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I've been hearing this for a while until it really happened to me ,I was promoting a bounty project and after a week I decide to check my spreadsheet to see if I've been approved or not ,well guess what I found? Someone else signed up for the bounty using my btt account info excluding only my wallet address ,swapped with another ETH address.

This is another tricks some scammers are pulling on this forum, getting someone to work for them while they sit back and get paid for work they never do.

Always make sure you check the spreadsheet of the bounty project you are promoting from time to time,who knows? You might be the next victim.

This warning is especially for newbies ,I bet they don't know that something like this can be put in motion so be careful.

Yeah it was happening alot but now somewhat reduced because most of the campaigns now require an authorization post to confirm each and every participant which has greatly reduced such scam participants.

Its been happening since 2016. I'm wondering if that bounty hunting scammer is just not ambitious enough because of all the high rank joining a campaign, he chose a Jr member?

I don't see you joining a twitter and facebook campaign which will require reporting so it means this scammer act impostoring your forum account.  :D  That scammer definitely needs to find a new job.

Such cases of scamming often occur, but if you become a victim, you must immediately report to the bounty manager. Because if the bounty manager is not thorough, of course it will be very detrimental to you. You work to do bounty assignments, but other people get the results. I hope that the bounty managers will be more careful in handling cases like this, and immediately to reject them. I think it's very appropriate for those who cheat.

its really not new so for me i always check the speadsheet if someone is claiming our work. usually second submission is rejected but if my address change in my first submission i only pm the bounty manager.

those scammers are doing this since i joined the bounty, if you do not check the spreadsheet after you signed up you will be in trouble or you will be the one who will kick out in that bounty program.. if you saw like that better report to the bounty manager

Many bounties asking proof of joining so did you filled the post with the required details?

ANd you can ask about this to that bounty manager and the only person who can change the details for your work.

I experienced that too some time ago on a bounty campaign I was participating on. Too bad I found out only when the campaign already ended that was my only experience and I have been very careful after then

You're very correct it was like the in-thing then for scammers and I was a victim once.  Those crooks almost took everything from me in that particular project. At least for now it's been on the decline.

Sadly, the human mind or rather the brain is very much capable of doing great good or great evil. Who knows what schemes and nefarious ideas they maybe hatching now.

There are different tricks being applied by scammers in a bid to scam investors and bounty hunters. Some falsely organise bounty campaigns for forking a popular coin, while others use different tricks in this bid. In telegram, many people ask for btc or ethereum for helping buy new tokens or depositing earned tokens to their address. So we must stay alert. 

indeed things like this often happen, it's true that always checking spreadsheets and reporting to the bounty manager is the right solution to keep scammers silent.

Fraud will always occur in long lists of companies for remuneration to a greater extent due to insufficient attentiveness of participants and managers. Therefore it is necessary to check spreadsheets several times during the bounty of the company.

It is a very nice thing. I myself and myself have faced this problem. I can not accept myself in any way. Why is scanner screwing such a thing? I think those who are involved in this action stem. They should be blocked completely.

the spreadsheet is not always counted not because the campaign is bad but because the managers counting in their own table which they do not show to the campaign participants. it is important to track the activity of projects in social networks

This is an old trick, but responsible bounty managers are here for you and will solve this situation.
They see who registered at first and who is the real owner of the ETH address. Do not worry, they will not sned bounty rewards twice to the "same" person  :D.

Thats why each of new bounty campaigns has required proof of authentication every signup including your own ETH address. to correct and prevent this lazy scammers, to claim our works. and if you are not joined all of the campaigns they will use your Bitcointalk account link and join that particular campaign youve missed. specially most common on Telegram campaign.

Bounty managers are asking for verification post if a manager does not ask this to bounty participants better double check it, I almost become a victim of this in the past and this is very rampant then until they implement the verification rules in the bounty thread.

I have not experienced this as I'm almost very careful with what I do. I have seen people being scammed by this trick,  and I feel bagged for them most especially when the manager says to them that nothing can be done about it.  I think everyone should be careful

I do make a quick search while detailing the spreadsheet while checking the stakes given, i do realize sometimes esp social media can have multiple submission which you have no idea how it happens, with a big gap in between, it's a pretty common scam where there's no verification on submissions. It would be a real pain not getting paid on months worth of work promoting a good project

This is not new it's been going for over two years now, this is the reason why some of the top bounty managers are requiring bounty hunters to post their participation in the bounty thread and on their form they ask for the verification and participation post so no double can entry be made.

well, this is happening because those running these bounty campaigns don't care about anything but scamming people! they don't care if you advertise their money grab project or someone else, either way they will end up scamming them with their token.
if you don't want these things to happen to you  then stop advertising scammy projects.

maybe the manager counts it in their own spreadsheet, but if the manager always updates the spreadsheet every week it shows that they can work on time.

I have found many such scammers since 2017, sometimes bounty managers have to verify them to send applications through threads so that not many scammers do spammers through google form by someone else's.

Maybe they will get red trust if their bounty manager can examine every participant, like Sylon, yahoo they are very careful managers with scammers like this.

this is the task of the bounty team, and also we have to check it out, and if there is something wrong, we must report it as soon as possible.

this trick has been done by scammers for a long time. I feel annoyed if someone scams my account and recognizes my work and gets a reward from a job they don't work on.
always check spreadsheets, and look for accounts that duplicate your work and immediately report to the manager.

A lot of scammers use this trick to collect other people's reward on a platter of gold. Its very important to check spreadsheet in order to keep an eye on those that can't work but want free money. The bounty manager also have a say in this regard because all entries will be checked by him or her and by so doing the bounty manager should be able to detect scammer.

But to be honest this is the work of manager but how many managers doing that job perfectly?

Many even approve stakes without seeing the users tasks but we can't blame them sicne they are getting few bucks for managing 1000 participants.

If the condition need to the change there needs to be a cap value.

This is nothing new. It has been a while this sort of a thing has been happening. It is mostly common among those participating I'm signature bounty. Immediately you notice anything of such, just inform the manager or admin on telegram, for onward correction. Such an act should not be condoned.
Also, managers have a lot to do, in order to detect it by themselves.

Account claim has been done for a long time since 2017, and I think that problem can be overcome by reporting our account to the relevant telegram project group so don't worry and always remember to check your eth address regularly every few days or if you don't want to bother checking at bounty will end (one week or less than)

This is not a new trick in this community this happened for many times even in 2018.
And to tell you big thing a duplicate is not comes once and sometimes it is 3x or more.
If you are on the upper number of spreadsheet you will see many copy under just changing one letter of you BTT NAME.
That is why many bounty project is now requiring posting on the bounty thread and having your post number or its link.

Thanks for the information, although this has been happening for long time not just recently, that's why most bounty manager adopted the rule of authentication post or require particpants to write the ETH addresz on BTT profile, those scammers will not be able to do either of this.

This has happened to me severally.  Some guys are just so lazy to work and also wicked.  Why will someone  put another's details and his own wallet address just to claim reward he didn't work for?. I've reported three cases just last month alone.  That's why I like bounties whereby the bounty manager is strict with proof of authentication. A manager came up with taking screenshot of profile page as proof of ownership of the bitcointalk account, I think it's also effective.  Let's learn to put in effort and not develop criminal mindset in this great forum.  

If the manager is good he will catch the cheaters, they are fully aware of that, and they are looking at it and double checking every entry, but it's much better than you also do your homework and check the spreadsheet if there is a cheater using your entry.

this issue always come to any bounty campaign
and thats why all campaign manager should check their participants carefully,, for example if campaign manager want to check the signature campaign participants list before approving new participants
i think the best way to knew if a scammer using other people bitcointalk account to signup in the signature campaign campaign is only by copy and paste the number of bitcointalk account ID in the search box when we open the spreadsheet of signature campaign
for example my bitcointalk profile link is
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=966242
and the campaign manager must copy this number 966242 then click CTRL+F then paste this number on the search box, if the next number after 966242 show 1 from 2, thats mean the bitcointalk with 966242 as the UI ID used by more than 1 people in the signature campaign,
you can see the image below for the detail

http://i64.tinypic.com/nds9pz.png

and i hope all bounty manager will doing that, so scammer will have no chance to cheating

This has happened to me so many times. But often these people are excluded from the list of participants. As it can be seen if we analyze the table.

This will definitely be useful for them, but the fact remains that bounty is not that profitable. The concern I have is that, despite the much effort out into the bounty and the little reward that will be received, a scammer will now come up to take the little that ought to be received. That is unbearable.

Good bounty manager always catch the bad guys, I think most of the time managers(At least the ones I've worked with) prepare final spreadsheet and ask us to verify before submitting spreadsheet for payments, This eliminates the scam.

That is actually an old trick.

I have found my account and also my username in different bounty programs.
Mostly you will see it with their telegram bounty.

But now bounties have a different kind of rule. You must post the message number in the bounty thread for your application just so to say it is you.
I think managers now are also preventing it so that they could be seen as good managers and can get more projects.

Cases like this are very troubling and need to be taken seriously by the Bounty Manager, so that they don't happen often later on. I have never experienced this, but I feel annoyed to see it. I don't think if the results of my hard work for weeks, but other people get the results. Of course it will be disappointing if it is not known beforehand. Thank you for the experience you shared here, at least I got a new experience.

Can I know what's the project you are referring to and who is the bounty manager? For your info, we have seen a lot of projects where bounty manager is the cullprit and uses other people's information to receive rewards.

I think that's good. Yes , there is such a problem. But most often it works for the benefit of bounty hunters. People who go spreadsheet before you take part in the bounty - understand that a lot of participants and profits will be small. In fact, it turns out that there are no participants.

It is the old thing buddy there are many people who lost their information and others Steel it for using it on other bounty campaigns.
Actually I believe you are not trying to alert the users. This kind of topic will create more scammers around this forum if possible please delete some information in this OP.

Lots of ways to make a profit that is not good..
Seeing people's interest in the development of crypto in particular is increasing and there are also a lot of cheats.
my method is only short, don't give our private key wallet if we will follow any bounty..

I had the same with the signature campaign of localcoin. Someone also registered there with my username but with their own wallet address. Gladly the bounty managers disqualified that user.

yeah because scam are steal anothe bounty hunter information for abuse some project and make the name hunter are bad to manager.
in some point this is alert other bounty hunter and in other view this make scammer are getting more information

we have to check spreadsheet periodically to avoid our bitcointalk username usage by cheater.too many cheater now in bounty campaign.they want to earn reward without any work.if we find our username duplicated we have to immediately report it to bounty manager.

I guess you are new to bounty campaign, that is the reason why you are just discovering this. A lot of hungry hunters do this a lot. Sometimes they target Some bounty campaign managers that do not usually do a thorough check on entry before allocating rewards. I most chases when you discover something like this, make sure you report to the bounty campaign manager. A lot of bounty managers have already decipher how to deal with this situation. Now, bounty hunters are required to register on the thread as well as on the entry form. This can help solve this issue

Yes, this has long been a known method of fraud, and most of the managers of ICO bounty campaigns know about them. What surprises me in this case is that this time they used the profile of the younger member. Usually for such fraudulent purposes, accounts with high ranks are used, starting with a full member. Perhaps it was the calculation that such a duplicate should go unnoticed and did not chase after big profits here.

This scenario is not new anymore because it happened already for some bouny hunters.

There are some people who just want to earn and lazy to do the work thus they take advantage the innocence of others especially the newbies.

So better be careful and always check the spreadsheet if someone steal your info.

So far, many more scams are growing, also phishing and other deceive. Well, this is one of the risks in the crypto world. That is why being careful and active to update the information and news in this forum is very actual and beneficial. We must not be interested in something new and promising without any analyzes yet.

Scammers are getting smart by now, they'll always find a way to deceive others and become their victims. These scamming activities are widely grown by now that is we need to have extra care than to have regrets later. Have this awareness if already in the community but somehow, still many are has fallen into their trick. They are still aren't learning though.

Scams like this have been done for a long time by scammers. And there are already many victims. If it happens like this and you do not know, it may all depend on the manager who manages. Because if the manager checks carefully, your first job will appear to be duplicate. So scammers can't do anything.

Sorry to say but this is not new anymore. It is a very old trick and some bounty hunters still do that to steal someones work or credit. That is why it is really important that the project team gets a very reliable bounty managing team which will double check all the details of the participants. And as a participant, we should also do that so that the culprit will be ban immediately.

But still thank you for sharing so that all will be aware of this wrongdoing.

Though its not new because its happening before, but the best thing to do is to report it to the CM, and make sure that you monitor your campaign always. If the CM are responsible, meaning he check everyone if its real or not then nothing to worry about because you’ll safe.

Doing a check is very important and that I do every day. So we know who has participated in the project. Previously I often experienced it. But those who use my account are directly in the strikethrough from the spreadsheet and are considered fraudsters. 

Yeah, I’m a victim of this fraud before but luckily the CM knows what to go. As a bounty hunter its also our job to assure that the information on the spreadsheet is correct and report right away if you see your name has a duplicate with different address. We don’t want to work and the others will get the profit, report those cheaters and let them suffer for that.

Bounty managers are responsible for this, they should double check if there are cheaters in their list, bounty hunters now are fully much aware of this, that is why they implement, posting authentication this is to make sure only participants can get in, but still double check your entries.

I never understood the point of that trick. After all, you were in the bounty table before your plagiarists. Usually this issue is solved by the Manager of the bounty company and your appeal to him. I don't think that's a problem.

I had this situation. My bounty on the campaign was transferred to a fraudulent wallet. And when I started writing about this situation bounty Manager, he just ignored me. As a result, I was left with nothing. So it all depends on the bounty Manager.

My God, what kind of criminals do we have in this forum, and secondly, how is that even possible, how did they gain access to the spreadsheet in the first instance, because ordinarily there is no one that can ever edit the spreadsheet other than the project developer or the bounty manager, and for this person to have gained access to the spreadsheet, they must have hacked the account for such developers. How are you sure that this is not even part of the tactics of these ICO developers to still scam bounty hunters?

Nevertheless, how are you sure that you were not the one that made mistake with the address, because I still don’t want to believe that anyone can must gain access to those spreadsheet except it is being dine internally. Well, like you said, thanks for taking note of that for us, we will be careful and ensure that we have the right address on our list.

This is what I see a lot in bounty campaign spreadsheets, and in my opinion, this is what the bounty manager must really examine. In fact, I experienced this scamer incident myself, only the ETH address was used to get payments after the campaign was finished. Tricks like this must be careful.

That is why I don't join bounties that are not handled by the highest ranking officials here. Because I hear these things in the people who accept manager jobs from projects that are low ranking. It's a good thing that you check on the spreadsheet because that is what I always do. I am always curious about the stakes.

That's serious. We all should be guided and we should check our spreadsheet from time to time so all these labour will not be for nothing. That could be depressing

Yah agrees this is why in most bounty, participants need to write an authentication post to confirm their id. You'll see some managers are arranging this thing very well. But still, when you participating in a bounty, double-check your entry upon signup, check if wallets and other names are right. This way, you'll be safe from stealing your works by the abusers.

Yeah i have also seen this trick a couple of times and i guess that's the more reason why you should check the spreadsheet of any bounty campaign that you join. It's also the responsibility of bounty managers to check for fake accounts. Mostly these come up when real users sign up for the campaign.

new ways in fraudulent mode continue to evolve and continue to find loopholes in all aspects of security that may be exploited, however, we must always be vigilant

This scamming trick are almost happened everytime when the bounty campaign rules are so easy to joined in fact they are mostly manifest on newbie manager who manage bounty project, with regards its different from the known bounty managers who requires with authenticity proof of participantion.

The manager campaign should not allow all users to edit the spreadsheet because it will be very vulnerable to scam,
I have seen it several times, and fortunately I realized when it happened so I immediately told the manager campaign about that

Honestly the scam and fraud issue here in crypto are getting worst everyday that passed by. I am not surprise if those issue will destroy so many investment. I hope centralization and legalization will be implemented in any aspect here in crypto industry. I belive that there is a big group or organization behind that scam idea so we need a legal action to make them scared and punished on that kind of activity

To someone use your btt info in any bounty it means that someone who is involved in the bounty program itself is involved, otherwise i don't understand who it is possible something like this.

This trick has been used already before many many times by those lazy scammers trying to use someone's account and change the ETH address. I've seen worst of them too, some of them even used the DTs account. That's why it's best if you check the sheet if your account was being used by someone, so consider this as an experience because there will be a lot coming in the future. You know, scammers never really get tired of finding ways to take advantage of the other.

it even sounds like complete nonsense. none of the interested people can access the table. If the table will be available to all, then there will be no point in taking part in such campaign

This is actually an old trick, there were many cases like this back then when bounty campaigns were popular.
Bounty manager should know who is the real one, and delete the scammer who signed with fake details.
We can help bounty manager by point out the scammers who signed up with our details.

I think this post is just warn for newbies, this is an old tricks to cheat the bounty rewards, we should remember always check the spreadsheet weekly, report to bounty manager if found any scammer steal your information, keep checking the rewards spreadsheet until receive full rewards.

If I let everyone edit the spreadsheet I will not join that bounty. Because it will never be paid because the sheet cannot be completed

This happens a lot of times
And it’s one of reasons why bounty manager requests for POA to crosscheck and verify valid entries

As hunters likewise, we need to stop these cheats from using our personal information

I had the same situation early this year. Some individual registered in signature campaigns with my account, but with different ethereum wallet. I have reported that to my bounty manager. I have seen this from 2017, so this is a not a new trick.

This is very bad of these scammers. What's wrong with registering for their own campaigns and doing things the right way? It can  be frustrating that, having worked for so many week, a hacker will just take all the wins because he's more technologically advance. That's not good enough. Thanks so much for the heads up.

Yes, this is the findings which you have talked here from the spreadsheet. I think I have been already cheated in this way but, couldn't recognize how they are doing. So, you talked here clearly and from now I will check my every bounty participation spreadsheet.

I have encountered a lot of such cases. but after discovering it, I told the bonus manager and he solved it for me.
I think projects should have PoA to avoid such scammers and we also need to check the spreadsheet regularly.

They have been doing this for a long time, I first discovered this when I was just a newbie, the scammer will submit his application two to three days after you submit yours, so there will be other member submissions so he will not notice because of the gap your submission and the scammer submission, to avoid detection he will not notice that there is double entry, this is so rampant then,  that bounty managers have to implement post verification, so they can track if there are double entries.

If a particular bounty campaign that you joined does not have a post verification, you better check your entries, to see if someone is using your entries.

We should really be alert for situations like this. especially for multi-participant campaigns like Twitter, Telegram, Facebook. It has so many fraudulent components. Check the spreadsheet every day to ensure our rewards.

Can you confirmed if the bounty you joined has a 'Proof of Authentication' post on the rules? this is the most popular problems facing bounties with no proof of authentication,cheaters can easily just steal others btt profile link and change the eth address to theirs,bounty managers are to be blame when they dont put POA on the bounty rules.

Bounty hunters should make sure that the bounty projects has Proof of authentication too before promoting projects

It's been on for a while long before,  lots of lazy dudes out there trying to reap where they did not sow,  that is why it's better to always check spreadsheet and lay complain on time before its too late

Yeah right, I've experienced this kind of thing myself. Little story last year 2018 in may, I work bounty for Facebook and Twitter, without checking my spreadsheet I start working. And sure enough when the project paid the bounty hunter, I wasn't paid, and started to see spreadsheets with my Btt nickname filled with other people's wallets, then there were my two Btt nicknames listed, and the correct wallet was mine rejected because of the Btt nickname same / double regist.

If we talk about scamming trick, there will be so many of trick that the scammers can use to trick us. But as long as we can be careful in any work we did, we don't have to worry with them, and we can report them so they will be caught up. But still, we are a bit difficult to detect who they are because they are moves from one project to another project and that is hard to find them. They can be anyone, and they can trick us but once again, be careful is the only thing that we can do to prevent them.

This has been happening for a long time. In many of the bounty campaigns which I've participated in, I come across this kind of problem. And I'm reporting it to the bounty manager. In fact, I think these scammers have to check by the bounty managers already. And many successful managers detect these scammers and remove them from spreadsheets without our warning. But some managers do not pay much attention to this problem.

It has happened since 2017. There are many lazy people and trying to steal work from everyone else. If the bounty manager is not careful, they will send money to scammers. For more than 2 years there have been many scammer who have taken my information and registered with their ETH address

this was an old trick, i think the cheaters has working with bounty manager team, why i say that, because mostly bounty program regist form using google form right, so only the BM or they friend who is know the gmail who can edit the sheet.

That was happened dude 2 years ago and even up to now scammers still doing it, those scammer exploiting the the spreadsheet were they will copy your url profile on BTT then they will reshuffle also one of the letter in your account name and they will change the Eth address, that's why I agreed that from time to time check the google records then if ever you find someone doing it, at once report it to the immediate BM who check the records.

Just report to your bounty manager that somebody has entered bounty programme under your username. It usually takes 5 mins to detect and reject this cheater. Check spreadsheets and you will be fine.

I don't know why some people are happy to fool people and stealing money from those who worked the money. I know that we have a lot of problems in terms of finance but for scammers, you should have also hands and feets. Work as others do because we are all have stomach to be fed. And if you are the one who stole a money. Probably, you will be depressed.

I don't want to condemn scammers but my point of view. Stop stealing money from people.