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Bounty hunters got cheated again, actually is this ever going to stop? Do you guys remember OLPORTAL? Bounty hunters are asked to drop ETH address to get tokens and they end up forcing bounty hunters to go and download OLCF wallet and import recovery seed to receive tokens, how did they cheat? Their shit OLCF wallet only accepts Recovery seed only, leaving out those with private keys, you can only import if you are using mycelium or others like it but for those using multi wallet like Coinomi we are out of luck, the team just ignore others like that.

That's really risky they are not been cheated. They're been scammed, if you are really do not understand cryptocurrency and how it works you will likely be fall for this scam. Let's just hope this kind of tricks would stop you really need to learn a lot of things so you would not be able to get scammed by this kind of projects.

Welcome to Bounty world Mate as this is normal and not new,Though seems like you still not aware of this.
In each Bounties that you will going to Join ,Expect more than Half of them may end like that or much Worst because Nowadays only very few in bounty area that who's being truthful and you can find it all over the forum that bounty hunter are making accusation about the team,or sometimes the manager.
But good for you that now awareness is coming your way and sooner you will not become a Victim of this scammers.

If that is the case i would not suggest to enter the private keys or even import your private eth wallet to their wallet as this can be highly risky and they can simply end up as failed or scam project which can leave many people at risk of losing their eth and tokens stored in their private eth wallets.

There have been many projects like these appearing and they always make bounty hunters take time and effort to serve their purposes. Luckily they don't have to join members to join their bounty campaign to do KYC :)
To avoid such projects, before participating in a bounty campaign, you should clearly ask the campaign manager about the token distribution date and the conditions for receiving tokens. Let's be clear from the start and when the project team cheats ,we still have evidence to say. ;)

That's tricky but obviously to deceived bounty hunters. Sorry mate, but it seems they are trying to buy time to avoid payment.

I also known this project and didn't know that they will keep insisting a way like this. That's how bounty works on real life, if unlucky you'll face something like this along the way. The better thing to do is move on and forget this scam project. Try your luck with new ones, some campaigns are really hard to grasp whether they are scam or not even there are lots of progress on their end.

Basically anything with "crypto" is a scam, with few exceptions (most of the real cruypto projects are listed here in this forum and have active community support).

I think the best is to always try to avoid unkown and small cryptocurrency business, until they are really established. Unfortunately, this is the reality we live in: lots of scammers.

AS for bounty hunters, go to small projects if they hire a reputable campaign manager. If they do not even have the money to hire a campaign manager, you are unlikely to get paid imo.

that is only a small part of the many types of fraud against investors or hunters.
So I wouldn't be too surprised considering there are a lot of projects doing the same thing, of course with different things but with the same aim to deceive everyone associated with the project.

In addition to this claim; i gladly inform everyone that despite importing wallets or submitting details as instructed by the olportal team. THEY STILL REFUSED TO SEND BOUNTY REWARDS, Instead they only allocated 10,000 olcf tokens which was designed to be rewards for using the ime app. What olportal has done is very deceitful,

I found this message in their official group.
Actually importing a wallet is an option (I don't recommend importing your wallet either). I just found out about this iME wallet, but it would be impossible if this platform does not allow creating new wallets. Maybe iMe is their partner or to avoid distribution fees (if it's a custodial wallet).
I think it's just OP problem who can't create a new wallet, some people I see have got tokens.

Well for shitty decisions like that, there's only one solution.
Just create a new wallet and use it. There's nothing to be stolen on it, so it's risk free

+1 as long as you still don't receive the payment you can create a wallet I'm mycelium if that was they asked.

By the way mycelium and coinomi is the same wallet that asked passphrase to log in , meaning you can also enter your address from mycelium to coinomi or vice versa. The only problem I saw is if the wallet support that currency or it's not?

It looks like you are new in the bounty hunting. be careful with any projects. You can also follow the legit projects dude. In fact, the problem in the cryptocurrency should be the rules that has already made by the team itself. I just wanna try to remind you about the team has been putting the rules if the team will able to change the rules and that means they can put any rules which have been making the hunters got nothing from their work.  

The team should have allowed everyone to change their old wallet address to the new OLCF wallet address, this is a way to avoid not paying all the participants, once again bounty hunters have been used and dumped I hope that those who are insulting bounty hunters are seeing this right now, asking people to drop eth address and now asking them to import their recovery seed into a new wallet?

Yes, that's right, replacing a new wallet is one of the right solutions to avoid losing the assets that we have in the future because if we continue to maintain our old wallet, of course this is very risky because we have entered the private key as they asked for, that's the reason do I very rarely participate in bounty projects that require participants to import seeds and private wallets to receive payments.

I can't say that OP is entirely wrong, although some part are wrong, there was a time where Olportal team allow some to change their wallet address from the old to new one but on a very limited time, I guess OP don't know about this or missed out already, now it's close, this is what olportal team did wrong, they should have just sent out all tokens to acquired addresses, the OLCF is still a ERC20 token, what difference does it make asking people to download the new wallet? They intended to carry out this operation to limit those that will get paid

It's a strategy to avoid paying all participants the promised tokens, some won't be able to import their recovery seed because of security purposes and others can't even import recovery seed because their wallets don't have one, you can only get private keys out of recovery seeded wallets using iancoleman but not recovery seed from private keys, what a shame

Any project that ask you download software that is not open sourced and ask you to transfer your private key is questionable, you should never take their recommendation, remember the big lesson in Cryptocurrency, not your key not your coin you and only those you trusted should only have a copy of your private, don't be misled of the promised new coin, you will end up sorry.

That is part of bounty hunting, I've been into several projects where I spent weeks or sometimes months promoting projects and end up being scammed or unpaid. It's part of the risk. This risk can be reduced if you will review the project, the terms of bounty, and conditions before joining. If you think it is sketchy, and not comfortable with the terms and conditions, don't join.

It is normal in the bounty section. If you want this to stop, then stop joining bounty campaigns with a newbie bounty manager. If you want to continue working in bounty campaigns and sure to receive the amount of token you've expected to receive, you should always join the bounty campaign of a legit campaign manager like Hhampuz. And of course, you should research the project itself if this project will become a success. That's why I don't usually join bounty campaigns it is not sure that they will pay your service advertising them.

There is nothing anyone can do about it, maybe that's why bounty hunters are even getting cheated from time to time, this crypto space is a free zone for all kind of activities, scam, hacks and cheats knows no boundaries on here, just accept your defect this time and move on, this isn't the end of the road, some projects still cares about bounty hunters and they will keep their promises

it is often happen to us and not be the first time since many bounty campaign launched. scammers know how to cheat us and they could ask us to do something meanwhile its useless. but we should not give up with this condition , as you said there are alot campaign that still fullfiled their promises to bounty hunter


unfortunately bounty hunter didnt read the rules carefully , and complaining about their work meanwhile its broke the rules. sometimes mistake come from our side.

2nd time or 3rd?
When this happens I just ignore them.
I don't want any more headaches just keeping track of what will happen which in the end is always a bad ending.
Save yourself some trouble of doing so and just move on.
Let this be another lesson that will be listed in your experience diary.  ;D

I would advise everyone not yield to thier demand in order to send out tokens to those who support their promotion. That's something silly to ask someone for private keys on anon trusted app.
You guys can as well create new wallet address, import the keys on the wallet, send Ether to the wallet as gas fee once everyone receives the token and send them to exchange or in your own personal wallet. ( I doubt if they would accept the condition)

Is it your first time being a victim of a scam? If so, it's only natural that you will be very shocked when you fall victim to a scam in the bounty program. Being a bounty hunter must be prepared to face a scam like this. There is no need to fully expect the rewards given by the bounty program because you will be very disappointed if the bounty program that you join ends in a scam.

Their campaign and their rules. This is the big risk when participated in the bounty campaign. The reward is being controlled by the developers and when they were putting the new rules for the participants and it could become the worst thing for the hunters because there will be so many hunters can't claim their reward.
This is not a new thing but this problem will never end for sure. It seems like the team has tried various ways to avoid the hunters.

Wapinter is the bounty manager that introduced this OLPORTAL, I'm surprised the end result was like this honestly, I had a high respect for wapinter among other bounty managers in this space, I'm confused why Olportal team decide to cheat bounty hunters this way, is the bounty manager aware? That won't even make a difference, what can the bounty manager do in this situation? Nothing I guess

Not really a surprise to most of the hunters at all.
I have been around the forum for more than 3 years and heard so many hunters posting about scam bounties or not getting paid.
Don't worry we know that this wouldn't be the last there are many more scam projects to be created in the future.

Lesson to learn on it is to avoid joining any bounty asking for the unusual. Like the above, if it is clearly stated while the bounty started to run , just choose to ignore it. You can also stop along the way if news on additional requirements is/are introduced.

Avoid joining bounty with unknown managers.
Avoid joining bounty with managers who have only produced shit tokens that keeps falling after distribution. They have not proved their worth and they won't be able to do that.
Avoid bounty managers that have been tagged for bounty issues.

Bounty needs to be cleaned up and until then, be careful to join.

This scam is not going to end at this, they probably take the logs of your recovery seeds and can steal your digital assets if you have anything left in it, and it's clear that this attitude is a pure sign of a scam. You can get their reputation at stake by creating scam accusations against them which is more appropriate to do now than educating people about their existence.

I don't join OLPORTAL Airdrop, but I take some important points from your explanation, if the project asks participant to submit recovery seeds I categorize the project as a scam.  I didn't find anything promising about this project especially they listed OLCF on a scam exchange (Coinsbit).  If you have valuable assets in your old wallet, I hope you must immediately transfer to a new wallet to avoid things that we don't want.

And that's little!

I know projects that even ask you for ETH to receive payments.

And the tokens have no market!

I think the best way is to report these guys, but nevertheless they wear masks online.

I leave you an article about the most scammers of crypto in history: https://es.beincrypto.com/conoce-6-cripto-estafas-mas-grandes-historia-hasta-2020/

What a BS, That's basically scamming. They are basically forcing the bounty hunters to send eth and hunters can't avoid it since their hard work will be in vain if they don't send the amount.

But even if they got their tokens, will there be a value in the market? I don't think it is a smart move to compromise your account with worthless tokens. Also, it is better for the OP to create a scam accusation thread so people will know this kind of project. As others have already mentioned, if they are asking for your private keys, doubt the motive of the project. A legit one will never ask your private keys.

its true mate, sometimes we will bad situation in future while working in bounyt campaign. scammed and lied by developer team will be our experience in future. prepare our emotion while joining on it , so when our work not paid by team we will feel fun and its okay.

I didn't take part in the bounty or try their wallet, and I didn't have time to try it so i don't know exactly what is the real problem here. Is this from the project, or it just from you, because don't know how to use it

But to say that project scam you should make strong proof and I think your proof is not strong. let's say that this project is scam, you are a bounty hunter, and you have to be prepared for anything including scammed by a project

We can see a lot of projects that are created to cheat bounty hunters, that has become normal in the crypto space, if we are not careful of choosing a project to support, this forum will be file up with scam accusations. I would like to say move on although you are cheated again, eventually you'll be able to find a good project and learn from that experience to help you mature as a bounty hunter.

How much were their offering? It looks like you were hunting for some great value in tokens. This crappy OLCF is worth 0,0007 USD per coin and is getting lower by the day. Proably those who were able to claim are getting rid of it and buying something more valuable.

Those were some smart devs. They knew by allowing only seeds and not private keys to be redeemed they'll get rid of some of the hunters and keep some coins in their pockets while at the same time satisfying enough people for the airdrop not to be called a scam. At least not loud enough.

To keep your wallet safe all the essentials that are needed to be kept by yourself should not be disclose. Clearly that platform is a phishing platform. There is no free money right now unless you are doing promotional activities that will get you rewards. In this case being cautious is always and first thing to do if you do not want to lose your money.

Lastly, keeping all members here in the forum to be aware is good and hopefully every scam that happen here should be shared to keep us being aware of the scammers activities.

It looks like it's too much but it won't stop as long as there will be bounty projects who are keep on looking for participants. It's the essence of the bounty, they pay you with tokens or ask you to download something such as an app forcefully as a requirement for the reward.
I wouldn't do such and if something like that happens at the middle of the bounty, I wouldn't care anymore with the reward or stakes that were counted for me as long as it's already been there. Choose the bounties you participate that won't do the same thing. Importing your private keys to an unknown wallet? it's already a redflag.

Scam has often has been by professional from the past common and well it is mandatory for you to always remind your bounty hunter colleagues, project will be the same as any other web project to cheat in the form of plagiarism so please keep research judging from various point and think of other view and one more time dont always be sure by start to work.

Although this is bad and it is really insulting, sorry for the time wasted, but I'm already used to it.  There were many projects that were blown away.  At first everything seems to look good, but in the end it becomes a scam again.  Now I have become very careful in choosing companies.

I am not surprised with what the opening post has experienced, because right now there are so many scam projects.
Therefore, always be careful in choosing projects, don't forget to do research on projects that we want to participate in.
What you experience will make you more vigilant in choosing projects in the future, because experience is one of the keys
to success. So with your experience being a victim of scammers, it can prevent you from scam projects with the same method.

unfortunately for traders or new players in cryptocurrency who still don't have experience, they will be susceptible to scam and of course that will only make us lose, how do new players check plagiarism? because I know they don't know the previous project was a scam or not.

This can’t be stop and bounty hunters have to be more choosy on working with the project because not all is true and worth it. Feel sorry for those who participated on their bounties and of course to those who invested on scam projects. You’d better to work with the trusted manager and I’m sure most of their project are worth to try.

welcome to bounty world mate, they were really promising and legit at first but no matter how the current condition is they can do anything with that money and just run away some money as well as scamming bounty rewards with their shit scheme such as you just have posted, it is really common practice and we should not have any high expectation about bounty ever again

the OLCF project is still running but for the volume of their tokens on the Exchange is not so good, I think they are buying time for payment, even though the payment is happening in the near future but the token will not be able to be sold because the buy order does not exist

There is too many scam bounty running in this forum.
Also many bounty seems legit but when bounty ends they scammed with hunters.
Bounty hunter work hard to promote their project.
But didn't get any reward.
What a sorrow!
Isn't their any way to get rid of from this.
Isn't bitcointalk organization take any action against those kind of project.??

These scammers will never stop so for the hunters to Prevent being Victim of this Modus better stop joining Projects so the Scam company might not gather
Victims in their Fake projects.
This is the sad part here in which the Bounty participants are the One who's Involved in Advertising for the team to Have investors but in the end Either the Hunter will be Blamed for the Dumping of Tokens or they are being Fooled and let their work be in Vain.
If there will no Participants then No one will be fooled and cheated.

Agree, we must be vigilant because private keys are important for our wallets. We should not enter our private key in applications that we don't know yet because the application maker might want to steal coins or tokens in our wallet.

I see Olportal from the very beginning on the bounty thread, my initial evaluation of this project is quite good because they have been building their own project. But the problem of getting caught all became serious when the project announced a change in development plans, bountyhunters wanted their money but the Olportal side wanted to extend the time and eventually they came up with a new rule. This is fundamentally not new, but Olportal's way of doing things is unprofessional because they don't have clear notice of the hunter's queries or the project's community members.

There is no way to be careful here, Olportal isn't a scam project but yet they tend to cheat bounty hunters, OP choose a project with good use case, bounty hunters job is to avoid scam projects and that's what he did and now the non scam project still planned to cheat, how are we going to be careful around such move? We can't tell which project will cheat or not.

It's better to let go than to risk importing your eth address into this project new wallet, if they can have the gut to cheat their promoters then they can do anything, they are not to be trusted, you can only relax if your eth address have no valuable assets in it or you should move all your assets to another new eth address.. also stop using the address once you get the token

I don't join bounties that ask to download their wallets. Focus on those bounties that ask to use Ethereum address. These are all tricks to dupe the bounty hunters by dev. They must-have feature to recover the coins through the private keys as well. My friend you learned a bitter lesson it will help you in the future to be more careful.

This is how bounty hunter life works, its always 50/50 chance if they will be paid or not. Even the project is successful there is still a chance that it will not pay for the bounty campaign. Bounty hunters know this risk when joining bounty, they`re been cheated but still pursue to join another campaign, thats how the bounty hunter life works.

There is no way to know which project team will be sincere and which one will take advantage of anything they see, including bounty hunters, this is something that all bounty hunters must accept because it has no solution, if you can't accept the risks of promoting projects you shouldn't be a bounty hunter in the first place, many projects will definitely disappoints

This project is initially guaranteed to list okex and coinall but all i see is on the coinsbit list. I think their development plan has been very problematic since the important goals they have set have not been fulfilled and i only see they have been having problems with the hunter for the past few months, which is why not really good for a project.

This kind of thng should be noticed before hand not at the end of bounty hunter like that. If they don't give a way for the participant to claim it, then it's total scam since it's considered as scheming and also the fault is at them for not noticing before hand.
This is why escrow is really recommended for any bounty campaign, atleast we can be rest assured with the escrow.

Nothing new with this scenario. I've seen numerous scam projects in the past already and this is just one of the projects that will turn out scam this year :D. More will come in the future.

You posted this because possible that you got scammed too or cheated. Either way, you are frustrated that is why you posted this. There is nothing you can do but to move on, find another one and do it again or stop if you want to.

This is why I am always saying there should be a union for bounty hunters and airdropers. If we were to build a huge union with a lot of respectable members, we could show these type of places how we are legit good crypto followers that could help them, provide them with proof of what we have done so far and the amount of money we helped projects get funded for as well, we could really grow big ourselves.

In return of that we would ask these places to use the union as escrow, or find another escrow, so that the tokens or any other currency they want to pay with should be guaranteed and the project has to have a bottom as well, if the tokens they are distributing drops under 10 dollars per person, we require regular usdt or btc payments for it otherwise they will be punished via all the union members going around talking bad about the project calling it a scam, which would hurt when hundreds of them do it.

Wrong accusation mate, Olportal have distribute 10,000 OLCF to all those who opened new wallet address and also all bounty hunters are qualified for the extra tokens, the distribution of the tokens on spreadsheet is still commencing I guess, some are saying they failed to change old address to new one, if you are one of them then it's your fault, it means you aren't following the project telegram group

yes I remember that project, if I'm not mistaken the project was launched in 2019 last year. So, I am not wrong after observing their project, if the project ends up being a SCAM and even importing a recovery seed to claim the token. but lucky because I used a new wallet and not my personal wallet.

Well, it turns out that the project is still new , if made in 2019. If so you are still lucky because you do not use a personal wallet. It's the right solution, for a case like this.
Scams and fake projects will always be there constantly, for that as bounty hunters must always be vigilant. It does not harm if want to follow the bounty project, choose a manager who has been trusted in this forum, to avoid this kind of fraud.

generally, hunters are vulnerable in scam although the project seems really good with proper team management from the beginning to end of the campaign. Unfortunately hope vanished away. Promising project turn to shitty. Potential coins come up to garbage. Overall, you has nothing to gain from all of your doing to promote them. Yes, we should move on and not to give up because there are projects with greater value than their IEO. Legit project was born, so scam. Our responsibility is to take care ourselves from obvious scam activity. Be careful.

One of things that saddens me is the way hunters are being treated. There are many project that have done like this. Unfortunately nothing can be done to this. Just hope the team can change their mind or move on.

be careful in choosing a project, there are a lot of projects that only deceive us, only we have to be smart in choosing projects.  I'm glad you realized that before I became a victim, I as a bounty hunter had many ups and downs, there were also many projects that I took a scam on, and some paid me.  but I am still passionate about looking for profit here.

When there is a market rally you will see many scams and you should not install any application that anyone of the team ask you to unless you can trust them and someone verified the code, if not all of the coins stored in your wallets can be hacked. So always be careful what you download and which sites you visit as the criminals are looking for new opportunities to scam people.

That's not truth because everything with crypto represent innovation but that doesnt guarantee that the abuser of the crypto industry will not use it for their own selfish purpose.


To be honest with you, this will never stop if the bounty manager dont make of the right solution through the use of an escrow service which will secure bounty hunters payment.

The risk of joining bounties right now was just a part of a norms of cryptocurrency. That depends on our breakthrough or mindset whether a positive or negative outcomes might initiate. If we're cheated, then move on and have another chapter of your life in order to prosper with your finances.

can not be much expected the current bounty is more likely the scam is more severe about the distribution of coins will be delayed a few months and it will make bounty hunters more frustrated the impact is worse when a KYC occurs and the hunters do KYC this will make it worse their loss is because there are so many incidents of a bounty hunter always complaining because the olportal bounty scam is on purpose not to pay the hunters because for so long the distribution has had a very disappointing effect.

Even if we have evidence to say, its not ensure us to get our reward. There's terms that make they always right and inviolable  :-X

Yes this is a true claim, the team only sent 10,000 tokens to all bounty hunters instead of sending the actual amounts they earned on spreadsheet, right now many are complaining on the telegram group and the team remained silent, some are saying they will send it later and some have already give up, the worth of all the 10,000 tokens is just 8$ at present value, I do hope the team end up keeping their promise

I participated on that bounty campaign and I am still waiting for my rewards, I did something for them like helping their community to grow faster. But in the end this is the result. I don't really expect this project is gonna scam us.

I think i had seen this Olporal somewhere and yeah there are Hunters that having issue and demand about the payments,Who's the Manager of this project?
Is this your First Bounty joining mate?Welcome to the Bounty world in which scam is part of Hunters daily living but it seems like they are using to it thats why even How many times they have been Cheated yet joining again the next day.

I am sorry to hear you got scammed. Unfortunately there is no way around it, there will always be people who want to profit from the success of others without doing the work. And especially in the last few month there was a big rally in crypto prices. I would argue that the higher the prices also the higher the number of scammers is going to be. For example, I have been trading a lot in CSGO skins over the last 4 years. There is a huge market with so many scammers that it is unbelievable, and they never disappear. Because the skins can be worth thousands of dollars, there will always be people you try to scam you. Which is really sad.

I see many projects like this, after they finish campaigning to get tokens we have to pay to get them, I think this doesn't make sense, not necessarily their tokens are quality for the price, otherwise we will definitely lose to get these tokens. In my opinion, this is a scam project, it's better to just leave it so unwanted things don't happen, because there is no project after they finish the campaign and then ask for payment from all bounty hunters to get the token.

Maybe these kinds of scams are the current setup of most Alternate Cryptocurrencies campaign since the same thing happened to me with another campaign. They really waited for the last day to bring up some news that would really bring down the project like an unexpected KYC which was unexpectedly needed.

If you aren't prepared for results like this you should stop promoting bounties because out of 10 new projects only up to 3 projects have sincere team members that cares about their promoters and also their very own reputation, this is just how things works in crypto space, unfortunately it's not going to stop happening

I remember that OLPortal promised to distribute rewards in 3 months after they got listed (they announced listing on coinall.com). Still waiting for this...
Btw, you say they force hunters to download their OLFC wallet, but where it can be downloaded from? On their webpage there is only iOS/Android chat apps, and the wallet is "Under development". Are you sure that OLFC wallet you write about is created by OLPortal team and not by scammers ?

I think you need to look at yourself again, if you keep joining scammed projects not ones and you never learn from your past mistakes then it is time to sit down and look at your decision making. A project that is asking for your seed and private keys have hidden agenda and no one should release such to anyone. And this should sound as a note of warning to people in this space as we enter the bull market, a lot of these scams will enter the space to take advantage of you always do your own research do not trust them with your BTC and other tokens

Hunters should be proud about the word hunter, bounty hunter is not something to taken lightly. You think back in the day in wild west all bounty hunters managed to go catch the bad guy? I can promise you that there were a lot of bounty hunters who failed and paid with their lives plus there were many that just plain old failed to find.

We hear about the good ones or we play the good ones in games because we can restart. At the end of the day hunting is not a 100% guaranteed thing, sometimes you hit it right in the head and you make a ton of money, or sometimes you fail and get nothing at all. If you are a hunter, the only time you truly fail is the moment you decide to stop, if you stop that means you will never succeed again, but if you continue even though you may fail sometimes, you can at least succeed as well.

Expect some late changes form the team behind the projects since they what the rights to do so. It has never been different from any other bounty campaigns that I joined in the past, just like what happened to Payaccept the team had to make some changes to due its BM was allegedly a scammer, and bounty hunters are force to get and resubmit it in the form anew. It is inevitable since we are only paid workers they are the one that dictates what to do but i hope their doing their job as well fair and honest.

When encounter this situation，i rather just white busy and not submit my private key. If i have to hands over private key，I would create a new wallet address and submit this new one. If not accept new address，then i give up.

It is not normal. We should not continue to see that as normal. A fraud is not normal. It is evil and something to stop or control it has to be done. When something of such happens high ranking users here can find a way to tag the user account promoting or managing the bounty. With this managers will be careful accepting new bounties to manage. This is heartbreaking for hunters afer wasting time to be in the bounty.

From bounty airdrops campaigns I have up to 20 coins in my wallet that are dump and this made me stop participating in any for like a year now. In this Crypto world, I have who I refer to as a Crypto mentor recently when I decided to come back to bounty I just asked for advice on few projects I can embark on and it has never been a scam. Don't give up

Can't stop them anyway. They don't have any reason why having here in the forum but just to deceive people.
Scammers won't stop scamming people until nobody has been tricked by this kind of eye-catching offerings. I'd never thought that greedy people had already learned but somehow, they still keep that attitude until now. No wonder why these people still exist.

We cannot stopped this scammers but we can stopped oneself from being scammed. Though as a newbie I joined many bounty but at the end of it all is either there was a mistake in the count of stakes or the money wasn't paid at all at the end of the campaign.

That is seriously a sad reality about bounty hunting for the fact that scam is associated on this industry and many bounty hunters are always at risk of getting scammed or never paid for the job they have done for the project. That is why it is really a must to check for the credibility of the project before engaging for you might get into the trap and you will just end up realizing you have wasted your time into something which is not worth your time and effort and recognizing it after all as a scam one. Such scheme of having too many processes to claim your reward is already an obvious action of buying time to avoid payments for the bounty hunters for they have already achieved what they wanted from them to promote and gain funds using other people's effort and perseverance to earn through bounty hunting. We cannot do anything about it for we are in a vast world where many scammers are scattered around. We just need to be aware to avoid getting caught into such scams for our own sake and welfare.

During the previous bull run, it was the glorious days for bounty hunters. By the time the bounty rewards earned for years gave good profit out of the growth that happened with each and every ICO without reason. Very few got luck to cashout, while most of the users kept hold expecting big. Now things have changed and only the trusted and legitimate one grows whereas the rest gets into scamming as it can't get the investors.

It was a glorious days for bounty hunters in 2017 because every good and bad projects made insane money through crowdfunding and their tokens surge higher due to the present bullrun then, it's not the same today, if projects failed to meet their expectations they tend to cut off bounty hunters or split the bounty allocations, I don't kinda blame them for that, the best bounties of this year all raise funds successful and they hit top exchanges

Smart in seeing opportunities and risks, that's what we need to always underline. If our level of analysis is still lacking, I am sure there are still people willing to help analyze and provide good recommendations before the request is sent which in the end we understand and are born with caution, thus the chance of risk becomes smaller.

in essence they don't want to pay the bounty like there is one project that is doing the same thing and instead delete the bounty hunter account which has a balance in it I forget again what the name of the project is but it is one coin that is quite popular
This is very detrimental if they cheat where we have to follow their rules when implementing the bounty but they don't carry out their obligation to pay the bounty hunters

Many threads have addressed many issues concerning been scammed but this one is just an example of many projects in the same vein. In crypto market, we have to deal with  issues like this with diligent so has not to fall into another scammed project

If you import your wallet recovery seeds in their wallet isn’t that a very risky thing to do? You will be giving them control over the wallet you’re importing and that means they can take your coins anytime they want to, and you will end up losing two ways, both your money and your tokens that were promised by them.

Moreover we don’t know if this project you’re talking about is real or not. Stop engaging in projects that doesn’t seem legit to you, sometimes your instincts tells you what to do and if you don’t respect that you will regret it later. Be careful 8).

People very often pay attention to such projects that promise too much, but in fact receive very little and this is at best, since most become victims of their inattention. In any case, if there is a risk to the security of your wallet, then such a project should be bypassed.

Download any wallet is so risky, it could hack your devices as well as your full system even your private keys & important files.must aware & check the security before downloading & installing any unknown wallet.in this case those are not new here, nowadays most of bounties are end up with scam.sometimes start downfall within few days.trusted bounties are few to perticipate.i suggest don't join those kind of bounty who required download their wallet along with ask your seed to receive bounty tokens

Actually I don't believe this will ever stop, this are one of tricks developers has been using in delaying or avoiding hunters payment, not until Bounty managers finally started using escrows, I don't think this issue of scamming of hunters and bounty managers can stop.

Right now I'm starting to fear bounty campaigns that has over 100k worth of dollars tokens because they always find it hard to pay participants even when the project is successful and have high volumes on exchanges, I've noticed that bounty campaigns with very low allocations always find it easy to let go of the rewards because it's small

There are indirect signs of fraud, although sometimes it is very problematic to get a promising airdrop from a Scam. Well, outright deception can be determined immediately.

I think op is nauve and complaining just for the hack of it. If they have given participants another option, just use it. Why crying like a baby?

These is common in 90% of the bounties nowadays, cause most of the bounties you see are scam bounties,bounty hunters go through alot honestly, working and not getting paid at the end really hurts, very few bounties end up paying their bounty hunters, it's hard to tell if a bounty is going to pay or not, none of them is sure, I have also participated in a few bounties which things later went side ways, but there's not much I can do, so I forgot about it and moved on I recommend you should try it out, it helps to reduce the pain or thinking.

This is very common with bounties nowadays, as a bounty hunter be expecting such from time to time, it's inescapable unless you decide to quit bounty hunting, could be a different story if altcoin season is here but let's wait and see, 2017 was a great year for hunters because of altcoin season

All these projects and teams behind them just find one or the other excuse to either delay bounty distribution or completely avoid it.
One friend was also telling me about payaccept campaign which ended months ago, the project is up and everything is fine but they are intentionally delaying bounty distribution for months now. I think it is high time for community to come up and expose such people.

I have already given a lot of good guidance on such topics in the same case. Again saying, To the CoinMarketCap Coin selection is a prerequisite for profitable trading. If you trade carefully keeping your data safe, you will never have to be cheated. Be careful with crypto trading and save your money.

Bro this has nothing with cmc because cmc will not be able to tell which project to promote, I think you are misunderstanding the post, the op is talking about the several scam project that hunters have to deal with.

It seems that right now it is very difficult to identify a fraudulent bounty project that continues to occur in the forum, I also think that if the fraud that occurs will be very difficult to stop and of course many bounter hunters will be harmed, even if the altcoin season comes of course this will continue to make projects project fraud continues to grow like mushrooms in the rainy season.

Typical thing to have on this market where frauds and scams do exist.This isnt something new thats why you should really be aware and use up your own common sense to avoid these things.
As a bounty hunter then you should really be keen on selecting projects or else you would really be just wasting off your time and effort when you do end up on not getting paid.
This had been the norm and common on this market but there are people who do really still engage with bounty hunting even though the chances of making money or profit is slim.
They do still hope and treating it like wayback before in 2017 which isnt already possible nowadays.

We have found this kind of trick for many projects. They use their own portals for bounties and these are usually prone to scams, because
what I experience, it is very difficult to withdraw reward, even require to top up the balance first to pick up the reward. Sometimes if there
are rules like this, make me step back to take part in bounties projects. although not all projects commit this kind of fraud.

It is every individuals Obligation to Make their own research and Don't expect others to Work that for you.

Bounties are being a Place of Scammers yet there are others that willing to become victim.

How many Bounty running per day and How many are paying ? those Copy project are tend to deceive people , promising something will come Good about the project but even before the Initial offering ends ,they are already Gone away.

This actually kinda true though, if the bounty managed by some reputable manager then it won't go drain easily when something went wrong because the manager will be responsible for it as well as pursuing the matter to the developers until its resolved.
But, still there are some projects that are honest to the core it depends on whether the developer is serious about their project or not I guess.

If they are not giving bounty hunters a full instruction on how they are going to get their tokens, then they have an intention to scam bounty hunters they did not explain what wallet to use, so everyone can claim their shares, it's misleading they want only few of their bounty hunters to get their rewards.

That's totally unfair & unkind for bounty hunters.in bounty thread, manager mentioned rules that "rules may change if team want" but team change their rules after end of the bounty and hey do something out of imagination, that let hunters in trouble.that's unfair but the reality is, that's their old style to deprive hunters from proper reward.sometimes they force to download software & put key in it, to stole money.so think twice before following their requirements