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Probably these bounty hunters were not researching enough for the project they promote. Or they didn't just get this note that's why they keep on promoting this project. This is quite sad, they should've been stopping promoting this. Are these bounty hunters could be given neg for this?

Well that there are such people who write that projects SCAM. In General, I think it is necessary to fix the message first and send information about such projects there. And I leafed through it once last week.

Let them be, not all bounty hunters know what they are doing, the rewards they are going to get have blind them to see, every bounty hunter must be cautious always, any project can turn scam even before they start ICO/IEO fund raising

You can't expect much from these hunters with newbie accounts despite having hundreds of activities.

You can also take a look at these guys who are applying.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190618.msg52692999#msg52692999
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190618.msg52692982#msg52692982
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190618.msg52692963#msg52692963
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190618.msg52692941#msg52692941

They are actually eagerly want to earn some ICO coins even it is scam. I am also one of the victim of fake and scam project which I thought will give me some coins from their project. Until now I can't sell them because they end up to become a scam.

In my experience research is not enough to know which ICO projects are legit or scam for me right now I learn that ICO project or new born coins are mostly shitcoins and not worth it. They are just making it to gather people and to get sales it is likely the same as ponzi scheme.

That's why I stop promoting them and better invest in major coins and play the movement of the price.

This reminds me of eterbase project, after few weeks of the project bounty get launched it was announced on here that its a scam project but i did not believe because i have seen eterbase token on a well trusted project platform, i am glad i promoted the project because they pay me my token, my advice is to do your own research and learn from your mistakes

thanks for the heads up on that scam (theres not much more to do above that as scams are not moderated here)

tbh man, most of these bounty hunters can barely read English, so it doesn't surprise me they ignore being told to stop working for exposed scams :(
Those people are marked bounty hunters pretty quick tho, i wouldnt worry about it too much
let them work for months with no pay :P

We all started as a newbie but that's not an excuse, I think these people don't even know they are promoting scam projects they are not checking scam accusation thread either. Some of them are too greedy wants to join all bounties without background checking, or these are just alts of the team themselves creating some social media exposure.

Crypto is complicated. It needs knowledge to understand the project and whitepaper. And most of the people dont have technical knowledge. People only think about profit. They literally jump into a project, try to buy at low and sale at higher price. But most of the time they make loss, instead of profit. Cause they invested into useless or scam projects. And they even dont know that they were promoting scam or useless project. So they are actually responsible for their own loss and others as well

Leave them be, its only a matter of time i belief they will learn, every advanced bounty hunters are once a shitcoin promoter one way or the other, there is power in mistakes and mistakes have to be commited in other for one to get wiser so its normal and mind you some people on here are used to posting scam accuses on here with no good evidence to back it up, do not belief such accusations until you do your own research

I bet most participants are not aware of the issue, this the reason why we should always double check no matter what campaigns we’d like join to. It should be practice by every participants, checking scam accusations thread is really a big help in this community.

It is really frustrating after spending months and months promoting a certain project only to end up getting scammed. That is also the reason why I stayed low for some time. It is not worth exerting effort and end up not getting payed or payed with tokens that have zero value. Investing in an ICO is a thing of the past to me. It is as frustrating. Why should I risk with unknown tokens or coins when the market is offering those which have already gained the trust of huge investors?

Those scammers are capitalizing the ignorance of most bounty hunters. Since they can get people to promote their project, they will try their very best to continue because who knows, how much they can grab cash from those naive users? There will always be people that will fall to this potential scam. Thought they are gonna be rich but later on, they will regret.

This project has fake profile also aside from plagiarised wp. So the likelihood of cheating investors is very possible.

i believe all of those participant on Co-DEX don't know that the project already scam
because all he think that he need to join bounty and gain reward

Most likely because they weren't informed because they aren't visiting the thread if there is any news or issue thus they continue what they are doing. It's the duty of bounty participant to check it oftenly however not all of them are responsible to do so that's why a lot of project are still active in terms of promotion.

there should be post in the bounty section and announcement thread of that project telling to other members that the project is really scam project.

Right, maximum participants didn't know that the project was scam. I think, it is better for the bounty hunters if the scam alert is posted on the bounty thread.

Most bounty hunters have no idea about what they are doing. Because most bounty hunters are not doing research about projects and they don't keep in touch with updates about that project. Then they are doing tasks until the end of the bounty campaign.

I think they didn't notice that the bounty is a scam,we can say that they just join it and they not see if the bounty was scam or not. They can be a newbie or we can say that they literary didn't know how to check if the bounty was scam or not.

Honestly most bounty hunters do not have foreknowledge about most of their projects they oromote and so do some investors also lack that ability to make findings about projects they intend to invest in. I urge us all to be vigilant and look out before we hook unto any project

Most bounty hunters do not spend time doing their research or checking the project and the team's credibility before joining or promoting a project. Some would just join if they see the minimum post per week, the amount of bounty pool, or even the one who manages it. Take note that you will spend your time promoting for a month or two and wasting it getting coins from a scam project.

Most of their social media bounties participants are newbies. They simply tweet, retweet and post as said by the original post but probably they've never researched or haven't seen that thread that the bounty they are promoting is a scam.

There's already a post made by bttzed but the posts for their bounty reports continues to load and others don't see it. That's also their responsibility to check the bounty they are joining.

Yep i see many people countinue apply for participating this project i think most of number people don't know about this is a scam project. Honestly, i always try to joining real project so before i was checking then i will take joined. I hope investors people will leave this project and their don't loss money for Investment in fake project.

It might be very helpful if you share your reasons why you think this project is a scam.  The reasons will help them understand why you think this project is or might be a scam.

A lot of them are not investigating first before to join. Its like attacking on the war without planning. So in the end promoters are the losers. So the lesson is we need to do such research before to join on some project. This is not only for you its for all sake of investors. Be careful everybody.

It's part of reality which is common nowadays from this industry, bots works according to the owners designation. Many projects has been populated by this kind of bounty cheaters they wanted to take advantage and have a bigger rewards even they are promoting scam projects, the only matters is the reward that they will be getting.

Some projects looks like scam mare looking at the website designs and logos but you can be wrong as well, few months ago i came across sero privacy coin bounty campaign and because of its cheap looks i thought it was a scam project

Some bounty hunters are not visiting the scam section from time to time to check if the project that they are promoting are already on that sections, they first check it before promoting or wearing the signature, then somebody posted here and they miss the post about the report, it's very important that promoters visit the scam section from time to time.

Yeah there is a possibility those who are still promoting this project are unaware of the scam accusation about them, sometimes hunters need to always visit the scam accusation section to keep themselves updated on which project has a red flag and which is safe to support, even if you can not research on your own there are people in this forum who are helping out on that aspect, they are helping to inform members about project that has red flag which should not be supported, but some hunters don't find the time to visit this section, they just support project blindly.

I think that the newbies who follow the bounty are only alt account from higher members, this is done to make their posts clear of the bounty reports that they follow a lot.

Reading the scam accusation aimed at the project, whitepaper plagiarism and photo of their team that are fake, the project CEO has answered, the most obvious strangeness is they have a team that doesn't even know each other, at least they have had a conversation via skype and matching the personal data.

We have scam section on this forum for sure but many hunters don't care to check, i used to check this section just in case and if the evidence against the project is genuine i will stop promoting such projects, there is really no perfect way to detect scam projects, it requires your research most times to fish them out

Yes i was Sharing scamming announcement link many time before in there bounty thread but people don't response yet and there day by day keep promoting this scam project.

Check here link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190618.msg52692751#msg52692751

This is very helpful to all indeed to be aware that the project is a scam. Bounty participants still promoting because some of them are not aware, not updated about the project. Our own responsibility to be updated the stand of a project that were joining. We have to verify and study it before joining to avoid getting scam in the future.

It is possible that the evidence submitted is not accurate, so the project is not stopped from this forum. If you want to prove that the project is a scams then there must be accurate supporting evidence.

We must very careful to not promoting the scam projects, or we will receive the red trust by dt member.
As a hunter, i usually checking the project i promote everyday to follow the news and update, so i won't miss if something happen on the project.

There are many bounty participants who are not following the project and news about it.
They just joined the project and do the job, they will visit it once a week or bi-weekly and some lazy people just come again at the end of bounties.
If the project is a scam there should be a flag stopping the bounty as soon as possible. The bounty manager must be informed about this or maybe the account is also managed by the team project. (possible)

afaik  codex bounty was old and they should have been fisnished on their bounty  . if im not mistaken  , julerz was thier manager before ( he run a camapaign with  btc payments )  . by that , i dont think that codex was a scam because the bounty manager like julerz wont just accept scam projects  .  and like i said earlier , this project was before and right now i dont see anyone carrying a signature or promoting it  . is this a false alarm  ?

maybe the participants and the bounty manager don't know the project they are working on has been monitored by DT members. they must stop immediately, before being given a red flag, by DT members. even though the manager was not reputable, for some reason many participants joined this campaign, personally I will prioritize trusted managers..

Because some people do not even care about checking the announcement thread or check the updates in telegram communities. Those are promoting every single campaign and usually are taking part in hundreds of twitter campaigns at the same time.

So many people likes to take stupid chances, and the annoying thing is that they know that the project might be a scam based on what others have been saying about it, but because it has not directly happened to them, they will not pay much attention to it, which is why I think it is just a waste of time to be announcing it as many people will eventually not listen to you, it is better they experience it themselves and feel how it is, maybe they will learn their lesson next time to be making research before getting engaged in any project.

No one is new to cryptocurrency now, even people that are yet to make investment knows about scam in cryptocurrency which is even more popular than the bitcoin itself, so anyone should really have known that they ought to be making a thorough research before investing in bitcoin.

It is very unfortunate to see that there are people like them that still promotes projects that are confirmed to be scam. Money talks, I guess? But there are tons of other projects out there that deserves more of the bounty hunters' work rather than clinging to the money of scammers. I hope that they'll realize someday this. Promoting scam projects won't do any good to the industry thus, they will also suffer because of the declining reputation caused by those scams.

Actually many brand new bounty Hunter do not follow the project position with announcement then there no have any idea what's project going that. But i hope when everyone will know about this project then there stop promoting. i am sad for looking lot of scam project 2017 last and start 2018 full and now still running 2019.

Many people participate in various companies on the machine. I think you noticed how after the bounty of the company in the branch everyone continues to publish reports evenly.
As a rule, these are automated systems - bots, or people who have everything to participate in exactly what. They try to take in quantity.

There could be 2 possible options:
1. They are really paid, I mean some bounty managers know that they are going to promote scam, but the amount of money is really irresistible.
2. They simply do not know about that fact.

Yes they must do a proper research and background verification before agreeing to work for any sort of projects as one negligence or carelessness of the bounty manager can lead to wastage of efforts put in by the bounty hunters and other folks involved in the bounty campaign including the bounty manager and his team as well.

I noticed this. Simply, many participate in a large number of bounties and don't have time (or don't want) to follow the project announcements in telegram or here on the forum. And sometimes they just don’t notice that the campaign is long over.

It's just atrocious handling of the situation. Any campaign outstanding where the project has been proven to be a scam should be stopped at the first instance so that:

a) bounty hunters don't go around working for nothing
and b) so that the project doesn't get any more free advertising that contributes to their scam.

It would be extremely immature to do anything else, in my opinion, and could lead to financial damages.

I bet those bounty hunters didn't even read the projects white paper, website etc, they only just applied and promoting it until it ends which is a waste of effort and time. We can't do anything about it, it's their choice.

Confusions i guess, people in crypto space don't know what to believe anymore, they are been told not to promote a project because they are likely to scam and yet the project ends up been legit and those that have real working products with high hype ends up a failure, its craze in crypto space, so unpredictable

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain are a fairly new sector. So you can talk about the existence of too many initiatives in this regard. Projects do not have to go through the AML or KYC process before they enter the market. Only IEO exchanges do this on their platforms.

So it doesn't make much sense to join ICO or STOs anymore. Turning to companies that complete the AML process can reduce the risk of fraud.

Some bounty hunter is don't care about the update.
They will try as best to get maximum bounty. So if that is legit they get some profit. Maybe they are tired about scam project, so they taken all  :D
But for me, i always checking is it legit or not.
If the scam sign i saw, i will try get out from there.

Maybe they didn't see the thread of scam project that they promote, and I agree that DT members should red tag the campaign manager so the bounty hunters will stop promoting it. Many victims will fall if hunters keeps promotes the scam exchange.

Because there are many bounty hunters are joining many projects at one time , so they usually don't check the announcement or research the project before they join. I hope they read this thread and realise soon

Thank you anyway for sharing this information. However there are many bounty hunters who are still newbie, so regarding the latest information and information related to the project they don't double check first. I also hope that there are more bounty hunters who care about what they share and are more selective in participating in a bounty.

Yes, some people don't always check project updates either from the community or from managers. Though all participants are required to always get information related to ongoing projects.
If indeed the project has shown signs of scam, then participants must leave the project faster before they are truly disappointed because no results will be obtained during work. Consider always getting information related to the project and it would be better if we seek information through what they offer.

This is usually the case now, most of the projects are scam but due to large amount of pool for bounties and a promise from the project's CEO, most of people are trying to consider it without reading the whitepaper nor exploring the website, if those written in the road map is feasible.

Please for those who would like to support bounty, don't waste your time. Always check this.

1. The Team
2. Have time to read the whitepaper

The problem is the bounty hunters don't even wanna do a lot of research before participate in any campaign and this statement has already proven so many times. So many bounty hunters created complaints if they are getting deceived by join in a scam bounty but they never learn what they have experienced with.
I can say that they need a lot of educations

Bounty hunter just looking who manager of bounty campaign and what the level of bounty campaign manager, not looking serious about whitepaper, team and owner first. When check on spreadsheet many bounty hunter have participated they will joined with think is scam or not, but when got announce on the tread they will stop promote because fake team and scam campaign.

Thanks for this. actually people don't have enough idea about scammmers so they could not understand what  a scam project ia.you have done a very good job thanks for it.

This is very alarming also especially that there are still users who blindly support the bounty campaign without checking the credibility of the project.

But upon checking the bounty thread there is a big possibility that it was being hyped or bump only as the participants are mostly newbies but it will be best also if this kind of thread will be close/remove.

There are not many bounty hunters who always update the project information they participate in, based on my experience, that most bounty hunters are more likely to complete their tasks than look at the information in the project. For me this is ignorance about the project scam, and if they know, surely the hunters don't promote the project.

Perhaps the more precisely the cause is when they are busy with work and also the campaigns that they participate in are many, usually they are also not easy to control to be able to the many campaigns they can follow. maybe this is one reason why it's hard to know which projeck failed

as I know, if a project is indicated to be a scam or stops, or there is no continuation, it will usually make an announcement in the main thread and the bounty manager will confirm it. (based on what I experienced some time ago).

Well not all the bounty hunters is always updated on the projects they joined that's why some of the bounty hunters is still working even the project confirms it's scam, so for me it is really better if all of the bounty hunters will always check there projects, they need to be updated everyday so they will know that is happening on it.

Previously, thank you for the information you have given above, this is very helpful for forum users here, but I observe that in the bounty thread there are still many users who join in it, not only beginners but also some top rank users are also involved, and it seems someone is not care about the projects they follow.