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Because I created the topic, Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125435.0), weeks ago. Today, I have 13 sendable merits in total which I can send them to others. So, I have intention to help lower rank users with those 13 sendable merits. I hope that I can help you with 1 sendable merit for each qualifying applicant.

Requirements:
1. Finding or creating your own good posts or topics on scam finding/ investigation techniques or guides, and share links here.
You will have greater chance to get 1 sMerits if you applied with topics, but good posts might be counted some how. Don't worry about it, I will verify your application. To get what kind of topics I prefer, you should spend a little time to visit my topic above, to see all current listed topics in my collection.
2. I aslo check your post history to see the general quality of your posts, and your general contribution to the forum. If your posts have acceptable quality, it means you have higher chances to win the contest and get rewards from me.
3. Rules changed

Rewards:
Only one sendable merit will be send to one qualifying applicant.

Acceptable ranks:
From Newbie to Junior Member ranks.
I focus on those ranks because crypto newcomers, and lower rank users are among the most vulnerable ones to scam projects. By finding good posts, topics on scam related things, they can help themselves first to avoid investing into scam projects, then help others as well.

Application form:
Please apply with the form like this:

Available sendable merit fund:
13 sendable merits. However, the fund might change if I have more.

Regularly check point
I will check all your applications and send rewards to someone who qualifying each seven-day period. So, feel free to leave applications here, and wait for results for each 7-day period.
Additional rule for past winners:

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Please visit my topic, Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125435.0), in order to see all current listed topics before posting your suggestion. Your suggested topics will be wasteful if they already listed in my topic.

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Good luck to you all.

I found this topic on Scam Acusation, maybe that's why it wasn't listed on your topic: Guide - Some useful additional tools for SCAM ICO detection (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4802067.0).

Giving away merit threads emerged a lot lately, however, your method is a bit weird. Anyway, your effort in collecting scam related deserves appreciation.

Maybe this topic is one of your category from Beginners & Help thread
[Guide] Beginner’s Mistakes and how to avoid them (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4907130.0)

hi i found some bounty scam detected, not pay and many funds there and gone, dev not answer and admin not active.
 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2713458.msg27752973#msg27752973  earn 10000 eth now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2713416.new#new

What about this topic?

[Guide] Using Google Alerts to avoid getting scammed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5118417.0)

Thx.

I found this, and i think it's very helping
Hope can get merit

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3196383.0

Being able to spot substantial posts is a lot different from creating one, and if you think about it, they can just paste anything that has a lot of merits without even reading all of its content, hence why I don't think the ppl who just pasted threads in here deserve any merit for it.

Valid point. I do not know what OP is really thinking but this approach might actually encourage new members to visit the different boards aside from Altcoins Discussion and actually read & understand posts to meet the criteria.

I edited requirements a little bit. I actually had such requirements in my mind, but forgot to write it down when composing the OP.
Thank you.

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The point is if they find good topic, that is helpful for others, and has not been listed in my collection, why not give them rewards.
It is contribution to the forum, even such topics are not theirs. Contributions are contributions, so let it be what it be.
Old, and merited topics do not mean that every user in the forum known, it is why I collected topics for my collection.
I also update the checkpoint because I have limited sendable merits, so I have to choose best applications.

Indeed crypto newbies are the most venerable to scams, but some one can be a newbies on this forum and not a newbies in cryptocurrency, you mode of sending merit for only newbies and Jr members is not 100%/accurate. May be a collection's of Technics's for bursting scam.

First, I appreciated your help, and contributions, but it is the same as when you join bounties, you should accept rules.
There is additional rule (that I added around one day after the launch of the topic). You should accept the rule.
The topic created on April 09, 2019, 02:48:35 PM, it means 4 more days left till the first check point, then rewards will be sent to winners.
Please remember that the contest is not a first comes, first serves. I have to choose the best because I am not a merit source.
Additionally, some contests have monthly checkups, not only 7 days.
Winners are always winners, and it does not make any sense for you if you receive 1 merit today, or even next 7 days.  You actually have a very long journey to go. Believe me, it might take you months to earn enough 10 merits to move to Member rank, or even longer. So, there is no reason to hurry with my 1-merit-give-away contest. ::)

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I have not added any of those topics from applicants to my list.  So, did I exploit your contributions ???

I don't think we need merit giveaway for hunting scam. All scam accusations are not accurate and its little bit hard to determine valid scam accusation. But you can send your smerit to any accuser if you think their accusation is valid. Also you can help newbie from other board as well who are making quality post. I know your intention is motivate more newbie to hunting scam. But not sure how they will recognize.

It's not only newbies and jr. members are the only one that is vulnerable to scam sites or scam icos but also member ranks which is only one step higher than jr. member rank. Well, in addition to your list (I don't know if you will add this site to your list) you might also add this site where I found not long ago. I did not bother to check when this site is created because it's obviously a scam site. I know the thread is not a guide on finding a scam related threads but this thread is a forum user posted a link to a site and later on the site is proven scam. Anyway, my goal here about sharing this information to notify forum users that this site is scam.

here is the link of that site which is proven scam and also you'll get a virus/malware that can harm your device.

BitStarz.live - trusted roulette, 100$ promocode for new users. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5129578)

I agree with this and will surely enlighten some newcomers.

It is not the main purpose of the merit contest.
As you can see in my another topic: Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125435.0)
What I wanted to collect is topics that provide basic skills to investigate scam projects. So, it will be good if crypto investors can do their own research to identify projects are scam or not for their interests with their investments.
Relying on scam accusations of others is not a good option for crypto investors.
I can easily find out those topics but I wanted to give opportunities for others to earn merits via their contributions in the forum (even small contributions). As I noted in the OP, I will take a look at (at least) two factors before giving them reward (1 merit):
- Applied topics;
- General quality of applicant posts (via their post histories).
I can do it myself, so I open chances for others to contribute and get rewards. Therefore, please appreciate my generosity (you can call like that, because I started with good purposes). I understood that people have to struggle with their first merits (me too, months ago), so if anyone get reward from me, from the contest, please consider it as small gift and as one of stimulation to maintain doing contributions to the forum later.

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Moreover, scam accusations are abundantly and you raised right ideas that most of scam accusations are wrong ones, or abused ones. Scammers, fudders who want to spread FUDs will open fake scam accusations.

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Important note, thank you.
I don't add scam sites to my collection, for now. Maybe, someone will add the site to their list, and if I see their list interesting, contentful, I might add their list to my collection later.

I'll help finding thread on how to avoid scam ICOs or tips. Someone might need these threads to learn on how to avoid scam icos and don't get scam by those fake icos/projects. I don't know if you already found/know these threads and I found some thread tips, guide and discussions on how to spot or identify scam icos. Someone might need the threads to learn on how to identify scam icos.

Here's the thread:
How to avoid ICO scam. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4866233.0)
A good way to avoid scam ICO projects (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5048491.0)
HOW to 100% avoid SCAM ICOs (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5024445.0)
Tips on how to avoid Scam ICO's? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4538906.0)

Reading the whole discussion thread is very time consuming and may be you still did not get the full information. It is still better that somebody have created topic explaining the tips and tricks.

PS: I do not see any good/extensive guidelines posted by OP of these threads.


Nice to know that you are still working on collecting all these good guides.

Check day, for the first week of the contest, we have 3 winners. Congratulations!

1. QueenVera (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2547361) You win due to this topic, [GUIDE]How to avoid scam? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3329803.0), (Daboy_Lyle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1781008))
2. TeQuiero (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1415928), you win due to this topic, Guide - Some useful additional tools for SCAM ICO detection (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4802067.0), (Hellmouth42 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1776636))
3. rabbitfairferry (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2462417), you win due to this topic, [Guide] Using Google Alerts to avoid getting scammed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5118417.0), (whotookmycrypto (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2538373))

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or not contentful, helpful enough to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

Hi, I'm really newbie here, but I'm in crypto since beginning of the 2018, that was not really good for my finances, but completely great for my experience  :)
I will be happy  to share some advice from btt  indigenous people with other beginners this to help them avoid many traps on the way:
How to check if ICO is scam or not? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2978449.0)
And this list of scammed project, that better to know in face:
[ICOSCAMS.NET] Scam ICO alerts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5073368.0)
Thank you, have a nice day and good luck !

I hope i will get it next week
1. 🔴 Ongoing exposed scam ICO list, must read to save money; Update: 03/09/18 🔴 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4467496.0)
2. Crypto Scams - fake ICO's (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4831042.0)

This focuses more on Masternodes but it's a pretty good beginner resource to sort out bad projects and bad actors based on four simple factors.

The 4 Traits of a Successful Masternode Project (https://www.axel.org/blog/the-4-traits-of-a-successful-masternode-project/)

I did not check all applications for the second week of the contest, but I would like to say that all applicants should read the note (that I just recently added into the OP). In fact, you should self-understand it, but I added into OP today to make the contest clearer a bit, and to avoid any complaint in the future.

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Next checkday is 23th of April, the second round of the contest.

Here's are some topic which i forwarded for your perusal.

 How can the ICO scams be identified?  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3613776.msg36570772#msg36570772)
 Past ICO SCAM Analysis  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3262636.0)
 Evidences of bad ICO  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3363832.0)

Check day again, for the second week of the contest, we have 3 winners. Congratulations!

1. madrogue (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2555815) You win due to this topic, 🔴 Ongoing exposed scam ICO list, must read to save money; Update: 03/09/18 🔴? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4467496.0), (Coolcryptovator (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1980983))
2. Oyarebu (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2463938), you win due to this collected post, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3613776.msg36570772#msg36570772
3. YoloBull (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2583769), you win due to this blog post: The 4 Traits of a Successful Masternode Project (https://www.axel.org/blog/the-4-traits-of-a-successful-masternode-project/). The blog post is not a perfect one, but it actually contains some valuable points, that help you win.

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or not contentful, helpful enough to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

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I changed the rule again:

• Maybe most of current available topics have been collected here, so next joiners should make own efforts to create their own posts or topics to apply the contest.

I will try to keep the contest alive, but when I have no single sendable merit, the contest will be closed for new participants.

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Check day for the third week of the contest is 30th April.
Good luck.

I hope it's a good topic and worth it

Some roads to the monument and stealing money (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135660.msg50754361#msg50754361)

This is an objective link, please check it and hope it is useful (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135668.msg50754790#msg50754790)

its actually not about scam or nonscam there are now many more things

failure, because of lazyness

failure because of lack of funding

failure becuase of higher power preventing success etc.

i doubt these classifications will work

regards

Check day again (I actually checked all applications one day earliert than the checkday), for the third week of the contest, we have only 1 winner. Congratulations!

1. wwzsocki (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=131333) You win due to all your applied topics. You made all constructive and helpful topics.

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or too short to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

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• I will try to keep the contest alive, but when I have no single sendable merit, the contest will be closed for new participants.
• Check day for the fourth week of the contest is 7th May.
• I have 26 sendable merits in total. So, sMerits are all waiting for your good works

Good luck.

Thank you @tbct_mt2, was a pleasure to share my work and get the award of 1 merit.

You are right that most of the posts published by other members are not relevant to this contest because I checked a couple of them (to know the concurrence  ;)) and found that a lot of them don't match to the requirements.

I assume people are just lazy and don't read the first post fully or at all only a thread subject and the latest posts before they publish an answer and that is why almost all of them are not as requested.

Anyways, I am happy that the concurrence was so weak because I won and that's what matters to me.

A little selfish? Maybe yes but that's the truth and I can't change it.

The third week passed without a single application, so I bump the topic and wish that the fourth week will have applications and winners.

Save Yourself From, "Wallet Scammers". (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5143491.0)
“risk-free”, “absolutely safe” and “guaranteed profit”, Latest scam!! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5136583.0)
Some basic crypto scam you should know to avoid loss your hard worked money. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4407646.0)
Safeguard your crypto investment and avoid getting scammed. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2970157.0)

All the fours are not yours, so they won't be accepted to consider. Rules of the contest changed after the second week.
You won't get rewards from me today, but you are likely not a shitposter, so I will keep watching you. Generally, you should increase your postquality much higher, then let's see what's next.

How to avoid getting scammed of your bitcoin (for newbies) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144513)

Disclosure: Key generation vulnerability found on WalletGenerator.net—potentially malicious.
https://medium.com/mycrypto/disclosure-key-generation-vulnerability-found-on-walletgenerator-net-potentially-malicious-3d8936485961 (https://medium.com/mycrypto/disclosure-key-generation-vulnerability-found-on-walletgenerator-net-potentially-malicious-3d8936485961)

This is really important for anyone who made a cold wallet. Move your coins to somewhere safe, now!

I have a suggestion.

Maybe this thread would be more alive and many more members will be interested even in creating brand new threads only for this purpose if the award would be higher.

Let's say 5 merits.

I was the winner of one of the editions and know that I expected more merits despite there is 1 merit in the thread topic.

People are like that, we always want more and maybe this is something to consider.

This is just a suggestion because I see this thread catch no attention lately after a good start.

I am very happy with my one merit and appreciate it.

I don't want to give away merits in a bunch because there are traps of fake constructive users. I think 1 merit is motivational gift enough for newbies. For higher rank, it plays as minor gift.

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For coming visitors, please don't spam the topic to get activity point.

Einige Sicherheitshinweise für Neulinge (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127894.msg1359313#msg1359313)

It's in German, but it's helpful.

Vorsicht vor Scammern! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110586.msg1203638#msg1203638)

Here is another one.

Thank you for all your applications, but as you can see, I changed rules, and in the contest, since that week, only applicants whom apply with their own posts/ threads will get merit.
Anyway, I have a good news for you. You are likely a good poster, so I will scan your post history and see which ones I can give you merits. Please wait.

Bitglo SCAM exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004055.msg45145215#msg45145215)

Bitcoinevo SCAM exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3414015.msg35705879#msg35705879)

Coqx SCAM exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4336800.msg38890284#msg38890284)

Exotic SCAM exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4410643.msg39268603#msg39268603)

Quantlab SCAM exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023977.msg45375837#msg45375837)

Fake ICO team exposed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5041209.msg46369754#msg46369754)

Exposing TOPBTC exchange (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3285119.msg40117776#msg40117776)

Exposing VaultMeX exchange (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5005268.msg45157715#msg45157715)

SCAM Discord bot - Mercatox exchange (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168433.msg51935545#msg51935545)

Congratulation, you won merit from the contest!

Thank you very much my friend!
I am trying my best to contribute more to Bitcointalk forum,
and I will keep doing it as much as I can.

Samsung SCAM coin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5170223.msg51999329#msg51999329)

Thank you, dkbit98, for keep joining the contest, and contributing to clean the forum from scam projects.
However, as I stated in previous posts, it's better to write guides on methods and steps used to detect scam projects. From such guides, readers can apply those guided steps to detect scam projects by themselves. I hope you get what I meant.
Rules changed:
Additional rule for past winners:
- One participant who already win a merit from me, has to wait 30 days later to come back with new acceptable applications.

Thank you.
I am already working on this Guide ...you read my mind ;)

This was just for raising attention

I would like to apply

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5042564.msg46442049#msg46442049
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4683167.msg42289570#msg42289570
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4677612.msg42277402#msg42277402
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3347625.msg38813091#msg38813091
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3741563.msg36988932#msg36988932
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3379510.msg36255089#msg36255089
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3283379.msg34237197#msg34237197

Thanks

'I focus on those ranks because crypto newcomers, and lower rank users are among the most vulnerable ones to scam projects. By finding good posts, topics on scam related things, they can help themselves first to avoid investing into scam projects, then help others as well'
You doing an important job now, respect

You are likely have some good skills to find scam projects. I think you should generalize those skills and steps you use to find scam projects, compare yours with guides already listed in my thread, then improve quality and details if you can.
I think methods are more essential than single or bunches of scam accusations.
After that, please come back here, with your guide, then you will win my contest.