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Bounty Hunters Don't Read

This thread Explains it (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5327679.msg56692435#msg56692435)


They refuse to read the thread very well and understand the rules

They are very much in a haste to earn and that is why they earn up being scammed.

They sheepishly follow existing application

They refuse to doubt when it sounds too good to be true

***** Just imagine application kept coming in, in an April Fool's Thread.
Are these applications from bots...

Sometimes I really despair with the desperation on the forum with people being so gullible to believe anything. Seriously everybody works hard for their money & to throw it away by falling for obvious scams is so dumb. It’s perfectly normal to just buy top performing & trustworthy coins, you HODL & get far more ROI than anything in the bank. Seriously, falling for all these unrealistic promises is so dumb.

One of the most common things or reason:
Desperation on making theirselves rich.

When you do have this thing in mind then you would be definitely making out those haste moves towards your activity into this market.You are minding that
you should really join up anything you do seem that will make you rich. Seeing those total bounty pool in USD form even though the coin isn't listed is
just really non-sense.

This had been a common mistake and my observation that people do make join of these types.They aren't minding actually in the true relevance of such
project or even making some slight research on it.

Seriously, this so so funny to see that the thread is still ongoing until now and still many bounty hunters are applied for the bounty campaigns. And it is now in 13 pages..  ;D ;D ;D
I don't think they read the thread, and I don't think they also read the general rules that really show that it is only for April Fool's Day (April Mop). If they really read, they will be aware that the link doesn't show the exact links.
I am wondering whteher :
they don't read
or they ignore to read
or they are Bot so that they don't read?
 ;D ;D

It is true, mate. We can see how the scammers can get a high chance to fool some bounty hunters because of a lack of reading. Even the thread like that you put here, that is clearly showing "bounty for fun only not real", many of them are still trapped. How about the bounty campaigns that are really created for scams, with very interesting and promising payment, with very great creation of the fake websites, fake telegram groups, and also fake team. they may not know or they may also not willing to research it before joining.

That is why many got scammed.

It should be 50% bots and 50% people who didn't even wanna try to read more about that.

I know this from the start if that was april fool thread created by boss. I wonder how so many bounty participants were not even checking or reading it before.
I just believe if all of hunters were posting on that thread always getting fooled by scam project. They didn't even know how to check it properly.

They just directly look into the rewards and think how much they get from joining but they neglect to visit their site to evaluate if that is legit or just a scam project. That is why I just ignore people talking about I was scammed, I invested in this project and I don't get any...because there is no reason why we should explain them.

Because if they are not lazy to do the research, I'm sure they can avoid this common mistake but somehow, they aren't learning yet and they will be doing the same again and again.

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Maybe we could say that majority of the bounty participants are bots and that might happen that everyone participating there are Bots. So, there is no worry if they will lose.

Most of the Applicants are Newbies and they didn’t bother to follow the rules on clicking links and follow the page, looks like a bot is working for them.

Though we can also see some higher ranks applying for bounty, I don’t know what’s happening but this is the best April fools entry for this year!  ;D

Yeah, it's April Fools and those hunters still didn't know, hehehe. I still remember one project in 2017 in the altcoin section, offering huge rewards, too good to be true offer. And yet there are still who fall for this trick, even higher rank that time. They wear the avatar and signature hoping that they will be get paid. And in the end it was really a scam as majority have been calling it.

they dont even bother to check the general rules. indeed a perfect example why these hunters are being screwed esp noobs! because they dont care about the rules itself. there are some hero, sr, full members that ive seen posting their app. really saddening!
 and later on, they will realised that it is just a prank, and am sure, they will be ashamed of themselves. hope they will not accuse Brainboss of screwing them and ask for their stable coin. lol

I gave my comment there and at least it is readable. But after my post, there are still many people who applied for the registration.
At first, I was also interested in that bounty, moreover managed by a trusted BM. But I was a little strange with the very high payment and there is no strict requirement. I decided to read the general rules, but when opening the links of the social media, I found that the link is directed to the April Fool Day. And that really fools many people who still believe until now still applying  ;D

Lol, it goes to like 13 pages already and many newbies are still joining although is it clear by day that this is an April fool's joke. Some of them have deleted their applications when they discovered it. But it just shows the current state of bounties and those bounty hunters. They will just apply without reading, and then complain later.

And it really did the trick here. Maybe you can found cheaters on those applications too.

Haha that's literally funny. Seeing those application even though you posted a hint already. But I think that's shows that there are bots application on the process and if somehow there are people really applying then they really don't pay attention on reading the thread carefully.

Though the name of the signature is quite familiar. People should at least recognise and check details, clicking the twitter link direct them to APRIL Fools day Wikipedia.

Year first thing I noticed there too. I understand that people needs to get paid but most of us do to really that the time to read the information of things through thoroughly before jumping into it and that is risky and I also read of the poster saying something about "if it is to good to be true" People fall for all those too. You remember when some one hacked all those tweeter accounts, we know people lost money there too. I believe some people are just too desperate to make money and end up been scammed.

it gives us a lot of lessons that indeed most of the bounty hunters in this forum are not serious or careful in reading the rules.
Welcome to April and be careful of all those who will make traps and jokes.

I read the thread because the name of the project seems very fitting for the pandemic we experience and then upon clicking the link of the website I realize it's a prank. Surely there are lots of users here who didn't read at all but only interested to just join without even knowing what the project is all about. If it was a scam project then they would been helping a scammer to succeed.

13 pages of applications in just one ay which is an insane amount for 2021 because we hardly see any bounty paying any actual rewards to the hunters now but still people hope that they can make money from bounty hunting even now. Their era is already over so its time to find something better now.

Maybe most of them are using bots to just to make an application since as seen most of them who are just blindly following any bounty in their sight without even reading the thread are those who participates in social media bounty, when it comes to social media bounty there are many bots involved and definitely doesn't stop them from using it in this forum as well to randomly create an application.
Should be a good way to determine which accounts are bot altogether tbh, though it may have low accuracy since I believe there's always someone out there that knows the thread is actually an april fools joke but still made an application anyway.

People should think about the reality of the situation. Why would anyone give you 2 BTC at the expense of 1 bitcoin?! There is no free lunch and we should not forget that.

You are saying that the bounty campaign has the right to "scam" because they don't read? Some don't read. It's true. But most of them do read and they still get "scammed". I have seen so many people complaining after a bounty program ends. They say that the project manager/leaders haven't paid anyone. So according to you, everyone got scammed because none of them read anything on the thread? That is not true. They just decided not to pay their bounty participants. I have also heard how successful bounty programs ended up giving halve the rewards the users were promised.
All those bounty programs are crap. No one should join them and waste their time over there.

They are desperate for money. You cant blame them much. Besides, they will not listen to any advice, even from veteran or professional ones. All they want to do is to collect as much token or bounties as they can and blindly apply in all campaign they can find

Well, perhaps they are really bot. We cant not know for sure. I have heard that people are selling register bot and custom bot. Give them a few instruction and voalà, there will be an instant bot for you which automatically make any application bot not only for this forum but also for other sites  ::) ::) ::)

It is like a feeding frenzy, once there is a bounty that offers huge rewards, you can expect a massive application to receive.
This is not only about desperation for money because many of the bounty hunters are doing it seriously but somehow, sometimes we are not lucky enough to get the best. Though they received the payment but couldn't find it listed in exchanges. I feel such disappointment because I'm also a bounty hunter before.

But for now, the market seems to change a lot and we can see that most of the projects are now turning difficult to gain trust from the investors making them not to succeed and just turn into scams.

Hard-working does not the same as being effective. Work with your mind is better. Using your knowledge and skills to improve your value and reduce working time. They only throw their luck in all project they find. What happens if everything collapse? What you say are correct at some points, not many projects are trusted like they used to. But in fact, only bitcointalk project are not trusted. On the internet, outside of this forum, there are hundred of trustful project which investors willing to spend ton of money to fund. As the results, they do earn a lot of money from them, especially those project working on NFT and DEFI  :'( :'( 

Jeez, I even saw people already telling that it is an obvious April Fools Day in the thread but still those newbies kept on applying.
They won't even bother reading or clicking the hyperlinks of the community to check how active it is.
I just checked that it all led to a Wikipedia page of April Fools Day.
What's even worse is that there are number of >Newbie rank that even applied to it.

Now those newbies will even whine and complain that they got scammed when they don't even do a single time to read and at least check the projects first.
It just makes me cringe that they don't care about what they're putting themselves into.

Kudos to the OP for bringing the thread up, and CryptopreneurBrainboss for clearing up that those users don't care at all in reading a single letter in bounty thread.
I don't tread a lot in bounty thread and I wasn't aware that an April Fools bounty was made. :D

I keep saying it. Bounty hunters are a different breed. They whine and complain and say all kinds of stuff about not getting paid,,, but they are generally the ones at fault. They not only do not read, even if they did they ignore or do not care about rules. Spam is the least of the issues they can even ruin the reputation of people who hire them.

These apply to bounty hunters in the altcoin section, there are so many like this, the project is obviously too good to be true just like the April fool's day campaign of Brainboss, they do not check the site or the project, all they care about is the qualification and the task if they are qualify and they can do the task, even if the project looks dubious.

First, they are in desperate to join thats why reading the whole posts isnt their priority, their mind set is to just submit their application. This actually an example of hunters just joining because of the certain needed of the rewards.

But even those who arent newbies submit their application and then re read again the posts, late realizing that it was just a troll. You can't blame them, as they wanted to just earn even the dumbest project, as long as there is a reward included in the posts, they will still fall for it.

That is not very surprising to me at all. I mean a lot of bounty hunters just scroll through the bounties sectioni of this forum and when they read about a huge bounty pool and as a bonus even "stable coin" in the title of the bounty thread than they are interested.
Then they scroll down to the type of bounty that they are interested in, for example the signature bounty and look how the payments for each tier are. In this bounty they are extremely good with 100 $/week for a full member, because that is way more than even heroes/legendaries get on others bounties. So it's no surprise that people apply as fast as possible and maybe only read afterwards through the bounty post to find out it was a joke.  :)

Personally, I always and constantly work and follow the rules in bounty projects. Since I am personally a bounty hunter. During my work, I always followed the rules established in bounty projects. And there were times when the organizers of the projects simply did not fulfill their obligations, in which they themselves create them. And I've heard that bounty hunters are always to blame. You can just take it and say it, but nobody wants to figure it out. Yes, there are those who are simply not doing their job well. And in order for everyone to fulfill their duties with dignity, it is necessary to create more modern rules for completing tasks.

Jumping into any bounty campaign blindly without a through research amount to being scammed at the end, this is synonymous with newbies, when  I saw the thread I started researching about the coin before coming to my senses that it was  fake (April fool)
before you say jack robinson a lot of newbies had already applied running to 7th page in a bid not to miss out and earn fictitious huge amount of coin then later they will complain of being scammed whereas majorly their fault

POC!, Most bounty hunters don't read, I agree, but bounty hunters don't read, I disagree, if you say bounty hunters don't read, you are also saying that you don't read too.
As for me, I always make sure to go through the entire bounty post, read about the project, check the website to see how expensive or cheap It looks, try to find out if the team behind the project is anonymous, if am satisfied, I then apply to join the campaign, if am not, I look for another.
But I understand that some of we bounty hunters are always in a hurry to join a campaign, most especially, if it's a campaign that pays goods and will only accept a few people, most will rush to join without even reading anything about the project, and this is why most bounty hunters end up working for free without payment, cus most times, the signs are there but because most of us don't make out little time to check, we don't find out, we only end up finding out the hard way.

They're bots, so they didn't know how to read. They're fully operated by a system to post an authentication automatically when new thread on bounties section has been created.

I saw some member still wearing the signature until now, I wonder if there is a participant will take it seriously and create a accusation or PMed Brainboss saying he got cheated/scammed ::)

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Anyway scam nature in bounty section are based on many factor, even a reputable bounty manager could manage a scam project.

Joining a project bounty campaign that directly provides payments every week to campaign participants will provide more assurance than just analyzing based on unclear projects.
payment using coins that are already on the market and payments made every week I think is a good choice and maybe hopefully all projects can make payments like that.

On the top of the thread, it is clearly mentioned April fool still many of the hunters are posting their authentication post. Mostly newbies bounty hunters are there and keep posting their authentication without checking or reading the thread properly. It is all just because they want to join every bounty in terms of making quick money without researching that's why they scammed easily and even I see some hunters keep posting their work after bounty finished up.

Bounty hunters get scammed because they agree in fully receiving their payments in priceless tokens, instead of consistent ones.
To accept such terms they don't give any value to their own job and effort. Bounty campaigns turned into gambling games where you don't know if you will end with some money in pocket or not.

You are right that many participants in bounty companies do not study the information enough and very often it turns out that this company was a fraud. What you showed really looks very strange and has signs of deception. But I do not think that the bounty participants should be blamed, since they are only hired workers and some of them simply have no experience. On the other hand, there is the fraudster himself, namely the one who posted information about a particular company. Probably, in order to identify fraudsters, you need to audit this company and only then allow it to be shown to the community. As for the bounty participants themselves, I can compare them with cryptocurrency investors who also very often just buy shit coins and also then lose money.

And yet, they don't even spare time to read what is written in the OP, and the example that OP has is a big shame for these hunters not to realize that they just caught in a trap (April fools). If only they read carefully and understand those words, this could never be a sad ending. But it was very unfortunate and we can still expect that many hunters will end up the same as what they have experienced in the past until such time they will change their behavior and stop using bots.

Sometimes I have a strong feeling that most of the bounty hunters use some kind of automatization to join, do tasks and post reports.
I simply cant explain why they join a project, where manager is a freshly registered newbie account, sometimes with already red trust and the whole project looks absurd.

Regards the fast applications it's because people fear to miss the opportunity, so they first paste their applications and only read what they have to do later, so they can guarantee their spots in the campaign posting before than others, similar to people who just post *reserved* in signature campaigns applications. I don't know however if there is a bot to automate the process.
And they still join campaigns managed by fresh accounts or negatived ones as a kind of gambling, hoping to be paid in the end. If they are paid good, if not, well, at least they tried. That is the mindset, unfortunatelly.

It's just so frustrating that most participants these days focus on the rewards rather than searching every single detail about the project first. We're always advised to do our own research yet others failed to do it then just complain when they get scammed. It's fine to grab the opportunities but we should also be skeptical at the same time.

Maybe if it was not posted on April who knows even you will fall for it ;),   i won't denial the fact that many hunters don't read, they are more into taken action before reading (that's for those who later care to read) while many will participate in a campaign till ending they never read the rules guiding the campaign, it is definitely irritating sometimes when some hunters keeping asking certain questions which they can easily find on the bounty thread if they had spare a minute to read.   

- The fortune of participating in the bounty is always a spin of luck if that bounty only provides unlisted tokens, bounty hunters certainly know what their odds of success will be but the bounty market never gives us so many options, we are forced to bet on such projects, we don't really lose too much, the only thing we lose is time and effort but at least, bet to know whether we win or lose, it's better than fear not participating. I also regularly participate in such activities but lately, focus mainly on a few listed projects, earning a little money for a snack is enough, there's no need to be adventurous

In many cases, it is almost impossible to distinguish scammers, and therefore it is impossible to say in advance whether this project will be fraudulent or not. In some cases, we have suspicions, but we cannot fully verify them. So sometimes you have to take risks. After all, bounty hunters don't invest their money. We risk only wasted time and effort, as well as a little material costs to ensure the very process of participation in this forum. However, the risk is worth it, especially for those with free time.

Bounty market never gives many options because any option is enough for bounty hunters... If no one accepted to be fully paid in priceless tokens the rates of the campaigns would change and bounty hunters would be the main benefited. At least some percentage of the campaigns' payrates should be paid in btc, eth or any other altcoin which has a consolidated value and the rest of the percentage could be paid with the project's token.
This way bounty hunters would start working already knowing that a minimum reward is guaranteed for their job. Furthermore, scam projects would think twice before launching to the public, because they would have to spend real money in order to promote it, very different from how it currently works.

I am surprised the thread managed to fool this number of people but it also shows what you said, people don't even read what they are working for and promoting, they just see a bounty and rush into it, especially when it comes from a ranked person on the forum, which we know how easy it is to buy accounts.

I think that unemployment is the only reason behind this kind of rush and blindness that you are ready to promote a project without even knowing if it actually exists.

I met a scammer on telegram and after he failed to scam me, I asked him will he actually work for me because I felt the guy was not a born but forced scammer and what he said next killed me inside "I am ready to work all day 18 hours for $2 sir" and he even agreed to take payment after work. He did not even ask me what the work is, etc. I didn't have any work for him unfortunately but it shows the kind of unemployment which might be because of the pandemic.

This is what you get with experience, you are quite right on it. You can wait for good project after ICO and or when they get into exchange.

Buying existing coins too that you have monitor over time is also good. We don't have to keep playing into the hands of scammers.


I won't even consider such person if I were to have something like that for him, that is the height of desperation. A desperate person can only disappoint you if he settles that immediate need at the time.

The caveat is not be believe anything that looks very real to be true. Give in some doubt and allow time to roll with it and you will see the real thing.

Your last sentence contains the truth. Although you defend the bounty hunters and claim that some can read the terms of the bounty programs, agree to participate or not, it is their own choice.
As for the joke arranged by CryptopreneurBrainboss, this is a good indicator that many were registering with their eyes closed. It was enough to follow the links and understand that this is a joke. But many did nothing. They did not read the comments, did not check the company they were going to advertise. So they didn't care when and what to advertise.
So I checked all non-readers. And as a lesson, some accounts were banned because they violated the ban rules. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2613277.msg56698721#msg56698721 :)

Also, I have seen a few times when projects pay the tokens but move their actual tokens and do a 1:1 migration for investors which means the bounty hunters are left with worthless coins and cannot even get the new tokens.

Might be the right mindset looking at the current situation of bounty campaigns. I would say that if every participant just decides that they will not work for projects without tokens being escrowed and some kind of promise to rely on later, then it might change the current scene. Problem is that once some participants do it, others will see it as an opportunity and ultimately the campaign will be full, with low-skilled participants.

Nowadays it is just a waste of time and effort to participate in these bounty campaigns. You need to spend 2-3 months on them and in the end there is a 10% chance that you will receive a small reward (<$25). And even if you manage to receive the tokens, because of the high ETH gas price it will not be viable to move them to the exchanges and convert them to Ethereum. And then there is a 90% chance that you will remain unrewarded despite your hard work.

Considering that in following social media account you can tweet as much as you want, it's really possible that they are using some kind of automatization and therefore doesn't care whether the bounty manager is newbie or not since they are just trying to follow all the campaigns and hoping some of them pay out at the end. It's just looks obvious when they are trying to make application as much as they can without reading the campaign first, doesn't even care about the rules beforehand.

I am very surprised to see that there were some higher rank members who have became fool with this joke which indicates that they avoid to read, hopefully they have learned an important lesson with this April fool joke and they will improve their reading skills for their best.

I think its safe to say that Humans are naturally desperate; as regard bounty hunters; they get carried away by mere headlines without reading the contexts and contents about the bounty program, which is why most of the time, bounty hunters don't get paid.  One  thing i want to counter is that, in bounty hunting; there is nothing like too good to be true lol. Youengine, dego and defirex bounty are recent proofs

Some bounty hunters might be desperately looking for income that’s why some of them neglect to read the whole information. Bounties nowadays is getting worse and only few really are worth of a time, kinda finding a needle in a haystack because legit projects conducting bounties are very rare to find.

From newbies to Hero members, at least a POA reply was posted. From my point of view, there is a reason to reply to such posts. Nowadays, participation is limited and if we don't register on time, it may get full. So to avoid that a POA reply and registration can be done. However, before starting the work, rules can be checked, and decided to go ahead or not can be taken.
Having said so, I must admit that there is a lesson learnt from this post.

Lol because it was an April fool's day should be a good reason they should be careful. Being careful helps to avoid certain things that being in rush can't stop you from falling into. If they took time to look at the thread very well, they may come to see the joke in it.

Which should be common from those who really reads and check, but if you are just riding into something without even knowing if it's true or not then you will fall.

The fact that it's April fool's and creating such kind of funny stuff are unavoidable. It's up to your good acknowledgements and really
paying attentions to every available thread or bounty that being created, seems funny but aside from those bots there's also real
people who fall from this joke.

You can really determine which one is a real one and a sarcasm when things like this do happen and for someone who do have experienced eyes then you'll surely notice it.

Using up your own common sense would really be just enough to determine which one is scam and which one is realistic.It is just sometimes
desperation for earning big is the main reason why people do really end up on joining carelessly.

Lol yeah, that thread was one of a kind by CryptopreneurBrainboss, he even did like this last year but in the form of BTC signature campaign and then inside the thread, it said "April Fool". Yeah, it's true that bounty hunters get scammed due to not looking out for the details and simply believing that the company will pay them. I too had the same experience with Amepay but their payouts were not that big when the price was so low. They promised weekly payments, then it became monthly just because Eth fees were high and still, they are giving excuses like staking reward distribution remaining, once completed, they'll pay us. Seems like bounty hunters worked for them for free.

Like you rightly asked in that prank thread whether OP would've succeeded if it were a BTC paying campaign thread. Certainly, the answer is an obvious NO! The prank would've been dug out within 3—5 posts after the OP. It goes to show the so many spam posts that come from the altcoins discussion board.

I seriously doubt that. There are users who applied and are Hero members. Now, a lot of them are deleting their applications in shame. Brainboss shouldn't have locked the thread, at least to still keep us entertainment with laughs 🤓🤓

I've seen many of them still reporting even if there's a scam report already and even if they are warned we have scammers and we have irresponsible bounty hunters and their only goal is to make money and promote as many bounty campaigns that they can, this thread reflects the character and ways of bounty hunters.

Bounty is more of a newbie thing, those without rank and are constantly sourcing for money in any opportunity that opens up to them and accepts participants from there rank. This in itself causes a rush, a rush for slot as it is hoped that, you getmore chances should you be  an early applicant.
This explains why there is always a rush in applications before reading the post itself as evident in the April fool bounty post by CryptopreneurBrainboss. Lol, its really funny how many pages of applications that dropped in and some more would have still come through should the thread not have been locked. Lol

It's alarming that a lot of newbies applied in this bounty campaign without researching or even without reading the whole campaign. Just a few minutes a lot of newbies try to apply for the campaign. OP is right, we shouldn't get surprise if a lot of people even here in the forum got scammed. It's bounty hunters fault.

That's why they have no clue what they were making so many complaints when they were getting scammed by the scam bounty.
As far as i know those bots will create so many complaints when they know if the campaign became the scam campaign. They didn't even realize their fault. that's proven so many hunters were joining in the campaign based on quantity. They will never care about quality. Scam campaign got free promotion from them.

And I think that is also a very natural thing to happen because they are newbies who also have little experience and also still have little knowledge in researching and analyzing a campaign project so that they immediately make the decision to join an existing campaign without looking more fully about the campaign.

I'm not surprised, many bounty hunters don't even read, they join any bounty campaign they can find and hope for good rewards, this is  how scammers take advantage of bounty hunters, they help them promote their scam projects easily

It cannot be avoided, there will always be those newbies and even those who have been here for so long already who ends up getting scammed just because they are too lazy to ensure that the campaign they are joining is a legit one. I've been into many bounty campaigns before the bull run of 2017 and I managed to go into different successful campaigns, although not all but still it helped me a lot in gaining profit and increasing my holding in bitcoin during that time. It wouldn't hurt even a bit to read and research about the campaign you are joining, see if the campaign manager has a reputation already or just a new one, maybe you can use it and take a look at his past campaigns to confirm if they are really trustworthy.

True. On April 1, CryptopreneurBrainboss made a bounty topic with funny conditions and rules. He used “super huge bounty budget” trick and in few hours thread already had like 10 pages of PoA. If only they would click on any link in bounty token, they would be redirected to April 1 wiki page and understand they are fooled. But almost not a single hunter did that.

Yes its true.
Most of the hunter works in rush thats why they don’t read the thread correctly. As a result they miss some points which cause them their stakes in the spreadsheet.
Its wise to read the thread correctly.  And analyze the Informations given on the thread. So that one don’t get fooled by scammers or a prank

yes, I also read that campaign thread. I laughed at the joke and why so many signed up thinking it was the truth.
It proves that most of the bounty hunters don't peruse the rules and information provided in the thread.
I hope it gives a shared experience, for us to be more thorough.

It's the main problem on every bounty campaign today, Not only on bitcointalk you also can see on some Telegram chat, Example "Asking about bounty is restricted on main telegram chat" But some retarded bounty hunters continue to ask and then they are banned after that they will ask on the bounty group when basically there was an statement on the first place, Beside they won't read pinned message and keep asking the same question. This also happens on that April Fools Thread, I almost joining too but luckily i'm always read carefully before joining bounty campaign even though sometime didn't understand the rules or anything, Well the main problem is they won't read beside that i suppose it's just another bot or multi account, Imagine if all bounty hunters can atleast read, This forum will become better place for everyone.

You said it right! They've got blind after seeing the amount of possible profits if they'll get accepted, unknowingly that it's just a joke
and it's too good to be true,.

Desperations and not to mind reading the full information, failing to read completely and just to look with the
potential benefits leads them to look funny.

Best to keep your eye open wide to avoid this to happen to you.

Been joining a lot of campaigns before I quit, I manage to land some decent campaigns and I can say that somehow it always lands on the luck. Trust me I'm reading everything before joining one, still I've been scammed. Though most of them still give coins as a salary however, they still end up shit coins or no value at all. Now I'm starting over hoping to land some decent ones.

The fact that the coins are crappy means that the project is crappy, and most often this can be determined by reading the white paper or looking at the team or studying the technical component of the project or by some other factors that require a more detailed deepening of the project. Unfortunately, most people do not do this, I only read the conditions that either suit them or do not suit them, and then they just do the work and wait, I complain afterwards that they once again received shit coins and wasted their time.

Of the many bounty hunters, surely they will get scams at a time. Even from bounty projects they follow. I've also gotten scams,
even many times. Good from gift projects, even when I invest in fake projects. also invest in shitcoin. But this all makes for lessons
and experience, so I'm more mature in this crypto industry.

Definitely there are some managers who have distinguished themselves and many hunters lock around them like bees do to the honey pot. Usually, scam will occur in anything that has to relate with finance, reward and money ant that the reason to be careful. Sometimes being patient is a good virtue because you can unravel certain things because you have given yourself time.

There are managers  who gives some life to this field and more hunters are following their projects,

it's really tough to pick as there are so many  project and with a huge possibilities that it won't pay you, the very reason why those hunters are
intact in following previous managers that they'll able to receive their rewards without having any problem.

- The bounty hunter industry is similar to an investor, putting a lot of effort into a project with promises of success, some of the failures on the path to success are inevitable as the volatility in this sector is too much because employment contracts only provide rewards based on the tokens that the project produces, they do not guarantee consumption in the market. But a few mistakes are enough for us to let go of our innocence and become more mature in our choices, facing the scam right now for me is just a little normal wavering, don't put too much emotion here

You nailed the very reason, lots of bounty hunters act like bot, they register and start doing the job without evealuating the proejct first and the team behind the project, so if they'll scam they will complain but they failed to realize that they help the scammers scam money from investors so they could be an accessory to the crime since they are promoting a scam project without them knowing. As a bounty hunter, knowing the project whethet its legit or not is a must and must be a priority more than anything else.

That's all right. Most do not even think about what projects they are involved in. This is not surprising because most of these people participate in social programs such as Twitter and Facebook, they have to do routine work every day, the same actions. In addition, social programs do not bring as much as, for example, video-related programs or signature programs that need high ranks. Therefore, many of these bounty hunters rely on the volume of work rather than its quality.

These  bounty hunters have a lot of time to do all this bounty work and still not stop repeating the mistakes when they not get paid or scammed by the bounty. Isn't it good that these bounty hunters researched on the bounty before working on it, so that they have more chances of not being getting scammed by the company.

A few years ago, participating in campaigns almost always paid off. Sometimes it is slight, but still. Now it is a success to earn, because most of the unsatisfied coins have no cover ...

Of course this is good, that's what I'm trying to say. Each of the more hunters devote time to research and study projects, the higher the chances that they will earn more money than before, and the less chances that they can be mixed up in scam ads, which is the most serious precondition for a bounty hunter.

Greed, lack of experience and haste is what makes any investor or bounty hunter fall into a scam project, If anyone gives some time to examine the project or the bounty, then he will be able to not get scammed. I advise anyone not to rush to join any bounty if you don't review it well so that you don't lose your time and money if you are an investor.

Yes, taking time in sorting projects before participating is more better than wasting your time campaigning for scam developers.

There are good opportunities if you'll take some time and do your research, it's common with bounty participants to just follow projects without looking in the deeper sides of the projects.

Ending them up receiving non-valued tokens, worse they won't received anything even with more than 3 months of participating with bounty advertising.

there is still april fools in 2021, it is very unfortunate right,
I think it is better if you read it first that you don't just join, a mistake that often occurs every hunter, I think, wants to get money instantly, but doesn't read the rules. when deceived there is only soul emotion  ;D :D

Most of them get scammed as they refuse to read up the white paper, see the team competency and look very well if the roadmap is realistic or impossible to attain within the timeframe specified. When is too good to be true, probably it is

Checking from;
-Whitepaper
-Roadmap
-Team/Developer legitimacy
-Realistic funding goal

You can determine if they do really make out some realistic goals and concepts in mind.You can eventually tell for yourself if its
achievable or not.Sounds very basic but doing such thing is the hardest part which is normally a part of being investor and if you are a bounty
hunter then seeking out these information is relevant.

Most of the time some or let us just say many bounty hunters fo fail to do their part of knowing the project well if it is a legitimate one or not for they just tend to get into the project maybe because of the trend or because they find it really appealing and attractive to be part of it all at the same time. Also desperation comes it most of the time that bounty hunters are after into big rewards making most of them fall into the scheme of those scam projects that have always making them left behind. Mostly, the project is the problem for existing as a scam but still there is a responsibility as a bounty hunter that those people have failed and missed to do making them fall into scam.

Thanks OP for this thread. I did not know that the first of April is April Fools’ Day for some countries. In my country, Venezuela, we celebrate it every December 28th. Returning to the subject of bounty hunters, their desire to find good projects that will allow them to earn an income is sad. I say it this way because I started in this forum and I was also a bounty hunter and very few projects were able to develop their product and therefore earn with the tokens they offered us. I don't know if the current situation is the same, but two years ago I had to live that experience.

By the way OP, happily one of the projects I participated in was Arcona, I still have my tokens and it is time to buy more because thanks to the NFTs among other market advantages, Arcona has gained momentum in my opinion. Great project of Arcona led by Korguzalov Ilia an excellent connoisseur of the impressive technology of AR and VR.

If we take a closer look, most of the campaigns require you to follow their twitter or any social media in order to join the campaign.
If they obey the rules, they will most likely recognize the links and realize that they are being pranked.

BUT THESE NOOBS, literally just blindly posting their stupid "pRooF oF aUthENtiCATiON" post flooding on all of the forum. I wonder how in the hell even they got paid without even reading the rules at all.
Such a shame.

This could be a crucial point for bounty manager in case they want to filter these dumb users later on their campaigns.

In my opinion, Bounty are more of like the introduction to crypto for newbies. Remember that many of the newbies in crypto, especially the poor ones or don't have money to invest in crypto, will likely to join a bounty or two to get tokens or coins that they can use to convert to fiat for their personal needs. And then the cycle continues, joining many bounties and getting tokens and then spending them. Many of them though don't know how to scan for something that is not legit and will have some consequences in the long run. Bounty participants should be very careful when it comes to them joining bounties by reading tips and advises from many bounty participants in this forum.

Misunderstand the instructions will leads to big problem; same reason why many bounty hunters got disappointed joining bounties because they can't understand first the goals and purposes of certain projects that they are wanted to advertise.

Reading and understanding every part and how it works in crypto is best sword in order not to be scam, as what the quotes says "Knowledge is power". Investing in crypto is not easy, there is always risk, hesitations, what if and other thing. That is why in every bounty project or in every coin, you need to know every little or important details such as  the background, it's goals and every updates for you to be confident enough on what you've invested. 

In fact, most of the bounty hunters joined later reading. because of that, I even saw quite a lot of registers on the thread before deleting or editing the messages they made. however, I've seen this many times. in fact, there are still quite a lot of people who have not read or are looking for the truth of the project. people who prioritize reading, or looking for information may be able to avoid something like that.

There is no agreement between bounty hunters and the organizers that would regulate the parties ' compliance with their terms. Therefore, in fact, bounty hunters fulfill their part of the gentleman's agreement, but the customer does not have the obligation to make a payment on the basis of the contract, because the contract itself does not exist.

that's the importance of being able to analyze before following a project. because what we know now in following a project requires an understanding of the project, so it is pure negligence from the participants

That's got to be the best April Fools post that I have ever seen, though it's sad that there are many bounty hunters who have applied for the campaign, without realizing that it was a joke all along. This just goes to show that they don't take the time to check every little detail on the post. It's obvious that they havent clicked the links provided by vacsino. I guess this is an important lesson for all the bounty hunters out there to conduct a thorough research on a project before joining. You'll be wasting your time if you get scammed.

Lots of project that's main intention is to scam only, they will not scam the bounty hunters but most especially the investors. We should not participate on project that has no good reputation, because if we will, we might end up with notthing and worst is we are part of their scam because we promoted them on whatever platform we participated.

Thank you so much the advice will take all of hunter so you have post a very good topic.we should read the point and we have to conscious before joint the  any new bounty.But all investor should take good decision before invest.

I'm sure the usual laziness is to blame for this. Most bounty hunters are here just for the sake of making money, they will be willing to sell coins at an initial acceptable price. It is important for them that they are paid coins, and not the health of the crypto market as a whole. Therefore, it is obvious that this trend will continue, because someone just wants to eat, and he is not up to the fight against the scam and the masses of adoption.

Rate at which product review in a cryptocurrency space is one of the reasons why a lot of people still clamor for some sort of regulation which scans in check both for investors and bounty hunters because one May argue that bounty hunters do not lose much money because they don't invest their own money but if you spend your time promoting a scam project, but you lose that time and the money you could have made from promoting a better Project.

Bounty hunters who got scammed are only those who are very eager to make an income without even reading or understanding the rules. You're right they are too lazy to do that so they end up being fooled or scammed again. If you are a good bounty hunter, you should have found out that the bounty is too good to be true and that makes it a scam project.

they dont research properly when joining in bounty campaign.meanwhile its the most important thing to analize project were good or not. sometime we just joined and think later about quality. scammer have expertise to trap investor join in their projects and its prove in many project .

Obviously the get rich quick schemes are becoming so rampant nowadays, plus the fact that many newcomers in crypto are not rich people but rather the ordinary joes and janes that wants to make a quick buck out of their hard earned savings. Many of us are reckless anyway when it comes to research. I myself is guilty sometimes, but if I don't understand something I tend to stay away from it. If you think the deal is too good to be true then it must be a scam.

what do you think they should check then? I always try to check the project. to do my research I check website. i check team profiles. and details and check the project if it is a good project or not. but still at the end there is risk of getting scammed.

escrow is good if the tokens are already available. but usually tokensale bounties don't escrow the tokens because their tokens are not minted yet. (at least that is the reason they tell us)

There are few bounty campaigns presently that don't look very good but I'm surprised many people are joining such bounty campaign, they don't care about the rules and what the project is all about, this is why many bounty hunters ends with bad results after wasting lots of efforts, bounty hunters should learn to read

The mistake that bounty hunters often make is lazy to read, so bounty hunters are very gullible. and laziness to read has become a habit of bounty hunters because the character of bounty hunters wants to earn income easily and quickly but without them knowing that they have been deceived. because they are lazy to read.

even though reading is one of the keys to success. I also often see many bounty hunters asking questions that have been discussed in the thread. this bad habit must be eliminated.

On the other hand, things that often make hunters trapped in a scam are:
- dev breaks promise, cuts allocations
- the project fails to achieve sales targets

LOL I remember this "campaign"  ;D Being in BB's telegram channel for a while I first saw it there in the morning and went on to read and apply. It took me like 2 or 3 reads before I fully woke up and started laughing.

They don't read because they are bots, many people cheat with this way i think.
It is very important to read the rules before we participating in any kind of campaign so we won't complain later.
There is always risk of project fail when they don't hit the target, that's why we should research the project with our full efforts before join.

It's becoming harder to choose which bounty project that will success when it has entered the market because right now there are a lot of new projects and only less than 10% of them are real project without scamming and when it enters the market, only 5% from the 10% before will have a success story.
So as a bounty hunters we have to do a long deep research before choosing a right bounty

All of your statement my friend are correct except for the bounty project we are joining that are sometimes scam,which it happens before with me. The campaign has completely done all through the campaign period but literaly years pass waiting for the token they are gone like a bubble, no more active admins to answer you on the telegram, until it goes nothing and just moved on and get better next time.

It is difficult to find honest and worthy bounty campaigns. The best that can happen if a trustworthy bounty manager holds the tokens for distribution in custody. That way the hunters can be sure to receive the tokens according to the rules that were valid when they applied for the campaign.

Yes, but there are not many managers who can be trusted either, so the campaign participants also have to filter and select them first because managers are also human beings who sometimes greediness can also arise at certain times. ;D

No question about it, greed makes them pay as they've forgot about dealing with deeper analysis.
Most of those victims just simply participate in hope to gain quick profits out from alluring offer of scam developers.
Big waste of time, even you didn'  pay or invest your money but the time and effort that was wasted is also important.
The first thing that they should do before starting their participation, the chance of joining the right project is in your hands.

Explain to me what is being greedy on working to get paid?  Ignorant, unattentive, naive, yes but greediness? It seems your understanding about greediness is distorted.


You'll never know until you are paid or not or the token gets a high value or worthless.  Many bounty hunters had experience to join a single bounty which last a month or two campaign that paid more than a year of payment of your participation in your current signature campaign. So you'll never understand until you experience it yourself.

As for the token value yes you're right, but on getting paid... Either choose the right bounty manager, or go for an established project, as you are in now. I think I participated in initial Phore campaign few years ago, when they were just starting it.

This is why I don't trust bounties that aren't managed by a reputable manager. Escrow isn't possible due to your mentioned reason, especially when ICOs still starting like the value of the token is still about to be given.
Many bounty hunters especially newbie ranks just don't care about the project at all but they continue to whine that they've been scammed while they just go straight up and do an application immediately.
I sense that most of those are even account farmers.

Yeah, the price was major reason for me deciding not to join this time. I may regret it later, who knows ;)

If a bounty hunter keeps on joining bounties without even reading or making an analysis on the project just for the reason to make funds, he will have to face lot of scam projects in the future probably.
There is no wrong if we are eager enough to maintain a good income through bounty projects but we should also be more careful in choosing those legit projects so as not to help scammers succeed in their own wrongful way.

It didn't only happen to this bounty thread in which it is fake, but also other bounty campaigns.
Let's see, For those who clearly look fake or just for fun, they don't pay attention at all and just apply it, without reading and also without wanting to look again. What about bounties that are actually created by scammers, and have really good thread quality? Surely they will be very super gullible.  ;D ;D

Campaign thread quality is one thing, but most don't even check the project before applying, many have no idea at all what they're shilling across social networks. Countless "great project with perfect that will change crypto community" like posts as if they're copy pasted, that's what really pisses me off.

Most of the bounty hunters do not read the rules of the game, sometimes they only see the number of bounty participants and bounty managers, and in the end they complain about the energy and time that has been wasted. :D

Rules don't determine how good a project is so this one is not really something I would prioritize.

Certain bounty managers have a certain class of altcoin projects they take part in and I use this too, tbh it's all about due diligence and knowing if a bounty is worth your time! You can't finger point!

Indeed! no matter how good or bad the rule is, it will never determine if the bounty can be paid.  Even joining the trusted Bounty Manager never assure us of the payment being delivered at the end of the altcoin bounty campaign.


The thing is even bounty managers are being scammed by some of the projects.  So even with the due diligence and thorough research there is still a 50/50 chance that bounty campaign owner won't pay their bounty participants.

because everything has been planned well by those who want to intend to cheat.
of the many bounty hunters have been given confidence by following their path, from there there must be what percentage will become victims and so on until they are completely satisfied with their results..
so for the con artists, suffer you after getting what you want..

The reasons why participants in bounty campaigns are deceived are different and not everything here depends on them.
So, many of us took part in the bounty companies of the UnitedCrowd project, which is registered in Germany. From the outset, they announced that the reward pool is 12.5 million of their UCT tokens, which is € 250,000, meaning that their token is supposedly valued at $ 0.02. Moreover, the payment will be made to the participants' ether wallets without any KYC checks and other restrictions.

Now, after the end of the bounty on March 31st, they broke their promises. They offer to register on their website and go through KYC there with the provision of their identification documents and selfies with them, the payment of tokens will be made to the personal accounts of the participants on the site and they will be frozen for three months. However, most importantly, due to the fact that their token has grown in price to $ 0.3, they decided not to pay out the number of tokens that is already indicated in the table and want to reduce them by about 20 times.

This is outright deception on the part of the development team. In this regard, some bounty hunters propose to go to the German courts with a lawsuit against UnitedCrowd in connection with the team's unilateral violation of the essential terms of the contract with the participants of the bounty campaigns. Yes, there may not yet be any judicial precedents for this category of cases, but the case looks quite promising due to the obviousness of such violations.

That would be an easy to win case, I think (but then I'm not a lawyer). I always try to join campaigns that are managed my reputable managers who hold the entire bounty amount, exactly to avoid situations like the one you mentioned.

sometimes it's not a problem with the existing slots. but trust in certain reward managers that keeps them from analyzing Projects well. when they trust the manager, they will only follow every project that the manager is holding.
see until now some of the big names in this forum also sometimes get project scams. especially in the 2018 and 2019 seasons. many projects emerged but very few were successful.

The thread in op show it that all of those bounty hunters in the thread created by CryptopreneurBrainboss are bounty hunters that won't read the bounty they wanted to join as they are only reading how much the reward cost without reading even the title and other important things to read like the whitepaper and study the project if it can survive in the long run rather than find a bounty canpaign and check if the reward is decent.

Hey guys it's was a April fool campaign managed by cryptopreneurbrainboss  a reputed bounty manager. But we learned from this campaign that all bounties campaigns hunters don't follow which projects are ? Or even a scams projects. They don't consider anything before joining.

Bounty hunters got scammed only because lack of knowledge, stubborn(not all), don't know how to listen, and neglectful.
But if the hunters will only be careful and sensitive in the campaign they are joining in, surely in the end they're not gonna be
a victim by the scammers.

Situations are very different and it's not just bounty hunters. Many teams that conduct their ICO / IEO using this forum, after the bounty, do not want to pay the promised tokens to the participants of the bounty companies and therefore resort to various tricks, tricks and outright deception, taking advantage of the fact that so far this activity is practically not regulated by states, but bounty hunters are divided and it is quite difficult for us to together defend our violated rights.
Over time, if this activity of bounty hunters is still in demand, perhaps this process will be directed towards a more civilized channel, but for now this is still the period of the "wild" ICO / IEO.

I think that you need to ban those people who send their proofs in this campaign. If a person does not distinguish a joke from a normal one, then he has nothing to catch here.

Bounties are the most unpredictable thing I know, there are many projects that looks so good with better use case but they end up not paying or they give up the ghost, there are also some projects that looks not so good not attractive but they still deliver and surprised many, I'm looking at you Sovryn 😏

Newbies are always fall into this scenario and they keep just joining without even reading full indications of the thread which is a prank in the beginning.  ;D Though there are projects scammed bounty hunters not getting paid despite all the efforts they been through promoting, yet some greedy projects threat bounty hunters with negligence.

I exactly know what you mean. You can't even tell if they are part of the scam. I checked many campaigns and the best are those that pay reliably on a weekly basis. It is not so easy to find such campaigns before they are already closed for new participants.

because sometimes the campaign you mean only has a small number of participants. such a project is definitely profitable and we can sell it.
as I followed, even though the price is cheap but I can get something for sure by following the signature campaign.
Currently, many of the bounty hunters only focus on their favorite bounty manager. don't see how the project will be developed.

True but some of them are also not consistent and some  times dont seems to know whether they really want to go on with the bounty campaign or not. I noticed a couple that after every week the BM had to call of the bounty until they verify that the next week will continue and after 2 weeks it was stopped. Some times some of those bounties too are limited to higher ranked members due to their limited application. 

The majority of bounty hunters just want to have as many campaign, majority of them are not sure if the project they are promoting have potential in the market, especially those in social media bounty, I have seen bounty hunters still promoting campaigns even if it has a scam accusations because they are not doing research or visits the scam sections.

The ability to analysis or find information about good bounty projects is needed, many bounty campaigns commit scam and this is really detrimental to a bounty hunter and also investors who invest in the project. therefore I would be better off waiting for a project that has a greater chance of being well developed by devs than following all the campaigns

not doing research on every bounty is the first thing to do and usually see big prizes that make immediately follow without knowing whether the team is trusted or fake, and that's where many bounty hunters are deceived and greedy.

It can also mean that others know more than you do or that it is blatantly obvious that this project is a scam. A low number of participants is more often than not an indicator for a bad project in these days. There are so many hunters that it is unlikely a project goes widely undetected for a while. Just doesn't happen anymore.

A few years ago it happened more often because relatively there were less hunters per project than there are today even if there might be more projects today. The number of hunters increased manyfold.

There are ways bounty hunters can protect themselves, if you believe Time is money, then invest your time wisely

1. Only join campaigns from reputable managers this is very important, most of these unknown manager lacks experience to get your money for you and also how to vet developers

2. Look for projects that the tokens are escrowed, though this is not common

3. Join campaigns you can invest your money into, this is very important, where you money is, that is where your heart will also be

4. Help call out bad campaign managers, some managers have history of not paying their hunters call them out, give them red trust and soil their reputation

There is also some truth in what you say and indeed we must learn from experience in order to avoid a scam project,
most bounty hunters, if they see big prizes, will be interested in joining of course,
so just be careful and don't be easily tempted by things like that

Most of the bounty hunters do not care if they will get scammed, they won't just join one bounty and they have already foreseen that some bounty they get scammed, some they will make money, it's alright for them. However, it's not good as they are like supporting a scam if they are promoting a bounty that is making too good to be true offers, bounty hunters might not lose a lot but investors will lose a lot of money because they promoted it.

Bounty hunters have to know their responsibility in the community.

Maybe it's because they lack knowledge. It's either professional, but sometimes it's tricked.
The reason is not reading carefully, not understanding the principles. Or it's the people who set up ghost projects. You can't blame the bounies hunter.
It is important to learn the principles of the campaign, avoid fraudulent projects...

i dont think so , bounty hunter now very aware while working any task from manager. they have bad experienced in previous bounty which is miss weekly stake due unread all rules in thread. for someone got scammed , in my opinion they work on all campaign without any filtering which is good campaign or not so possibility become bigger

In my opinion, this is very much the case for beginner bounty hunters, because indeed I myself experienced this in my early days as a bounty hunter, but for now, I think senior bounty hunters have learned quite a lot from their experiences and mistakes, so the problem of this scam can be avoided

I agreed, it is much case in beginning, however if the bounty hunter read the threads carefully and most important who will post in thread.
I have some of bounties there is not any updates.

Scam Project.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317356.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5322052.0

I think some of the bounty participants have never done their own DYOR, they follow the community's call, they don't care how the project is implemented? What is the shape of the website? Can smart contract be verified or not? Unfortunately, they may not have the knowledge to test them. If we try to break the bridge from phishing projects, they benefit from their time working.

They don't even bother to check who's behind the project and don't even know the credibility of bountymanager.
This is indeed because more of them are just Alt account that spamming the forum sometimes using bot.
even if a legit scam cares nothing but just applying again and again.
Instead they become blinded by the promises and cares none for their effort of become scam.

Most bounty do not care to read through before participating in any type of project .They are mostly in a rush to participate without caring much wheather it is a scam or not .At the end most hunters are not paid for their work or lose their money if they have already invested in those scams projects.

It is not that easy to protect yourself. The teams are clever and can change rules later. I like it when they announce the rules and everybody sticks to it. That is important for the integrity of the industry. Sometimes they just change the rules in the middle of the campaign and you are disappointed then. Why would they do that? Only in their own favor which is a wrong thing to do.

it could be from bots, but i don't think so, most of them just apply to any bounty from any project they can apply for, and that april fools joke revealed a lot, they have no right to complain about getting scammed, because they deserve it.

Participation in a scam project will not affect bounty hunters too much, because in this case they will only lose some of their time and receive less than the promised profit, that is, they will not incur direct losses. However, investors will incur significant losses because they will invest their own money in the project. Therefore, it is imperative that bounty hunters are smart and perspicacious enough to conduct their own research and expose the scam in all possible projects that they will come across on their way.

I believe the mistake most bounty hunters make is the failure to do research about a project. Most bounty hunters have favorite bounty mangers, so they just blindly trust this managers and participate in any project they release without doing research about the project.

there is a point. Because of this very minimal risk of work, bounty hunters often join a project without doing in-depth analysis, for example, just because the project is handled by their favorite BM, or because the rewards promised are quite a lot, etc. especially now that there are so many projects that are not taken into account but can provide big profits, so that all projects are followed. As a bounty hunter, as long as you understand the risks that will be accepted, you will be able to accept whatever the results are gracefully and wisely in choosing the project to be followed.

Obviously, that's what we should do, joining blindly is a big mistake as we are promoting scams in the crypto space which will ruin the reputation of the crypto space. it's hard to find good projects nowadays and we can't assure that we will support a legit project as we don't know their plans, but at least if we do our research, we will be able to minimize the risk of supporting a scam project and we will be paid with our effort with coins that have future potential.

People are still becoming adults, but they still continue to believe in fairy tales. Miracles do not happen, and you have to pay for everything. And many want everything and a lot at once. And swindlers successfully use human weaknesses. It is necessary to study everything carefully, but not everyone does it.

I believe the bounty hunters applying must have done that without visiting the links of the social media handles. Most persons who came across the bounty would love to enter ASAP because the reward seems too great, so clicking on the link would be left for subsequent time.

bad experiences have taught me about trust. since feeling cheated by scammers then since then I never wanted to believe in anyone and in anything that offers lucrative benefits and does an easy job. now I think that no easy job can generate huge profits, because success requires process and hard work.so I think let them be deceived because of their own mistakes. because that mistake will be an important experience for his future.

This is the mistake of bounty hunters on this forum, many do not care to read carefully and tend to be in a hurry to understand the rules of the game. This should be a valuable lesson for them and we also have to be careful not to get caught in it.

Thank you very much for your insight. We do understand that some bounty hunters may not read through the bounty tread properly in most cases because they just want to register and be on the list especially when there is a limited number of offers to specific levels.

However, as you mentioned, there no way you can tell if the bounty will eventually turn out to be a scam even if you read the whole instruction, Student Coin is a typical example of a SCAM project that after the bounty refuses to pay what was stated on the bounty page. Now that is not the fault of the hunters but was just an act of outright SCAM from the Bounty project owners and we have seen some more like this. 

Yeah, but at the very least, we need to read, and find out about what we're going to do, and whether it's appropriate or not. it might be different when someone doesn't realize the project is a scam after his team runs off. however, this is a different matter. People even sign up without opening the given site, and don't even realize that it is an April fools trap.

I am very surprised to see that there were some higher rank members who have became fool with this joke which indicates that they avoid to read, hopefully they have learned an important lesson with this April fool joke and they will improve their reading skills for their best.

That happens very often, I'm sure all hunters must have experienced it, I don't think we can avoid that because we can't protect anything as hunters. I can only patiently accept that if what we follow is deceived, I usually do some research before joining a campaign, but there are still scams.

You are going to waste a lot of precious time if you pick the wrong project to join, but the majority of bounty hunter prefer to join as many campaigns as possible because they do not have the capability to do diligent research and just rely on luck to find a good bounty, because even if the project is good there's a possibility of not getting their share and project failing to reach the goal so the project can proceed.

You're right about hunters blindly trusting their research decision to managers they think they trust to do the due process for them. Sadly, truth remains that most of those managers don't do any due diligence on projects they take on, provided they're sure their fees will be paid. In fact, most times these BMs have even had to commence managing bounties upfront without getting payment. That's an act of desperation. This shouldn't be so. These same ones will be quick to condemn Esau who sold his birthright over a pot of porridge. These managers who don't do due diligence and take up bounties because of the financial reward they stand to gain are not different from the biblical Esau because they too are selling their dignity for a pot of porridge.

Do you believe in the free lunch? Certainly scammers know that only suckers think about the free-lunch;

Scammers need morons, and suckers always looking for 'free shit'; match made in heaven

FREE BITCOIN, ... yep, there's a guy handing out FREE BTC, all you got to do is send him your btc first, and he'll send you back 10x, works everytime

Your research IQ won't always safe you from scam projects, some scam projects are so good that you won't notice any scam move from them until they vanish into thin air, research is a good way to start bounties to safe yourself some time but not always

Too many risks involved in promoting projects, if project didn't eventually turned scam they might decide to lower your reward or decide not to pay a single penny to bounty hunters, this have happened many times already, bounties isn't something to depend on honestly it's just try out your luck no matter how good you are at research

because most of these hunters are not careful when determining a participation, because it could be that the bounty hunters are tempted by the advertisements listed or often advertised even though they do not know the details of it all, so most bounty hunters are often stuck with advertisements and cheated with gifts

most of them speculate if doing more campaign their possibilities to earn money bigger than they selective accepting campaign. as we know in few months ago there are alot scam project , even that looks very good and team developers qualified. but till reward paid , we could not say it is good campaign or not.

I'd like to think that they are, only an idiot will join campaign without reading all the information and about the potential of the project, it's too waste of time effort and opportunity from other projects if you only know how to read the whole information about the campaign and the project, it's the fault of other bounty hunters if they got scammed, they are not doing what they should be doing.

To be honest, I wouldn't really blame them lmfao. I mean just think about it, the whole crypto thing that has happened in the world and not to see years ago, just see what happened in the few months lmfao. Just imagine, what will happen when a let's say a 8th grader who has saved $100 from his pocket money, sees Elon Musk talking about Dogecoin, and then he buys Dogecoin and suddenly the price start to grow and he gets back around $4,000 genuinely ;D wouldn't he now be super greedy? And when he says this to his friends? They will easily fall for projects promising them 10x when they have seen a genuine 40x profit lmfao ;D so yeah, the awareness about scams in crypto should be done really in a heavy way and that responsibility is on us who knows about it I guess :P

I try to make projects that are traded. But there were such projects that are presented on the exchange, but did not pay anything. I read company information, study the team. But in the end, I also come to the conclusion that everything depends on the success and involvement of the team. I will also say that I trusted my intuition and many times it did not fail. I bought tokens at the beginning of projects and had a good profit.

It's obvious either this account is a bot or the poster didn't understand a bit of the two posts they quoted because the response is completely offtrack. Are you posting merely to meet up with your weekly quota for the same pot of porridge, literary speaking?

BTW, I intentionally didn't want to snip out the long quote so that other readers can get the nitty gritty of it and see the offpoint straight up.

But in real world there are hunters who are not paying attentions or simply not reading the conditions. People who only see the potential value of their work if the project will go ahead and succeed.

There are experience people who knows the value of their time, managing to read and understand all the grounds with the project before doing any actions.

This people are safer than to those who are not reading, though chance of getting scam still there but its much lesser risk.

Yup, I believe there wouldn't be any other explanation better than this one, lol. Just reading through the applications, I can really sense the great need for employment or alternative ways to earn income. Because if not for this, besides the reason of people being carelessly dumb, I do not think people would easily make such a humiliating mistake. This just shows that some people are just handing out applications to any bounty thread they see without even reading it so that they can maximize the chances of having a bounty campaign that would accept them and they would only have to choose which is better by then. Well at least that's how I interpret this. Or maybe some people are just too lazy to read more which results in them just reading how great the rewards are and which campaigns in  that bounty they can get into. Those are the only things that I can ever think about right now.

I basically agree with what you guys say, and this one is indeed weird, but sometimes the scams are also much more sophisticated or they start out as a serious project but turn it into a scam later on. How the hell would you know that if you due diligence was on point? And what is scam? They can just spend the money on their own salaries, tell you that the project is broke in a very short time and you are left with nothing feeling scammed.

In my experience, most of these hunters don't even speak english, let alone read what's written.
They've just been instructed to apply and do the tasks. It's very sad

i think most of those registration are coming from bots and also there are people that does not read properly. all they care about is to see a thread with the title BOUNTY. they jumped in. i saw projects that ended months ago and people are still registering untill the moderator starts adding negative trust to all new registrants. most times, some people use it to fill up new spam accounts. just saying..

the first is because of the bad bounty manager, and the second one is choosing the wrong bounty,
that's why many are affected by scammers, I've participated in several bounties and the results were bad,
that's how it is, we as bounty hunters are indeed the risks

it's true that most bounty hunters don't read the rules and only follow directions like the first time they followed it even though it's possible that every project provides different rules, usually this is done by newbie accounts which I'm also surprised they understand doing bounty social media, articles, videos and almost all other types of campaigns.

Agree most of the participant is very lazy to read, they just want to read about how many task they need to do. So, when he didnt get the stake or reward because of hes fault but they can't accept it.. Then he go to the official telegram channel from the bounty they support and keep typing "Scam" Or etc.

it was the action of the new stupid bounty hunter. those who have been looking for and working on projects from the bounty campaign certainly understand how we should work.
most just vote by origin without knowing what they support.

Being scammed i think is not almost the bounty hunter's fault, some projects look good, but also have the possibility of running away. Even an experienced bounty hunter crosses a ship in the ditch likely at any time. Anyway, we must be caution when we choosed a bounty project to join.

There are certain hard decisions to make and some of the bounty hunters don't follow these. Many get so desperate that they unwillingly join campaigns which looks suspicious, or being managed by users with bad reputation. One of the rules that I follow is not to join any campaign that runs for more than 6 weeks. This reduces the wastage of our effort, in case the campaign refuses to make the payment. But many of the bounty hunters are still willing to join campaigns that run for many months.

hmm quite interesting where I don't really care about the duration of the campaign, maybe in the future I can follow your way to avoid taking too long to promote a project.
but if it looks promising maybe i will still promote it  ::)

I agree with you, we have to be more selective about the projects that we will participate in, because the possibility of the project will only be a scam. It's a shame if we are tired of thinking about being disciplined in carrying out tasks in the bounty project and at the end of the allocation we don't get anything, considering that the tasks in the bounty campaign project are more than the airdrop campaign project.

we were doing more task than airdrop program, even its running more than a month and spend our effort alot. so if we want to earn money in the end of periode we have to very selective in which campaign we have to do. research and filtering must do before we join in any campaign.

that's the problem. because sometimes most bounty hunters just become fanatical followers of the bounty manager. and when he published a bounty hunter campaign his followers would always participate regardless of the project's capabilities.
even though some bounty managers have clearly stated that they only post for the bounty thread and are not part of the manager and team. remember we should read more.

For high rank accounts they are tend to be picky on what bounty they will join but for low rank account like us, there's no chance we will have a spot on a high paying campaign specially in the bitcoin marketplace.

We can also assume that the bounty managers were also scammed and they do not know anything about the scam itself until the bounty is over and the payments were never made. But of course we cannot also blame the bounty participants, who wants to earn crypto by working and not investing. I have participated in many bounties, some good ones and others and many others are bad ones. Those that do not pay, or they have paid but you cannot exchange their tokens or coins into fiat currency, and also those who have canceled themselves midway the bounty campaign. Yes, many hard times for the bounty hunters, then if you get scammed that would hurt them much further.

Since there are many people join bounty and they dont understand the rules. They only want quick money by creating shity article and video. The most craziest thing is bounty manager accept those kind of article and video. Check the video they made most of it is reading webaite and whitepapper. I am not surprised if the client wont pay such video and article.

The rules bounty hunter usualy does :
1. Asking about bounty in the project main telegram.
2. Asking when distribution without reading announcemment.
3. Copy and paste article without understanding what the project is about.

By understanding the three points you mentioned, usually they are still doing scams and there is no guarantee that they will definitely pay because they can do whatever they want, the bounty campaign will look good when the developer has given the coin to the bounty campaign manager or escrow with the bounty manager so that the guarantee will paid.

The other two rules are fine with me, but I am not comfortable with the first rule. If the ICO requires a bounty campaign to promote itself, then it should be made public. If the promoters are hiding this fact from the public, then it is a big red flag for me. Trust is very important in the cryptocurrency sector, because the investors are pouring their hard earned money in to this project even before the development is even 10% complete. Under these circumstances, it will be in bad faith, if the details about the bounty campaign is hidden from them.

Yeah, This is the common logic of bounty hunters which is effective for those people who don't know how to research the project. Not all people has the knowledge and comprehension to do there own research that's why joining as much as possible is there best chance to hit a legit campaign.

All bounty campaigns involve risk, which is why they are usually much better paid than campaigns paid every week (I think about signature campaigns here). If someone takes part in a bounty campaign, they must agree that the risk that the project will fail or that it is a scam is much greater than in a BTC paid campaign. It is simple - if you do not want to take risks then do not participate in bounty campaigns.

Most of the Bounty hunters have turned successful with the previous bull trend. By that time more ERC 20 projects gave good return. In particular those are days when people aren't much aware of cryptocurrencies. During those days every project bumped high and later went out of usage. Maybe the same scenario could happen again.

It just clarifies one thing that most of bounty hunters are in hurry perhaps they are applying on multiple bounties thats why they don't read what's written in bounty thread. Its hilarious to read that and people anyway applying

It's more on the ICO, the success of the ICO where anyone can raise funds made the bounty hunters successful in the past, I won't deny, I made a lot of money that time as well but the same opportunity was not anymore present in the current. Now, it's more on bounty scams but there are still  bounty campaigns that would pay, but not as good during the popularity of ICO.

Yeah many Bounty hunters don't even read the description and jump to campaign to catch as much as Bounty tokens. There are bad days and good days in trading but the majority of Bounty token trading pairs are dead on listed exchanges.  They think like that but bounty campaigns is not only about making money. Before CEO of the project announcing the project, marketing team come with offers depending on the company budget. If the boutny rewards are higher than 5% of the total allocated funds, it is very dangerous game for both parties.

They won't be careful because nothing will lose from them. Bounty hunters can join a lot of bounty at the same time and they will not spend any amount for that, if they will make money on some bounties, then well and good but if they got scam, they just have to move on. Actually what needs to be improved is the crowd sale world, it should be regulated so scammers will not play here by using the bounty hunters to scam investors, that would not help to build a good reputation in the market and for the bounty hunting community.

One of the reasons on why they don't really care at just make out some blind shot and hoping that the program that they have just joined would really paid them up.

Some would really be mindful in joining because time spend and resources spent isn't something that you can just ignore on because wasting time on a garbage project is not really appealing at all.

This is why DYOR would really be important even if you don't waste up some money but time is really very precious.

Sometimes the reason isn't about less research, but the bounty hunters are interested in the payment. For example, we can see 1xbit.com signature campaign, many people still joined because of the payment in BTC and with a big amount of money. The participants are aware of the negative trust got by the 1xbit account on BTT and they also know this project got a scam accusation.

Yes, Most bounty hunters only care about getting paid and they don't care about the reputations of the product or website they promote. yobit is also the best example on this, Thousands joins even the big guys due to high rate of pay and the instant payment they offer. But everyone knows that yobit is sketchy and trust issues among bitcointalk communities.

Maybe they're bots or probably they just doesn't care and join as much bounty as they can so there is a high chance that they would earn good tokens. Some of them really don't read and could really waste their time.

We can't blame them since participating to bounty campaign is one of the easiest way to earn profit since you only need an effort and time to earn. Nothing to invest that's why some of them take risk even the project is scam.

Yobit is not a scammer, and I wonder why many people on this forum call them scammers,
even though I use Yobit also always succeed, withdrawals and deposits always arrived on time,
yes indeed Yobit always trades coins that are not clear and are considered scams, but that's all depending on the user,
if you want to trade then trade, if not then avoid it.

I'm also aware of the yobit's reputation, and I would not call them a scammer as personally I am not scammed. I'm using the site from time to time and has not faced a single problem, in fact they process withdrawals instantly and that is only based on my personal experience.


I consider it a high-risk asset, or probably a scam one, but I really avoid these coins but unfortunately, some newbies don't know so they'll trade it and later they'll face a problem due to drop or volume which would make them a bag holder.

first of all, i have to start by saying that i don't care about 1xbit and i am not here to defend them, but i have been using their website from 2017, and i didn't have a problem with it, except for like 3 times where i made a deposit but i didn't receive anything but in all of the three times i emailed them and they answered and i got my money showing on my balance, so 0 problems with them making bets and withdrawals, that's what made me join their campaign, i joined based on my own personal experience, i don't need to do research and believe a new opened bitcointalk account with his scam accusation, but they gave me negative feedback, i removed my signature and avatar and told the guy the reason why i joined since i've been using their website for 4 years i didn't have to look things up, but he refused to listen to me and thought im defending them even though i was defending my own reputation on the website, and since he was playing the role of a god, i had no other choice than to keep my signature and avatar.

This is still very relevant today and will still relevant as long as bounty hunters are not responsible enough to do research on the project they are promoting, I even see some bounty hunters getting a red trust, for continuing to promote reported scam projects and they are not aware of it because they are not following projects that they are promoting.

Then they wonder why they did not get their stakes or get tagged, that is because they are not visiting or engaging in the project's chat group and they are not frequenting the scam report to check if the project they are promoting has a scam report.

If they pay attention to the development of the project they are supporting, they would know the latest update, and that includes about its reputation. The thing is, if we support a scam project, our account gets tagged and we will never have a good opportunity to work again.

Therefore, it's very important to study, follow, and monitor the project if we care so much about our bitcointalk account and any platform that we have like a social media accounts. It's a simple logic, if you promote a project with bad reputation, then you also have a bad reputation.

Therefore, we are required to read further in this forum so that we can add to our knowledge and not be easily scammed. because now there are so many applications that can only promise without direct payment. and this actually hurts bounty hunters. that is why we are required to read the rules before making any decisions or actions.

This is true an issues to all hunters, that is why they easily got ban on the forum and also being scammed by project owners, i have come to understand that they are eager to join project more than the instructions to be red before participating. while most of them join telegram asking about same questions which has been already illustrated on thread.

please all hunters should calm down to read and understand things before enrollments.

That's not really the main problem here because even if we diligently follow the rules, there's still a big possibility that we will end up with nothing. With the big number of scammers trying to run a crowd sale using the bounty campaign, it will be hard for the bounty hunters to determine which are legit or not, so in short, the risk of getting  scammed is really high.

But sometimes Even Scam projects can pretend very legit , they even offer smaller bounties that the hunters may be blinded check because the offering is really small that does not looks like promising scams.
but in the end ? this is still scam and that is how scammers do now.
Hard but true that they are now knowledgeable of that "Too Good to be true " effect so they prevent from pointing those up because all they plan is to simply let hunters advertise their project and that's all.

No one could have guessed that the project would be a scam, with the offer of small rewards and with token allocation for a lot of bounties, even by mentioning it will be listed on the exchange soon it looks like it looks legitimate but in reality it is the same no one has confirmed that it will become obvious that we can only look at the background of the project and examine it at your own pace.

In fact, hunters are only used to promote new projects and in the end it becomes a scam that cannot be avoided unless the hunters are aware that the project that launched the bounty must do research to at least know the description of whether it is legitimate or not.

The annoying thing is that many bounty hunters do not react even when warned that the project is very suspicious and most likely a scam.
However, it is completely stupid and radicalous to me when bounty hunters promote a project that has been proven a scam and even disappeared completely as it is with MoonCake at this point: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5344876.0
So if bounty hunters are acting so idiotically, it's no wonder that scammers are still trying to take advantage of them.

I think it is simply their desire to work and earn excessively along with greed. Not all of this is at odds with those who have achieved great rewards in value. However, most of the sweet and sugary treats lead to fraud. Partly because of their ambiguity and blindness.
All of which prove the truth about the birth of shitcoins and those temptations that wasted time and labor on their work. 8)

Because of those factors, they don't check the authenticity of the bounties that they join and that's sadly leading them into that. Without such, they can join as much as they can and any project that they desire to join.

i have avoided some projects back in 2017-2019 because i thought they could be a scam or not successful, but they ended up just okay or pretty good, so sometimes researches won't be enough even if a project is not a scam it could fail, so avoiding scam as a bounty hunter is tough, you don't know what could happen, but a lot of bounty hunters join whatever project they find, and mostly twitter campaign, i see thousands of people in the spreadsheet, scam sometimes can not be avoided though, because some of them seem legit.

Most bounty hunters are so desperate to join project without getting proper information about the project to what is all about. i m so shocked to see that exist.

My point is that countless workers do almost nothing to check the quality of a project, most of them don't realize the lesson of how to make their labor worth it. That inadvertently is a crime against the meaning of this market.  Not shill shitcoin. Lol

From what I've seen, this works so that for most bounty hunters it is easier to do a regular task like tweet or retweet for a few weeks than for an hour or two to search for information about a project. Sometimes it even happens that for several weeks they promote a project that has long been exposed as a scam. If that doesn't change, the scammer will take advantage of it.

Basically, hunters never see how reputation works here if it's not locked in the thread then the hunters will continue to do their job even though the project has become a scam, surely that moment will be used by scammers because they will suspect this opportunity to become a scam. promoters are free without paying, well that's where sometimes I see wonder why not check at least the title or reputation that has been given I think there will also understand.

And this cycle would continue because as long there are some chance or odds that they would make money then these hunters would continue to do so despite on being scammed for how many times.

Some do have really that time to spent out on dealing with bounty campaigns or simply making it as a full time job instead on having a day job but it not really worth for the time and resources spent out on this one.

Scams are rampant on this market and its just such a waste if we do really deal up with thise consecutively and its much better to find another alternative which can really give some income.

Maybe in some cases, I'm really surprised that people work without regard to the mission or new updates on the rules, ultimately, the KYC requirements (If any) that they missed. Then they came back again and demanded their rice. then criticize and vent their rage on bounty managers. Poor awareness is exactly what I see in bounty work these days. We should only demand justice for the right cases.

I have to agree with you. Each bounty campaign states that the campaign owner or manager can make changes to the rules. Unfortunately, bounty hunters often do not read the basic rules at all, so for sure do not pay attention to any changes that take place during the campaign.
If someone does not fulfill such basic obligations as reading the rules and following them, they should not join the campaign at all, and certainly not claim a reward if they did not follow them.

If the changes are acceptable then there should be no problem with that.

Some bounty campaigns are really obvious of cheating their participants, by the end of the same, they reduce the reward and ask for KYC, for me that is unreasonable and a way of scamming the bounty hunters for their effort, they can always change as they are in control of the reward, but they should be smart in doing some changes that it will not affect their reputation.

In my opinion, the reason is very simple. Most Bounty Hunters are lazy, they are looking for the easy way, they are looking for quick and easy money. Many Bounty Hunters are tired, tired of scam, tired of not earning money. Therefore, most often they try to take on any work, do not understand the intricacies of the project, without conducting their own analysis. Often relying only on the opinion of the Bounty manager, which very often can be mistaken. However, the Bounty Hunter's earnings depend only on the Bounty Hunter itself.

The main problem is the bold part that I've made on what you've said. It is important whether you fell short with bounties that you've joined before and you're not having the sense of researching anymore, you have to make your own research before you join any project so that you won't be falling with the same mistake again and no effort will be put into waste just as what happened to you before. And depending on the profit, it's true that your profit relies on you and you have to be good at choosing one through your analysis and research.