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There used to be a lot of bounty scams and I decided not to post them since August 2019. I was very disappointed to see the bounty in 2019. A few days ago I met one of my friends who said that if there are fewer bounty scams now, is that true?
I now decide to join the signature that I use now

We can't really say if there are few bounties that are scam in 2020. Because it is really hard to detect them in the beginning. But thanks to those scam investigators in the forum who flag projects are early because of few signs like plagiarising Whitepaper and fake team behind.

So I would say that the numbers didn't change and perhaps it grow even more because scammers will always be here in crypto sphere as there are still a lot of people who blindly trust on them. So just be careful and always investigate first before investing your hard earn money.

Unless there is a regulation with all bounty exist or they will pay in bitcoin per week, we can tell that scam bounties become few. But because a lot of bounties are paying in their native coins, still we can't say that we are already done in scam bounties.

What I noticed in bounty right now is that, the pool becomes lower. And we have to wait for a long period of time before we receive the tokens. Lastly, if they want to attract hunters, they will say that they are going to be listed in top exchanges.

I can not be sure that now the fraud against the bounty is decreasing because what I know is that there is still a bounty project that continues to run but there is no certainty whether this is also called fraud?

What I know now is that bounties are still ongoing with new projects, but we here as hunters must be able to differentiate and do research on what we do with bounties.

Read this, ICOs Are Dead But ICO Scammers Are Immortal (https://news.bitcoin.com/icos-are-dead-but-ico-scammers-are-immortal/).


So that's pretty much sum it all, scammers won't simply go away even if we are in a bear market or even in Covid-19 pandemic. They will continue to take advantage of the ICO craze, and besides, there are no regulation to really oversee what those ICO are doing, so it is going to be very difficult to stop them.

Not so true, very few bounties paid this year so far, I heard Hex and Cartesi paid already, 90% of bounties in 2020 haven't paid yet, some postponed payment because of the pandemic and some are scam, you should visit scam accusation here to see for yourself

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

Yes, that's right, at the moment there are some good bounty campaigns and on average held by bounty detectives, I will also take part in the bounty campaign that you are taking at the moment when the campaign that I'm participating in now ends, because the campaign that I'm taking part in right now soon to end.

Few? Trust me you are gonna find more scam than legit even now. 2020 is a sort of mess, we can really feel how scam bounty grow since then. Most trusted projects that have been launch are mostly scam and only those project held on IEOs can be more trusted, but only few of them releases campaign like cartesi, harmony, tokoin and other ICOs are not really effective now.

Scammers will always attract investors in their hoax and fraud. Always visit scam accusation thread and you can see how many new projects being busted early for their wrong doing like copying whitepaper and using other people profile.

We can't justify the statement because there will still continue to be fraud, but now you just choose to follow some projects managed by managers who successfully promote the project just try to see the bounty detective they have several projects that pay, maybe that can be your reference.

many have been paid, not only HEX and Cartesi, but those projects are not as good as HEX and Cartesi,
in my opinion 70% of bounties in 2020 are paid

There are fewer that pays.
Choose wisely what bounty you will join or if you have no idea, prepare for the worse.
Still, majority of them has the possibility not to pay the participants.
Or at least pay a little with what they have promised.

there are still many fraudulent projects that have arisen at the moment and I see that the bounty is currently more focused on social media slots. like a gift managed by the BOUNTY DETECTIVE manager

There is no party or service that is counting.  ;D
That's the problem.
We cannot identify if there are more scams than legitimate ones.

Here is one truth though. Up until now, even with the new IEO, they are still having a difficult time to acquire the right amount to continue their projects.
They are not a scam, just cannot continue for the next bump on the road map.

It's kinda difficult now to identify if such bounties or projects are scam. Because what if you joined on some bounty campaigns and then they are only good in the beginning and they already rewarded the prizes to all participants, but after their Initial Coin Offering(ICO) or Initial Exchange Offering(IEO), they don't have a value of no exchange that is listed the coin you got on the bounty campaign.

Now you are  being victimized by scams again,because you are wearing a scam project Lol and i am sure you will be disappointed again after that project ends.

Look at the Groups in telegram from some old timer Manager that until now there are still scamming and still majority of them,.

yeah and he can look at some concern accounts here that posting what they think is legit campaigns and here is one

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0

Check those On the OP for your own safety.

thats actually the dilemma in most bounty programs under alts section. and more prob arise when they will credit your share after weeks or months being listed in the exchange. because the price has gone down so bad, the value of your share is not worth selling.

but interested on how the OP's current sig campaign will turn out???

It depends on the person choosing the bounty, with the big number of ICOs and IEOs in the market, and only few of them really shine when listed in exchange, that tells us that majority of the projects are just bound to fail, so given the it's legit, but if it will fail, it would still not gonna compensate the bounty hunters for their effort.

Identifying the bounty campaign if it's legit or not might not be hard, but to determine if will be successful, that's the hardest thing.
 


Well, good luck, hopefully you'll find success on the project you are promoting now.

It depends entirely on how smart you are when doing research on bounties, if you are good with research you can easily avoid bad projects but saying scam is now limited? That's not so true mate, I found this under scam accusation section


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5252369.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5250686.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5239520.0

Bounty is still ongoing for that XTRM project, there are many more bounty projects that are caught as red flag, you need to be careful

It is too early to think about there are less scammers in ICO industry. In my opinion, still participating in bounty campaigns must be similar to gambling. We may not put all our efforts for it but we can do only in the part-time so that we may not get big disappointment when we will be scammed again in the name of ICOs and its bounty hunting.

My humble suggestion to you is, do not listen to your friend's word. But, you must go for doing your own due diligence which alone will be helping you in a practical world. There could be fewer or many good bounty campaigns are available but how we are going to find them is the biggest challenge in front of us. I believe we can overcome such a challenge only through due diligence. So, take your time for it and find the right bounty for you and enjoy the rewards.

I don't know how many bounties turn into scams because I don't follow every news of that, but I think there are many of bounties that scam so far, but we don't know about them. If you want to participate in the bounties, make sure you already read their whitepaper, check their team, or search for more news about the project so you can prevent from the scamming although that will be difficult.

Since 2017, many investors left in other areas have because of the great volatility and frequent failures, so now it is easiest to do scam than to spin small projects. Now I check the team much more thoroughly than before. be careful

True, but at the time of 2017 the fraud was still not very much, because almost all projects in 2017 were successful with satisfying achievements, and once entered in early 2018, scammers began to move and many frauds began to occur until now.

Welcome back to bounty hunting, I'm hoping you'll earn on the campaign you are promoting now.
Actually, the bounty campaign these days are not really profitable, I'm not saying a lot of scams are happening here, but before compared to now, there's a big difference as people are more matured and the competition gets higher, therefore, the best projects will only succeed until before that we can choose a lot of bounty campaign to join while we can expect a good reward afterwards.

You cant really tell that there are few that are scam now.We have just entered the 6 months of the year. I am very sure only few project might have launch and complete bounty campaign by now. while many of them will be waiting on investors to have their token sold, many of them always find it difficult to pay hunters or even proceed with the project when they do not make required token sales and this is the reason they are being termed as a scam

Because this year there is so little bounty, so you will not be able to see too many scam projects. I myself have not seen a project that has been truly successful since the beginning of 2020. All are delaying distribution or future scams, we need a bit of time to be able to evaluate it correctly.

Me too was tired from bounty campaign so I decided to stop for almost two years. I think the reason is that bounty campaigns are declining maybe because scammers in this way aren't good anymore to convince victims.

Less bounty turns to be scam because:

1) there are much less projects appear in bitcointalk
2) forum investigation team cracks scam projects in few hours
3) scammers understood that it is harder to scam people nowadays and switched to something else.

What I understand to be "bounty scam" - project that does not pay hunters, cuts bounty pull and adds extra months to bounty period. Now projects dont do that. Projects collects so little funds, so they never have listing on exchange. I cant blade them for that and call them scammers, they are just not interesting to investors.

I joined my first bounty in 2017. And 18 months later, I made the decision not to join in any of them. 2017 was a good year for the bounty hunters and the rewards were good. But the situation began to worsen by mid-2018. That was the time when the majority of the bounties stopped paying the bounty hunters. And as far as I know, the situation remains the same even now, without much improvement.

There are still a lot of scams in this market, so don't be too happy to hear that. There are currently a few bounty already listed at the exchange, but we still cannot be sure that they will distribute them. All is still ahead

this is the real reasons less bounties = less scam project and this is what happen right ow if you visit the Altcoin section more of the campaign that you can see in that section is mostly manage by  bounty detective and only few project have different bounty manager they hired.

If unknown manager manage the campaign hunters just ignore the thread  and you can't see many participants interested to join even they are saying they will paid large amount  if converted to USD.

I guess there are few scams but there are many failure bounties, It is just the same thing, the bounty participants do not get anything from it, it feels like being scammed. I tell you from 100% I guess only 1% survives now. Only genuine projects with unique features, good marketing, and partnership and has initial funds or being funded by a firm or private investors those are the only projects that actually succeed now if you found something like that better join.

Lol maybe you heard it wrong because your friend wanted to say is 'There are only Few Bounties that is not Scam'

Stop fooling yourself,Bounty hunting will never come back to what this is in past because Scammers will always be scamming.
and the target will always be the noob and stupid Hunters.


just like the signature OP is wearing?l ;D

Haha, that's right. Like the signature he is wearing, I see that the bounty is listed at Kucoin and it makes a lot of people join that bounty. But there is still no guarantee that they will receive payment when the bounty ends because they do not use escrow

This campaign is managed by Bounty Detective, so I believe they will make payments in the future. But there is no specific date for it yet because the bounty has only been running for a few weeks.

Even though you have done a lot more testing than before, in the end I believe you will come across scammer projects. The scam projects are much smarter than before and it is difficult for you to recognize them, no need to invest too early. Wait for it to be listed at the exchanges and you will buy a lot cheaper than ICO or IEO

In the last two years,  many scam projects have happened and still may be happening but right now the number is less than those two years because there were many scams that got busted by many users of the forum. Due to such strong actions the scams getting less day after day. Also, we have to be more responsible for project selection before becoming part of it.

As per lots of people's opinion and experience, I think nothing will be helping them to figure out scams. I mean reading White-Paper nor checking team nor anything related to this will not be helping them in filtering scams from good projects. Because, these are the few methods we may  follow only to identify the planned scams but definitely not the projects  which are accidentally turning scams.

There are multiple reasons for bounty scams to happen like devs are not interested in developing project anymore or lazy devs who are taking longer time than planned time for developing the project. In these case we do not have any other option except risking our efforts in such bounty programs. So it would be much better to completely avoid bounties time being by focusing into any other freelancing income streams.

Scammers won't leave this space easily because there are many people who don't care reading the manual before operating the engine, this is why scammers scam people easily, newbies who don't take their time to do research will surely take the wrong step

You are participating in a campaign managed by Bounty Detective, they managed many successful bounty campaigns, instead of others they try to manage credible projects.

You could have asked how he got to know. Perhaps he has been able to receive lots of rewards and adequate liquidity have been provided for good trading on the exchange.
In my opinion, I feel there has not been any form of reduction.
If a project that has ended pays and cannot be traded conveniently to what is reasonable, then I do not see any legality in that. Some of them also pay a very little amount, while they keep on dumping what they have at their disposal. Also, some postpone the disbursement of reward, while they keep on selling.

It's absolutely false.. It seems the scams these days are much more than the ones of previous years and it's getting worse. Most projects have now recognized that they can use hunters and dump them while getting away with it and it seems this is now the order of the day. Recently, digitalbits doled out the worst of scams on bounty hunters. After making them wait for over 1 year, they blatantly refused to pay and the worst is, nothing has been done or an action taken against them. It's a cruel situation we find ourselves. Only the legitimate and those with intergrity are actually paying hunters for job done.

^^Nicely said. They miss out all the advices, warnings and research regarding competent managers and go up joining any random bounty campaign where they find a good token allocation. Always manage bounties with good history of successful bounty campaigns. Such managers always chooses good projects and do proper research before taking the managing job.

Have you asked you friend about the names of these successful bounties he or she mentioned to you? And who was the bounties manager? Probably this  will help you find your way round this big city called "Bounty City". There are still questions about bounties on this forum and it will be difficult for anyone to answer your question. Scams are been reported on daily basis on this platform due to scamming, also, many bounties conducted from the 2018-2019 even till now can't be seen as successful bounties with 50%. If you're interested in bounties mate, kindly carry-on the bounty and "do your own research"  because you can't speculate the end of any bounty right now as this industry is concern.

projects in 2020 are not so bad when compared with the previous year. Currently there are many good projects that have sprung up in this forum. even most high-ranking users participate in signature campaigns. but I'm not saying that project fraud doesn't exist.

Yeah, it seems like market has slowly been improving and people are now quick to report scam proje ts and bounties or even if there are any red flags or complains about a project or campaign, this has kind of discouraged scammers and that is why we are seeing less bounty campaigns now but looks lile most of them are legit, i am hopefull bounty market will improve more in coming days with bigger rewards too.

It is not really true, many bounties are scams nowadays. However "scam" is not really a common thing in everyone's minds, many people say many different things for what they believe a scam is, and that is why almost all bounties are scams. Something regular old taking your money and leaving (in this case mostly taking your hard work) is scam, and that is the only way of scamming, some thing if they pay late, depending on how late, it is a scam, some say if there is changes along the way during bounty, that is scam.

I can list a million different ways but in the end even when you get all of the tokens you are promised but it plummets, some say even that is a scam, that is why it is hard to say if one thing is scam or not since it all depends on what you consider to be a scam.

Yes, we started to see scam projects in campaigns as scam projects have increased recently. As I said before, the only thing that needs to be done to avoid such campaigns is to do research about that project before participation. We spend time on these campaigns, so before participating, analysis and research on the project is required, just like an investor. For example, I have not supported the campaign of almost any scam project lately, as I am generally participating in campaigns by doing research. I recommend everyone to do so and earn in this way.

Your friend might be lucky on choosing good bounties but we can’t say yet that the volume of scam projects was lessen and maybe scammers just ship to another way of scamming people. We have to differentiate the good bounties from a bad bounties so we can know when to participate and when not to participate, we experienced a lot of shit projects before that can make us more better on finding a good one today.

I don't know, this really really depends on everyone's experience. We know that there are a lot of bounty campaigns, it makes all the biases, a good project is not guaranteed to give a fair reward according to the initial rules, often changes that lead to drama.
We just need to lower expectations and be prepared to face risks. Good luck and get fair rewards without drama.

There are still many bounty scams and the reason why it seems to be few by people is because of the huge job done by some members of this forum in exposing scam/plagiarism project. But, a project been scam doesnt have to do with fair bounty reward since the allocated tokens is delivered.

Yes. Bounty scams will never get less in amount as there are a lot of newcomers in the market that are easy to deceived by those scam bounties because they still lack the information about the risks in entering the crypto market. But thanks to the good people in the forum who has traced the bounty scams before it can get another victims and steal their hard earned money.

I want to draw conclusions like that.
I try to think positively despite many bounty scams nowadays. Although the project was successful, often the dev team changed the rules, for example, the allocation was reduced, the distribution was delayed or divided into several phases, the reward was locked, etc. It's really not fun, especially if the project is successful and successfully attracts market interest so the price is good.

I sometimes get embarrassed, the bounty hunter is often blamed if there is a dump, that's a reason often used to change rules. Although they have the right to do so, but they should determine it in advance if they are afraid they cannot anticipate a dump from the sale of hunters.

It will never happen as when there was no regulation that prevents scammer to scam people in crypto and I think scammer will always exist. The good managers have been preventing scammer to disrupt the bounty activity.
Dude' it's much more about awareness that has already created by so many people for the hunters or investors.

I strongly agree that bounty scams in 2020 are less than in 2019. Even so, the bounty payment is now very small, so the tokens that
I get from the bounty I decided hold until the price goes up. Because many predictions say that 2021 will be the year of the rise of
cryptocurrency. It is estimated that in 2021 bitcoin and altcoins will rise to reach all time high prices.

he said HEX and he managed to make quite a lot of money and the bounty manager of the project was "Bounty Detective" so I tried to examine some of the bounties handled by "Bounty Detective" and found a HOMT that looked good

Same as what I think and do! I also hold the tokens and wait until it gets raised. I agree that bounty scams are less, though, there's still a lot of risks in this cryptocurrency market that you have to be aware of! Doing bounty takes you a lot of time, therefore, don't let yourself be desperate by involving in some scam projects.

The sad truth is most of bounties scam now, there is no change. The amount of scam bounties and projects are increasing everyday. Even though the token is traded on exchanges but they do not pay bounty hunters. Many projects like that.

It is so easy to get followers and have free tasks by creating bounties. Or giving 5% portion of your total coins to bounty marketing. Scammers see this opportunity to get free tasks by creating fake bounties just to promote something or creating microtasks for bounty hunters.

To stay away from scammers check if they have:
* a website, a good one, containing their teams, and explaining the business they can provide.
* a whitepaper, read their whitepaper if they have
* checkout if their team is visible , existing and communicating with their community.

Bounty scam? that means bounty does not pay their bounty hunters. right? If you think in this way then I will say most of the bounty Pay their participants. that means they are not scam?  :) Yes, it's right if you think in this way.

On the other hand, I will say in your question that most of the projects are now scam. Because maybe they are paying people who join their bounty campaign. but the payment has not much value or the value is really very small. after collecting huge money from investor they don't add their project in exchange, even they start to work according to their road map. Better to investigate before joining in any bounty campaign.

Frauds among ICO projects will often occur until states begin to organizationally regulate this type of activity. ICO teams must collect funds in cryptocurrency through bank accounts, then the level of fraud will drop sharply. Now we are witnessing a general drop in investor confidence in ICO projects, and against this background, the amount of fraud has seemed to decrease.

correct. even today, the level of scams on bounties has increased considerably. I am quite grateful when many monitoring teams always find whitepaper plagiarism, and also fake teams that make us avoidable like that. however, sometimes, projects that look good also don't always make our profit. however, we need to be careful when choosing bounties.

Most of the campaign actually turn out to be scam, so its really not safe to pick randomly a campaign to join with. I joined my campaign cause of the sure reward and liquidity on this coin but of course we cant expect a larger reward as some bounty only create a marketing to attract investors. It is unfortunate that most hunters are being fooled by many developer and project owners. I remember xdb campaign, that one is hidden gem but too sad to see that hunters are not compensated well according to the budget promised to them. My advise is stay away from campaigns handled by random user here but choose a reputable one that will surely pay you when the campaign end.

Clear rules are required for ICOs. If they intend to become a scam then they need to face and be responsible before the laws of each country. But getting this idea to come true is difficult. No country has so far fulfilled these terms

So you claim that Bounty Detective is a standard of quality or success? I'm not very familiar with BD, but seeing lots of bounties under their management makes think that they take every project for management.

Can you please name some projects under BD management, that got listed, altcoins prices in not on the bottom of the ocean and hunters received their reward?

No, scam bounties still exists on this forum, the good thing is bounty hunters are getting smart now, they've learn to look away when they come across shady bounty campaigns, I've seen many good bounty campaigns this year so far which is good but not until bounty hunters starts making good money from these bounties there is nothing much to say about 2020 bounties yet

Many bounties are still bad news, some bounties of today takes time, mostly 7 to 17 weeks so you won't know if a bounty is scam until the campaign is finally over, it's too early to know if a bounty is scam now because not every bounty will pay you instantly, some are even using COV-19 pandemic as excuse

I think only bounty campaigns are not yet registered at the exchange place, whereas when there are bounty campaigns that have prizes that can be directly sold at the exchange place or the prize is a token or coin that is already available at the exchange, as I am currently participating in a bounty campaigns that have prizes can be directly sold at the exchange place.

Maybe this friend of yours was very lucky with every bounties he promoted this year?? Many bounties are scam as we all know it and they still exists, don't be fooled, be ready to do research so that you won't be a victim of scam projects yourself

I disagreed with this statement that airdrop is ending. Airdrop is even more reliable than the bounty that you will spend several months promoting and not get listed in a year after, Airdrop has minimal tasks that you can finish under 30 minutes even though if they don't pay, it is still far better than months of hard work without nothing to show for it. I have earned more on airdrops in comparison to bounties but required a lot of research and due diligent

You're somehow right and i believe bounty scam will ever exist though it maybe little in the future but the bounty manager also have to play a huge part in making bounty campaign like the early 2016 through prefunding rather than chasing after their own cut because the issue of some scam bounty is the mistake from bounty manager ending.

Why are you listening to your friend you should do your own research, and not depend on your friend's analysis and no I don;t believe there are fewer scam project now, in fact there are still a lot of projects posted in the scam section and these are new projects, so  better check all the projects that you are joining.

In 2020 a lot of bounty has been listed at the exchange, so I believe we will meet good campaigns and not scams. But there's still no guarantee of that, we need to wait another 1-2 months because most of the campaigns are still ongoing and it's not time to distribution yet.

Bounty campaigns that don't pay for reasons of a COV-19 pandemic are a bad campaign and the team is also lazy at work, because they don't look for additional solutions in these circumstances, because if the team is willing to pay they will always look for solutions for that.

COV-19 is not an excuse for a project not to launch or pay bounty hunters, this means the team are either not serious or are just too lazy to work, if you've already promoted such project just have it in mind that you may never get paid

We actually have not been able to assess the bounty in 2020, because 2020 has only run until May. So the assessment is not yet
too accurate, but 5 bounties I have participated in this year, only one scams. This proves this 2020 indeed not as bad as the bounty
in 2019, unfortunately this year there hasn't been a bounty that gives big rewards.

if someone from the beginning of 2020 always did their research well and was always fortunate to join a good bounty they would say if the 2020 bounty was better than 2019. but if on the contrary they would still say 2020 was the same as 2019. and scammers were still hanging around and always will be

We can assess until now, and I'd say bounty is not attractive at the moment, but you are right, we are just going to finish the first half of the year with one month remaining, and there's still a next half to finish, and last time when bitcoin pump, it didn't take half of a year, it only need 3 months and everything went crazy, especially the altcoins market and bounty hunting was a lucrative way of making money that time.

This year i know some few projects that blossomed that ran bounty. I follow only few managers, and projects with high ranked Bitcointalk member as manager.

Be in 2018, 2019, or 2020 bounties scam.
During 2018, it was prominent in the forum, bounties who exitscam after icoes, leaving everyone at loss.
Even last year, the bitagro coin also exit scam, and publicly mentioned theirselves to be scam.

Dyor to reduce the rate of scam bounties you would be joining.

There was a lot of good campaign this year and it looks like so many people didn't do deep research. This year is much better than last year consider the market has been recovering again and that's also bringing the demand to run the bounty.

You could have given a few examples of such bounty campaigns, which really "blossomed". I couldn't find much in 2019 and I thought that 2020 would be no different. But I am sure that there will be a few good projects coming online once in a while. But the real problem is finding these campaigns, out of the thousands which are listed in the bounty section.

I hope your friends are right and maybe new bounties seem to look legit but that was not enough to evaluate and say that they are no scam anymore.
We can't deny that some bounties ended their ICO/IEO successfully but wondering why they don't give a chance to excel in the market, instead, they still looked nothing good but just a dead one.

It is truly difficult too difficult and to judge directly to a new and promising look bounty program until it listed in the market. Then there we can say how it strives for the competition and it could play well.

well what you say is true because right now I am a participant in a bounty campaign which in my opinion is very good because they make coin payments using coins that have been registered at the exchange so not all bounty campaign scams.

There is a lot of news about bounties are scams. But it is just hard to say that, there are fewer scammed bounties than in 2019. l don't think numbers of these can decrease, that is why members of this world are increasing day by day, and it is just a chance for them. It is easy to agglomerate the new members doing their goals.

Maybe your friend participates on bounties which are legit by luck or after enough research but if we take at the total number of bounty campaigns launched since 2019 then most of them were still scams even the projects which raised in millions.

a scam bounty always pop out from time to time.
not to mention not only hunters were fooled but a lot of investors too.
but then again there's always a bounty that would worth your time and let you earn some.

It's true since November every April 2020 I took part in 2 bounties and each of the tokens was void. Almost half a year lost ... I'm afraid it's not over bounty scams.

I'm not seeing any big initiatives are going on this community which will be bringing any changes into ICO industry and its bounty campaigns. I mean when most people are not caring about bounty scams, how we could assume about the possibility of fewer scams suddenly. Please note nothing will happen all of a sudden. Only when you and I will be taking care of some initiate to fight against scams, there will be the possibilities about having a better environment which will be having lesser scammers.

I highly suggest you not to go for your own assumption. Because when we are seeing things which will be looking like what we are actually needed. That could be the reason why you are assuming like there are only fewer bounty scams are right now in this community.

I don't think so. We still see people complaining about bounties not paying them or the whole project ending up with no more updates.
Most people also claim that the project is a scam just because the price of the tokens fell. Anyway, why would you want to spend most of the time doing something that has a very bad outcome? You are gone doing something else!

One thing about the crypto space is uncertainty,sometimes one cannot be too sure,the moment you think all is fine,then you get a sudden shock, but so far from what I see ,I think the scam rate is low, but then, one has to choose carefully and hope for the best. I see lots of promising bounties of recent.

I dont think so!

They might decrease in numbers since they do know that majority of people already treated that most projects that do launched or do need up funding are just total
frauds thats why they do fail up on getting money from its investors.Therefore, they do stop but doesnt mean that the remaining ones are the legit ones ,
im not saying for all since there are projects which are serious to get some funding but i dont blame up people for them to hesitate.

For now, projects that are running bounties seems to show lots of potentials but however, due to COVID19, a lot things and projects developments are being paused so it is hard to say if there are few scam bounties now. We can only hope for quick end of COVID19 so as to see how well the current bounty projects will be able to pull through and probably reward hunters. The campaign you are wearing signatures for is quite a good one though, campaigns from bounty detectives are amazing

This is a difficult thing to answer, I'm just sure the current bounty is much better than the bounty in 2018 - 2019, the signature campaign that you follow does not guarantee success and pays you, "do it at your own risk"

Yes it is difficult because everyone must have a different experience.

I feel that way too. Since early 2020, significant progress has been seen compared to the previous year. It's just that many trends change, for example, 1) reward payments are divided into several phases, 2) there are also bounties with weekly payments, usually with BTC rewards or coins from the project that already has a good market.

Whatever the circumstances, we must adjust to the current bounty trend. We need more patience.

Market conditions make many new projects fail and also attract many fraudsters. It's hard to say there are no scam bounties because in reality there are many who don't pay rewards to bounty hunters. Hopefully there are many new projects that are able to do IEO on a good exchange

As long as we have no valid data based on research about it, we cannot say "there are fewer bounty scams now". It is too speculative and no proofs + analysis at all. Fewer bounty scams can be caused by the lower number of current projects. Or many of them are still on progress and the scammers are playing their scenario more convincing. So, there are many possibilities, we cannot conclude it too early now. 

I don't think it's because of market conditions, but because the project doesn't want to pay bounty hunters, after they've entered the market too, there are a number of projects that I participated in and until now they are still delaying payments, even after 3 months they added 3 more months on the grounds their project was slow in development

Though it might not be so clear to many now because of the negative impact of scammers using bounty campaign but the truth is that there us reduction in the rate of game bounties like we have them in the past. Some good bounties are beginning to come up.

If going by the testimonies of some friends, I will say we now have less of scam bounty campaigns. Some are already making something reasonable from bounty campaign these days which to me is a prove that legit campaigns are beginning to surface.

Even if there are, we should not bring our guards down, it's still risky scammers are not on vacation they are continuously making projects that look good, scammers are far better than legit developers in launching a project so better take heed and always on guard we never know what's going to happen next.

There are a couple of scam bounties and that is why participants and bounty managers must thread carefully which bounty program they promote very well. It is the sole responsibility of bounty managers and bounty hunters to do their due diligence on the project, paying attention to the team, concept, product etc before accepting to promote it. Researching very well helps in identifying scam bounties.

Maybe we can categorize them to the very obvious scam bounty and the semi obvious scam bounty, those that fall in the category of obvious scam bounty have everything in red flag, their white paper is plagiarized, fake team, fake partnership etc.

And those that fall in the category of semi obvious are those that start with everything ranging from white paper,  team and partnership checked out and looks very real, but they will strike at the end of the bounty when they refuse to pay hunters with different excuses or just simply disappear.

It's not a difficult question to answer. There was no a lot of scam projects like what happened around 2018 - 2019 but you have mentioned the point. Any campaign doesn't have guarantee to be a successful campaign.
Maybe there are still some scam bounties but each of bounty will have different result.

Is scam the only problem affecting bounties? What about the projects that aren't scam but failed to pay bounty hunters, and these projects have good volumes on trading exchanges, they just ignore bounty hunters who helped them spread the words about the project? Too many things to worry about here

Right! I agree that the number of scammed bounty projects is decreasing. However, it doesn't mean that there are no scam projects. We always have to be aware of that, don't waste your time and work into a scam project. The best thing to do is that you have to be good at doing research. It reduces the risk of being scammed!

Your friend is wrong, Scammers are still at work and there are some bounties that aren't real on this forum right now, he must have said that maybe because every bounties he promoted paid him so far? Well don't let your guide down, scam projects are still alive on here

Yes, the scam bounties still out there and search for the other investor to trick them and get their money. There is no other way for us to prevent them except always be careful if we want to be their investor or their participants because they can easily to trick us and run away. We need to search for more about the project and the team so that it can reduce the risk of the scamming, and we can get the right project to invest or to participate. But still, it is hard to see the bounties will be reduced.

Nope, there are plenty of bounties scams out there, not only a few. What you didn't see or know about those scams because they aren't outcried to pull an exit as they used to before. Usually, they try to misinformation first to throw people off-hook, said there are problems to check and bounties will be pay at later, excuse and such like that to prolong bounty hunters attention. Just a way to lessen the angry and public attention toward their scams one they run off.

if in my opinion there will still be a fraudulent project ,, but it depends on you, now you only need to follow the project that really pays and successfully managed if the manager and successfully promote the project properly and correctly ... maybe this could be your reference .

There may be fewer scam bounties but the problem now is they are delaying and locking the distribution until such time that the coin lose its value, altcoins bounty hunting now has so many risks because there are no guaranty of proper distribution, and they change the rules every now and then and hurt the interest of bounty hunters.

Therer fewer bounties companies in 2020 in generalm thats why there is few bounties scams. I dont sure that % was changed

No and yes because scammers are using other means than how it's been formerly done, and why their will be scammers is because any venture or means that people see is fetch earning for people and it has been drawing people attention, some will want to take advantage of little trust in it. So that is it. Their is scammers but using other means they can be detected easily like that

It depends on your context of scam here. There are some projects that pay their bounty participants and the project it’s self becomes useless and worthless. While some won’t even pay at all maybe due to some circumstances.

Anyways only few are there you can gain out of the rest are waste of time.

There are not much scam going on - that's true.
But the percentage of worth investing your time projects is lowering month to month

It is true that the bounties that are scams have decreased a lot in the last time but unfortunately the value of the rewards remains very low for all new projects / ico that have bounty campaigns...

scammers have never been reduced even more scammers are roaming at this time, but now more and more people are smart in doing research so that many scammers here are caught

Scam bounties still exists on this forum, 2020 a lot of bounty has been listed at the exchange, so I believe we will meet good campaigns and not scams. at the moment there are some good bounty campaigns and on average held by bounty detectives you only need to follow the project that really pays and successfully managed if the manager and successfully promote the project properly and correctly. some campaigns managed by Bounty Detective, they managed many successful bounty campaigns, instead of others they try to manage credible projects.

but some bounties that I followed with the manager who could be said to be good have not paid or have clarity, yes I hope the project will do what it should do, maybe they need time to launch, or I have to look at their telegrams and get the latest information about their development.

I think he is wrong day by day the crypto market is boosting and with real projects, there are many scam projects which also enter in the crypto market, But in beginning, we mostly did not detect or recognize that project and many investor and hunters lose their money and precious time, But thanks to those senior forum members who some time flag the new projects which are looking scam, like their team is not real, whitepaper plagiarism check and social media pages.

yes bounty is now better than in the previous year, some bounties in 2020 already have an exchange so bounty participants don't think too much about the project, because what I know if the project is listed means the project is serious about developing the project

for the bounty project is still the same as before, where to detect it of course we did not know at the beginning of the project, even though your friend said there are only a few scam prizes now but you should be careful too, don't choose the wrong project.

Good point, nowadays more and more hunters learned from their previous mistakes not researching well before joining the
bounty, they know now to track the project especially the team behind
and who's the manager that will going to takeover, there are still lots of scammers around we can't denied that but with
doing your research it will lessen the chance of doing the same mistake.
Bounty's participations allows you to earn decent profits if you will do your homework checking the potentials of the team
and the usage of the project around this industry.

True! As a bounty hunter, I recognize that I have been doing a lot of research whenever I want to join a project. You guys are right about scammers! There'll be more and more people who will do bad things for their own behalf, however, we will be wiser and more careful in making any decision in this cryptocurrency world!

Fewer bounty scams? I dont think so.

Because if that is the case then it would not be hard to spot a legit bounty to participate in.

However we know its still hard to choose a good bounty because majority of them are scam or failed project. Thats why its a must to do an extensive research before joining.

Currently, It's hard for us to research whether it's a good bounty or not, Because now the Scammers have found a way to convince the Bounty Hunter, They made a project that seemed like a good one with a reliable team, even though it was a fake team. It's better to join Bounty where their tokens are already listed on Exchange.

that's right. in 2019 it seems 80% of the bounty campaigns are scams and we are the most disadvantaged. But now we're back to legit bounty but the pool is very low. Currently, Wapinter and Bounty Detective are managing many of the most prestigious and quality projects. You can join their bounty group to search for good projects.

Not hard as all of us are thinking because there are more scam busters in our forum who are really doing hard work to find out the scammers and report about the scam projects in "Scam Accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)" section, also high rank/DT members flag the bounty manager users to warn the bounty hunters that the project is scam one. Inspite all of this, sometimes many of the scam projects list in the exchanges with a good price and many of the bounty hunters think that it might genuine as the coin's listed in exchange ( sometime i regret for not joining the bounty which has scam accusations flag but listed in exchange) . But it's a wrong thinking because the price of that coin dump in a large scale before the bounty distribution. Mainly, they are the previous scammers who has some funds from the previous scamming and use that funds to list the current project in order to attracting new investors and they left out when they get some new investor's funds. That's the simple tricks to run a scam project even listing in a exchange without any real use-case of blockchain.  ;D ;)

The best bounties on the forum right now are managed by good bounty managers, wapinter, julerz12, bubbalex, bounty detective, so yes scam projects are now limited, bounty detective manages many bounties so far, like over 7 projects this year, that's many to get bounty hunters very busy

no, not yet. because now I still see many scam ICO projects. But now we have the Bounty Detective. They are one of the biggest followers on Telegram and they only choose the best projects to manage. We can say that bounty programs are better now with Bounty detective. Besides, I still see a lot of trash bounty.

Yes because only few of them now succeed and got listed in an exchange, many of the ICO back then are just in it for the money nothing else still today many of the projects are just looking for a quick buck, bounty managers are here to manage bounties but if they do investigate the project they are holding is an added bonus. 

We can't tell yet, believe me when I say that not all that glitters are of gold, not all these bounties that looks less scamming in front of everyone of you will end well, some will turn scam and some won't pay you when bounty is over, there is no way to know until bounty is over

I cannot really comment as I have not been active in the bounties section for 2 years now,,, but from what I can see online, the bounty portals have either closed down or are very inactive. Even now and then I can see YT videos promoting some bounty for easy money,,, but still I do not think these people actually pay out, because they attract scammers and people who just ask about listing or when can sell or whatever.

I have participated in a lot of bounty of trusted managers at this forum. But not every campaign is successful, sometimes they still manage the scammer projects and waste of bounty hunter time. It is best to do your own research, selecting the campaigns according to your evaluation

Well this year I don't know if the bounty scams are few now because I participated bounties in the past and some of them were not paying yet because the reason is we are on pandemic, some were extended the date of distribution of the reward, it sucks you know.

good thing you have shared that experience of yours because many people are still blinded by that . they say choose a trusted manager to escape scams but i dont believe this hundred percent and im correct with it because you here also experience it for real while i myself have stop joining a bounty long time ago . scams are still too much till this date so his friend could be lying or only a newbie on this world of bounties because he arent aware of others feedbacks.

some people run bounty without noticing the bounty is run by scam and many projects do not come to stand only to collect from people and move away it very clear but some people don't understand it that way' i will disagree with you because what you said is true by bounty projects

for now I think the bounty scam has been reduced because there are some bounty managers who have held tokens for participants first to ensure the participants get their rights, so now there are many factors that make it difficult to scam bounty

I agree with you that now the number of scam bounties has decreased. Because now the bounty managers are aware of this and some active members of the forum are doing research on it. But even if the bounty fund is escrow, it can be a scam if the contract address of the escrow token is changed, such as Burst money bounty.

You have experience too much in 2019 ? then how come that 2020 and forward will be the good year?

how would you expect that Bounty will improve when year after year the scams increasing here and there.

Lol , Bounty scam reduced? or maybe hunters learn their lessons now and not joining scam projects.

He won't have that conclusion if he didn't experienced it. I don't know if what is the state of bounties during that year but if ever they improved, wouldn't you liked it? Because it seems you prefer the classic bounties where the number of legit bounties are fewer than the scammed ones. You and @Andam76 got a point. In the past, there are less to none managers that escrows the token but later on they are now making it as a practice because scams have become rampant.

This is what the hunters are looking for, they check if there's an "escrow" word before they join. They already learned their lessons. The introduction of stable coins and alts like bnb, matic and similar coins, have also helped reduce the number of scam bounties because they are now being used for payments instead of project tokens.

How do you say so?

If we do see less bounties as of this moment compared into the past then it does signifies that there is indeed some realization out of those scammy devs that they arent getting that much attention
since there are no people who do join up these bounties because they are mostly scams.

I do rather believe that there are even more scam projects in the market as of today even though there are some which are legit or does have potential
but that would really be just like finding a needle on a haystack even though how hard you do make out some research.

You are wrong because there are many scam bounty processing right now. Recently i have been participate a bounty Elixpad and we got our bounty token but no value. It show me because team now offline even there official telegram group already delete with other social channels inactive so maybe elixpad gone to scam.

One of the major things to consider before doing bounty is to look at the reputation of the bounty manager, has he or she had lots of successful bounty programs before, I believe that any reputable  bounty manager on this forum will not want to have a bad project attached to his name, they will do their research before accepting any bounty and moreso bounty program that the team of the project run by themselves mostly do scam only few of them are genuine

There are many professional manager doing promoting scam bounty. Here i would say scam is a special reason that professional managers are using escrow to manage their bounty. Moreover, there is nothing to be surprised about because we are not able to sell the token after receiving it because the token is not getting any exchange.
because you will see in reviewing that all those projects have become inactive so it is a worthless token. Anyway we can get confirm token from professional bounty manager but mostly lot of worthless token.