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I prefer to post this here on this section because this is where it actually originates from. This is where the bounty scammers come to catch their "prey"- hunters.

Therefore, I have observed that since 2018, after the 2017 crypto bull , almost all bounty have been failing. After months of running bounty, some that manage to get to the exchange are dead on arrival with less than a dollar worth of 20,000 unit (or more unit) of shit distribution to hunters.

Consequently , with my little time here and as far as I have noticed, their are certain signs that seem like a no go area if we really want to participate in a fairly good bounty that we can also benefit from our labour, time and data.

These signs for me are :
1. When the thread is filled with grammatical and typographical errors.

2. When the task in the different or any of the allocated bounties are not defined. For example, how many facebook shares / posts are not defined and then you are left with asking from the shit BM. This is definitely and certainly a red light.

3. When the task is limitless. For example, no limit to shares/post.

4. When the task is too much. For example, 10 shares  ;D

5. When the requirements to get your reward is complicated. For example, you can be asked to sign up and provide referral number or code  ;D

6. When the process for reward isn't proper. For example, you notice you will be asked to watch a video to know how to provide wallet address or downlines  :o ::) ;D

7. When spreadsheet isn't updated weekly.... Just run  ;D

8. When weekly dates are not seen either on the thread or spreadsheet.

9. When you see only week 1 , week 2, week 3 etc just on spreadsheet without date.

10. When complaints on telegram isn't responded to promptly and you are not satisfied when you get response.

11. You don't need to continue if you notice you have been deleted from telegram and you know you have been asking legitimate questions to understand things not clear to you about the bounty.... Run run fast  ;D

12. When it is not handled by a reputable account as BM.

13. When there is no ANN at the beginning or it is provided later in the bounty maybe because someone is consistently requesting for it.

These are some signs I can't remember and I know they are negative signs for you not to be paid after you do your part most times.

*** These signs are ; apart from whitepaper typographical mistakes and plagiarism  ;D ;D ;D

If we go with these signs and not sign up with a bounty you suspect could be scam, then the bounty will have less participants and with time, we can clear these scamming bounties out from this forum.

Each one tell all. You don't need to join suspected scam bounty.

I hope this thread will help bounty hunters.

You can also immidialtly know if the bounty campaign is scammers if they don't have team transparency because this is important to gain trust for potential investors. And always search if they are legitimate and not a impostor, and also ypu can also know if the project is scam on thier product or idea of this will really help thier crypto currency to become more popular.

Another important point to make here is if the team has no or few worded whitepaper with no good description of what the project is all about. i knew a project that wrote a full whitepaper and even got listed on CMC but was an Airdrop platform. was highly discouraged when it appears the whole stuff was shit and nothing to offer.
i strongly believe this place needs to be regulated.

I've read or tried to help build so many such lists I started get sick of them, really. Nobody seems to read them.

Maybe somebody could try to maintain a nicely formatted topic with the "good" bounties.
But at start it will need a lot of work.

Even everything above is followed correctly, still there's no guarantee that project will be good. However, if someone does enough research it's possible to avoid scam project. I am really bored on bounty and given up participating too.

I wish I had more than 1 merits to bestow on the OP for such a thought out post. That said.

Numbers 3, 7, and 13 are real red flag and a deal breaker for me. But most people here tend to over look them. I guess many hunters don't bother to even read before joining in any bounty or indirectly want to be scammed. I see this often with the manner of POA (Post of Authentication) hunters make and hunters persistently making weekly reports even after the bounty had been officially declared closed.

There is absolutely nothing that can guarantee what the outcome of any bounty could be, even when the tasks are limited, with stakes counted promptly, it's still isn't enough of an indication that the bounty would end, but when bounties by certain managers, you can be rest assured that there is a better possibility of it being successful (or at least) pay it's participants.

Bounty is like gambling only has the luck that can find a good project in this time, so many tentant bounty prevention scamer still cannot be guaranteed because in this era many projects are successful but not on the stock exchange is just the same as a failed project.
But hunters can minimize by doing research and also choosing managers to get the best bounty, if the manager is always filtered on the project he wants to promote.

Definitely a good list of suggestions here, this will certainly help some people avoid wasting their time with a bounty that is doomed to fail.

I believe that the vast majority of bounties are going to be fruitless, though there will always be outliers.

IMO bounty hunters should only participate in projects that are likely to be successful even without a bounty program, that way they can be sure they get their rewards even if the bounty doesn't produce great results.

You can normally tell these by looking at whether they have investments already, e.g. from large venture funds or investment pools. These platforms usually have stringent requirements and tend to avoid the projects that are destined for failure.

bounty was like a gambling but only this time right ? because its now hard to catch a good paying one but before bounties were not like a gambling because the chance of catching a good one is verry high  , if i can scale it from 1 to 10 it would be 7 over 10 but now its now only 3 to 10  . i like the idea of chosing a bounty manager  . its true that there are verry good managers ,  i know some of them that are picky and doesnt like to risk his reputation for some quick buck  but he is also a friendly manager to his participants at the same time  .

Bounty should not be treated as a confirmed source of earning. If you follow the above rule and still get scammed do not come here and crib. Bounty is basically an extra source of earning cryptos. Bounty was meant to build community and give them the opportunity to earn some tokens without investing.

Bounty hunters have made bounties as an occupation now and therefore they are always cribbing and crying for tokens.

You are absolutely right about all your points. Showing these signs represents to be scam project.
Also to notice that these BMs are always with rank newbie copper member.
I have now decided to join campaigns only from reputed BMs.

Even if you follow all the points and chose a good project managed by a good campaign manager there is still no guarantee that the project is going to excel when it gets listed in an exchange. But atleast they can avoid promoting a spam/scam project for nothing.

But you know what, most shitty bounty hunters don't even have the patience to read your post or mine or even research about the project they are promoting. They are just more focused on liking/sharing tweets/FB posts etc and posting their work details in the bounty threads.

Yes but information or knowledge is power. Whoever is aimed before going into warfare is prepared for anything that can come afterwards.

Is just a pre knowledge from my single opinion and most times, it has been like that.

Point 10.11. and 12 are very important a reputable manager will not handle this kind of campaign that are full of deceit, and if they are trying to evade legit questions, there are hidden agenda behind it so be very careful, they should be transparent and can always answer even the worst question.

Seems like you missed million dollar bounties,project team allocated millions worth of tokens to distribute among the bounty hunters so they think that they can get maximum exposure and more money to run away with. :D

I guess OP just tried to help bounty hunters whom suffering here from so long with promoting scam projects, whom actually don't know about different between good and bad projects. @akhjob There are some different between scam and failed projects. OP just talk about how to find a scam projects. Not every failed projects are scam. And yes i agree with you lot of hunters are too much uneducated about crypto bounty (maximum newbies are in my opinion). They should learn and cooperate to clean this forum from shit/scam projects.

Just a little tip for lazy bounty hunters: If you too much lazy to examine a bounty project then start your work for them after 1 week (after create bounty thread). Cause many reputed member try to find scam projects everyday and if they found one they worn us about that.  

These won't help to stop them, this will help to catch them. If they get caught, they are going to come back as a different person with a different project, but this time more stronger. They just spread like plague and can be found here and there like mushrooms.
Unfortunately, the points you gave are not enough to judge if they are a scammer or not. All those points you mentioned can be covered up quite easily by the scammer. The best way to know if they are scammer or not is by just following your own intuition.

All these does not turn out to no payment. Some bounties can be complicated and hunters will be paid at the end whereas some others can be way too simple yet people won't paid at the end.

This is surely a good point that you have pointed at for bounty to join because they already have a project or business being managed before venturing into cryptocurrency either because they want to have there own coin trading and buying there product. I know of such projects but won't mention the coin (I'm not paid an advert fee  ;D). Seriously, even when such project have difficulty in finance, they fall back to mother project. Most times they also have very experienced team as we already know you can't buy experience from the mall.

Thanks anyways for meriting my post.

These are all technical things that bounty hunters must know so that their hard work does not end in vain. A little extra advice from me: avoid bounty managers who work less well, for example not careful in checking campaign articles, plagiarism or not all of them get the same points, it's frustrating.

Unfortunately, despite being warned, regarding various matters as described by the OP, some bounty hunters do not care about that. They only focus on joining many bounty campaigns without regard to quality, it's tiring, right? better to follow a little campaign but quality than just rely on luck. The season has changed, do not expect too high as in 2017, fraud is increasing now, and market conditions are different, so we must be able to adjust.

Thats why I perform only tasks and bounty campaigns where I see a real potential of the coin, in most cases these coins are already listed on reputable exchanges, so I can easily calculate my future earnings and compare it with my efforts.  :)

Good points here though but still it would be useless if the others can't see this.

Bounty hunters don't necessarily have what it takes to fish out scam projects, they only become obvious if at the end they refuse to pay hunters for their work.

That attitude must be avoided. It is better for bounty hunters to understand the projects they are supporting so that they can maximize their promotion. If only money-oriented, they would be disappointed and always in a hurry to get a reward and listing exchange for immediate sale. Even though a good project cannot be done instantly, we must follow the stages through the roadmap properly, following its development so we can get the right timing.

But what the OP listed are already red flags that you can check and look for. Though there were good projects that I encountered before that they haven't paid their bounty participants maybe because their project was not pushed thru. You can't really say what the fate of a good project will be even if you did your research. But what the OP suggested is a good start to achieve the decline of scam projects launched in the forum.

*Firstly, I think the title should be "The signs of scam bounties". Why? It is because of the main point that you review on your thread is about the "signs".

I agree if we must be careful with the bounties which have one or some of the signs above. We have already had various scam projects and experienced many worthless bounties. It is a warning to be more selective and ignore all bounties indicated scam or potentially to fail. We are better to not join because participating means we also support/promote scam or potentially failed projects.      

Becauss people always take such topics for granted believing that they won't be a victim, not a chance. And then would go back here, would look for some sympathy, will blame the project as if they don't deserve to be a victim in the first place when they entered/participated on their own discretion. Well reality sucks but it is what it is. Either way there are still people who found such topics a big help for their journey, I certainly believe so.

I think there is someone who created a thread that tackles about a good bounties. He/She even had a telegram channel announcing bounties. So if you have time may be you could take a look up on his/her work.

Here's the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0
Here's his/her telegram channel: http://t.me/etherium24bounty
Here's his/her profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1269701

Bounty hunters should also be aware on the result will happen; not only they will not get paid or the project will get a free advertisement. But also the privacy of bounty hunters, like for example those bounty campaigns that asking email address of every bounty hunters because it could lead to email addresses farming and they will able to use it or sell it.

These are all good points to observe when you are evaluating whether or not a projects bounty campaign is worthwhile participating in and besides this you can also check that it has a real world use case and a strategy to achieve adoption else it won't have much longevity

I have joined some bounty in the past and the result went well but by the time they about to distribute the rewards, they implement some rules and they do the KYC check. back then, I don't have some documents to prove my identity, so, I didn't get the rewards. After a year they plan to distribute again, this time I can finally get my rewards because I have the thing that they asked for. but these guys are just some silly scammers, after the distribution date there wasn't any news or update if they distribute it or not. I went to their telegram group and try to ask about it, my surprise that they block me on their telegram group and that's the time that I know that I cannot have those rewards anymore.

In order to identify whether a project is scam or not, I looked first at their team. It sounds funny but I sometimes find a picture of an actor used with a different name. But ofcourse it is not always about the team. By that, I stick to my plan B where I applied to bounties that paid BTC weekly. At least I can guarantee myself it is not scam.

your statement is right, but sometimes bounty manager is busy thats why they cannot update the spreadsheet.Also few project don't hire bounty managers and lately they update stakes.Also we should do that bounty which is managed by the well reputed bounty managers.Because now days shit bounty managers is the main reason for scam bounty.Now I am trying to join only reputed managers bounty.

These signs are very helpful for the newbies so they can avoid those shit projects as most of the victims of shit projects or scammers are the newbies in crypto industry who are very hungry for a free money. They will join as many bounty as possible because they are thinking that even one good bounty that will pay is enough as long as they can earn a free money.

I didn't see any seasoned member here that supports a random bounty campaigns but with regards to newbies, they are almost everywhere as long as they are welcome to the bounty campaign. So instead of giving them the signs it will be best if we can guide them or restrict their behavior especially if they are bombarding the forum with bounty applications.

As bounty participants, we must make sure that we already check the project before joining and others bounty participants are not doing this. They just want to join every campaign without checking and analyzing the project. If we join scams campaigns, and we didn't received the payouts, its also our fault because we didn't check it. I always check their website, the team behind the project and their reviews. Sometimes if scams project don't show their true identity, and they used other images and information. I think its prefer to join in the most trusted bounty managers today rather than new accounts that just created.

they can only refuse to pay hunter at the end of the camapaign. you  will never know if they pay you or nott if the campaign still running .

Reviewing a project is the most important thing you can do before participating. Even youdo it doesn't mean it will pay you it will only reduce the risk to participate in scams bounties.

I stopped participating in bounty campaigns for more than a year now. I honestly think they are just a waste of my time as most often the project is a copy-cat of another existing project who is in the market nowadays or still struggling to get into the market for trading. Sorry but it seems that to me most ICOs turn to scam after getting an investment from their investors. Please don't blame it on me, it is just that it is the effect of the past ICOs and their bounty campaign project not doing the right thing, scamming people.

About #6 point it's not the bounty manager's fault because some bounty hunters are so stupid that they can't set up a wallet themselves, telling people to watch video about how to create a wallet is not bad, not every one is a tech savvy

You can't expect new bounty managers to be perfect on their first paroles, they will definitely make some mistakes and in time they will learn, i corrected few myself and they listened, what matters is the project, the biggest money I earned in bounties is from a low rated project and also a new bounty manager

This is true. Sometimes, even scam projects comply with the given requirements so it's hard to determine whether a certain project is a scam or not in just a short span of time. In some cases, it takes time before you consider a project a scam. If you're not comfortable or if you're doubting about it, it's better to look for a legit project so you'll never have regrets in the future. Things will always depend on our decisions so we have to be skeptical.

Asking big questions on telegram channel or group is very effective  ;D you will definitely get blocked if there is something shady about the project

No mate, there will always be a flaws when it comes to scam campaign,

If the above requirements are met, then the project seems to be serious about their goal and the project itself. Scam project will always have something to forgot to add for the project or any information that will give you doubts.

It is very difficult to understand which bounty company is scam and which is not, because I have been participating in bounty companies for a very long time and very often it happens that a bounty company in which you are sure that not a scam is actually a scam, and another bounty company in which you was 100% sure that it will be scam is not scam.

The most important thing is that we as bounty hunters are constantly trying to find legitimate projects, for me to avoid this kind of thing is to join several campaigns such as blogs or social media in several projects. When I used to have a lot of free time I often did that and there were definitely some projects that would pay.

as a bounty hunter it is really hard for us to this come by some bad projects or trash bounties so for my fellow bounty hunters let's be careful on picking a bounty of things that we are joining or participated because we are already aware that there are some or few scam bounties that are not paying their participants or their bounty hunters and they are just keeping it.
So i suggest to just picky on some bounty campaign so that you will not be able to promote or participate on some bad bounty campaigns.

I already see the number 7 in many projects but the project don't say anything, they only tell you can keep doing the task until the campaign finish. But the other signs is right too because many scam projects did that and they leave the project in the end, so that makes the participants sad and confuse. Yes, we can help to stop it by not participating in those projects. But it is difficult because we already help them from the beginning, and they can get the investors so then they can run away with their money.

Actually this one really helps,

I am also doing this, I always find something suspiscious about the project and then if they will kicked me out of their channel, I can say that the project is hiding something.

Creating such a table requires a lot of knowledge and time. Therefore, such a table cannot be free of charge. But as I understand on the forum very few who are willing to pay for such selection bounty. Therefore, those who started to make such a table, after a while stopped supporting it .

I totally agree, this is one of the major signs to tell you if the bounty and the team are legit or not,
Sometimes they will deliberately ignore your question in other not to answer it,
If you ask a very complicated question, they will try to avoid it or block you from the group,
Another problem is many hunters don't ask questions, they will just join any bounty they come across and then cry later if they didn't get paid.

Though I am not agree with all of your points but yet you mentioned some really catchy reason to avoid shit bounties. This is good that many people like you are spending huge time on making awareness thread to save bounty hunter from scam but the saddest thing is, most of the bounty hunters are not listening to these, they keep joining in new scam bounties after so much warning! However, I hope the situation will be changed very soon and all the scam bounties will be neglected!

Just by looking at the team and the white paper you will already have a gist that a project is a potential scam. Making your own in-depth research about the team and the project itself will help you gauge if ever it is legitimate or not. People should do due diligence before promoting a project, that way it can help lessen scam projects from entering the cryptocurrency market.

I remembered that your active before on listing good bounties. Why did you stop the update? I usually search on your list before as you keep detailed and complete list of every bounty that has been introduced here in forum.

Thats right. If participants ask some question that not favored them or trapped in such inquiry, they will definitely shut you down or kick. Meaning they dont want to answer it or prolong the discussion since some shady stuff will be noticed.

Yes, many prefer to create a website, which is great while it has its own promotions, then it goes to oblivion.
Yes, it's quite some work until such a topic becomes well known. Afterwards the bounty posters and hunters will help out maintaining it. The same happens with the Bitcoin signature campaigns.

And I also don't agree with you on the "table cannot be free of charge" part. If you don't want to move a finger without getting paid on this forum, it's... ugly. I understand that if you would not have a signature campaign you wouldn't have even answered to this thread, right?
Well, this forum is about helping each other. Not necessarily about earning money. That's just a plus.



Far too many simply jump in for campaigns fearing to not be missed out. And after a while they find out that they should have been better doing a little background check (at least!).
It's just another kind of FOMO and it hits badly on this level.


I know that topic, not as nicely formatted as I'd like, but it's a good start.
On the telegram and other kind of outside links, sorry, but if they are not in this forum so I can see when they're updated, I tend to forget "visiting" those links sooner or later. And I don't use telegram much.

Everything you said are true but after all this there is still no guarantee that the project you promoting will turn out good, there are few perfect scams in crypto space that no one can detect until turn to be scam

If it is already obvious just by seeing the whitepaper and the team's background, we should quickly evade it so that we won't get scammed. There are a lot of scam project at the moment and if we are going to be careless, we would be very vulnerable to it leading to high possible losses. Be always smart and wise upon joining a certain project so that your time wouldn't go to waste at the end.

As to what I was saying, searching the team and the whitepaper all throughout would be a great help for you in deciding whether you are going to join the project or not. If you are really eager to join a campaign that is worth it, then make your own in-depth research about it. Let us lessen the scammers by avoiding feeding them money as we get scammed by them so let us all be knowledgeable enough about it.

Sure. But the post isn't an end to itself but a means to an end. Is a guide however.
.... And seriously..., it represent 85% of the signs that seem innocuous to the failed bounties I have wasted my time on. ...Especially those that didn't find their way to exchange and never distributed. I mean those heinous projects that some of us have done that had "full capacity intention"  ;D to scam both investors in ICO, IEO and hunters.

You have highlighted basically more than enough lapses that is evident in fraudulent Bounties.
now it is up to all Bounty hunters to conduct proper researches and identify one or more red flags before joining a Bounty.

Remember, if Bounty hunters can collectively ignore scam Bounties, then it will go off like a thin air

I hate to see when spreadsheets are not updated every week promptly after the end of the week also when there is no indication of weekly time frames in the bounty thread and spreadsheet, it just depicts that team and bounty manager is non serious which is a really bad sign.

I don't think many of the bounty hunters try to find out any of these. They just saw a new announcement and they rush into it. They don't have any time to check how good that bounty was or some don't even know how to choose a good project. Also, I think there are a lot of bot account and some use multi-account too. So i think they can't manage some time to check those bounties. One day these types of people surely will regret how much time they wasted.

The pointers that you have imparted to us are very relevant and very helpful especially to newbies. There are really indications that a project was really a red flag.  That's the reason why we really need to be very careful on choosing every project that we support. Don't be lazy on doing your own research. Besides our effort for more than months are at stake when we supported it.

Even if we follow all these rules and skip the campaigns that fall under these still we will be scammed. I have participated in campaigns that were run very professionally and everything was right even many hunters complained that the rules and bounty managers are strict but even such campaigns ended up not paying or scams. So there is no easy way out in my opinion.

Majority of the bounty campaigns tasks rules are almost similar. Too much post/shares i ignored because it’s true these  projects is looking fishy and it’s risky to banned for spamming in your social accounts from which you will promote. If reputable managers handle definitely it’s a legitimacy but i joined a lot of promising projects those handled from low rank accounts. Point 7. it’s not correct, All of reputable managers can't update weekly for some valid reasons.           

That is not so important. As long as the bounty ends, the spreadsheet is updated, everything will be fine. I'm just annoyed when the projects are constantly delaying the distribution, it seems they don't want to pay bounty hunters. I have seen hundreds of similar projects in just one year

It is better to just wait and not join a bounty that is suspected to be a scam than join and at the end not get anything meaningful out of it.
If all the projects I see have any inkling or iota of scam in them, I would prefer to stay without participating and continue with other forms of investment and trading.
It can be very frustrating, that after working for months, you now find out that it is a waste of time.

I know it is not an easy thing as a bounty manager, to see offers, yet are a scam, who would still pay you, but not your participants and still decline to take them.
This is more reason I will always respect some bounty managers.

But the sad part is, majority of bounty hunters will do the shit bounties still! Because they like to take chances in scam projects because sometimes shit projects can pay you good, but this is absolutely a wrong idea nowadays! They are helping scammers! I hope with the time, people will realize!

In fact, we do not know which project will deceive us. To avoid this we have to use our own knowledge, research ourselves. Even after that, we can't really say whether I will get paid. If we following your points will produce good results. Those are must-see points.

Thanks for the insight!

I tried to get into the whole bounty hunting, as it seemed interesting (there are so many projects out there promising the goods).
But yea, I guess that if you don't have an exceptionally good radar in finding the gems, you end up wasting a lot of time on carrying other people's gains.

Hope there'll be someone to figure out a verification system or even new kind of way to issues these bounties - never hurts to grab some coins by completing a few tasks  ;D ;D

Completing the task for 3 months or so, receive the rewards, and get listed to a certain exchanger that doesn't have a market value is still a waste of time and I experience that last year. It was a doomsday for me and all my hard work and effort seems to be useless but just a shitcoin filled in my wallet.
If we have a radar to detect if that particular bounty is legit, then everyone might use that one but we don't have. And only a thing that we usually use is common sense...to figure out by looking at their team's profile and as well the objective of this project that would emphasize legetimacy and transparency.

This is very helpful, so that all people take part in preventing fraud cases that become a problem in 2018 after the 2017 fight. Thus fraud cases can increase and hope there will be no more. But I think it goes back to personal to react to it.

Well i thinks this points need to be remember to all bounty hunters. After joined a bounty we should check the condition of the bounty it self. If there is something suspicious maybe you should stop and find another one.

and always follow a popular or trusted reward manager.add value to the project.
But not all BM that have a bad reputation execute a bad project.
some projects even run their own campaigns without using the BM.

I love it when members like you makes an effort of jotting down every error of a project.
This is pure effort. Merits for you.

It is not easy to see all of this.
Most of them are hidden or if not bounty hunters doesn't care.
Indeed this will be a great help but only for those who cares.
Most of them just want money and will just blindly do anything for it.

You did well. Thumbs up!  ;)

By following a campaign organized by a bounty manager who is already good, at least we reduce the potential to join a campaign from a scam project. Managers who have long been able to understand the projects they handle are scams or not and I don't think they want to risk their reputation.

To avoid bounty scam we must follow only those known project and handed by good manager. We can't stop encountering a scam bounty because of increasing came out project day by day but we can lessen to participate in that kind of campaign by always knowing all the aspect of their project and always follow your instinct. We must very careful of choosing project to participate, join to those popular one.

Well done mate. You have listed out great points that are sure to help a lot of bounty hunters who are new to the game and even some hardcore bounty hunters. Now a days too many projects done give out the promised tokens which leads to a very bad situation. I wish projects stay truthful to the bounty Hunter.

Good efforts dear and nice info about bounty scamming besides these all issues one major issue is if the project succeeds and go live in exchange but they delay in paying bounties and no response given in bounty thread or telegram channel, when you contact in main chat telegram channel they delete your message or ban you, The recent example is XDB which is trading now in market, They promised to pay in Q12020 but no response when asking when to pay the bounty rewards, This is serious issue and we all hunters must find solution for it.

many cases like that some time ago there was a place of exchange that got success from the bounty campaign and was able to get a hardcap but early last year they shut down the withdrawal process so that all cryptocurrency assets of traders were trapped in this exchange and could not make withdrawals, so it had to Be careful when you store assets in an exchange because their promises can be fake.

Some say its hard to find a legit project but this guy just mentioned what he can seems to find flaws on the project he joined. Thumbs up for you OP, it seems being vocal here on forum could really help in busting those scam projects. Telegram is one way of knowing it is as the discussing many legit question could somehow feel them unease as they are being persecuted. Then they will ban you for asking too much.

You made a point here, personally I had previously joined a bounty campaign devoid of any of the flaws or flags mentioned by the OP which ended up as scam.
Bidium was the bounty campaign it was well organized and weekly spreadsheet update was promptly and responses to enquiries on telegram too was prompt and quick however at the end of the campaign none of the hunters was paid thus it is not never a guarantee to get payment maybe the manager handling the job might be considered.

Absolutely an effective thread I believe it will help a lot to aware bounty participants especially newbies who are participating in bounties on huge graph without proper understanding which creates false hype, confusion and give encouragement to scam projects as well hopefully bounty participants will learn with this topic and take right steps.

Major reason why many of these dev keep on posting bounty campaign is that they see it as a cheap way of promoting their projects. If not, they would have gone for other possible means. I have no believe on any ICO again and I lost interest in bounty campaign long time ago. Even some renowned. Bounty manager like sylon have stopped managing bounty just not to tarnish their image. It is no longer news that ICO and IEO are no more profitable and it doesn't worth investing on.

I definitely agree mostly on these list, especially on no.7 that the spreadsheet isn't updated weekly, because we can feel that the bounty campaign is abandoned already when spreadsheet is not updated.

Indeed and we need more post like this to raise awareness about people who want to scam you and not just in bounty but in all aspects of crypto, posting or replying your experience about scamming can save someone because they will be familiar of the situation once it happen to them, i think newbies also needs to go first to this kind of thread before interacting to different sites about crypto so that they will be equipped with knowledge.

For you to be able to avoid bounty scams, try to report those people who manages it since they might have some part in this scamming cases. Try to also check the background of the developers if they are able to finish some of the projects before. It might help you to identify if it will become successful or not.

Thank you and surely, this will help bounty hunters like me to lessen but not fully avoid scam bounties. I do agree on some point though there are some successful bounties being handled by the team - project owner but was successful but yes, a reputable Bm would help a lot but what do you think happened with "needmoney"? Again, it can lessen the risk but still we can only know if it will be good or bad once it ended and once they have the market.

I have already written about this before, it took a lot of my time to keep the table up to date. But in addition to working on the table, I had my main job and my family.


You do not accept any other opinion than your own. Although I believe that I have more experience in this matter than you. I have done such a free table for 8 months in the past , so I know all the difficulties that are associated with this. So don't blame me for not doing anything for free for this forum. Tell us what you have done useful for bitcointalk yourself .

Why bother with these scammy bounties when there are genuine and solid airdrops out there like Bitvaluta (BTV). Don't waste your time for weeks or even months and get nothing.

Check em out;

Webpage: https://bitvaluta.org/
Airdrop @ their forum: https://forum.bitvaluta.org/viewforum.php?f=3

Please, I suggest you not to use this thread for advert or personal gain.
You can contribute, send reference link of helpful thread too that hunters can read about scamming bounty and legit bounty to sign up with.

You can open a separate thread and not hide on this.

This a thread to inform hunters, let's try and help clear it up. Thanks.


This is a very good point that will help get a bounty reward back especially if they are listed and exited. Like example, Orengitu never paid bounty reward for all bounty he handled.

Not all your points are valid or means legit projects make silly mistakes as well, we can't expect all team to be equal, mistakes will occur, few projects failed to create ANN before introducing the project this doesn't mean they are scam

I don't care about this issue, as long as the project is still active and their telegram is regularly updated by the admin, everything will be fine. In the past I have joined a few of the same bounty, spreadsheets have not been updated until the end of the campaign. But the result was a successful project and the bounty hunters still got their money

The kind of project and the team also matters which the project you may have joined has real team and no scam accusation about them. All of what OP said though had to be taken seriously because you'd rather not join a campaign if these are not met by the campaign.

Its time we rally together and stop those who took advantage of the bounty hunters.

I used to have a thing for bounty tokens in the past because I believe the freedom that was given to devs using ERC20 smart contract makes scammers evade crypto space but that changes after I make the biggest profit from a low rated bounty project, if you don't run you will get paid someday, just do your part like doing research

No, I do know I can be wrong. Nobody's perfect. I didn't know you've tried this already. Apologies.
I was expecting that since the list for Bitcoin signature campaigns is so nice and has so many helpers, altcoin should not be much different. I guess it's not like that.  :-\

About what I've done lately, I don't know if matters, since it helped only one user, still... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226264.msg53883494#msg53883494

And at this time there are already two projects that intentionally make mistakes so they can benefit by locking their tokens in their own exchanges, these projects are Bcnex and Emirex, both of these projects lock the hunters' pay in the form of tokens on their exchanges, and every time there is a participant who ordered the team to open the token and ordered the team to expedite the withdrawal from the exchange, they will be asked for 0.05 BTC by the team so that everything can be smooth, and I can provide this evidence here.

Bounty project scammers cant be stop but can be avoided, the only way to make this happen is if bounty hunters became extra careful and do better research on projects, crypto is never a safe haven to begin with, the ball is in your court

Agree, the bounty program will continue to exist even every day, of course it will be unavoidable, what we can do is don't just be happy just keep doing the research you can.

This research is quite important in choosing a bounty program.
I think there are many ways to do research and that can help you choose projects.

If you go to bounty section on this forum many scam projects are on there and many bounty hunters are promoting these projects, the truth is many bounty hunters don't care about research, it's a waste of time warning such hunters because they bring it on themselves

I wish this could be stopped but I don't know it's possibility, hunters will waste resources and promote scam projects or the one's without value. I feel the major remedy to this should be studying projects properly before taking part in their campaigns

That is the best way for us to prevent scam projects. But not everyone has the experience to choose projects. And most of the new bounty hunters entering this market will be stuck with scam bounty

Frankly, Bounty campaign usually takes unusual turns that we cannot find solutions too.

Just few years back; Iagon project Bounty was the best in town: perfect product and all sorts, but today it is linguishing in panxora without value and products has refused to launch.

But ixianum Bounty from last year; with all traces meant to fail, did well and made people very rich this year.

Hence; let Bounty hunters make their choices and do not let us discriminate.

Do your research before joining any Bounties

As long as member's earn from participating  in bounty it will continue. The better thing to do for hunters is not to stop bounty participation but to choose only a good project to promote not every campaign is good for investors that's why as a hunters its also our job to review a project before making any promotions.

Scam can easily be detected by the activities of the team. If a team is transparent and understands their project they're always on every channel communicating with their community but when team presence is lacked on any project social media especially telegram its pure scam.

You have a good point. As we have seen here in the forum there are a ton of projects that keep busted due to their fake team or even copy-paste content of their articles. We are very lucky that we have good forum members here in the forum who actively busting shady projects. OP's statement was right and I agree all of those what he said.

I think the OP has clearly given much information about how to spot a possible scam bounty and I just wish bounty hunters would heed to this piece of advise and campaign for projects that are worth it! Sometimes, we are all part of this menace you know, once a scam projected is promoted by several individuals you are likely to conclude this project will be good but most of the time it turns out not good. Look at what happened to MiracleTele and BCNEX. Total scam projects yet they had great reach in this industry.

I noticed that when work for a company is hard, it usually takes a lot of resources for such companies and in the future they are the most problematic in terms of payments.
While other companies where work was easy and simple, sometimes very unexpectedly pleased with payments. In other words, the easier it is, the more likely it is to get a return.

sometimes the scam players can still do a very smooth performance without being detected by the members who really scold the project gamers, many cases of these scamer do their activities well and after the fund collection is completed a few days later they scam and bring investors money away.

Some scam projects can never be traced at first but as the bounty goes on, you will notice some invalid changes that became so unreasonable. It really depends on the bounty hunter too if he becomes keen observant on the bounty so that at an early time, he can avoid a bounty that is totally a scam.

We have new bounty managers amongst us so don't expect that they will do their job perfectly, no one is perfect, I've corrected a bounty manager about not putting on dates on the spreadsheet and he adjust, we are human do not judge that easily

Miracletele and bcnex looks so real that I nearly invest on the projects but what happened in the end? Thy turned scam, but it's good that bounty hunters get paid, only those who decide to hold get fully rekt, I will never hold tokens from bounties no matter how good the projects are, I've learn enough lessons

OP claimed that we should run when spreadsheet is not updated every week, well you are only misleading  bounty hunters, some bounty managers are just lazy and sometimes they introduce better projects, if you don't have good patience you will miss out

Alchemy bounty manager always update spreadsheet very late and sometimes it takes more than a week for him to update the spreadsheet and many bounty hunters get angry and start leaving but in the end he finished the job once the bounty is over, learn to have patience

Many OP points are wrong and right also, the fact is OP points is not 100% pointing at a project as scam, some of these faults are just mistakes from bounty managers, low rated or slow projects can bring the highest bounty profit to you, bounties are based on research but luck is still needed

I don't think it was a fatal problem even though the patience of the participants was greatly tested in the Alchemy campaign, because in other projects there were also such things, so the participants had to always keep their posts from being lost before the spreadsheet was updated.

I think it's not the bounty manager's fault, bounty managers are not lazy, they work sincerely as they are paid for it. When you see BM is not updating spreadsheets and not answering questions, then you may think it's the project owner's fault because sometimes the project owner stop paying to BM, so BM normally stops managing it! Though some high ranked bounty manager behaves like shit, when they stop updating sheets, we can think it's bounty manager's fault. This all is my opinion, It can be wrong too!

There is nothing to stop in bounty haven, scammers are everywhere and what we have left is research but there is more that meet the eye, either quality projects or not there is no certainty, bounties are full of risks, just do your best and pray for better luck

you're right, we can only reduce it. however, they will continue to try to make new things as real, but that is all a fraud. even some people make the project a scam at the end of the project.

I conclude that when the price of cryptocurrency is still expensive and can still generate a lot of profit and it's easy to influence new traders or investors, scammers and fraudsters will never disappear from the world of cryptocurrency, in my opinion only from good and not cryptocurrency education misleading, which will make cryptocurrency clean again.

Exactly, it is impossible for us to find out about the company's nature at the preliminary stages, the only thing we can find out is about their activity and their team members. Even a project has a solid team and solid road map has failed in crypto, bounty payments are completely based on the luckier.

Scammers are unstoppable, get used to the present condition and learn from your mistakes, ICO and IEO projects are so dubious that you can't read them perfectly, invest the only amount you can risk and promote bounties for luck sake

I think the price of cryptocurrency goes up and down according to market demand or like a bubble, and is currently rising to the top.
and will probably reach its peak in 2021 and then fall again.
it is natural because market conditions vary every year and will never be stable.

Yes, it is true. It is tough to stop even if we try to reduce, and they still try to create another project because that is what we see from time to time. If we don't support the project, then they cannot get anything at all from us. But the problem is many of us need money, and they will try to search in many ways, including supporting the fake project because they didn't know if that project will be a scam or not in the future. It is a dilemmatic for every people, but we can try to prevent them.

Set aside that bubble discussion as it's not true, if it's a bubble, bitcoin would have no recovered after it was dump last 2018.
Bitcoin is volatile, that's it and it's the only market where we can witness a huge pump and dump.

What would happen in 2021 depends on this year, if this year we will able to win against the covid, then let's expect that 2021 is going to be a good year

I also seen they hype on this project Miracle Tele. I pity those who believe but I cant blame them. The platform is working good and paying their investors until that time CEO shows his true color and exited this project.

On the other hand, I know Bcnex has a pretty good start also but due to their massive marketing I feel that the management loss funds for their operation. Better sell right away any tokens came from bounty to avoid such dissapointement.

When it comes to choosing a bounty, we have to do a number of studies so that we can learn a little about the project, when scams occur at the end, don't be discouraged because we have tried to match our abilities.

This is an ongoing issue for the last two or three years now. We sit and discuss and no one acts according to the discussion here. I personally think we individually need to be more vigilant and careful while joining a bounty program as we are responsible for our own work.

Very true, each of us must be responsible for the bounty program that we join, because other people will not care for us when we have problems with the bounty program that we join, so we ourselves are fully responsible for the actions we do here.

This is what we must do for us not to click the bait of this scam is we need to be more cautious of those project before joining. There's always a reminder that scam really do exist and continues these days. Our only prevention is never joined without assessing a project.

In fact there are still many "starving people"^{greedy hunter}, and "starving people" don't care about how the "food nutrition"^{quality of project} they consume or how it will affect their "health"^reputation. Even if it is "poison"^scam, they will still try to fill their "stomach"^wallet and invite their "children"^alts to enjoy the "foods". They just wait for each other to realize that something is wrong. Or waiting for a "medical person"^{scam buster} to come that they have eaten the "poison" and "p**p"^{fake ad} they disposed of "killing"^harmful others.

Those mentioned details above are exactly what I have experience since I have joined bounty since 2018. But not most them were scams, there are some bounty managers that are not doing their jobs properly during the run of the bounty and would eventually do their job when the bounty campaign is about to end or BM is holding numerous number bounty campaigns and is not able to catch his/her works due to load management. But yeah it is informative and now new hunters have guidelines on how they would be able to avoid possible scam projects with this informations

At the moment, we should prioritize projects that will implement IEO in medium and large exchanges. Do not waste time with ICO projects because they will certainly not be able to succeed in this market

Some of these rules will be followed, but it will surprise you the bounty will turn out to be scam. But there are some red flags that you should avoid, like if the bounty manager says he or she doesn't hear from the team members.

In the last few branches of the ICO bounty, the size of the reward pool allocated in their new tokens is not directly indicated. It just says that a lot of tokens are allocated. If such an important point is ignored, then this may indicate a fraudulent intention of the team.

When the bounty manager says he doesn't hear anything from the team behind the project it's already too late, team is gone with all the money they collected in private sales. I think the only way to be protected from bounty scams is to make a good research about the project and the team, and if you see anything suspicious just turn around and run away!
I had luck with past few bounties I participated in, I hope that I will be satisfied with this one too, everything looks fine until now.

I don't judge bounty project based on how the bounty manager handled the campaign, most times the blame is on BM for his or her inexperience, profits can be make out of any bounties no matter how ugly they may look

Thank you so much for this amazing and insightful posts. It's absolutely right, I could vividly remember many that promised and failed. Most will tell hunters to do different kinds of kyc just to delay payment and after doing they would also bring up another discussion before you could know, there won't be admin to answer questions anymore. Another way if getting then is also when bounty allocation us very huge. They do this to get attention of hunters because reward looks enticing. So many thing to look into. Thank you much for this post.

You are absolutely right Because scam project team with their support activity is to low so their no need for bounty. Scam project never follow bounty Because their everytime target get money and by by market. Even many professional manager can said first time IT'S project trust or fake but some manager never want it and their want money so scam or fake IT'S no need follow.           

Thus, we must be able to take many lessons from some of the bounty failures that we have followed. Bounty manager is not a guarantee that the project is successful, only if the good performance, friendly, and communicative will make us comfortable to work together, right? the rest depends on how the development team is truly committed to developing the project.

TS gives pretty good advice. Although this is all pretty hard to predict, even projects that seem doubtful turn out to be successful in the future. So don't give up, keep trying and do your best analysis.

The above points do you say I've experienced when I joined bm bounty is not too good and did not seem to respond when it will give a message or criticism of something very important not respond at all I'd prefer to leave the bounty of looking the other bounty are better.

Wow, thanks for the long list its really helpful since I just started bounty and I try to screen out the bad ones

There are too many scam campaigns nowadays, we cannot blindly participating on any campaigns.
We better to take our time much longer for observing than getting nothing at the end of the campaign because scam.

things that we can not avoid at this time about fraud campaigns, but unfortunately there is no action so that this does not drag on, so that it can return to normal. but actually this situation began to gradually improve if there was no epedemic corona so many projects had to stop because of this situation.
but I am very confident that all scam projects will begin to disappear with many more careful participants to determine participating.

Many good point thinking even you are right almost many scammer project we get two more year. All right many bounty hunter now smart and their do not want promote a project without strong analysis roadmap. We always want real project too so never participated scam project just kick and avoid.

We can do that but the problem is too much bounty participants that don't even wanna try to do a small research and that makes the scammers get free promotion by these lazy hunters. We have created so many awareness threads but they are still promoting the scam project. This is the real problem that is not yet solved.

It is sometimes difficult to find if a project is a scam, but you have outlined the main points perfectly. I'm so tired of the scam bounty that I almost stopped participating in bounty campaigns.

This is the truth of the difficulty in finding campaigns that actually pay, regardless of whether their job is related to attracting investors, there are reasons behind the suspension of payment, not even in accordance with what they promised. Then again prize hunters are seen as a nightmare for developers when they start selling tokens or coins they get on the grounds that prices will fall

That is the reason for the project team bullshit. Isn't the distribution schedule planned in such a way as to anticipate falling prices as a result of massive sales by hunters?
Falling prices are not the fault of the hunter, but the development team failed to maintain the function of the project so that their coins are less interested.

Nothing is difficult as long as we want to try hard, it's just that everything we try requires a process and time so we can know about the clarity of any project, and don't stop participating in the bounty campaign, as long as the bounty is still okay and feasible to follow.

1. Delays doesn't mean bad project.
2. Teams are different from other
3. Professionalism got levels
4. My biggest payments from bounties are from low rated bounties
5. Quality projects are always full of participants which means you are getting low rewards.
6. Whatever the case may be what matters is getting paid and selling for good price on exchanges

I appreciate your observations but spend too much time observing, it will be really helpful or not at this time because you also understand that phishing may not appear at the beginning of the campaign, it may appear at the end of the campaign, even at the time of distribution, the more we observe, we also cannot see the future in the end, waste of extra time to observe is really not useful. We should replace it with more appropriate actions, participate more in campaigns, like a game of luck, we will find a good result at some point.

Whatever all of bounty managers can't update in the spreadsheet on time, so alchemy bounty BM is no exception, he wasn’t actives regularly because of possibly he maintaining another jobs. I think we can't judge a project by BM, because BM isn’t a part of the project developer. But if task updates will delay hunters can't satisfied. Who's deeply analyzed Alchemy they didn’t stopped work, they know that it's a reliable bounty.                         

Yes, and all hunters also have their own way of analyzing a project that he wants to follow, because almost the average hunter will definitely feel tired when they work on a scam or an unclear project.

You have given good signs about bad bounty projects but i do not agree with all.

Most of the tasks and rules regarding the bounty are just the terms of the bounty manager to bring out a perfectly executed campaign on all grounds for the project.
A bounty will easy 3 shares per week will refuse to pay hunters, whereas a bounty with 10 shares will do pay the rewards.

A concrete research function is important to ensure as a bounty hunter, if you choose 10 projects, 8 will be rewarding.

Profit from bounty when you don't get distribution of coin tobyour wallet? Or when you receive 30,000 unit of shit pieces that is worthing some $5 after much weeks of task ? That isn't proper and you can't make profit in such is just a waste of time.

That is the risk. So we must analyze the project well. Estimate the allocation with the specified tasks and periods. Do well, make sure you understand the risks when your expectations don't match reality.
So many dramas on the bounty nowadays. The reward is locked and the unlock is completed in a 365 day period, do you have to wait for one year? there is something like that. But there are still legitimate bounty campaigns, such as cartesi who have successfully cooperated with Binance, although the rewards are distributed within a certain period, it has been explained from the beginning by the bounty manager.

for that you have to find out in advance about the project you want to participate in, results like that are a waste of time, what else sometimes there is a very long bounty duration but the price is not what you want, I have several tokens that I produce from the bounty and up to now still some are not yet on the market

Maybe that is the sign that bounty are scam but we don't blame the bounty hunters because they need to earn money.

This is one of the sample that hunters will follow so once they see some about the campaign they join maybe they can leave or not to join anymore. I hope it can help them this thread to know the possible scam bounty campaign project.

Indeed that was the signs to determine if the bounty is scam. But the real problem is hunters are not paying attention about these. Sometimes they are just looking for the allocated rewards and the manager who will manage the bounty. We forget about the important factors to look for before joining thats why hunters are ending up in scam project.

Not all the thing can can be obtained by an effort or your hardwork. Bounty campaign is not about choosing a project then you will be paid by it but more than that you have to pay attention the project that you promoted. You need money and the project either is need money. You can push yourself to know more about the project first beforw you joined, especially you came to this forum that there are a lot of guidlines how to choose good project so it will be better to learn it first before you choosw the project to earn money.

Your number 12 point says 'when it's not handled by a reputable BM' well since I've entered crypto space the few money I've made from bounties are from bounty campaigns managed by the team themselves, I've tried others like arteezy but no luck, the BM knows how to conduct a bounty campaign very well but that's it, projects don't pay or just quiet forever

The number 11 is sometimes the better proof that the team are covering up something, because if they aren't, asking questions doesn't warrant removal from the group. When someone asks a question which might expose the team in certian areas they ignore it, asking the question again leads to ban.
Also, your other points are enough proof that the project is not worth the time and attention of anyone. In the same way, it is good to know that even some of the good ones tends to play with hunters when it gets to distribution time which is where having a good manager comes to effect.

So now many people give advice to do some research on all bounties before making steps to follow them, because that time is very valuable for bounty hunters, because they will feel disappointed if the time is wasted.

Two years ago, there was a practice when bounty hunters who took part in fraudulent bounties were given a negative mark in the trust. Because they were participating in a bounty to promote a fraudulent project. And then the bounty hunters closely followed the bounty in which they took part.

Yes, and as far as I know this is still applicable even today. As long as the project was proven that it is a scam or if it is related to any project that has a scam history, bounty hunters were given a choice to continue to promote the project with negative trust or stop promoting it.

Yep, grammatical errors used to be one of the ways to dictate a scam, because they are usually careless in their spellings or they are just dumb. But that’s not the case this time around, scammers now take their time to create their project lol, and they make it look more professional as possible as it could.

I have seen a lot of scam projects that people fell for recently, and I noticed that they all looked perfect enough to deceive people. As for the other points you have listed, they are all perfect and can really help people to dictate when they are working on a scam project. People really needs to be wise these days and avoid these scammers. It can be heart-breaking to spend time and a lot of effort working on a particular project only to end up being scammed. So it’s better to find out early and quit.

I completely agree with your understanding of this. however, doing research as well as any, scam decision or not on the CEO. many projects with a good concept and quality objectives, and think that it is not a scam project, even listing on some popular exchanges. however, from time to time we don't know the true purpose of the CEO.

So that the scammers can act arbitrarily, make fake projects, raise funds, create a bounty campaign to build a community that seems real, then run away. We must understand this scenario.
Many projects look promising with good planning, but they cannot develop properly due to unfavorable market conditions. So that projects with low budget difficulties. So it fails and is forced to cut bounty allocations or delay distribution and listing with an uncertain time.

If you want a truly legit bounty, please join a bounty managed by Hhampuz  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=881377)or another trusted manager who provides weekly payment in BTC. But the requirements are quite difficult, worth the price I think. The rest, we try our best to analyze the altcoin bounty, there are still many potential, we just wait for the surprise.

What if the same person gets 2BTC worth bounty token due to the few participants on the bounty project which has allocated 3% of the total supply? Will you make the same conclusion? Don't look the things from the single point.

Maybe you don't remember, there were days when the HERO member account was able to make a 0.001 BTC per day. The 3% bounty allocation will not hurt the team but it will look like a good opportunity for bounty hunters.

Thank you for these info. I joined a lot of bounty campaigns that appeares to be a scam. To be honest, I don't really like reading much about a bounty, what I do is I look for bountu that has many senior and legendary participants before that's why I always ended up participating a scam bounties. But that was before, I learned. As much as possible, I do my own research. And now, I'll also depend to this info. Thanks OP!

Scams are everywhere it is better to identify them by doing some research. I understand there have been a lot of bounty scams but those were ment to happen as most of them did not have a product ready. Only participate in bounties that are ready with a product and are looking for investors to develop and market their product.

It is hard to find such bounties now days but they are the only one who would never scam

It's hard to find good bounty nowadays, some have a working product but that doesn't really mean they will deliver success.
These days, though the market is quite bullish but we are still not back to the old good days status, crowdsale is not selling yet, so there's always a struggle.

Maybe just don't join in one bounty only, at least if you got 10, if 9 are scams, you still get 1 where you can enjoy your reward.

The scam is unavoidable, even though we have done the research, it will only reduce the percentage of a project to have greater potential when we choose it. I am pretty sure that most users here have tried to try not to support the project scam. however, this cannot be avoided when these people have indeed tried to deceive investors.

You say almost true in many projects but not absolute, people can still encounter fraud when they rely on that criteria. I have seen the Ubiatarplay project where they already have products but the results are pathetic. However, the criteria based on the product I evaluate are still very useful, we can limit the risk.

All of that sign are the basics in telling that it is a shit project or a scam project but if you can also widen it then it will be good knowing that scammers are also adapting and keep on evolving their techniques. There are many projects right now that acts like a legit but in the end they will run the money of the investors.

It is pretty difficult right now to stop those professional scammers especially that most of them are using an advance technique that cannot be seen easily by us who are not yet that professional in terms of digging some deep information about the team behind it. But all of that are still very useful especially in identifying those shit scammers who are still in that level.

Whatever we do I think these bounty scam will never be stop. I can see even we protest like this, those devil opportunist will never listen but just continue to do what they are good at cheating people, fooling, and stealing money. Even though they got busted they will just return with new one and setting up everything from scratch is not hard for these criminals. How many have exited scam on some ICOs making people believe they were real? Too bad.

Yes they will continue to exist as long as there are still people believing them. We cant eliminate the scammers completely but we can somehow do something to lessen their victims and it will start on ourselves. Op is right we need to check if there's a red alarm to stop joining in the project, so dont believe their too good to be true offer.

Thank you for making this nice Thread, But do you always get a good Bounty, which always pays you? I admit it is very difficult to distinguish which projects will actually pay you and not, I often analyze the various sides project that I participated in, their team, whitepaper, roadmap, but sometimes I still have the wrong choice.

We can't stop scammers, at least not now, that's why a bit of luck is needed to make good money out of good bounty projects, to find the good projects you should pray for luck because your research can't always safe you

Many bounties are scam these days and running smoothly and ultimately cheated all effort of the bounty worker. There are no better way to still developed to strain these scammers from the market. They are also coming with the legit website and cheated professionally.

Everything you write is a process for Baunthy Hunter. Where there is not so clever in choosing gifts and spending time completing all tasks.
Easily signaling that the compilation of the project is good. factor in the number of participants. This factor can also explain the interest that participated when they joined, there must be many reasons why many chose it.

Isn't it easier for administrators to ban such branches?
If the project wants to make a bounty, then let them arrange everything well. That there were no questions. As with the construction of buildings. Money in the bank until the construction organization fulfills its obligations. Also here, using a smart contract to do it. Otherwise, why do we need a smart contract if we do not use it?

A bounty campaign that asks its participants to make too much of posts that can result in spam, should be suspected of scam. The forum under normal circumstance prohibit spamming. Even on social media platforms, if you spam with posts, your account is likely to be banned, which is a very common phenomenon on twitter.
Another thing is that scam projects love the hype and they can do anything to ensure they are well-publicized. They even love the free publicity, which is what they use bounty hunters for.

Yep, many projects are looking too good by their so many use cases likes they own real products in market but somehow lack of development it’s will failure. Listing isn’t only matter  without liquidity. Currently i see hampuz didn’t conducted a new bounties from long time, but he managed a lot of projects mostly btc payment. Most provably TemTum was last project conducted by this manager.                     

this is quite helpful, I would prefer if the bounty manager and the party of the project pay the bounty manager first or use escrow, when the initial rules are made by paying the bounty participant in full, but when the bounty is finished there is a reason for the deduction of allocation for the bounty hunter especially distribution is scheduled until the distribution 1 year and delaying distribution with an agreement made at the beginning and it is very detrimental and time-consuming for bounty hunter participants

The only problem one should be facing with new projects in crypto world is raising funds successful or not, but that's not the only problem now, most new team are unfair with both investors and bounty hunters, they always have something to hide, sincere team are hard to come by nowadays

Bountyhunters must be vigilant in choosing bounties today.. Let our efforts and time be worth it... Try to do your own research about the projects before doing it.. Search of their development team and roadmap if they are really following it.. Strong community helps also in providing projects that are real... Active participation of the core team csn give people assurance that they are serious with their projects..

I hope by just doing that it will help investors to earn a good amount in bounty, unfortunately choosing a bounty now is not as easy as compared in the past, some projects are manage by a good bounty manager and a good team but it could possibly still fail, that's the kind of success rate we get at this moment, so you also need some luck, not only skills and knowledge in choosing a bounty.

It is quite tough enough to guarantee what an outcome of any bounty could be appear . Even a less work bounty can't provide better result . Most of bounty result rewly on great team work indeed , but hope for the best  by doing research ,analyze and also choosing good wrking managers to get the best bounty campaign . But yet its hard enough to predict of bounty scam .

I would like to see your statistics on how you get money from "any" even the most terrible bounty company.
The profit you are talking about is equal to ridiculous amounts, such as $ 10-$ 20, and you will have to work full months.

It depends on individual preferences, to him maybe that amount you mentioned is better than not earning at all, but to others, it is a complete waste of time,
But this can only happen when the token reward is trading on any small exchange with a little volume,  worst case scenario is when token is not listed,
Also note that bm can be part of the problem but the team has the final say, so whenever hunters don't get paid, that is not bm doing, the team has refuse to own up to their promise.

Good post, I check every new bounty here on the forum, we just need to take a look at the info, website, whitepaper, checking for copied content, fake team and more, there is a lot of member here that do good reports when they see it.

Good pointers for everyone especially for newbies who are trying to make learn a little bit lore about cryptocurrency and starting out as bounty hunters. But still I see some bounty hunters most especially newbies who does not seem even bother if the bounty campaign is a scam like in one of the bounty campaign I stumbled into. I don't know why they still joined, or they still hope that he project would be successful despite some allegations.

I still do bounties up until now and i am aware that bounties now is not profitable anymore and to the worse some bounties are scam now, only legit left bounties to join to. I do little bounties just for extra income and it's a good way to do because of our Home Quarantine implemented by our government. Before joining bounties, i firstly look for team management transparency just to verify the legitimacy and in order not to waste time doing for couple of weeks. So for me it matters now Quality over Quantity.

Even the legit ones usually put some hurdle and restriction here and there to prevent the rightful owner of that reward to dump in the market, although that's not really a problem but when the rules becomes too strict and kinda makes it hard for us to receive reward, it become troublesome. well, there's no harm to try out other field than becoming too dependant on one thing.

The only thing standing between bounty hunters and bounty campaigns is the bounty manager, we bounty hunters have to do our own research for sure but many bounty managers don't care, they get paid even before bounty campaign runs out and they don't care about bounty participants

That's the reason why you need to research and review every project before joining even the manager is trusted enough it doesn't  mean they will not accept a potential scam project. If they are offering highest payment for managing a bounty of course some known manager will also accept it.

sometimes the bounty manager will also be affected because it helps these scamer to promote the project even though they pay high fees there will still be people who try to do research so they can find out whether their team and whitepapper are authentic or not and certainly the team is certain to no one ever has scam and verified history.

And that's also why you never should trust a bounty manager. They are just like us, taking money from the project and managing it seriously. The bounty manager is not a member of the project, so they cannot know the future of the bounty they are managing.

There are many ways to recognize bounty scammers, but I believe that in addition to you own sensitivity and vigilance against scam the site administration should also monitor campaigns for fraud. This will not only reduce the risk of bounty scammers coming to the forum, but also provide additional reliable verification of the campaign's integrity.

Yes buddy. I was desiring such thread and I saw a thread that the Op is updating it with trusted bounties and so far that I have followed it, all the added bounty to the thread are listing in exchange and fulfilling promise of distribution to bounty hunters too.

The thread is helpful and has become a check for me to see it updated on the thread before I join the bounty. If we keep such thread for trusted bounties on, bounty scamming will become history in the forum.
This below is the thread, you might also like to keep it around:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0

Bounty scams seem to be never ending especially in the period of last 2 years very few bounties have paid any decent reward, i agree with most of the points that you have posted but it all comes to team intentions in the end i have seen even some successful projects that refuse to pay or cut the bounty rewards for hunters after the end of campaign which is not only unethical but also illegal.

There are actually seemingly decent projects that turned up screwing its bounty hunters, like delaying the distribution or not paying their rewards as initially agreed, or making a lot of excuses not to send the rewards or suddenly stopping the bounty program and leaving its hunters hanging. So if you are a bounty hunter, you should do your own due diligence and be ready for the worst to come. Don't rely on others as most of them don't care about what will happen to a certain project.

Nowadays the fake project are more in number than the genuine project and sometimes a project may appear genuine and participants promote the project at the end it will turn out to be a scam,
Like the case with digitalbits, It seems the team are now having a hard time paying participants for the work they done long ago, it has been one excuse or the other, 
If is really hard to tell what will happen moving forward in a bounty because the team can change at anytime.

Strict measures can be put in place to check Scam projects, scam bounty programs, scam airdrops by both bounty managers and platform managers (forum, advertisement sites). This will pay much attention to the team behind the project. If platforms are to secure the data of team members and run some checks before allowing the projects to be posted, the occurrence of scam projects will reduced.
Also, follow this thread for more well-researched into bounty programs https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0. Although they are not 100% guaranteed, the OP do good research and select the few ones.

even when we've done research. so far, I assume that many scam projects even camouflage like real projects. Well, I think that they are also developing their ways so that when people do research, they can convince investors. however, a scam or can't be seen in the end. very difficult to avoid projects like that.

I have read or tried to help build so many lists, Even if the above are correctly followed, there is still no guarantee that the project will be good. But when the bonuses of certain managers, you can rest assured that there is a better possibility that it succeeds.

It's hard to understand which bonus company is a scam and which company, even if you follow all the points and choose a good project managed by a good campaign manager, there's still no guarantee. They say that the project will excel when listed in an exchange. But the other signs are also true because many scam projects did that and they eventually left the project, so that got people involved. gia sad and confused.

Bounty hunters can do their quota by first performing adequate research on the project and once found to be a scam, use the scam accusation section to report. However, this cannot guarantee a 100% assurance until bounty managers also play their part in researching into projects before accepting to manage the bounty.

The only way to stop bounty scamming is to “Stop joining/participating “ in their project
 because i am sure these are organized group that is backed by
Some personalities here.and also these people are behind almost all of the scams here in
bitcointalk.i remember when i am still joining bounties there are
some managers that has back to back bounties but if you check the project?almost the same
with one another meaning the manager is a companies pet that
only there to run campaigns and get paid but nothing cares about the hunters even to get
scammed .

We can help to stop scam bounty projects just by ignoring it and not joining to their bounty campaign. And i believe that a fraud and scam bounties has a lazy manager that is not updating the spreadsheets, and also the bounty telegram is so quiet and not updated.

Many bounty managers still update spreadsheets quickly, and regularly answer people at telegram. But eventually that project became a scam, obviously the bounty manager cannot know the outcome of that project because they are just like us. They are also the people hired to manage the campaign

yeah, or project is not a scam, it is just a failure, for bounty hunters is almost the same, but one should be aware that many projects are not successful in the end, and that is not related only to crypto, in all business niches there are successful and unsuccessful projects
DYOR before joining the campaign

they are like us but better than us because managers are being paid already to manage the campaign but at the end we are the only loosers on here if ever the campaign became scam   .  we cant say enough because there will still be people that will constantly join bounties no matter how many times we warn them but for sure these people already know alot of tips on what to do to avoid scams  .  stoping on your own can still contribute so that scams are going to be lessen because you arent the one that will stop anyway but some too  

That depends on the team. Sometimes it can be considered as a trusted campaign but at the end of campaign the developer has a lot of problem with hunters due to the change that already made by the developer to the rules and this is the main problem.

It’s best not to really have expectations, and especially not to consider the bounty as a full-fledged method of earning, it is too unstable.
Then, it is likely that you will be surprised and delighted by the periodic possibility of earning.
The most important thing is not to waste time scam projects, it is not so difficult, it is important to be careful and look deep into the end.

Yes dont waste your time joining in scam bounties or if you cant find a legit project then find another ways to earn in crypto. Its hard to rely on bounties nowadays because of scam, and its rare to spot a good one. Thus if you're not certain if the project is legit dont participate.

That's right, because right now almost an average of new projects lead to scams, so it would be very wasted if the work of the bounty hunters for several weeks without pay and it is very painful.

Now there are groups of administrators in which I am sure if they are the ones who lead the bounty. So I join them, they select projects well, until there has been a single mistake. All projects gave earned coins.

Scamming has been around for thousands of years. Someone actually found a tablet of "complaint" from a merchant in some ancient history, dude bought some items (guess it was wheat) and he got something unexpected instead and he was complaining about how the quality of the product and the type of the product he received was not the agreement they had and money he sent was to be returned. Now we are talking about 4000 years ago or so, think about how early that is.

There must have been some before that as well but we do not have proof of it. So, humanity has been scamming each other for longer than 4k as far as we know, what makes people think it will stop now? You can only stop yourself from getting scammed. Find proof that you can't be scammed even if someone wants you to, and only pay up at that moment.

But at first you need to realize that even the bounty is not well-managed it doesn´t mean that the project what you are promoting is a scam. But they just hired a bad bounty manager, secondly even the bounty campaign is well-managed you can promote a scam and someone could loose a real money, so be careful and do not forget about the others.  ;)

this is something we always remember and understand as prize hunters. I agree with what you wrote, because I once had a bitter introduction when joining the bounty program in one of the bounty management.

You are always picking the the wrong campaign when you don't investigate which one could be a scam.  The campaign you are with seem like a scam actually.

Many of us had been there already and its frustrating to promote a project but end up noting in return after more than a month of promoting them. Its time to at least try to join a legit one or not promote anything at all if you find nothing is worth.

honestly for us as bounty hunters, we can't reduce bounty scams, all we can do is avoid it by making tables for bounty project analysis,
I've seen someone make analysis, but now because bounty isn't like before, it seems like that person has already tired

No one can stop scam projects in this market. It always appears in many different ways and forms, we can only avoid them with our own experience and not promote it.

You can stop it but first you have to stop being greedy.

Just start asking them to pay with tokens that are already trading on reputable exchanges.

It's not a problem for the team to invest some real money in their campaigns. They could put in a thousand dollars and buy any coin they partner with that is already trading and use that 1000 as a downpayment. Once the work is done everyone gets $10 in that tradable currency + additional new tokens that can be worth something or nothing, but at least you'll get some money for your work.

If a team doesn't have 1000 dollars for campaigns you can expect them to never achieve anything.

It cannot be denied, if that is case with the bounty program at this time, sometimes we must follow the bounty program to register on website, sometimes website tha they have is still incomplete. this is also a strange thing and it might also be a project that will end up with fraud

Unfortunately, this is becoming a Norm and common practice from project developers. The space needs to be cleanse of this and returned back to the good old days of bounties. They keep shot changing hunters and the worst part is, the hunters simply have no one to speak up for them. Recently, digitalbits XDB did worst to hunters and no one could say anything to them meaning the went away without being held accountable. This is just one of several same issues that have been reported in the industry with no one paying attention.

That is exactly the point. So far as this forum remains a decentralized platform, bounty scams will always exist. The only solution to this bounty is when bounty projects are made to pay bounty hunters in already trading crypto coin like ethereum or Bitcoin with a fixed rate per a particular campaign. If not, bounty scam will always exist here.

I think the list you have provided will not help to stop the "scam bounty" and in my opinion the way to stop it is to only see the team behind the project, the company address and see the products on offer

Of course it cant. But it can warn those who keep joining the scam bounty. No one can stop this madness by scammers. Day by day they will just increase and come here with different ways on how to scam. What important here is people are getting aware of the process and instead of joining these scam they will avoid all of them. Its not hard to do a detailed reviewed from one end to another. Its just a matter of perseverance! If you really wanted to earn then dont waste your time on many scam doing 10 bounty cant match a 2 legit one.

No one will stop scam bounties for us, bounty hunters will have to take the risks themselves or better learn more on how to spot good projects with good team that wants to keep their reputations at all cost, for example Oikos team

In my opinion, Bounty is one of attractive sections that lead many people know Bitcointalk and also be a usefull playground for people that love cryptocurrency. They both share their information and knowledge and can earn additional income. There are scams everywhere, instead of avoiding it, let's live with it together and learn the way how to control it

It is impossible to stop bounty scam, because no one check your identity and true intentions, when you create an account on bitcointalk. Also if a scam team are smart enough, they will create ANN and Bounty topic and users will find out that they are scammed only when ICO or bounty campaign are already ended.

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Have your own way with how you dealing with bounty projects, build up your own strategy, failure will come and learn from them, you can't be a strong bounty hunter from day one, it's all about gradual process, just like when you want to be a crypto trader

New projects comes in different forms and they can pass your every strict tests in finding out if they are scam or not, there is no 100% guaranteed on any new projects even if you do deep research on them, they are that sneaky

Yes, scammer is getting smarter than before. And we can only tell if they are a scam when their bounty or ICO is over, which is why we're still stuck with many of the same bullshit projects this year.

We cannot to stop the scammers, but we can teach a newbie to learn how to avoid trap bounty, scam bounty. Newbie is the #1 target of the scammers, either its investors or bounty hunter. They are all targets of the scammer today because they are easy to believe on any kind of earning also if the offers are big rewards or incentive, This topic helps other and I am happy because we have warning to avoid scammer.

get rid of the cheaters in this forum, it is not an easy job for many people to get caught up in endless cheating games,
With so many bounty hunters seemingly lazy to read and view project content, it is as if they are letting con artists hang around, so get in the habit of reading and seeing what projects will deter con artists from wandering around.

Well, somehow new projects are still scams and cost a lot of people money even though they've done a lot of research. Be really careful with new projects because they are never safe

In this case, bounty hunters should ignore such bounties, in which there is no payment in a coin that is already traded on the exchange. But in reality it is impossible to do this, because there will always be those who will not support it and will be happy to receive project tokens for their work.

The problem is there were still hunters who promoting the scam projects like ibid. There are so many awareness threads about ibid but those hunters are still promoting it.

I think that this is also the critical point that will make the scam project still exists. Those hunters must be stopped

I also agree, indeed, sometimes new projects can not be detected whether a scam or not. Even from my previous experience, new projects make a great start and once done they are not like a scam. After a few months, they disappeared and left the project. That's why it's hard to tell the difference between a scam and a legitimate one.

You should differ between a scam and a project that dies, but honestly refund its investors. We invest only our time, but if you spend tens of hours and then you receive nothing, it is annonying and when you experience with it more than once, then you loose your patience and stop doing bounty campaigns, so you loose all the potential profit from bounty campaigns :(.

Not all dead projects are scam, there are some reasons why projects died without scamming their investors, lack of funds, lack of team capacity and others can bring early death to any crypto project

The number of scams recorded here in the bitcoin  space and blockchain in entirety has now become too mucha and loads of people are currently feeling uncomfortable with the system. it is enough to battle with but no, bounty came in with its owns erial verson and scared both those who decided to use the bounty as a source of livelyhood. it should be attended to

yes some of the points above are the characteristics of the Scams bounty, and the irregularities I encountered when cornering several questions about the project on the telegram channel and BM / Team did not respond to me, trying to do VC directly with TEAM not ACC, then I started to doubt when I find out about inexperienced developer and bad team reputation never even managed a bounty project before.

How do you plan to stop scam bounties? Only cheap built scam projects that get exposed with your strategy, you need more than luck to escape some scam projects, even well developed projects can turn scam

When a project decide to pay in BTC or ETH, it is certain that project is a serious one. Because there is no way they can dump their shit coin on the bounty hunters and the Bounty manager. Which is why the most sort after and reliable bounty managers are those that pay in BTC or ETH.

The bounty scam can only be stopped with the utmost care because it is difficult to distinguish a good bounty from a scam they are very neatly arranged if we are careful before joining it will avoid the bounty scam

Scammers are great  doing their job very well.

It's hard to identify and you really needs to do deeper reviews and studies in order to avoid
being victimized by this people. Risky but the only protections that you can do is to keep
your DYOR each time you plan to participate.

When people aware about that and they must not join on such bounty and I think that will make the scam bounty will have no participants and then it will die. There are also hunters who need to be educated as some people keep join in the scam bounty

When it comes to bounties you are always on your own, finding good bounty manager is like finding a mid man who can fight for your reward if team failed to do the right thing, still not a bad idea but bounty managers aren't always trustworthy too, bounties is a risk side job that's only good for those who don't care much about disappointments

The way to make the participants aware if that was a scam bounty and they will not try to join or participate in such bounty. That will need a lot of proofs to do that but the scam bounties will always come from the scam project too.

I have seen alot of bounties having the same criteria that you stated in your post. Take a note that not all the informations that you have wrote are indicators of scamming or of a bounty that is going to be a failure but i ccan't say that you are wrong too. Just try to focus more in the quality of the bounties that you join, try to check whether the developers have put an effort in their website development..etc.

I have experienced that no matter how much time and analyses you put into a new project to be satisfied with all its aspects still you can get scammed, so you never know what is on the mind of the people behind a project. Prime examples are Athero and Envion that were massive projects but they scammed or failed and bounty hunters got absolutely nothing not even distribution.

One thing is, there are some bounties with all this to run away from features, that still do better after a while. I have judged some bounties based on some of op listed points and they turned out good. Even the selected ones with promising features and team fail. We just have to keep trying. Amongst 10 projects campaigned for.. 4 will definitely worth it.

You are right but I think some or many of the listed items  are surely better to guide on the safety to bounty hunters. If we  avoid obvious scam project especially those from managers that have been known with scam projects.

I think that we already have a good system on how to detect scams. At first, when the project is introduced on this forum, someone learns the whitepaper and when he realizes something wrong, he posted his concerns here. DT members review it and when they realize the same conclusion, then they mark the thread as a potential scam and give negative trust to the member.  :)

It's like a box of chocolate you never know what you are going to get, bounty hunting is like a guessing game a lot of my friends stopped doing bounty campaign one of my friends have done over a year of bounty hunting and over 80% are scams or did not send payment.

I think bounty scams have always existed until now very hard to stop him, the best way is our way must be properly examined as a whole so that we avoid the bounty scam and of course can get profit from our work

i dont thing its like chocolate box, bounty campaign need analisys so we could just join and do the task. if our style in working bounty campaign like this i am sure only shit project we will find. and its true your friend retired for a year from bounty campaign. if we do proper analisys  i am sure we will find good campaign.

Luck should be preferable to us, your research is perfect but the best projects stopped for users. DIA is a very good project but just a matter of time I missed it. The last two years was the best time for an early seller but now is the perfect time to hold. For the last two years every single coin dumped even the top volume listed coins.

Yeah.. this is the reason why I stopped doing bounties two years ago. It is distressing to see so many new and inexperienced users getting scammed in the name of bounty. As of now, I would encourage users to enroll to the bounties, only if they are done by tokens or coins that are already listed in the exchanges (such campaigns are very few, but you can find them if you search the bounties section).

Instead of finding ways to stop scam bounty projects why can't you learn to avoid them? It's not a must to join all bounty projects that are available, note that 90% of them are bad because we have scammers or advantage takers here in crypto space, project real projects only and stop taking risks with not too sure projects

I would suggest that if you want to avoid joining several scam bounty try to have a research first of the project/bounty that you are joining so that you have the confident to either join or not to join those bounty campaign. Just read the reviews and do your research so that it will not waste your time and effort and you will gain the rightful rewards.

That is indeed true. Scammers are more motivated now than they did before.
That is why researching is really necessary, I agree that reading reviews will save time.
Experience of other people are one of the insightful material we could depend on.

research also does not necessarily make you safe from bounty scams, do you have a good way of research ?, i
n the current situation the project is very difficult to distinguish, the safest way besides research is to follow a project from Binance, I'm sure you will be safe,
but project in binance always doesnt have a bounty program

I felt bad when my friend joined a bounty called NODEToken and joined a signature campaign. It was good pay for the person like 100,000 tokens. But things started to turn ugly when the Telegram group of the said campaign said that the bounty hunters will need to wait until the selling of token is over before it will be put into an exchange. They waited 2 years with very few updates from the said campaign. When he followed up, the so called group managers said that the project failed and they are starting anew. So much for these fake companies.

It will still be a scam at the end of the road if it is planned by new projects, I did research a lot of new projects and they were well rated. But in the end the price collapsed or was never listed on exchanges. You should better opt for the bounty listed at the exchange

I think most of the new projects now don't run bounty on this forum and we find a lot of scam bounties in the forum but with a new bull market started by defi we may see some genuine bounties , yes we have to be very careful as most of the bounties are just fake.

Can we have community vetted bounty by a having the thread which rate the bounties and try to find if it's scam or genuine, this way forum members will get benefit.

Its better if we join to some campaigns that have already listed in the exchange, they are legitimate and have already a value in the market. The ANN thread and legit BM are the good indication that you the project can be successful in the future. There are projects that have good run over the IEO but after a few months or years they been ruin and end up being shutdown. We should always update what the project going on so that we know that where we gonna exit.

The situation with bounty hunters is generally unusual, since by participating in bounty companies we very often support scammers who either deceive investors or deceive the bounty hunters themselves, such as Jindi or HiveNet, which continue to develop, but the reward for the work done by the hunters for the bounty was never paid. Although today all Hunters are more attentive and already have certain knowledge, which suggests that the deception is due to a non-professional and weak team of the new project.

Being listed in exchanges don't give you any guarantee of a project going to be successful there ate numerous projects that had been listed in exchanges while running bounty Campaigns but still ended up as scam one of the most recent example is YAM project. It was one of those projects that came out from nowhere and reached it peak, but eventually scam exit after getting money from investors.

We can do research thoroughly, but it still doesn't give us a 100% guarantee that we will receive rewards at the end of the campaign. Some projects start to be cunning and change the rules even after the end of the bounty, in order to reduce the number of participants and payments in this way.

Exactly, but a good exchange also play a vital role to make a project successful. that's why every investor expect a reputed exchange after token sell, projects which are able to list their coin on a reputed exchange are less possibility going on scam. To avoid scam project, before joining a bounty you should know the people who are behind on that project, it is safer to join a bounty which already has been listed on an exchange.

But some reputed members escrow the tokens for bounty hunters. Like Julerz, Murat. I saw many bounties that julerz holding the tokens. A few days ago saw that Ledu project scammed Murat & they didn't pay him. Murat stopped the bounty campaign and sent the LEDU tokens that he was holding for bounty hunters, even he paid the GAS fees. Actually, if you join reputed managers bounty there is 90% hope that you will not get scammed.

Very well presented the points to consider if any bounty is scam or not. I think this will benefit not only to newbie members, but to everyone.
Nowadays I am preferring only reputed bounty managers like bubbalex, Ulum and bounty detective.

Murat is very much in charge of the campaigns he manages even though he has experienced scams from the damn project. Usually, the manager avoids paying the bounty because he too has been cheated.

i can agree with some of the points, but there are something that even reputable bounty managers also do such as they sometimes did not update the spreadsheet regularly, it is because they are busy or have something in real life to do. they could delay that by 2 weeks or even more, i can understand why do that as long as they calculate it correctly

An excellent observation and carefully put out by the OP. i must say you have been carefully observing these BM and their project. we have lost credible bounty managers too du to scam projects but that does not buttress the fact that many shit bounties are very easy to spot if carefully observed and also the points you lay down. an example of a current bounty going on now and been managed by a shit team can be seen here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5264387.0

a careful look at the bounty show a practical explanation of what the OP here is talking about.

This is also important to be considered by all of us. Sometimes research is not enough to ensure our safety from these scams. That is why we should seek all available resources around us to gain deeper knowledge and make a good decision.

I am also agree with you mate that sometimes research isn't enough. Like onecoin biggest scam. For joining bounty program research website creation, ssl certificates, team member LinkedIn Profile real or fake or when it was created etc.

Wow i am just seeing this thread it is very helpful. now i know i wont waste my time writing blog posts for scam projects anymore. They are very good points to watch out for. Thank you for this thread

This is not applicable to content creation alone and just as the OP has explained, it cuts across all forms of campaigns. Identifying and setting yourself apart from such the is very crucial

Sometime some legit look projects can fool us but it very crucial to us to make research first before joined any project in here cause everything is possible can be happen. We cannot predict the future and sometime we will can be wrong.

Ya i hope theres no people promote the scam bounty anymore because that they not read the whitepaper first, with read the whitepaper we will know the team behind the project, who run this project familiar person on cryptocurrency or not or capable with the job or not and we can know the roadmap
What the future of the project that we spend our money or worth time that we can use to promote another legit bounty than scam project

agree, if you had your research before participating in any campaign, there's a big chance to avoid scams projects, Scammers will often try to take advantage when you’re feeling vulnerable and try to extract more money from you through a follow up scam.Be alert to the fact that scams exist. When dealing with uninvited contacts from people or businesses, whether it's over the phone, by mail, email, in person or on a social networking site, always consider the possibility that the approach may be a scam. Remember, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Always do a good research. Dont waste your time with some silly projects. That can only used your skills for scamming. Free promotions is not good especially if you are a good blogger cause they fan get visibility on the market simply by adding a token reward without real value. Always make a certain investigation if you are joining a legit or just a dump money tokens.

Yes, there are projects that seem legitimate, but after you go deeper in the search, you will definitely find one of the graps that will show you that this project is a scam, and I would advise whoever wants to join recently for any project to check out the "Scam Accusations" section in this forum may find the name of the project that he wants to work with in this section.

but not many new projects that are indicated from the start is a scam. Many of the bounty hunters were also deceived by project scams even after the campaign was over or nearly distributed. some have even done distribution and we just found out that the project we support is a scam.
as a first step to prevent I think your advice is good. but there are still many that have escaped our attention.

Scam accusation thread is the perfect place to begin your research on any new project because it's possible that some people or members on this forum are already doing research on such project presently, you can safe yourself some headache this way.

Some of the points are very precise and the criteria you mention are actually red flags for you. So for all of us including project promoters, please be more careful before joining any project, especially if you see anything suspicious about the project you are participating in, then avoid it because it is a red flag for you.

Good conclusion, I myself really choose what bounty to join. Starting from the team, bounty manager, the uniqueness of the coin and many more.

I'm already fed up with the bounty scam that is circulating, why are there still people who come without a second thought.

its not free to get bounty reward dude, we must do all task in bounty campaign and ofcourse all of this will need sacrifice. internet connection , time to work and many other and if we calculate it for several months its would worthed with salary in regular job. dev team allocate token for marketing and by joining in this campaign we work as their marketing spread about project. if some one or investors blamed hunter maybe they want to get huge profit instantly without any long process.

I think the bounty hunters have enough experience to test a bounty campaign. The easiest way is to look at the potential of the project and the information contained in the project's official website.
Serious bounty projects will often create a well-detailed and well-rounded theme.
Choose a bonus plan and do it with an element of luck.

The projects and the businesses will always find ways to get people market their project for them. And these people will always want to join because they find it fulfilling to earn cryptocurrencies and they want the satisfaction earning it gives to them, even at the cost of their time, energy and talent be put to other deserving things in the real world. This digital satisfaction will continue as long as they want to earn cryptocurrencies. And the companies and projects will keep supplying them with the cryptos they need, in exchange of manual marketing labor on the internet.

The more you promote bounties the more you will get better experience with new projects, once you keep failing you will come to conclusion about what you are doing wrong and you will be forced to change your strategy and this will open door for you.

This is how I find out about any new bounty project

1. The first thing I look at is the project use case.
2. The second is the partnership surrounding the project
3. The third is rumours of the aiming exchange, the better the exchange is the higher the chance of the project having good value

bounty fraud will not just stop there are so many ways they do to trick bounty hunters, I think depending on each if we choose the bounty before joining and see the whole then it will avoid bounty fraud

What sort of experience do you get by promoting the scam bounties? If you want to just do posting, then rather than keeping a bounty signature you can add a signature that links to some of the charities. The first priority for any new user here should be to earn merit points, so that his rank improves. Adding a bounty signature at this point is not at all beneficial.

Good point but if the bounty hunters are have enough knowledge it will notice it immediately once the bounty campaign is a scam. So better to check all the necessary details before joining in a campaign. I prefer joining in a bounty group in the telegram because it always work for me and the advantage is it can directly message the bounty manager and the admin on where project are joining.

What make me to run without looking back is when they used reputable person in crypto space as member (fake team), when their LinkedIn profile does not commensurate with the mission of the project, when they use template (WordPress, Joomla etc) to design their website and finally when I see a project that has no direction promised to be listed on Binance in a particular time.

I think when you want to be a participant in the bounty campaign you have to be able to see the concept of the project being developed first and after that you can see the existing whitepaper and compare it to other whitepapers, most scam projects will steal whitepapers from other projects, and make sure the team is not there. affected by a scam case in any project.

Totally agree with you, they will have various ways to deceive us. I also took part in many bounty this year, they are rated good projects and are very active. But after the bounty ended, they found many reasons to delay distribution, and gradually ignored its distribution.

If you've been participating in bounty projects for a long time, I think you understand the answer. therefore, as a bounty hunter does not have full rights over all his efforts including demanding compensation after promoting the previous project. Each project has its own rules and the team has the right to change the rules at any time.

Ignored distribution until the value goes to zero or completely ignored to pay the participants.In general bounties are not worth in 2020 but there are some rare one like stable gold I guess which is paying in their coins which already got values so try to join on bounties like that or stop it completely.

yes, especially in the thread section about the reputation of the SCAM project. at least it can help bounty hunters not get caught up in project fraud. on the other hand of course do more research on the project you want to take part in, including looking at the Dev team and background in managing previous projects, project partners, the community that is in it and not forgetting As you said About telegram bounty manager.

Majority would really have that kind of target thats why people do love bounty hunting and the fact that it can possibly give out the chance for you to make money
more than on a hard work into your day job thats why we do see that even up to these days where these bounties do still exist and there are still lots of projects
that do continue to launch in spite of the current market condition. One of the most common problems is that majority of these hunters didnt get even paid
or do end up on getting a shit and valueless coin.

It is really sad to do the work during a month or more and then receive nothing or some tokens worth almost nothing.

I understand that is very difficult to regulate bounties!
You cannot forbid newbies, because spamming everywhere is kind of good for the campaign. But I think there are a lot of multiple accounts, and don’t know if all campaign managers are on top of this.
There are some people that participate some scam attempts, but not enough.
I don't know if there is a way to implement some kind of KYC in the forum and only this people can participate or some idea like that.

You never know if the project will see light of day, and if it will be worth. There is always some gamble.
But as everyone says, whenever there is the possibility to get something for free people will apply.

I think all rules from first post should be followed but the more important is that you should investigate the project yourself.

Recently, bounty fees have become very small.  Getting a few dollars for months of work is humiliating in my opinion.  The work is evaluated cheaply.  Sometimes the airdrop is more than the bounty.  Stop feeding the scammers.

One of the things i look at is there website first, you could catch a lot of red lights with just one look on their website, typographical errors, just overall sketchy. And the team behind the project, a lot of these scams would rather remain annonymous, thats a red flag.

The signs to detect scam bounties can't be exhausted but with this few, I have believe any bounty hunters could be able to limit the scam bounties we support. We could have lesser bounty on the forum and get better reward, instead of harbouring a truck load of bounties with nothing to show for it. Let's make our bounty more enjoyable and lucrative. Bounty managers has to be extra careful in choosing projects also to limit hunters working in vain.

Its not worth for the time and effort.
But its up to us if we're going to blindly support the scam projects.
We can avoid scam by doing our part as a bounty hunter.
Dont be fool for high rewards and check every details that can lead you to know if the project is legit.

Yes if we have few bounty with promises kept at the end of the hunting that will be fine. I believe with time passing along, we are going to see more committed bounty managers having hunters in their top agenda and not to plan with team to cheat them.
I have seen a bounty payment in etheruem, binance too. This is better for hunters.

Unfortunately many bounty campaign projects have died some time ago and there has been no further development because they are indicated as a scam, bounty campaigns that are not scam ones have a trusted bounty manager and of course have escrowed or allocated funds for bounty campaigns that have been given to their managers and are ready to be distributed to the participants when the bounty campaign is over.

Sincerely, when you fall victim of bounty scam , you know how painful it could be, you are at a good side if your wallet is not affected or hacked, we have got to make every effort both collectively and individually to get rid of those scams, few things to note not to fall victim has been listed by the post starter. I really love that. Let's look into it accordingly to discourage it. I think every project started should be made to pass through forum managers for approval for continuity.

Your stated points are really in order. This are serious pointers which i had basically neglected in some of the bounties i participated in fews years back. But now i think i know better.

Bounty hunting registration must be limited. Some users don't waste time on any projects and follow only most of the old users. If so many people started to join, then these users would join. Sometimes airdrop rewards are much higher than the months of bounty rewards. This is because bounty allocation like DIA bounty allocation was 0.05 percent but I didn't see any lower than 1% in 2018.

It's about time we stopped promoting bounty scams, the 13 points mentioned in the opening post were very useful for me to be able
to recognize bounty scams. Especially for newbies who have low rank, most of them are victims of bounty scams. Hopefully more and
more people realize not to join bounty scams, as it's a waste of time. It is better to focus on getting merit to increase rankings and be
able to participate in campaigns in the services section that get paid regularly.

These are all good observation and good points to take note most especially of many aspiring bounty hunters. It is really better to look on this kind of thread which is really helpful in avoiding a failed or even a scam bounties.

You may be right on your statement, but We cannot control the mind and decision of the others here especially if they are motivated that bounty campaign is the main method here for them to earn crypto without issuing any capital that comes from their pocket. Because we can't deny that there are some of the bounties that really give earnings in the end after the campaign project is done this is the truth that we cannot hide.

When I want to join the bounty, my priority is seeing how active the bounty manager is updating the spreadsheet every week
if it is always updated, well, if in the distribution stage suddenly there are problems, I can judge if the problem is the party who has the token project
and the number of bounty participants who participated, whether it has reached more than a thousand participants and there is no limit then I will just skip it bounty

some points that really help bounty hunters. at least what has been said can reduce the risk and make the bounty hunter have a little experience to be able to analyze the project on their own. I am sure many of the bounty hunters only saw who the bounty manager handled the campaign. especially when there are not many new projects available, then choosing a project with the origin is definitely done by most bounty managers. This post is very helpful for someone who has difficulty analyzing projects.

 You can easily detect whether a bounty campaign is a scam or not. If the team is not transparent enough, then they have something they are hiding. How will they gain investors trust if they not open up. And way to know is through the project idea and white paper. Some projects will just copy and paste some successful project white paper and claim it is their idea. Avoid doing bounty for this types of project.

You are right, the project team that is not transparent cannot be relied on because from the start it reads that the project falls under the traits of a fraudulent project.  Many people have become ambiguous because they did not research before joining the Bounty campaign.  Developers have thousands of ways to fool everyone, so be careful when joining new project.

The tricky social engineering methods are used by the scam teams and it is very hard to detect the scam campaign if the team has planned everything many months before the launch of the project. I never invest in the anonymous team projects for the obvious reasons and my advice to bounty hunters to stay away from the bounty projects backed by anonymous teams. For avoiding to get scammed, I also advise other users not to involved in the projects with anonymous teams.

To solve this problem would have to regularize the market but this may alienate some investors and supporters who do not want to put their data at risk. So the best way today is to get to know the project and seek as much information about the team to guarantee your investment or time in a campaign.

Knowledge is power.

This is a topic that is very important for bounty hunters especially newbies.Wisdom is needed to detect bounty scam,knowing better about project .

This is a great list. I was in a trial and error phase back then and was very excited about the huge amount of rewards they will distribute.
I join different bounties as I was not aware of scams are relevant in crypto, some rewards are generous but some are not worthy of my time.
Now, it's all about common sense, but not all project succeeds and lasts, so rewards may vary depending on how you hold, sell, or trade it.

Sometimes delays in spreadsheet updates doesn't justify a project, I've promoted two high quality projects that takes more than 4 weeks for the BM to update the spreadsheet, many left but not me because I believe the use case is why I'm promoting the project and in the end I wasn't disappointed, I'm not saying late updates are good but late updates shouldn't be the reason to quit promoting a promising project

Yes, at least we really need to know about the project being carried out.  for example the uniqueness of the project.  don't get into a project where even the Whitepaper plagiarized another project.  And BM who are smart and experienced are usually not that easy to accept a project because a bad project will damage the reputation of BM itself. if the BM can be deceived, moreover bounty hunter?? Thats the risk, you work so you ready for the risk

Bounty managers have a big role to play in bounty campaigns but let's not forget that they are been hired for the job, not all project team will meet reputable bounty managers for their project, some will use inexperienced bounty managers, they will make mistakes but be smart enough to correct any type of BM, how BM handled the campaign won't determine the success of the project

Seriously enough is enough for  bounty scam, taken note of your highlighted point I think the rate at which we will be scammed will reduce for most campaigns. Mostly when I noticed the typographical error and negative trust issues I just back off from however the campaign may be attracted

Yes, this topic is of little help to bounty hunters who have just started their hunt, but they should also research a lot more through several project sites and websites as well as on social media projects because it will also help them personally, including reading white papers as well urgent.

Verifying the team is easier than reading a long while paper, never done that when I was a bounty hunters, I just work to get paid and I can participate in different, so it doesn't really matter to me. The feedback I can read from investors is more than enough for me, it helps me not to fall on scammers projects.

Different people, different mind, different opinion after reading your opinion i agreed with your some point but not every point. My thoght is if we get paid we are ready to work hard if you gives us tricky work no worry we will work if you paid a handsome amount. But if you gives us less work for less payment truely it harts. We are here to work so no problem gives us more work but should pay handsome amout.
Now the fact is there has a problem which is project strongness. If the project is not strong as much as need to be successful then no matter hows the task is easy or hard how much you get paid. It will be nothing.  So there is not a fault of bounty manager. Everything depends on project.

Admit it that many projects fail back in 2018 because the market really hurting of the huge dumping from the ATH so we can't blame them to just walk away or made a promise that they cannot fulfill .

but the thing is they should tell the Hunters of the real score and not making BS promises but will fail later.

though There are so many scammers that ride the bearish and instead of helping the Hunters they victimized them with the investors.

In the end, there is not going to be any bounty campaign which has a 100% guarantee for payment (unless they use escrow system, and do their payments using Ethereum or Bitcoin). The only thing you can do is to weed out risky projects, by flagging suspicious ones. But given that the average success rate for ICO right now is around 4% to 5%, don't expect good payments from every bounty campaign that you participate in.