pay you. if they are real scammers, then your months of work means nothing now. Scam accusation can mark those involved with a red mark, nothing more. there is no regulation that hold them to pay you up. file a scam accusation and move on.

no one forced to pay us so we did patience if we had followed for months to work but did not get results and no one could be blamed at their own risk.
we must be able to choose a good project so that we can produce from the project that we are running.
fraud can also not be broken even though it is a painful thing but we cannot do more than be patient.

Unfortunately, the enemies are powerful and we have fewer people who will fight till the end of the war. The prices are down for our weakness on the fight against FUD and we get what we pay.

I am agree, there is nothing we done in legal because crypto in many country are unregulated. Its sad because bounty hunters help spread the word about the project and developers team not paying the hunters. I have same experience and there is no way to solve this problem

The only thing that pisses me out is that there is nothing that can be done to them, they seem to escape wihr their crimes and even scam investors as well (which is their main target). You can only report, but by the time you find out and report them it is already late and they are already done and disappear from the market. The best thing you can do for yourself is to learn to avoid projects that are scam as early as possible. Know how to tell which ones are scammers and don't work for them. That way you are saving yourself time and months of hard work without pay.

Yes it would be nice if you will never be desperate for their flowery project,and yes scammer are unpredictable we couldnt know if they are but we can avoid them by observing their project if they are really promising or if their project was the thing that we need to have in our daily lives.

The only thing that bounty hunters can do is create an anti-advertising project to spoil their face. But I think fraudsters are not afraid of a spoiled face.

Yes because they knew government law can not reach them as long government unregulated cryptocurrency ICOs. Beside that, most scammer using others people face on their website.

Yes, its very sad to say that bounty hunters are not paid all the time or team cut the bounty allocations for the hunters to get lesser reward. And this must be stop. I hate when the project's team didnt appreciate the effort of hunters promoting their project everyday. Much better if the bounty allocations are always in escrowed to eliminate this fraud projects.

Yesterday, a project manager completely ruined my mood. When declared that we are all cheaters. And they will not pay (we have done a job, we are cheaters, but they just will not pay) This has greatly distressed me. I understand that they do not understand.


Perhaps we need a tool to protect today from fraud. Which somehow can influence the projects. A tool that can spoil the reputation of the project.


But for this, all participants must subscribe to what they did advertising the project and they were deceived. In the form of a blog or news site. Where every project that deceives the hunters will be responsible to the community.

There are ways, you can hinder their marketing campaign if you want to get back at them.  You must organize a group so that your aim will have weight.  Once you organize a group you can then do the following:

Disrupt their twitter campaign by sending your sentiments and the issue.
Post on facebook how these scumbags evade their responsibility of paying you.
Create article on social media platforms such as medium and its likes.

This is a hard task and needs an organized group to have weight on your claim and you can start it by creating a scam accusation just like the other suggested here and gather all the unpaid participants to support your cause.  If they do not participate, it won't go anywhere.

Because the majority of ICOs, IEOs and STOs cannot have something familiar with US investors or bounty hunters. Thanks to your government, it is unfortunately true and you cannot complain, because it is literally illegal.

I have experienced such bounty campaigns and it's really very frustrating. So I suggest you report about scam in the scam section and give every positive reasons why the project is a scam.

You can report them in the forum if you have enough proof that they are scamming bounty participants, it will destroy their reputation and knowing this is a big forum, it will be bad for them, they won't pay in return their reputation is bad. Unfortunately, if they are really scamming, no one can enforce them to pay since there is no legal contract on the bounty campaign.

Honesty mate, prevention is better than cure, instead of bothering ourselves and allowing in regrets after the bad thing has been done, it will be better to do everything possible to prevent ourselves from being a victim of these scam and unserious projects. And the only simple task is to do a thorough research till we are 100% convinced about the project.

There are so many thing we can do during our research to really know a reliable projects in which some of them has been discussed in this bitcoin forum, I also grabbed one idea from a user recently, where he said we should take a step to push forward in contacting the team directly either through physical contact or media contact, such as voice and video calls.

It is very pathetic what bounty hunters always go through from all this scam project and there is no way we can fight and no one is ready to fight for us. I also promoted this thinking that something tangible will come out of it but it wasn't.

I have worked in the Athero Bounty campaing in Linkedin and facebook, in latest spreadsheet i earned 80.000 THO coins and in last 2 months i tried to fight back, i wrote 100s times in their telegram channel and (now they closed their official telegram channel for chat) wrote on their threat on here bitcointalk. But still i have nothing in my hand now.. 80k THO coins would make like 1 BTC and i have lost all my hopes and i am sure thay i won't be able to get any rewards. I am ready to do anything for help if you ask..

I agree. But the problem is bounty hunters are sometimes not selective when choosing the project they want to advertise especially in times like this wherein the market is not performing well thus they tend to grab what's available there to have an income.

I think there's no way to punish those scammers since they are not exposing their real identity, lack of regulation are one of the few problems why this is happening.

If you're a bounty hunter make sure to choose a genuine project by doing a research and dont believe easily with their good promises.

It is a bad situation and am not sure there is any means of fighting back
There are terms attached to bounty and we all adhere to it before participating

This makes it difficult for bounty hunters to fight back

But with unity and support from bounty manager; we can prevail

Definitely, we don't have any support that could help to stop them and force them to give of what should be for the particiants. even though we know him, only we can raise a scam accusation but can't bring them into jail and put inside that bars. We don't have their control, and so we can't expect that they'll give us of what they promise.

There's nothing we can do if they are keep promissing date to launch their project. You know what not only ATHERO project I have encountered like that, they keep promising us just to be patient they are not ready commencing yet due to the market situation. So, in that case, if the market situation did not recover it means they are not going to list their token on an exchange. Correct, we don't have anything to do like this, it's totally wasting our time.

Athero was active on social media and they promised the bounty payout to be until 20th of April.
Then they disappeared, and I still do not understand what happened as they seemed a legit project.

I feel you mate. And so far joining bounty I get scammed twice already. The other project I joined just tell us in telegram this statement, '' Dev,

MESSAGE FOR COMMUNITY

We're grateful and appreciate everyone who devoted their time on Encrybit. We've created a project that would have stand in market with unique concept and extraordinary team but it was a disastrous that the ICO launched and market collapsed.

We've attended multiple meetups, conferences and personal meeting with investors but the same response everywhere that they see collapsing and can only invest in market where it reaches again from where it started dumping. Due to insufficient investment ICO didn't reached the soft cap.

After exploring each and every options we had, coming to a decision to take this project down as of now. It’s hard but truth. We're not committing anything from here but we'll continue pitch the investors privately and if anything comes out useful and profitable we'll start the project again.

This decision came in mind after lot of back and forth, its hard to accept but this is the climax of Encrybit. The investment we got will be returned soon.

We hope you guys will patiently understand and accepts it. ''

What the heck? After all the months of efforts I put to this project to promote in social sites and in BTT, this strategy of exiting they are telling us? Damn them.

ICO is no longer be profitable because of many scammer project lurking around and the saddest part is we cannot disclosed any of them. But as i know the new IEO, for my knowledge this is better than ICO because they can track the best project when they held on exchange. After that scammers will be minimized.

the best way we can do just go to here and write down all your statement about the project that scammed bounty hunter

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

another way we can sphread the news to their social media

Report them to the community and if there is someone asks you on how interested he is to join these scam projects, warn him quickly.

Discussing it here too will help.

Well, like you already know, for now that we are still operating in a market that is unregulated and has a strong privacy tool, there is nothing much we can do about it other than we being careful not to fall in same trap again if we have been duped.

I know it is still not easy to get good projects now even if we research, many people that did thorough research still fell for the scam, but we just have to keep researching on these projects, the chance of getting scammed on projects we invest in without much research is quite bigger than the chance we get when we go a proper research on them, we cannot get it accurately 100% but we can get close to perfection.

This is a very old topic, I’m talking about resistance in general, a punishment for developers, because they are really tired and it’s their fault today that people are afraid to invest in cryptocurrencies. Due to their fault, IEO and other forks of the ICO process appeared.

And what can you do?) Lower the ratings of the bounty manager, who perhaps himself was not aware of their plans? Or somehow isolate other people who will participate in other bounty programs in the future? If you create topics for each scam project, then this forum will be completely cluttered.

this forum is so packed with a lot of branches for scam projects, but the fact is that no one can know in advance what the project will be

That's the reason why we are losing investors in ICO, not only bad projects were affected, but the good ones as well.
Even good projects are not getting good funding because investors are afraid it could turn out into scams, but that's really the risk and we don't know if the project will succeed, however the risk here are getting higher that's why they are putting their money on the new method which is IEO.

If they decided not to pay you money no one their not will force!! Sadly of course, but it is a fact. There are projects that pay, but still they turn out to be scammers or unsuccessful ICO. Be sure to report this Scam to the appropriate topic, the guys on the first page gave links to these boards.

What ? I thought Athero is a good project and they want to pay bounty hunters with rewards.
Can you positively confirm that is a scam ico ? That will be very sad if it turned to be true.
If you want to report the scam ico, the scam accusation section will be the best place for you to make a report thread.

even if people start creating scam project topics, it still doesn't work. projects continue to exist and the fact that they do not pay to bounty hunters does not interest investors. It is very difficult to get a reward

You are right obsalyutno. The list of such projects is very long. And he constantly continues to increase. This is a big problem today. So you shouldn’t just waste time on such projects. Get yourself a list. Where will you celebrate all fraudsters, and in no case will not invest there, even if the project enters the market.

It's quite sad that most ICOs behave in this predatory manner lately.. That's why I prefer the pre-funded mechanism of the bounty-ox platform. Although it doesn't stop malicious projects from changing smart contracts, it atleast gives bounty hunter a 50% certainty of receiving their pay..

You are right. I know many projects that succeeded that did not pay bounty hunters. I saw one project i participated in, few days ago in an exchange, i immediately ran down to the spreadsheet to check; lo and behold the stakes where not calculated let alone paying. When someone queried the Telegram Admin, she never replied anybody. Many projects this days are very unfair.

There are many such examples. In each case, events develop in different ways. It is bad when someone continues to believe in the project for a long time, because "Then they disappeared, and I still do not understand what happened as they seemed a legit project."
I wore the signature of the Orbis project. As it turned out, free. The project representative and the bounty manager blame each other. There is no solution. How to be is incomprehensible. ...and people continue to believe in the project further.

That will only help to avoid others from falling into the same pit, but the damage has already been done to the investor’s pocket and while the investors is busy mourning his lost, he would not even remember to alert the rest of the people, by the time it dawn on him to do so, others would have been scammed, and the scammer would have even packed his bag and baggage to leave his country.

Announcement would not even solve issue, the best solution if to strictly stop ICO and focus on IEO for now, any serious developer should go look for money to register their projects with reputable IEO platform.

I think we all need to create a strong community that can influence companies. For example, now EQWITY does not pay tokens for many people. Facebook sent, but Twitter is not. They write that if you do not get tokens, then you are a cheat. The pritenziya is not accepted. I followed all their rules and honestly carried out the assignment. Although in the table with the published calculations my twitter was counted. This is tin. It seems, and not a scam, and may even fall on the stock exchange. Now we have created a group on orbis, but people are very inactive, and it seems they don’t care that they are treated like crap. https://t.me/orbis_scam

The only thing bounty hunters can do is stop participating in the fraudulent project and spread the word about it.

The rules in the crypto currency are not so strict that there are many cheats here. Crypto currency is an easy field for fraudulent targets. It is difficult to punish these fraudsters because the rules in online media are less binding and occur across countries. What we can do to give lessons to these fraudsters by viral all forms of access on social media, both on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. Yeah, even though it hasn't given the maximum effect but he wants to be more shy.

Unfortunately there is not much you can do from a legal perspective if a project doesn't pay its bounty campaign participants besides trying to get in contact with the project team leaders directly if no explanation is offered or if that fails then you can open a scam accusation in the relevant section of this forum, but if this is a major concern then simply check whether or not the funds have been escrowed in advance before you participate

This project has not provided payment for bounty hunters. We cannot take revenge but we can report this project because of fraud. And I think many people experience disappointment but we must not give up there. Must continue to struggle and be more careful in determining projects.

There are many projects that didn't pay to us. That's why I only choose reputable projects. I will only choose 1 -2 bounty to do. Lets choose carefully ^^ Don't waste your time

I have stopped supporting questionable ICO team and wicked bounty managers. I currently only participate in good project. I do see how a lot of persons rush to join campaigns even when the red flags are there, for now, I have limited my bounty participation and focus more on reading and trading. Time is the currency of life

choose a project that is really good, if it's not good leave it because later we are disappointed.
good projects sometimes in the middle of being bad, so beware.
check details before joining, so you can avoid bad things.
indeed everything has risks but the best is if we can do it to avoid it, avoid it.

I think we can further minimize the occurrence of these unfortunate incidents if we focus on educating ourselves and be knowledgeable in avoiding those scam projects that could put the cryptoverse in a bad light and with this course of action, I guess we can even discourage any fraudulent projects from gaining momentum and does preventing further harm to the community.

Bounty campaign are less profitable if we have more scams in the markets.
Though there are still good projects in the market but because the reputation as ruined, it will not attract the volume of investors we have before.
The success of bounty relies solely on the success of the project you are supporting and though this happens but I'm still happy since people are more matured now.

The saddest thing is that people like to risk things a lot, even when you report the project today, we still have so many people that would not listen and would still risk investing in such projects, and aside that, we still have lots of people that are not reading news, so they don’t even have a clue to what is happening, all they just do is take the whitepaper, study it and invest their money based on how promising the white paper looks.

So this scam of a thing will be an ongoing thing and the solution is juts in our hands, we need to stop investing in project that we have no deeper knowledge about, any project that looks promising through their whitepapers must still be vigorously researched.