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Just recently we are beginning to have some Twitter campaign giving hunters reward in btc in the service section. This is one sure way to take off this muster that seem like a cancer called bounty scam.

I'm believing that gradually, will may start seeing the inclusion of other social media signatures like Facebook, LinkedIn, medium, article, videos, blogs and many more, coming up in  both bounty section and service. I'm sure that hunters will prefer social media signature than the scam going on in the board.

I guess one reason that we are seeing that Twitter campaign is because of the audit which takes care of non real followers of an account. So if your Twitter account isn't made of real followers, you stand no chance of being selected. The audit is surely to check out accounts with fake followers and that is also good to stop scamming.

Bounty scam will not go away as long as there are hunters that are willing to join even if the project is an obvious scam. But it is good to see that there are now social media campaigns that are bitcoin paying. Though we already saw that before, but seems, it is going back again. The good thing is that the manager handling that campaign does accept btc and not token or unknown alt. That is also for the welfare of the participants. At least, they are sure that they are getting paid with valuable coin rather than worthless token that is not yet listed in an exchange.

You're make it complicated, it's still social media campaign as we see in bounty program... It just different on the payment.

Social media campaign in service section is paid with Bitcoin only, while social media campaign in bounty section is paid from the project coin/token or other altcoin nor stablecoin.

Of course people will prefer in Bitcoin payment, but it doesn't mean it will stop scam project on bounty section. Even if they participate in service section, it also doesn't mean they can't participate in bounty section too because they can join all social media campaign if they want as long they didn't cheating.

I am sure more and more campaigns will follow this. This is very reasonable demand from the community as it is a win win because there will be no chance of dumping of tokens.
I think the bounty campaigns of the projects that have successfully raised funds should also look to pay hunters in equivalent amount of btc, eth or usdt.

I hope so because more and more "Altcoin section bounties are getting abusive and not true to their promises, Many cases of abuse has been committed ranging from not paying their obligation and accusing bounty participants of cheating to escape paying its obligation the Perfect example is the "DigitalBits Bounty the 28 Million XDB bounty pool was going to their pocket, I believe they will reap their karma soon including all other abusive crypto projects, I hope this Bitcoin and other liquid cryptocurrencies paid bounties will prosper so that those abusive ICO bounty projects will vanish away.  

I stopped bounty after 2019 only reentering this year because I was faced with a bit of financial troubles and things haven't improved, the reward is ridiculously low and most times the value afterwards is just too disappointing.

I hold some very huge amount of coins that was suppose to do well in this bounty period but are still struggling till date.

They're in fixed rates and managed by reputated/veteran members and that's still few, mate.
Go to Bounties board and check how many projects you aren't sure of even joining.
Some are managed by newbies, devs from the team itself, and  those who don't even have experience in managing a bounty.
Those twitter campaign paying BTCs you see don't happen very often.

Can you point us to such campaigns. we will gladly join without complain. For the scam bounties. it will never stop. i can not stop as long as this space is not regulated. we can not forget the immense Job of the admins that spots out fake bounties especially those with copied whitepaper, Newly created websites and with former scam projects. Also a reminder that id sales is a huge business in the dark web.

During 2018 when I have discoved that I was already a victim of scam projects, I decided to turn to campaigns in services because campaigns in services pays bitcoin weekly. But for me as a full member, the profit in services is not as big compare to profit I can get in alts. Well that is only for me, I am not sure if the higher rank is still the same. It is only good in a way that we are going to have our weekly income and then use it if we need money. Now, I turn to alts again coz I am hoping to earn bigger even though it takes time. Of course I do take note about scams so I carefully chose the campaign I am going to participate.

It's hard to lead everyone to a better campaign, because almost all campaigns have difficulties and are ultimately scams, the only thing everyone can do at this point is to do some research on their own and always be quick to take a chance through the trend. is happening, because good opportunities will not come twice in crypto.

They won't go away forever. There are still people who falls for their dumb/stupid scams. They join those projects and encourages more scam. Though as more people become aware of their scams, more people will start avoiding them making those scammers attempt worthless. But this does not mean that those scammers will leave. They will try a new and different way for scamming people. Right now they are using "trends" and "hypes" to scam people.

I am not sure who are talking about those. Are you talking about people scamming bounty hosts by using accounts with fake followers to complete tasks?

Here
ZacFinance twitter campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276327.0)
Luckybit Twitter campaign round 2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5268805.0)
✅[OPEN TWITTER] SimpleFX Trading Provider Signature & Twitter Campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5274388.0)
✅[OPEN] PrimeBit Cryptocurrency Contract Exchange Signature & Twitter Campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5274394.0)

Yes, because scams aren't moderated in this forum so you need to be careful to join a bounties.

it all depends on the bounty manager I think. When the bounty manager manages properly the updated system will create a better and cleaner way for each campaign. we have followed the old method imposed by many bounty managers. we have seen KYC which is required for almost all projects. but all also ended up a scam. that's disappointing. We can't yet see what's good for the bounty hunter as well as for the project. and the bounty manager is a bridge for both.

It still depends to the bounty projects which channel they prefer. If they like more with social media campaigns through Twitter or Facebook, they can do as what you are saying. Get some twitter audits to see how many are the actual followers and how many are the bots.
But with various channels that they can choose, they'll still choose which is best for them and which they think they can have a lesser cost of advertisement.

I don't think the bounty scam will go away because, as far as I know, the scam will always there on the crypto market. When the new trend comes, many scammers will be ready to scam people, especially new people who don't have much information about crypto. It is hard to say that the bounty scam will leave us because when money is involved, people will chase it, and they will not check the project's truth. So always be careful when you want to invest or join in the bounty program.

I personally dont like bounty system like referral link because all this lead to spam and spam lead to scam, some do it because they really need the money and others because they want to take advantage of the opportunity.

I don't think it's new, a social media campaign with bitcoin payments. And they are also not a guarantee that they will not trick bounty hunters unless they have escrowed. Fraud should have been avoided if the bounty manager dared to refuse a project that wanted to hold a bounty but they did not escrow funds or tokens before the bounty began. And also I think that fraud will not be easily lost, maybe the bounty campaign will slowly disappear because of the increasing number of fraudulent campaigns and participants who cheat and plagiarism.

If most of the bounty programs start paying in bitcoin/ether then yeah the scamming is about to stop.
Yes there are bitcoin paying twitter campaigns coming up but that doesn't mean all the bounty programs will start paying in bitcoin.
The bounty hunters will have to unite here and stop joining the bounty programs that pay in shit tokens.
If everyone stops joining token paying bounty programs then the project team will have no other option.
They will either have to stop their project or will have to pay the hunters in bitcoin/ether.
But as we all know it's highly unlikely to happen because there are people who will just join any bounty program without even looking for the project potential.

Knowledge is power and awareness gives direction. This is the purpose. It will gradually stop for some people and continue with others who want to take risk of trying obvious scam project because they see bounty as a source of living. The advise is to research and avoid it when not sure.


Developers or team who want their project to be seen

Lol, when it's going away you think? There wouldn't be bounty advertising if that wasn't being effective and cheap way to advertise. Just because some people dislike ads, it doesn't kill the whole advertising game. There is a way though, you can literally filter your own feed and stop following obvious paid shill accounts in twitter or facebook or in youtube.

I don't see how this will get rid of scam project, we have lots of btc paying signature campaigns and yet there are so much scam project around, so an inclusion of social media in btc paying campaign will not reduce anything, besides not all project will hold a btc paying campaign.

Bounty hunters will continue to hunt for profitable projects for them, but the big problem is that bounty hunters are always victims of fraud, because there are so many scam projects that make bounty hunters disappointed. Now the bounty hunter is a little relieved, because there are social media campaigns that pay participants using Bitcoin. Although the results obtained were not many, but they will feel happy when they receive a payment.

Isn't it suspicious if it is shared in the service section, which should be in the altcoin bounties section because all bounties whether it's signatures or other social media are always there. It needs to be researched again, who knows if it is a new scheme to attract the interest of the bounty hunter, who has recently been seriously injured. but in my opinion, it's better to stay like the previous one, it's just that we choose a bounty with a more trusted bounty manager, for example a bounty detective.

I hope it does.
If it ain't scam, they won't even bother to pay the right amount.
Or, the value of token is just trash.
Better if everything will be paid in the manner of coins which could already be sold.
They could even help with the circulation of the market.  ;D

Basically bounty scam can't be away from this space because of managers who can't negotiate with their clients while accepting project team proposal. They accept payment in Bitcoin but would accept participants payment in their shitcoins knowing fully well that they are scammers. Scam projects doesn't take much stress to know but with the payment from project team to some bounty managers they tend to look away from reality. Bounty scam will live with bounty hunters as long Bounty managers don't care about bounty participants.

You are totally wrong, even if a bounty project promised to pay bounty hunters in Bitcoin, Ethereum or stable coins this is still nothing but empty promises which can fail after the campaign is finally over, scammers can decide to create projects and just pretend to pay hunters with popular coins

I recently read about BRO bounty companies and in general I liked the essence. The same ICO campaigns are conducted on a specific platform, where there is a special Supervisory Board that will select projects so that they are functionally useful and, among other things, have no signs of fraud. Of course, we are unlikely to ever get rid of fraud, but it is necessary to put things in order in this activity.
I think there will be many more new projects and the bounty hunters on this forum will still have a lot of work to do.

To stop these bounty scams literally bounty funds should be escrowed by higly reputable escrow regardless if it is coin or token.

We really can’t get away with these scams if we only rely on promises, sometimes even good bounty managers are being scammed too with existing bounty promise system. If projects are really serious with their business, paying advertisers on time should be their priority too.

I think platform twiter with audit user could not stop project false , many project that of deception not only for failing to on his way , let alone i saw there is a fraud bring escape kyc and they also use twiter still tipped fraud

The thing we should check at is not the bounty scam by the bounty hunters but the bounty scam by the people who suppose to give the bounty, these are the same people who promised a lot of money to people in exchange of something and they didn't pay up when those people ended up actually doing what was promised.

Long story short if there is a bounty reward that was promised but wasn't delivered, I highly doubt that it could ever be something alright, we have to fix that eventually and if we can do that, it would actually improve the bounty world as well. If you are a person who gives out btc or usdt and actually do end up paying, you can vet the applicants as hard as you want, you can get all the audits as you want because at that point you are ahead of many many bounty rewards.

Unfortunately, this is difficult to stop. Scammers were always and everywhere, they know how to masterfully adapt to any changes, because this is their bread, this is also their job - scam. Therefore, they will invent more and more new ways to deceive hunters. And of course, the hunters themselves often agree to be deceived in the pursuit of any kind of earnings.

Sad but the truth is bounty scam is a common thing. But those bounties which pay in BTC and managed by reputed managers are legit. Also if managers are not legit or if managers don't escrow the fund then can be a scam too.

Bounty scams will not just go away easily as long as many bounty hunters are willing to advertise any projects without caring to make any research about it.Hunters usually help scam projects to achieve their aims so it is very important as a bounty hunter to make research before promoting any scam project.

Scammers will never go away from their green pasture.  They may be quiet for sometimes but when all is feeling secure  and get easy, they will strike scamming people out of their money. 

Scams will never go away since scammers will always exploit things that is exploitable and cheat people of their money.

It is not recently maybe you are just noticing this. It has been like that in fact my first earning from btt is through twitter promotion in the service section that paid USD 3 that time. If you compare the numbers of bounty campaign that are listed daily and services that pays in btc you will understand reason why it is not likely bounty scam disappeared. Most paid services that listed come from already existing platform with proven products and services compare to the bounty dev project

i hope so, project are taking advantage of hunters, though hunter does not has any obligation to participate in a project, but that doesn't mean they should treated badly, and why most hunter get to participate in bounty scam is greediness sometimes, because of the huge worth of the project token to be distributed, in which the value is not always the same at distribution. To say that bounty scam is going easily it somehow oo, because ever since i start working as a bounty hunter most project pay in their token which is 80%. so doubt to some extent.  

unfortunately there is no such system here, they are scammers can still create a new account here and after that create an account as a cooper member which means that they can create threads and add photos so that they can trick many people again, here with money everything is easy for you to get.

Not all projects can pay bounty hunters with trade able coins like Ethereum and Bitcoin those that pay are exception to bounty campaigns but all the other bounty campaign can only come out with IOU coin because in the first place many will still participate in their campaign if they are going to pay with their native token so why bother paying them with trade able coins, besides they also do not know what will be the value of their coin.

I am also among those who hope that the Bounty scams will disappear slowly, but this possibility is unlikely to happen. I am sure
scammers always find ways to attract bounty hunters, and there will be repeated scams in bounty campaigns. The most effective
way to avoid bounty scams is with in-depth research on each bounty campaign that we will be participating in.

Yes, it's really difficult to make the scammers vanish, they always have tons of ways trying to scam us with different method to make look them really legit. But, as the time goes and so much schemes have been revealed until this time, we can slowly avoid these scam projects and be a better member.

Bounty scams will never fade away as long as evil won't disappear from the surface of this earth. The only thing is that scams can be mitigated just the way the penitentiary is there to serve as punishment for crime loving individuals. Yes, I agree that Twitter bounties paying in BTC are springing up and I bet one of the major reasons that is even succeeding now is because a few of the trusted managers here are handling that. Very soon more projects and BMs are going to lash onto this angle and that's where problems may likely ensue.

Bonus scams never go away because human psychology always repeats itself. Just now Clipx deceived the hunters' KYC and disappeared. It is a new form of fraud.
Over the years there have been scams such as not paying bonuses, paying less than the original one (changing bonus funds while the show is going on), the moderators of the bounty program replace them. run out of wallets to steal the participants' bonuses ... Also scam projects happened, they raised an ICO and disappeared. Bonuses become worthless.

Of course, payment in BTC is much better than in tokens, but this does not solve the problem of scam projects. The fact is that they can talk to you to pay in BTC and ETH and even in USDT, but will they pay? Scam is when a project deceives its participants by not fulfilling its conditions. This primarily refers to the refusal of payments. In my opinion, bounty companies need to start paying their members every reporting week to get rid of scam. This would quickly show how good the project and its administration are, not to pull payments for half a year, or even more.

but it may not increase transactions which could help increase their token trading in the market. Some of the campaigns carried out by registered projects may also be intended to increase trade in the market. when bounty hunters get tokens, most will immediately sell them. even though it is small it can increase trading volume. there are positives and negatives too. we are waiting for the best and we will follow it.

I am agree that good chance will continue come on crypto platform .It always so tough to know if the project are scam or legit cause scammer always try their best to do scam .So we need to research more before take part on bounty instead to do it hurry.

Totally agree with this, some projects don't usually have the idea of what will become of their fund raising process so conducting a bounty at that time is like taking chances, so in the case when the project succeed more than their expectations they will now develop cold feet, finding it difficult to pay what they have promised hunters, while also in the situation where the project did not succeed to raise funds, some team will still refuse payment since it is worthless to pay in tokens that will never have any value.

In this case, using an escrow is the best option, whatever is the outcome hunters will accept their reward.

If the scam project is lost then we as bounty hunters will be relieved because of the work we can enjoy and most importantly we always believe every project present, but nowadays the scam project has started to decrease and some of the projects I follow have paid off completely, this is what we most expect in this forum to grow faster.

We can't have an end to scam. Not only with cryptocurrency or bounty, scams are found in each and everything where there is money flow. In recent days cryptocurrency is the term that is much used term by the scammers to make money cheating the common people.

People aren't greed always, but the hope of making money make them invest without proper analysis. As bounties are always with cryptocurrency we need to do the best research and proceed further.

I'm not sure that the audit can handle checking followers. If you look at the Twitter bounty campaign, you can see accounts with thousands of followers. All of them are not real, because they have a mutual following on each other and they are not interested in anything in the accounts to which they are followed except for following in response.
Personally, I think that it is better to use accounts with hundreds of real followers who read this person's news in advertising than accounts with tens of thousands of mutual followers.

Agree, with the social referral bounty, people find it difficult to find colleagues to fill in their referrals, so they cheat to get their referrals by making a lot of social media

Once the market matures, the people involved in it are knowledgeable enough to evaluate the project for themselves. Project if scam hunters will leave a bad reputation and affect their activities, so it will eventually disappear.

actually scam projects are still very active out there, you are just lucky to pick legit projects. to scams, our bounty campaigns will not be able to escape. The explanation for the recent hype of bounty campaigns is that we have a defi trend and more capital is pouring into the market. This is causing the excitement of the market so real projects are slowly being saved, which is why we see more real projects than fake.

The bounty scam will be difficult to lose if there are still bounty hunter participants who participate in it, but as time goes by, bounty hunters are now very clever in choosing bounties that will be successful, I hope there will be a special team to select the bounties that will promote this diforum.

Well said,  once  the market  matured  everyone working with it will realize how things works,  they'll learned  how to pick right and true  projects,  they will stay  away  from  scsm projects  that  only lead  them  to  waste  their  time and participation.  There's always a  good time  learning  things  that  will  make it  profitable  and not  to lose  anything from each works  that they'll  going  to provide.

There is already a selected bounty list thread available so that bounty hunters prefer to join the recommended bounty, but each participant must rely on their own analysis compared to the special team because not all bounties that have been recommended will be good, there are also some bounties that are not good and have low pay.

I honestly believe it will never go away because the scammers are using their "gifts" to think outside the box for a new kind of scamming tactic, technique, etc. We are the ones who should adjust to this circumstances. Until now, I still made mistakes even if I'm here for a long while. Because we're not perfect, but we keep learning and growing.

Always DYOR before participating in such bounty campaigns like the coin or token's fundamentals, utilities, whitepaper, roadmap, team, partnerships, etc. It may be a time-consuming process but it's gonna be worth it, so that you won't waste time getting scammed again. However, they're unpredictable too. We just have to manage our risks well.

I still noticed that there are people who are still participating in bounty campaigns, but for me some token learned something and minimize their allocation in their bounty campaigns because some doesn't even reach their softcap and it will turn out as a scam to others due to the expectations and the time allotment of the bounty hunters to it, If you want it to go away the other participants and the investors must realize that it's not profitable anymore not like it used to be.

I think slowly the trend will change and the campaigns will have to pay in real money to hunters for the job done, just like there is trillion dollar freelancing market where people do gigs and get paid in real money similarly bounty hunting can be like that. Unfortunately due to a lot of scams, low payouts and intentional delays and denials from many campaigns and projects the bounty market is under pressure and struggling to survive.
The solution is that hunters should immediately stop promoting suspicious, low quality and fake projects and at the same time the projects should look to pay in real money for the work done.

Bounty scams will gradually go away but not very soon because it will take time.Bounty hunters should have knowledge about a project before promoting it to avoid promoting scams and it is also important to know the team behind a project and in that way the bounty scams will gradually fade with time.

Well, that is the right perspective of yours. I saw that bounty hunters now are can able to have their own research to find real or scam bounty projects. It is easy for them to identify those scam projects and avoid promoting them, --if they know the basic learning how to busted scam projects perhaps those bounty scams will gradually go away and did not go back again because they are easy to spot. Investors and bounty hunters should cooperate and will not promote scam bounty projects. If this will happen, for sure no one will create a trap as a scam intention.

if we able to analize well every bounty campaign in cryptomarket,bounty scam could go away by it self. we didnt give any opportunity for fake developers to steal money from investors and trader. many ways can do to identify fake project in market.

I totally agree with your comment, check this post to find some legitimate projects https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0
Even though we found so many scam projects and some of these projects don't pay good rewards. We see that so many hunters don't participate in this recommended campaign. Without DIA and Koinpro, I don't find any good ones. Sometimes here recommend projects listed here after new joining off.

Scam always exists that’s why the bounty hunter should do your own research before joining. Yes it is good to have a knowledge of what you are promoting since these are always a lot campaign to join. Scam is everywhere in this industry so we should be careful in choosing one to join.

Scammers will grow as well as the market, despite of the security that we have as long as scammers are adopting the new technology, for sure they will succeed on their plans especially to victim the newbies.

I don't think scam project will go away because they are the same scammer as before, they are just creating another project with another project but the team behind it is the same. If people are more knowledgeable about cryptocurrency and know how the scammer works, they wont fall to them.

 I don't think it is that simple to get rid of the bounty scams. It is a vast area and surely there will be greedy people trying to scam others. What we can hope for is trusted members running bounty and escrows.

I am one of those people who believe that the scam will disappear gradually. however, I am quite confused by the statement you are saying. What I think is that the thing that can make scammers disappear slowly is due to the use of trusted escrow and that mostly happens with payments using bitcoin, or ethereum. even when it is another type of campaign, if they use escrow, the risk of a scam is also reduced.

Bounty scam cannot be erased if you see honestly.
As of there are Bounty hunters, this scam will be continue growing.
And as you have mentioned about the Bitcoin payment for the social media campaigns, then it's good at one perspective view, but it won't stop a scam Bounty from getting promoted.
Nevertheless what we can do is that, do a lot of research before investing on something and this can only save us from drowning into the Fake and Scam bounties.

I doubt that scammers will let go of bounty scams because of how profitable and easy it is to them to do. Though I'm pretty happy that a lot of campaigns or projects are willing to pay BTC/ETH or reputable cryptocurrency now but only few do this. Nevertheless, It's still good to see it especially to those campaigns that actually pay in cryptocurrencies that we can sell any time, not useless tokens that doesn't have any value. I hope this continues though.

I always tell people who are looking to earn anything guaranteed they should do tasks in services section rather than in bounty section which nothing less that pile of garbage.

Scam is existing even before so it wont go away as long as there are people that can be easily become their victim due to greed of earning quick.

Actually not only in crypto even in other field of investment they are present, its everywhere. They take advantage people whose lacking of knowledge and easy to trust and give in.

Thus dont expect scam projects to go away, instead do your best to avoid these kind of projects.

Bounty scam will not completely go away, as long as bounties are paid in nontradable or new tokens, and the reward has no real value there is a chance that projects are wasting bounty hunters' time. I know that bounty hunters are also responsible for joining bounty scams, at least DYOR before joining since you will also invest your time even if no money is involved.

Its a pipe dream to imagine bounty scams disappearing, as long as there are participants, and despite social media and payments in btc, i dont see the comparison, nor the change. Once something is working for you it is hard to give up, and the audit/vetting is not an instant option for everyone.

The thing is that most of the payment's rates of signature bounties have been decreased and that's because some high ranks members get satisfied by maybe 15$ per week!
that's not even enough for the fee I don't know why they do it?it hurts signature bounties payments.

Scams have existed in the past and will exist in the future, nothing you can do about that. It is in the nature of the people to scam.
If you look at the bounty section today and compare to 2 years, than the number of bounty projects have dropped a lot. I don't participate anymore in any bounty that pays in altcoin because the chance that this new coins get listed on a major exchange is extremely low.

Scams still exist today because the bounty hunters are ready to join shady campaigns with exploitative conditions. A few basic precautions could have drastically cut down the number of scam campaigns. This includes keeping the funds in escrow and not allowing a change in the T&C later. But even these proposals have been ignored by the project teams and the campaign managers.

Bounty hunters and even newbies will have a sign of relief in the sense that those of them that has real twitter followers will earn some decent amount of bitcoin kudos to twitter for bringing in audit, its a good step in the right direction, participating a three btc paying twitter campaign really worth the stress of doing the bounty work for a newbie, I hope to see more of those campaigns in soon in the service section, while the altcoin section will look less attractive to the bounty hunters because those fake projects and scams.

Escrow will helps a lot if that will be implemented in any bounty campaigns, managers who are going to accept the responsivities
should be more aware as hunters needs being paid after their participations, if they work accordingly they are entitled to get the
promise rewards.
Proposal should be considered and if the team / developers are serious there's no problem accepting it.

This is true and also funny and it has started becoming a trend in the service section but IMO, is still a better choice compared to being scammed for 12 weeks lol . If you have not witnessed a bounty telegram group you belong making a disappearance  ;D you might not know a story on such.

As long as people keep asking for twitter or whatever for bounty there will be fake ones. Believe me because it is quite easy to build a twitter account if you want to and with real people as well.

I remember one day I wanted to have a full crypto twitter account and in a week I had over 2k followers, the trick was I followed over 100k people, you do not even have to have full crypto followers, you just need real people to follow you and the best way to do that is follow them, obviously I focused on crypto people mainly but I did followed some celebs which caused people who follow them to follow me as well. You can do this with 10 accounts and at worst in a month you have 10 crypto accounts on twitter, all real. You can't stop people who want to fool the system.

To be frank,many of the bounty campaign scam people at the end of the work.Some of them paying with their tokens as promised at the end of token sale.Sometimes the price of token reduced to half or 1/4 of the price before the distribution of tokens.You should do some background check of bounty,before you get into it.

This 12$ you are talking has nothing to do with the scam. This is all about demand. If the project is demanded, the dollar equivalent of your bounty earning would be more. But the fact that they ask a deposit of 20$ is suspicious. Did they name a reason why these 20$ must be kept on the account?

Yep, it is a nice change to see some social media campaigns paying in bitcoin similar to what happens with signature campaigns, however if you take a look there are many members wearing signatures from bounty campaigns that pay with those useless tokens because they still believe they can get profits with them and they have not disappeared despite bitcoin signature campaigns being here for years, so it does not make sense that bounty campaigns will suddenly disappear just because a few social media campaigns that actually care about their participants have appeared.

The pandemic made it worse that people will take less fees as long as its not a scam. This is fair than spending weeks of promoting a project but recieves nothing in the end because its a scam.

The users who joined the altcoin bounty campaigns are the ones expecting the project isn't scam and that prices could one day go up which is why some of them even hold their tokens, not selling while the price is lesss than what they expect. Ultimately lose it all.

Bounty scam will never go away. As long as there is money to make, people will always try to make as much as possible even if it is by cheating.
I am currently part of a signature campaign and it already happened that someone just copied my Bitcointalk profile name and link and applied again for the same signature bounty but with another ETH adress of course.
I was lucky that i found it myself and reported it to the bounty manager before i was banned or something.

This is actually good for hunters. They are sure that they are getting paid after their work even though the project may get closed after the long run. Just like the twitter audit, I would love to see bitcointalk forum audit to see if any scammer is out there. This will be beneficial to all.

twitter campaigns that pays in btc are already been there ever since before and not just by this month or this year but bounty scam are also been there , twitter or some sort of social media campaigns did not totally solve them . social media campaigns that pays in btc are short duration only so if those were gone people will go back applying on bounties again .

 twitter campaign on service board have taken a long rest before but they only bring it back maybe because they want to clear the reputation of twitter in regards to the hacking and scamming that happen on the said platform

How is it possible username and profile link must be the same, of course multiple. But I will check from the next time I join. You thought it was right, cheaters are always trying to take the opportunity of the current situation like now DeFi hype. In a few days, so many scammers will start scam DeFi projects. Actually, we can't minimize the whole situation.

Good for you that you have found it earlier. I also think that bounty scam will always be here even if there will be new changes in the crypto market, scammers will still find new ways to chase the money of other people. The legends here may have learned from those bounty scamming but for those who have newly entered the crypto market, they will surely be the target of those scammers.

I fear it will not when there are alot of Noob promoters out there.. promoting just any project they can find on this forum...  as long as their scam projects out there... bounty scam will not go away

I hope that this will be applicable to all the bounty campaign especially in signature campaigns because mostly of the bounty hunters are using the forum as way of earning as well and also I am hoping that there will be one day a regulator group that will monitor and regulate the entry of very suspicious bounty campaigns so that it will be a very good way also to help us bounty hunters.

If you look at the lists of bounty participants, more than half of them are scammers because they offer stolen content. I had such that articles were stolen from me personally, so I had to communicate with managers in order to remove the scammers. Honestly, it's a pity that such a wonderful way of earning money was killed by human greed.

things like that have happened even in the real world. it's just that, people are doing it online more often nowadays. To be honest, now I see that quite a lot of projects become a scam if they make payments without going through escrow. things like scammer prevention have been widely recommended, it's just that there are still more people affected by a scam than those who are not. However, choosing a bounty that has an escrow would be preferable.

The latest one is this Streamix bounty campaign where they offer 1500 of their token out of their 100 million supply I don't know the potential of the token but if Bounty hunters only managed to get 30 in the signature campaign it's not even worth it unless the token will reach $5 which is unlikely.

It all depend on the participants as if they are agree to work for less then why the companies will pay higher. I remember the past that when the participants were only working for high payment campaigns then all of them started to pay higher to the participants.

There is the case of demand and supply in every field of life which rule the rates of that field.

The Twitter campaign that you’re talking about is something that is totally different from the one you’re seeing here, and it’s also not something new, I have known about it for long now and they pay you based on how many followers you have on Twitter, which I know for sure that most of us here don’t even have followers.

So, what makes you think that people will be interested in that one?

Getting followers on Twitter and having engagements is a really difficult thing. The campaign that’s being done in this forum is more easier.

this is the best example of how twitter campaign has been paying

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276327.0

the more followers is the big payment you can receive .

these days of ours it seems that twitter campaigns are entering the Bitcoin paying service not like in the past that only Bounties are having these campaigns .

actually it is not only of gathering followers but it is a must that your followers must be involving into crypto and not just random
 people from around the world.

The current twitter campaign that you've talked about is seemingly fine, it went smooth and orderly. Some applied but just bee rejected due to fake/non-crypto followers. The company itself paid only those related to crypto followers and they have the right as well to decline the applications.

Social media is the fastest way to spread the news, it is just a little bit disappointing to see that some did scam others using fake account hidden by known personalities. But this is not the case that pushes the company to eliminate social media campaigns because it was not all the cases that will happen.

I am not confident that this bounty scam will dissappear anytime soon since there are many gullible investors and also there is a surge of platforms on the internet that these scammers can use to invite people to their false projects. What needs to be done is the acceptance of big finance to crypto so at least we might get some sort of protection from them. We just have to be really really patient and vigilant to these kinds of schemes.

The bonus scams are getting smaller and smaller, they will not disappear as ICO projects are becoming more difficult in the fundraising process.
Scams are becoming more and more sophisticated if not a scam project then the bounty manager will scam and not distribute it to everyone. Recently ClipX tricked hunters' KYC passports. The bounty managers and bounty hunt participants are all scams.

If you say that the bounty manager and participants in the bounty hunt are all scams, then you are also a con artist because you are a bounty participant at this time ;D, in fact you have to sort this into two parts, first the project team that committed fraud and the second the project manager who committed fraud, although in general both are deceiving, this is not the same because only a small proportion of bounty managers cheat, while managers who are truly trusted in this forum will not do such stupid things.

Scammer will be out there forever as long as there are hunters that are willing to do anything for profitable rewards especially in BTC. They will exploit every possible way to get money from other people  even if means of dragging someone into it to lure investors. On the brighter side though, It's good to see some project devs giving out opportunities by giving their workers fair salaries for their works.

In the internet world, it is difficult to stop scammers because there are many ways they trick investors into getting caught with their tricks, so now many bounties that end up being scams often happen until now because no one knew that the project would become a scam and investors became the victim, then we must be smart in choosing any project and sometimes tokens that are already on the exchange like to end up in uncertainty.

So even large funds are very unsafe if someone already holds that much money, they will be tempted, therefore we are truly trusted in this protection.

Every bounty must have its advantages and disadvantages, the most important thing is that we can read the opportunities and maximize our ability to get rewards. Social media bounties (twitter / Facebook / etc), article/video bounties, signatures, are all beneficial if we know the right techniques and strategies, obey the rules properly and do them wholeheartedly, you will definitely have fun.
However, the world of crypto and bounties is full of surprises, many projects that are a scam, not only bounty alts, even bounties that promise BTC or eth rewards or other strong coins can potentially be a scam. So we must know that even though there is a small risk of joining a bounty campaign, there is still a risk of scam.

I used to take part in bounty campaigns, where I was supposed to receive a well-deserved reward for the work done, but did not receive it. Some projects turned out to be cheating. I see how the cryptocurrency market grows and improves and I have good confidence that over time, bad bounty projects will disappear and there will be no need to fear that the developers will deceive you.

I participated in bounty campaigns in 2017 and started participating now. Then it was possible to get several thousand dollars from each campaign, but now it is very difficult to do this, primarily because of scammers.

Its up really to the manager itself on how he handle or filter out things.When comparing to those twitter or social media campaigns which are posted on services section compared to altcoin marketplace bounty section
then you can really tell the difference.Bounty scam will gradually go away? we cant still say such thing because there are projects will definitely stick out on paying own tokens and there would be still lots of
people or do make use of bots on joining them.The cycle would continue and this had been a problem since from the past.It havent been solved up until now thats why getting rid of it completely
is almost impossible but at least we do make some ways.

Theres no permanent in this world, i agree that aidrops and bounties before are really worth it to join in unlike now that most bounties will only waste your time.

It is highly unlikely for scams like these will go away. Especially now that there are more hunters out there that are willing to take up job because of the pandemic. Overall i just feel bad for hunters that spent their time on these scams.

Hunters are leave no choice but to pick on these projects offering bounty. Well a lot of people lost their jobs right? And it means no more money income. If they are doing bounty then still there is a chance to get up from this mess. I know some bounty are scams but thats the only thing they can do while being suppressed of out of job.

That was the situation in previous years when inexperienced projects distributed money to hunters. In the meantime, I need to confirm that they are all mature and that they have the experience to run an efficient bounty project.

I fully had a doubt that the bounty scam will not be gone, instead it will always be there where bounty hunters and investors participate in any of the project that will arise in this field of business industry here in cryptocurrency. If there's a new project arise it means there is an opportunity for scammers to find a victim.

Scammers can scam you regardless of payment options. It is yet to be understood that without hunters there is no community, without community there is no successful project.

It's really frustrating that after many months of supporting the project it ended up with nothing. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks before joining in the campaign to make sure that the project are legitimate. We just need to accept the fact that in crypto world we need to be wise and analyze it properly. There's a lot ot scammers and we must do our job to make research about the project. Its good to know that the action like this take place to help eliminate the bounty scam.

Many hunters that will not do research if they are working on scammers and many developers who can create a project that looks like a good project, they have no problem with promoters since they already have a lot fo bounty hunters who will work for them in exchange for free pennies or none at all, in fact, these scammers are scamming bounty hunters and investors.

Gladly it's now starting to be swept away mate, and if scammers tried to have an attempt they'll easily be determined through validations, and feedbacks from social media. That's the very powerful tool for us to unmask those criminals here in anonymous world of crypto. We must have an effort to support our fellow members here, and don't let scammers destroy our built foundation in just one glance.

It's too late, I think, because the main trust of large banks and investors has already been undermined by the abundance of scams that fell on the ICO in 2017-2018. Now this is the only way, few have remained in the subject, and even then they all want to deceive each other. At this level, it is very difficult for a cryptocurrency to develop and be introduced into our daily life.

I think it is difficult to determine whether a project is a scam or not because so far sometimes the project will have many ways to keep their true goals hidden, it's better to be careful when participating in a bounty campaign or participating in a coin offer, you better can collect all the projects that have occurred scams and record all the teams that have been scams so you can have important records and can find out whether the project team is indicated as a scam or not, so maybe that method can help you to find out whether the project is good or not.

There are some lets say SOPs if applied we can get scam free bounties.
1) The bounty manager should be responsible about the authenticity of the project he is about to promote. He should do all the research and due diligence.
2) The reward tokens should be escrowed or sent to bounty manager in advance before campaign ends.
3) Bounty hunters should be more responsible and study each project and claim and immediately report if they find any red flags.
4) Paying in stablecoins or top coins is the ideal thing but most projects will not follow this so all we should look to do is that we make sure that the reward tokens are distributed to everyone.
5) If the team or bounty manager seems lagging or careless during the campaign hunters should stop participating in such a campaign further.

By following these points we can make sure that we are promoting the right project and fake projects will be discouraged.

Nice post.this is the Chain of crypto marketing in which Hunters,owners and community needed each other to become successful .

Hunters are always been blamed but the truth they are the true victim here regardless of those cheaters that using multiple accounts because they are doing the Job required by owners.

and project are successful most of the time,but the winner is the developer and the hunter is either being scammed or paid like a slave.

Now social media bounty which pays with Bitcoin are posted in the service section and only tokens payment bounties have been posting in the bounties section. Bounty hunters will do bounty as it is their income source but recently we have observed that many projects even successful projects cheated with bounty hunters. If such cheating will continue, it is time to unite the bounty managers to bring bounties with escrew where tokens will remain reserve and hunters will be paid after campaign ended from escrew otherwise bounty should be stopped.

Well sometimes it still depends on the manager that handles the campaign.
There has been many incidents of fake campaigns in the past, that's why escrow is pretty much recommended when a manager is simply new to handling these unless he/she wants to be questioned which is just a natural thing to happen anyway.

If bounty hunters as a group demanded to be paid in coins that already hold value then this could solve the issue of scam bounty campaigns as now the scammers will think about it twice before trying a scam as it will cost them money in order to try to pull something, but this is never going to happen, for every bounty hunter not willing to accept useless coins there are probably ten that are happy to accept those coins with the vain hope that at some point in the future those coins will be worth a fortune.

Completely tired of project and bounty managers who don't value bounty hunters, doing work every day for several months and they ignore it without paying what they say. I hope there is protection or a good system for bounty hunters so that we can work safely without worrying that they will pay or not.

In this case, of course, the prize manager is not 100% related to the occurrence of fraudulent campaigns, because  I think the manager never wants to handle a fraudulent project, and this will certainly tarnish the manager's name in the forum and this will certainly give negative confidence in the manager. ,
Most managers only handle a project until the project is completed and usually the problem of payment will be handled by the project team if the project is indeed cheating on bounty hunters, of course the manager will also not get paid at all, so, we completely can't blame the manager when he doesn't get paid of a bounty project.

Everyone wants that to happened, there are threads that being discussed about having secure escrows and yet
unable to execute, there are still many bounty offered that being supported by hunters even they are keep experiencing same scams.

It's the hunters that should protect themselves, by doing good and more advanced research
regarding to the project before participating will provide much better chances to be well compensated.

Bounty project scams will not disappear from this cryptoqurrency industry space, every time there are always various types of fraud. The scamers out there already know how to get money in crypto so easily that they will never stop trying to con their victims.

This was new at the time, and perhaps this is why the bounty campaign rewards were so great. Now everything has become much cheaper. Yes, and it would be cheaper. There are so many scammers around that the share of honest projects among them is no more than 10%.

Actually we lost so many campaigns that distributed BTC payment. Even the same for signature campaign. If you follow some campaigns from now to two years, then you will find that most of them are dead. Although the same projects amount is always high, I'm seeing that continuously coinmarketcap listed coins are increasing 2k, 3k 4k. Some legit projects still survive.

This is all because most of these companies were created only to quickly make money on the hype. Most developers did not set any goals other than to simulate the creation of the project and earn money. The only difference is that someone gave money to investors, and someone cheated everyone and stole other people's money.

There are many ways to cheater a bounty even though the requirements are strict only bounty manager can erase all of it If the manager checks all the participants carefully, the impostor will be caught and an effective solution to avoid cheater on the spreen sheet is POA from there it can distinguish the real account or not

I also want it to happen but one thing is for sure bounty scam wouldn't really go away as long as there are hunters and investor who would fall on it then they would continue to do it and create more projects.
The only thing that we could do is to educate ourselves so we wouldn't fall or participate on those project.
Sad to say but we are the ones who are to blame for it because we continue to invest and cooperate with them because we are lazy to do a proper checking on projects that we would join or invest.

i insist that the scam bounties will never go away. Rather, hunters should try as much as possible to do away with suspicious projects. easy ways to figure out scam bounties are projects with unknown developers, Newly created accounts. ,medium, twitter, facebook and linkedin. most new campaigns here are fresh projects with little or No background on crypto.

Actually, some devs believe we can't rely on their coins or they don't want to lose the value of their coins. I can't find the difference between BTC payment or coins payment campaign. BTC payment or Ethereum payment project also can scam hunters by changing rules several times. To change the rules every time hunters will gradually decrease.

Yes. That's right, Twitter is one of the social media that is generally used by many people and can be used as a campaign activity whatever the name is.

In my opinion, this can be minimized only by experienced managers by asking participants to follow several applicable terms and conditions even though the payment varies using either BTC or other Tokens

I doubt if the bounty scam can fade away hmm, but I presume it can be reduced by erection of certain policies and forum managers, to reduce scam projects and hunters was the reason for KYC but how many projects use that again now, it has even discouraged many from joining those campaign. bounty hunters are to take necessary precautions against falling victim of scam project, they waste one's time energy and resources.

It wont go away, that is just wishful thinking. People will still join shady bounty campaigns regardless the obvious red flags. The bounty section is a wild west and anyone can open a campaign with fraudulent intentions, which is completely understandable. You just have to learn to live with it, its a part of the game, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose, bounty hunting is sort of a lottery.

Yes, it can be reduce but impossible to totally go away. Scammers will always take advantage about the people that have less knowledge about the cryptocurrency. Bounty scam will be avoided if hunters will always conduct some research about the project and help the community to avoid the bounty that possibly another scam. Bounty hunters need to learn about the mistakes that the committed. There's some bounty reviews threads that they can rely on. It will help us to identify which can be trust. 

no .. Gift scams cannot be removed if you look at them honestly. Besides, seeing the large number of Bounty hunters, most of the project scams were increasing. regarding Bitcoin payments for social media campaigns then that's fine in one perspective, but that won't stop fake gifts from being promoted.

I think people who are already ranked in this forum will always do research on the bounty that will be promoted but sometimes it is also always subject to a bounty that never pays because scamer always takes advantage of the moment when they are working that's why because every time someone is suspicious it is necessary conduct further research so that the project does not develop.
But the average newbie account doesn't have any viewpoint, they will continue to do their work without doing research.

Yes , the hunters should be the one who need to learn if they will stop advertising scam bounty then no one from them will try to make another scam project .because scammers  know when to stop and find other scheme instead  if the they know they will not get any support from hunters.



The more people chose to join in legit project the more chance that scammers will not get free advertisement.

In the Service section, we have a lot of campaigns that are paid in BTC, ETH or USDT. There we always make quite a lot of money but in return everything we make is of high quality. Those who want a stable salary will choose Serviec. For me, I still like to work for bounty campaigns. Although the majority are almost scams, if we are lucky, we will be rich on a project. (DIA is an example in 2020)

i think,Gift deception will never go away. As long as there is money to be made, people will always try to make as much as possible even by underhanded means. Nowadays people do it online more often. To be honest, I now see that quite a number of projects become a scam for making payments without going through escrow. things like scammer prevention have been recommended. However, choosing a bounty that has an escrow will be preferable.

If the bounty programs paid every week, there would be no more bounty scams. Paying at BTC or ETH is much better, there are many people of us who work only in the service section. Most people who work in the service section go to the bounty section very rarely. I think now a days launching any program  in the service section is more effective than the bounty section.

And that would lessen your chance of being rekt.
Also, it is better to join those projects that are already listed in the market, if you can't join those btc paying campaigns.
However, it is hard to find those projects. Or you can join those that have weekly payments, at least it is credited in your account already.
But checking and evaluating the project would give you initial impression if the project is heading to be scam/crap or legit one.

Not only bounty scam is cancer for cryptocurrency, fake Twitter account is also part of it. New projects are doing it and also some hunters. I think only bear situations can recover from this cancer. Hunters can't take advantage of the decentralization, if BTC payment continuously increases. Rather my suggestion is for escrow service, bounty manager should agree to promote new projects.

The bounty campaign is only a marketing strategy to provide information to investors so that the developers of a project will get a lot of enthusiasts who want to support the project being developed because the more participants the bounty campaign is, the wider and the more people who know the project.

First of all, the number of active bounty campaigns have declined very significantly. Even those bounties which are active now no longer have senior members participating in them. Most of the participants are newbies and junior members. Unless the bounties are able to attract high ranking members, they will not be able to attract the investors in a big way. And despite this, they still refuse to listen to the bounty hunters. They want to go ahead with the exploitative terms and conditions.

For me, the only way to get rid of scammers is just to report them. Every project that claims promising and yet they only scam in the long run, should be ban and report all, so that the scam will slowly gone or we can say it will gradually go away. Most scam scenario in this forum is by promoting fraud airdrops and unpromising projects, so let's report them all so that they would be ban forever.

Bounty scam will disappear only if bounty will disappear in general

Bounty scam is not stopping anytime soon, the issue of buying fake social media followers has grown over years and almost 80% of hunters are already adapted to the system. Stopping bounty scammers won't be easy.

Scams were always part of the cryptocurrency market. Bounty scams happen as a result of lacking in development due to insufficient funds or improper planning. Scamming in the name of cryptocurrency is found globally, as there is no perfect framework. Bounty allocation with most projects were based on the circulation supply. Compared to the past the bounty scams have decreased a lot.

It is that obvious too I think it has. The scammers have really taken a lot of money and time from investors and hunters. But the good thing is as you have observed too. Hunters are tired of being scammed and are being careful. So they are selective which has really reduced rate of new scam bounties.

The irony is in the bounty section of the forum, the bounty hunters are hunted for having less skills and experience compared to old dogs. The good side the bounty hunter will gain an experience which will help him to be more selective as you mentioned. The cycle will turn and the scammed bounty hunter will look for his rights sooner or later. History repeats itself and this is true for scammed people vs scammers.

History indeed repeats itself. I think scam bounties will only lessen, but never go away because there are still people who will be a victim of a scam as long there are victims of these scam bounties, not only in bounties but in every kind of cybercrime in the crypto world. So we should not be ignorant and learn every type of illegal scheme that scammers used to avoid being a victim of these scams.

I'm not so sure bounty scam will just go away that easy, even after some member's here flag some bounty campaigns you will still find so many bounty hunters registering and completing several task, there was a flagged bounty I came across the hunter said and I quote "i don't care if they are scam or not, all I know is that they paid my 1usdt" so imagine if they still have this mindset, they will surely participate in any bounty be it scam or not,the only way this can be stopped is for bounty hunters to stop participating in sh*tty bounty campaigns,and I don't think that's ever gonna happen  :D.

Yes, obviously Stopping bounty scammers will not be easy for anyone, because scammers also follow the times and times in crypto so that they can always take advantage of their opportunities through trends that are born every year.

As long as scamming brings money, it wont go away. The way investors, bounty hunters or just interested in the project people be scammed will evolve. See how things changed during years of bounty. First project simply perform exit scam after funds are collected. Later they start to simply not distributing rewards. Then they simply prolong campaigns or ask to pass KYC. Last 12-24 months they create rounds of campaigns or run lots of rounds of IEO. Now they add a DeFi prefix and do same from very beginning. Bounty scam is evolving and will never go away.

Scam bounty wont disappears these days since scammers are really existing in this industry. I don't think it could stop easily and when we look at those hype projects we observe there are many newly created projects. Our ways not to fall for these scam is always dyor and invest on what we can afford only.

There are two things here. First is that the number of ICOs have been on the decline, partly due to the low success rate in the recent times. Less ICOs mean less bounty campaigns. Secondly, as you pointed out a lot of users are no longer interested in participating in these bounties. They are fed up of all the scams and delayed payments. Only a few desperate ones, mostly consisting of new users now participate in these campaigns.

The numbers of participants including the investors not that much anymore, they ain't interested to become victimized again by those scammers who offered bounties but ain't paying or just chilling out and wasted their time.
Bounty hunters learned their  experienced that hard and now being wise doing research before starting over again to participate with any
offered bounties.

Yes, you really have to make a review of the new project before posting, but it is also difficult to know at first, so many also qualify to be posted, because the scam or not a project is sometimes discovered after the project is almost finished, not when the new project starts.

Some of those can be explained away as just part of the normal cycle of any market, after all we cannot expect every single coin to be as successful as bitcoin and it is natural many face bankruptcy, but it is also true there are many scams in the market and without a doubt this makes very hard for investors and bounty hunters to decide in which project to invest their time and money, that is why I decided to invest in bitcoin and a few selected altcoins and forget about the rest of the coins.

I don't think that scam projects will disappear in this forum, they will always be around from time to time. we have lots of btc paying signature campaigns and yet there are so much scam project around, so an inclusion of social media (twitter) in btc paying campaign will not reduce anything, besides not all project will hold a btc paying campaign.

Im not sure about that. There were many scam bounty campaigns since the beginning of ICO.
Scammers always trying to find a way to scam people, not only investors but the hunters as well, to obtain free promotion.
We should take our time more, it is very important to research on the project we join.

I agree with you, as long as at least one person is falling for the scam, they are not going away. It's too attractive for the scammer to make free money with only a little bit of work. And as people are generally interested in giveaways and free coins, we will keep seeing scam campaigns. Even though bounty campaigns decreased this year, it's no guarantee that scams will stop. We can't let our guards down and need to keep checking every project.

They're many projects coming out day by week, which we have good project that is not scam and went successful after the ICO, but in the means of this project, some are scam project, and that has been a serious issue, after western your time and energy to promote such project at the end, discovered is a scam project, which is very bad.

I don't see how bounty scam will gradually go away because not all project team are sincere or have reputations to protect, this have make bounty hunters to have less respect in crypto space, new projects seek for bounty hunters to create awareness for their new projects but when it comes to paying they show their real colors.


The only solution to bounty scam is escrowed and this is only what good bounty platforms or bounty managers should introduce to atleast limit disappointments of not getting paid

Wow hopefully that will be implemented so that bounty scam will be eradicated or minimized to the minimum number as much as possible. Anyway, I will be happy to see if changes in bounty scam will going to be resolved as  what OP stated that it is a cancer in the bitcointalk forum or to other forum as well. Admin of the forum has the great task of this but since they are not taking action for now and they had not make some announcement regarding to it well get used of it somehow. I can still learn about cryptocurrency from updates and the current events.

This is one good example why bounty scams will never disappear, and that is because of man's greedy nature. As long as man will continuously disrespect people who are slow in learning and those who are disabled, scams will never disappear. As long as there will be people who will succumb to the whims and glamour of projects that has no real backbone or future whatsoever. Be vigilant people so that you will never fall victim to this.

Not only escrowed but also ther developers should also pay bounty hunters with trade able coin or tokens I love to see the day that we are going to get paid with trade able coins so they cannot stop blaming bounty hunters of dumping their token, developers are so quick to blame bounty hunters when there's dump.

I feel you mate😁 We really hope that we can find ways to eliminate these scam and worthless projects that are launching continuosly until these days. They disguised to be something legitimate and then disappear after they got what they want. I think it would be nice if project team has collateral escrowed on trusted person depending on the amount they allocated for the forum bounty just to make sure they are legit and will not run away after the program. We bounty hunters spent our entire time to promote them but they failed us with worthless tokens/coins it is not actually the matter of choosing the right one but it is all about trust and hope. Investors are the most affected people when it comes to scam.

True.

It seems that this issue has been discussed several times, but until now there has not been a good system to get rid of fraudulent projects, even until now I still find fraudulent projects in the gift thread, there are even projects that have no capital. and dare to run it, far compared to the previous year ..

I hope this is not nonsense and is really done to eradicate fraud smelling projects ..

Services under Marketplace if you join signature or social media campaign you will get paid in btc because it was already paying in btc long time ago. uNLIKE IN  Bounties section under Altcoin once you join a campaign you will get paid with a tokens of the project you are promoting. Your lucky if you can join a campaign that pay with Ethereum.

Anyway, scam project will not disappear in cryptoworld because there are also people that still promoting a project even it is scam.

Bonus scam persists as long as the bonus program does not provide a margin in a currency that is listed on the trade.
Up until the present time no one could have guessed whether a bounty program was good or bad before it defrauded the bounty hunter.
Personally, I have seen a lot of bonus programs that promise all kinds of things and they promise to pay in btc or eth, but as soon as the bonuses are over they disappear.

Yes, I personally think it is no different from other bonus programs, simply that they promise to pay in btc or eth instead of the project's coins.
However if it's a scam, I'm sure no one can get any money from them.

bounty project scams will never go away in this industry, every day new projects appear and also every day there are always fraudulent projects being exposed. As a bounty hunter you should always be alert before joining a bounty project and if you are a project investor, invest your money properly. and not by investing in bad projects.

Scam bounties will always be amongst us in crypto space, DeFi projects are reigning now and just take a look at bounties section of this forum, you will see many DeFi projects that come out of nowhere, 99% of them are rubbish, I was able to spot DIA DeFi, oikos DeFi, Ferrum and Lattice Exchange because they are just different from the rest, make sure you are picky

bounty scams will always be on this forum and scamerrs are always around us. so stay alert. as bounty hunters we can still avoid it by not promoting suspicious projects. use your time well and get out if you think the project you are promoting is suspicious.

So you can see because of their these scams now their projects are failing one by one, if they will be sincere with their promoters and will pay what they promise, then in the future people will trust projects and all of the projects will get success.

Yes they have to escrow but to make sure that they escrow in BTC or any other coin which is actively traded on good exchanges as many times they pay in their coins but they do not list their coins and the bounty hunters do not get for what they work hard. So they have to escrow as a security which will be returned after paying to bounty hunters successfully in their tokens and the tokens are listed.

Unfortunately, it is the fact. We cannot deny their existence. They will be always there and wait for the right time to scam people. Bounty isn't a job that protected by the government, so there should be many chances for scammers there.

Indeed. You also must avoid promoting a project that has a problem in this forum. If we have a good intention to fight with scammers, just avoid anything that supports them.

Not only scammers around us, legit projects also but not in legit ways. The Legit project also doesn't want to distribute their coins. Still, I don't have any clue why and how these projects change their rules after the complete funds rise. Like PayAccept didn't pay the bounty manager but still this forum supports it.

project scams will always be around, let alone the crypto industry is full of money. Yes, I do agree that Twitter bounty payments in BTC are popping up and I believe one of the main reasons it works even now is because some trusted managers here are handling it. like Hhampuz & Yahooo62278

And there will never be, this is just the reality, remember people want decentralization where there is no regulation or control, so just take it as the price you pay for a decentralize space, projects are free to enter and exit the market at their very own convenient, if you want a good system to be introduce to get rid of all the fake and scam project then it means you will accept regulation and control, because any project is not accountable for their actions is the reason why you see this many scam, project scam investors and hunters alike, this is like a battle field, survival for the fittest. 8)

If the system can be changed I am sure that it will return to the way it used to be, if all there is a will and even now it will be fine, indeed the fraudulent project has been around for a long time but do you think, if the current project is prioritizing for its own pocket compared to raise the bounty hunter / investor community, even if there is testing in advance or using Escrow, for a bounty project that wants to promote in the bounty thread, must have sufficient capital or have a trustworthy team.

If you see the reward thread as a battle arena, then your thinking is not very broad, at least there is prevention even though it is very difficult, but it's better to give action even if not at all ..

I agree with you that the bounty scam will be reduced gradually. Some of our forum members are fighting against scammers constantly. But we must be alert all time. Because scammers will not sit still. They are always trying to find new ways to scam people. At present their preferred way is DeFi projects or ICO. So we have to be careful about this.

Escrowing the funds could be the best solution but if the owners of the bounty campaign are holding the escrowed funds then we are facing the same problem, so we need a third party to escrow the funds but as long as bounty hunters keep accepting terrible work conditions for themselves this is never going to happen, I really think people need to stand up and defend themselves and if a bounty campaign does not offer some minimum conditions then people should not join it.

Bounties will still be there, all the Scammers are trying out these Bounties as a means of getting free advertising as once they will be finished with the project then these Scammers will not be paying the participants any money because the same has actually happened here in the past as well. So the same can happen in the future as well don't you think?? I just hope that these scams going on in the name of DeFi will be reduced in the future.

Expect the unexpected yet this would surely happen in the DeFi market where scams would become common just like on what happened into ICO.Scammers will be scammers and once they do able to spot out
on making money by scamming then they will surely jump into the trend.

Its hard to believe that scams will gradually go away yet as long this market involves money then do expect for these criminal minds to exist no matter what.This is why we should really be careful not only
to those investors but also even on to those who do bounties.

Its hard to spot out a legit project yet majority of them are on the same scheme, they look legit but they are totally garbage in the end.

Bounty scams will gradually go away but it will take time.The bounty managers should make proper investigation about a project before promoting it and on the other hand bounty hunters should also make their own research before joining any campaign to avoid promoting scams.

A thorough due diligence from bounty managers is definitely a big step in the right direction, but this wont completely eliminate fraudulent bounty campaigns. There will always be bounty managers that will ignore certain red flags just to earn some additional income, there is no way around it, it is on campaign participants to weed out those bad apples.

yeah at least that's not bad, rather than promoting some of the twitter campaigns out there and not necessarily even paying you. i saw there are many bounty hunters taking part in twitter campaigns in the service section and it is good because the payment is using BTC.
On the other hand, I think the Scam project will not disappear, which is for sure the scamers will always be around us, because Scammers already know that the crypto industry is a place where they can make money easily but in the wrong way.

project fraud will never go away in this industry as long as there are bounty hunters in it. they use this forum as a free advertising service for their project. and bounty hunters one of the middlemen to promote their project. So, I don't think that project fraud will disappear completely.

You're title is kinda misleading TBH.

You are saying that the bounty campaign scam as a whole will gradually go away but in your post you are just saying social media platforms that are being used in the campaign.
Now regarding to what you are saying. Bounty scams will always be there. The only reason that I see that will cause these scams to get removed is to remove the bounty campaign as a whole.

yes.I think slowly the trend will change and campaigns will have to pay real money to hunters for the work done. be it using btc or any other stable coin then it will be worth the bounty hunters' efforts to promote their project.

Which means the initiative should come from the bounty hunters first.
If they will not just advertise anything that is listed in the bounty section then we could minimize the incoming frauds.

We can see bounties in millions of dollars that are too good to be true and yet there are still hunters joining it.
That is too obvious.
I don't know if its a lack of observation or they really need money in this pandemic. But, they won't even get a penny out of it.

Not even until we get the right way to avoid it for sure so far by escrowing payments to the manager, so the prizes of the hunters are held by the bounty manager, to avoid the team that always postpones payments when the bounty is over.
the rest is the same, many self-promoting projects then disappear and don't pay off.

Everyone always hopes that there are no fraudulent projects on this forum but it will never happen. fraud is always rampant, we don't even know that scammers are around us. but as a bounty hunter you can still avoid reporting allegations of the Scam project and warn people not to get involved in it either.

I agree. Bounty scams will never go away just that fast and seamless as long as there are members that are patronizing bounty campaigns even most are already obvious scams that are trying to lure new members to get an engagement with them.


Yes. We literally and sincerely hope for that thing to make happen but it seems like too impossible to be done because there are still people who creates or developes fraudulent projects and scam people that are not yet familiar in this industry.

Bounty campaign and bounty managers are really now evolving in terms of the beneficial effects to all the hunters. We cannot really tell whether a project is a scam or not but at least with this way of method it lessen and somehow eradicate the bounty scam projects.

Only few projects are doing that and mostly gambling sites and news aggregator I love to see projects coming crowdfunding but unfortunately I have not seen one doing that and if one start the trend I don't think others will follow the lead, they don't have money they just rely on crowdfunding.

People really need to begin to use their head, if a bounty campaign is offering to pay with their own coins and they are not escrowing the funds then you are taking a huge risk, and in many cases even projects that on the surface seemed like good projects end up trying to scam their bounty hunters as they decide to reduce their reward to one tenth of what they promised initially and this is completely unfair after the bounty hunters worked for months and then they are treated with such disrespect when they were crucial to make the project a success.

I'm personally of the opinion that things would get better in the cryptocurrency space and most of the issues we face would be history in no distant time. Bounty hunting will regain her lost glory. As you writely said, twitter bounty being paid in bitcoin is a step in the right direction and we may start having other social media added to the position.

Scam bounty wont go away and will continue to exist.

However we can lessen these kind of projects if we dont let ourselves to be one of those hunters to promote their project.

They are continuous to their bad deed because they can fool people with their to good to be true promises of innovation and rewards.

Nowadays people are doing some good research before jumping in any kind of bounties, it's lot of bad projects and we are learning how to avoid it.

Why not let the bounty hunter choose for their reward? If we truly want the bounty scam to end then I think they should start paying us with crypto that is already listed or give us a choice if we want to receive their token/coin or any crypto that is already listed on exchange.
I know that this isn't how things work but why not implement it by the bounty managers to secure payments for the hunters?
They could at least buy back half of the bounty allocation and reward the hunters with half of their token and half of a crypto that already have a value.

ok hope it goes well in the futurebut I think the scamer still exists because they will always take advantage of the situation so they will continue to roam, you just need to avoid it because eliminating scamer is very impossible, because there are so many.

Previously, it was possible to promote a project with a bounty, but now I cannot name very successful projects that started this way. Many admins just need to get the hamsters to buy their token, and earn money. Some organizers simply don't care about their token.
But still you can find 10% of true guys that promoting nice project!

To be able to pay in already listed crypto, the projects needs to already have great funds. Because for them, paying in already traded altcoins means having expenses. Most of projects cant afford that, because the goal of bounty is to attract investors and funds to the projects. It is like you are starting a business, want to get money and already having losses. Most wont even try to start in that kind of conditions.

But if the project pays in their own altcoin. His only expense is transaction fee. Their own token cost them nothing, they dont have value. They dont lose anything.

Escrowing funds by bounty manager might be a solution for this, but this not always work well. For example bounty detective and julerz12 usually escrow bounty funds. But they spend their own funds on transaction fees, and try to get them back from team. In other words, they are sponsoring bounty distribution with their own money and risk not getting them back.

They usually scam more when it comes to transaction fees and exchanges but the impact is much less in fact it is much better for every trader as long as there are crypto scammers they can never be completely controlled bounty projects will be much better if they move slowly. The quality of the projects will increase a lot.

I think that bounty hunters dream of a magic button they could press and find out whether a project was a scam or not) If fraud in this sphere could ever stop, there would be more trust to icos and defis)

how they wish there were such thing because the path that they gonna enter was not easy  . defi's are just new but we can say that there will be more trust on the late ico's if there are no or less frauds on this space .

sad to say its over , ico's reputation were painted so bad that it cost his own life now we are now on the defi era and we are now on the phase were defi are slowly failing away  .  its not just the bounty hunters that are affected on this game but also investors .

I did not know about these new twitter campaigns that pay in bitcoin, but I think it is equally easy to make a scam both here on the forum and on twitter, of course I also hope that the many scams in bounty campaigns decrease drastically or disappear forever

Frankly, I do think the greater task lies with hunters than it's with managers. Remember that managers are also humans and are prone to errors too. That a trusted bounty manager decides to run a bounty doesn't mean that the project can't scam. In fact, I have seen where reputable bounty managers here have handled bounties that later scammed. These managers never knew those bounties would scam, trust me. But it happened that way. So, I think hunters should always do their due diligence before enrolling in any bounty. I just saw one bounty now with promising project on DeFi (of course, DeFi is the main trend now) but I refused to enroll. Why? Because the BM is a newbie account. Accounts like that can easily scam or abandon hunters to their fate after the bounty has ended without minding any backlash. You destroy the account by tagging it, the owner creates a new one and continues scamming hunters.

The scam is always there but I do see an improvement in the forum like users now can tag red trust to those who promote scam activity and also users now are avoiding to manage a project due to red trust that might get in promoting the scam project.

Aside from that the forum has also labeled on top of the thread that states awareness especialy if project had been tag for ita reputation. Or project is just being copied and paste by other projects and just change its name.

Wow, it is very nice to have paid in btc by joining and participating on twitter campaign only.
What i know, the signature campaign is only the campaign that pays btc to their participants.
About bounty scam, i think the reward should be escrowed so it will give the guarantee of the payment and won't become scam campaign.

You should always remember and never forget - the more effort is directed at fighting fraud, the more sophisticated methods of opposing you and conducting such a schemes will appear.
Even 10 years ago, people were led to "letters of happiness" more often than you go to the store. Do you think they're gone now? No, they just became much more cunning, smarter and more diverse.
Do not think that this can be won over a long distance and remember that a small victory over garbage today does not mean victory in the war against fraud forever.

Yes, but if you go to a service place in this forum, you will see a twitter campaign that pays participants with BTC and the manager is also very trusted and many also hold signature campaigns with BTC paid which are always paid on time, meaning that such campaigns always have escrow in terms of the payment.

100% agree! Fraud schemes evolve much faster that anti-fraud regulations do)) there will always be a lot of cheating in crypto sphere. We should be very careful about what we do and where we enclose our personal data.

How I wish that was true but I do not believe that for a second, bounty hunters for the most part decide to promote as many projects as possible with the idea that at least one of them should provide good profits, this means they do not care about a few of the bounty campaigns in which they participating turning into scams as long as they can make big profits with one single project and as long as that is their mentality then they will keep joining every single bounty they can and waste their time that way.

Newbies have no experience so they jump into campaigns they are not very sure of. even older members sometime do not distinguish a scam campaign. So scam campaigns will take a very long time to go away.

The problem is not even in the speed of development, but in the classic rule "action creates reaction". And also in the fact that in our case, the reaction is always stronger than the action - hence we get that for one revealed and defeated dirty scheme, we get two new ones.
And even more interesting is that even total legalization is unlikely to help. On the contrary, it will open up space for even more cunning and insidious schemes that will already become quite a "relatively honest way" of taking money from the population.

True, scammers are incredibly smart, they know how a legitimate campaign looks like and then they do everything in their power so their campaign looks the same and to the eyes of those that are new to this market there is no difference between coin A and coin B despite the huge difference between the intentions of the developers, this means that for the most part even bounty hunters that only want to promote good projects have no option but to promote bad projects even if that is not their intention and as long as this is the case we are bound to see scam projects being promoted on the forum and on social media.

Bot how many projects will choose this? I bet that it's going to be only a few and most of them will want to save some money and either go the legit way but without escrow and with a cheap new manager or will scam you.

They know they can do it because there's so many people who want to make money on this forum that they will never run out of workforce.

BOUNTY scam will gradually reduce, but to go away completely will be difficult and maybe impossible. Cause i believe projecys will still come up with improvised ways to scsm huntets

I can't see an end to this scam soon because, presently are thousands of project campaigns with no reputation on the forum being promoted and still be promoting. This scam won't just go from the forum because not all projects will be able to pay their participants with top cryptocurrencies. Also, some projects wants their participants hold their tokens for advertisements or towards their adoption. Having a project with token signifies adoption, so, they will always like to pay promoters with their native token.

I am not sure about the disappearance of bounty fraud because this kind of thing has been around since long ago during the ICO to IEO and until recently, I think fraud,
the gift will never be lost we just have to be careful and clever at analyzing at least we can avoid it

It's unlikely to happen. Even in real life, there are still tons of scammers lurking and planning to make another scam plans to rob our money. They have million of ways to make their plans become smoother no matter what cost it would take. We can avoid to fall on that scammer's hole though, but remove bounty scams from existence is impossible in this world.

Actually, I doubt that it will gonna go away,

We all know that when it comes to money, there's always be a scammer around. And since the bounty campaign is all about investment, it will be impossible for them to go away.
But what OP is trying to say is, we are starting to see social media campaign running in the services section wherein we can guarantee the payment in btc. In fact, it is a good start for everyone because we can see that it can also happen as no one expected social media camp to be running in that section.

disappeared is definitely not possible because this is a profitable business especially for con artists...
after ICO / IEO ended with a lot of scams now scammers are following the DeFi trend. many DeFi projects have been scams to date and it's likely the number will increase. I hope we are more careful of this kind of trick, don't be easily tempted and lulled by the hype.

that will be good if there are some social media campaign that will be paid with bitcoins, but of course with a new rules and conditions. because if it's not, i believe there will be so many participants abuse it. but it's not a solution to make bounty scam disappeared. also, maybe most of the projects become scam in the end becuse they didn't know that their projects will be successful or not in the end of their sale even after their create a bounty campaign. so, to avoid some loss they paid the bounty participants with their tokens, not with bitcoin or other tradeable coins/token.

In my opinion, I doubt it will be gone soon. People potential be wronged and even though at the start they are very diligent and organized in managing an ICO which supposed to be legitimate, one wrong miscalculation and it can turn to a scam right away. Legitimacy of an ICO project depends on the continuous use of the tokens supported by the project. It is also needed to be listed to some exchanges to have some value and be traded into circulation If these parts was being miscalculated, in the future if it has no user anymore, it ls price will go low, reducing its value and eventually deleted in the exchange it was listed

Distribute reward with btc or ether, is already available since years ago.but those are very few & can't help preventing bounty scam. If we have a look at bounty thread, most of them are scam, some are totally garbage. good projects are a few.i notice, some newbie manager with 1 activity post scam bounties to scam our fund.even though newbie hunter continuously joining with them & promoting scams, that should be stopped. Using escrow might be helpful to solve this problem

This year in altcoin section, I have only just seen Injective as the only project that pays ETH for bounty in a relatively decent amount (30k USDT). But it seems like we have only seen such a project this year. Very few projects use escrow, we don't have many options, so it is necessary to DYOR.

Scams and rewards will never end because scams will always be in the cryptocurrency market.  Scammers will scam new people with little information about cryptography.  When it comes to money, people will pursue it by any means, and they will not check the credibility of the project.

Maybe the bounty scam will not really disappear, it can no longer be removed just like in our real life there are people who are really good at thinking things to cheat and get our money. It's just same with bounty there are bounties out there that promise to pay after the bounty ends, but eventually and when the project is over they will suddenly not be notified and will not be able to contact in telegram.

Scam on bounties wont end it is already a part it.  Been in bounties that ended in scam, what i notice is that all the bounties that went to scam the managers are newbies. Nextime i wont join on bounties that is manage by newbies.

scammer will always occur when there is legit project in market. it could not separated and already be part in any project. like two side in the world we see bad thing and good thing. joining in bounty need to look reputation manager in previous campaign , if we look they success in previous campaign its good for us. and usually bounty manager have high rank, because dev team need someone that can be trusted .

Scams are hard to get rid of, but experienced bounty managers may not recruit potential scam projects early in the review process.  Let there be fewer bounty campaigns, but they will be of higher quality.

It's really not about how you promote the project, Twitter audit is not new and still till date many bounty projects failed to pay bounty hunters, the problem is getting paid as promised, even if the project is paying in USDT, BNB or BTC there is no guarantee that bounty hunters will be paid, the only solution is escrow

We don't blame the project that did the scam. We have to blame the stupid participants who continued to follow the scam campaign even though it was clear and was told by senior members that the project was a scam but forced to join.

That's not always the cases, sometimes legit projects end up scamming participants, I've seen few projects that get listed on top exchanges but refuse to send tokens to all bounty hunters, others hold tokens for years until you forget them, all you will get is they haven't launch yet, why introduce a bounty campaign if they aren't ready to launch the project yet?

For them they need a big research for a project how it goes, and monitize a project before participating because it has a big potential if it's scam, lack of investors of it also and not reach the minimum amount for their projects.

The bounty scam will always there, you won't know if the bounty is scam or not until the end of the campaign.
But i think the only way to avoid scam bounty is the research of the project itself whether they are scam project or not, so we can know for sure they will pay when the bounty end.

It always happens differently. History shows that a fairly large number of fraudsters, promoting their personal projects, after the completion of the Bounty company, still paid coins to the hunters. And some even listed their coins like Centra. Therefore, these coins still litter wallets. Thus, it is impossible to predict with 100% accuracy or be sure that before the end of the Bounty Company you will learn about the real plans of the developers and the authenticity of the project.

That's not 100% true,  but agree with you because everthing has their pros and cons. As more of the newbies want instant huge reward, more of them support those scam projects instead of having a red flag by the DT/Scam buster members.

That's actually the real scenario of all time.

We can all wish that but only one or two campaign is doing that right now we don't know if this sustainable we all developers do no thave budget for this kind of campaign, they are still going to rely on their own token to reward bounty hunters because it's free money, they want all the coins coming from their sales on their coffer to maximize building their platform or they will have more money if they are going to run away.

Your right, scam will never end end, but hope you know it's not just in crypto sphere alone, there are scams in real life business deals also, I think bit by bit scam has become a part of every business or our society at large, there will always be some set of people who will want to take advantage of others ignorance and exploit them just to make money, funny how people can do anything just to make money, they can go as far as to hurt others in order to make it.

In addition, choosing a bounty manager who is experienced and professional in handling bounties is an alternative that needs to be tried to avoid a scam project. A reputable bounty manager will try to research whether the project is really legit or not.
 This is very helpful if we do not have good enough skills in analysis. But remember, Dwyor, even experienced bounty managers can go wrong, so be prepared with all the risks.

I think this must be used by some developers who often make scam projects, but the thing that should be paid attention to is the bounty hunter must learn to analyze a project. I'm sure if the bounty hunter was smart in choosing the bounty, the bounty scam would disappear by itself. No matter how good the quality of a field is, it must have a small hole for some bad guys to take advantage of.

Not only are developers who sometimes scam or cheat but currently there are so many participants who cheat by using other people's profile links, maybe to reduce cheating, bounty managers must use Proof of Follow by using screenshots and to overcome scam projects there should be a special community which takes care of the developer data verification to avoid a scam

While doing signature campaigns, the users can't rely on fake profiles. So the vast majority of the cheating cases can be found with social media bounties. Taking a few basic precautions can eliminate 99% of the cheating as far as social media bounty is concerned. But the big question is whether the bounty campaign managers want to put the extra effort to flag these fake profiles or not. In most of the cases, the campaign managers are only interested in their salaries and they are not much concerned whether anyone is doing cheating or not. I have seen cases where the campaign manager refused to disqualify the participants, even after adequate proof was presented to show that they were cheating.

There are bounty hunters who dont listen despite of the warnings, they just follow their own instinct without asking for others opinion. Well those bounty hunters who only look for rewards are partly to be blame why we cant get rid of scam projects. They dont do their own research and just blindly join without checking the projects's background.

Thats why we need to be careful when choosing a project because not all promising projects can end up as not scam.

Smart bounty hunters only limited to scams because scam project teams are very clever and constantly change their methods. The payment method Bitcoin or Ethereum every week instead of project tokens, it is the best way to prevent scammers.

The bounty scams still persist and regularly cheating in many ways whether they are giving a very small reward than that they have promised or also they are totally not paying. It seems that the scam is reduced because of the very few bounty nowadays are offering.

Before choosing a project to participate in the bounty, you need to understand for yourself - do you want to earn a few dollars right now, or do you want to get coins that can grow well in the future? If you want to make money now, then look for bounty where they pay in bitcoins with weekly payment. If you work from the perspective, study the projects well, read the white paper, see what participants with high ranks write about the project.

Getting bounty rewards paid in Bitcoin doesn't erase scammers, how sure are you that you will get paid because a bounty promised to pay in Bitcoin? Promise is an empty word until it get fulfilled, think about it, even new projects can start promising hunters in eth and BTC but when bounty is over you might not get a dime

But it's hard for us to find Bounties that pay with BTC or ETH, Right now we really have to be smart choosing a Bounty project, otherwise you will fall into a Bounty scam. Personally, I only join Bounties which are handled by trusted managers.

I dont think scam bounties would ever end as long as people keep participating in those scam projects even though they know its a scam project and i guess we are all interested in bounty project that would pay in btc and we would gladly participate but i dont think there would ever be an end to scam project

Campaigns do not want to do that because for that you need money, they want to distribute their tokens instead, that way they do not have to use their limited financial resources on paying their bounty hunters, and what is even worse is that when the coin crashes they are going to blame that on the bounty hunters so while for us that is terrible for those developers this is the perfect excuse, so they do not have any reason to stop paying bounty hunters with coins of no value as long as bounty hunters keep accepting those conditions.

I would not say that twitter audit is a panacea for fraud. In the same way, there are a huge number of services that are still capable of create extra subscribers for twitter accounts, and twitter audit is not able to do anything about it. It seems to me that the problem of fraud can only get smaller, but it will never be possible to get rid of it completely.

Truly, it tends to be decrease however difficult to absolutely disappear.Scammers will consistently exploit about the individuals that have less information about the digital currency. Bounty scam will be maintained a strategic distance from if trackers will consistently direct some examination about the venture and help the network to evade the abundance that perhaps another trick. Bounty hunters need to find out about the mix-ups that the submitted. There's some bounty reviews strings that they can depend on. It will assist us with recognizing which can be trust.

Scam projects that run bounties wont go away. Previously, all bounties had announcement topics where people could ask all their question. Also, bounties were managed by high ranked forum members. Later bounties started to be managed by newbies, more smart one buy cooper membership. But now scammer dont even bother creating ann topic. Just create bounty topic, copy/paste rules, add some link to webpage and that is it.

In future they will simply create topic with a link to address and that is it.

The bounty scam may gradually go away over time after the forum has put in place strict rules to guarantee the rights of the participants. I hope that it will happen with regular bounty campaigns like what happens with the weekly bounty campaign and the project team sends the participants ’dues to a mediator and after the campaign ends, the mediator sends these dues to the participants. So that everyone can be sure that this bounty will be paid to them in the end.

as long as there are victims they are just still hiding around because unfortunately, that is also their talent so 'be careful with their fake promotions and then check carefully before you believe, but in this case, it is not immediately noticeable by anyone, like in this crisis everyone needs a job so if there is a campaign which is open for all you need to research to the maximum level through all with their proposal.

You are wrong.
Scammers will disappear when criminal penalties appear.
Developers must also pass identity verification like the bountists.

I think some people are also cautious. some even participated in the campaign of only one manager. and very interested in every published project. being too fanatical is not really that good, because sometimes we forget to research further related to the project.

If all the bounties use escrow and pay using stable coins, or coins that are already on the market, it can be believed that the scammers will slowly leave as people tend to prefer projects that have escrow over those that don't. Currently, I only select a project from trusted BM. other than that, escrow makes that a plus. however, lately, there are quite a number of quality bounties.

This is a very old proposal. A lot of experienced bounty hunters demand that at least a small fraction of the bounty should be paid in either BTC or ETH, or even in USDT. But most of the bounty campaigns have rejected this proposal. The excuse being given is that, if the project team spends a lot of money on the bounty projects, then the development work will get stagnant. I never understood the logic in this claim. The bounty pool is around 0.5% to 1.5% of the total budget. If they make 10% of the bounty payment in ETH or BTC, then it may cost them just 0.05% to 0.15% of the entire pool.

If a bounty promise to pay in btc or etheruem, it should be weekly too and if at the end of a week you get no pay then you should advise yourself and move out. That no pay by the week should show you the sign of not being straight to promise and no hope of fulfilling it at the end of the bounty.

Most signature campaign are new project but the difference is the willingness to reward participants and that is why payment is made in btc.

Most casino signature campaign, gambling sites and more are new projects but they didn't go ahead in bounty section or pay in shit token. They are serious and wants to attract serious managers and participants.

Bounty scam will will always be present in crypto space, scammers are in massive numbers in crypto space because they can easily find new people to prey on and we always have newbies coming on this forum almost everyday so not all newbies have the proper lessons to avoid scam projects and some of them don't even want to learn

Ever since Positive and Negative will always be there wherever we go I think. Therefore, bounty scam will always become a part in bounties in my own opinion. So, since that it can't be disappear the only solution for this is We must avoid or stay away from it if we know that it is not safe of course.

Actually i don't think this will go away as there will still be newcomers joining and starting to learn about the field, and i think they need time to spot the scam projects themselves. But scams will never stop, we are here and know how it works, so it will be easier to spot scam projects.

It can't be helped, there are indeed many bounties like that,
many newbie accounts create new projects and bounty programs themselves, but it doesn't matter if the project is alive,
it all depends on you, the most important thing is to analyze beforehand.

In my opinion, there are not many bounties with payments via BTC that are scam, yes because they are paid per week, if to add to Twitter campaigns or something else, that is the manager's right while being able to pay on time is not a problem for bounty hunters

bounty payment with bitcoin is now popular here,
but with so many registrants and the conditions are quite difficult, you must have merit, and of course makes this bounty special,
yes this is why many bounty scams are outside of payment with Bitcoin, but don't give up, not all of them are scams.

I think this still depends on the user themselves.

We don't know how all of us users are doing but we should be really knowledgeable and careful when it comes to the projects that we are investing our money into. As long as there are a lot of users that would invest in these scam projects and as long as there are people who are willing to join their Twitter, FB, Telegram and Signature campaign, it will never go away.

I think that each person should learn to determine what kind of project it is - a scam or not.

It is not that difficult, it is enough to do a simple analysis of the project, its products, etc.

indeed payment using bitcoin seems to be the quality that is most sought after, but indeed I agree with you that usually payments with bitcoin rarely do not pay or even leave. because usually if those who make payments with bitcoin usually have enough capital. mostly only for the most bounty signatures.

Indeed, scammers will continue to look for ways to deceive people. But atleast now it's reduced, and I think everyone here is pretty good at recognizing scam projects too. So if there is something suspicious, they can immediately report it as an initial precaution, that's good enough to prevent the scam from continuing

Or they have migrated to other forums or transformed casual bounty form into a form of airdrop in telegram.

Imho, the number of scam decreased because no one runs ICO or IEO nowadays. No one invest now funds into creating webpage, idea, buying accounts, managing bounty campaign and groups, promotes scam on "ico-review webpages" and etc. No one runs ICO's with 1kk USD softcap anymore. Now scammers act simple - create yield farming webpage with template, create telegram bot and start ad campaign on micro-tasking platform to get attention. Raises 10-20k USD and starts all over again. 

I agree, Paying hunters with btc couldn't eliminate scam projects. Good people enhance their ability to get rid of scam, however, scammers also do their best to get people fall into their wonderful unnoticed scam ideas. In my opinion, as long as the matter is related with money there is scammer wants to steal something no matter how secure and good the project is. Scammer is forever. Good people live, Bad people too.

BTC paying bounties aren't aren't scam because they are paying in bitcoin and they pay every week to bounty hunters, but I still prefers altcoin paying bounties because they are more rewarding, I make 600$ in DIA signature campaign and I'm a member on this forum, I can't make that from btc paying campaigns, the highest I see for members in btc campaign is 15$ weekly

Bounty scam won't disappear as long as there are hunters that are eager to join regardless of whether the project is an undeniable scam. In any case, it is good to see that there are currently social media crusades that are bitcoin paying. In spite of the fact that we previously observed that previously, however appears, it is returning once more. Interestingly, the bounty manager dealing with that mission acknowledges btc and not token or unknown altcoin. That is additionally for the government assistance of the members. At any rate, they are certain that they are getting paid with important coin as opposed to useless token that isn't yet listed in an exchange.

Scam bounties will appear on this forum or on the internet because new crypto projects will always pop up and they will always need promoters to promote their projects, scammers are using bounty hunters that aren't smart to promote their scam projects just to lure investors and exit scam with their money, instead of hoping for scam bounties to end I suggest we level up how we do research on Bounties

Scams will always exist in crypto space, online and even offline, DeFi hype is what woke many scammers up this year, as you can see many bounties are DeFi projects and many of them are complete scam, ask yourself why 99% of new projects are DeFi ? They are here to use DeFi and make money out of it, be smart fellas

Most bounty campaigns that pay with bitcoin don't pay good enough, even a little. But of course we can be more comfortable if the payment we get is bitcoin because we get certainty. I myself often get good rewards in bounty campaigns that pay with their tokens.
Of course if all bounty campaigns are paid using bitcoin then there will be no more scam bounty campaigns, but as I said, our income as a bounty hunter will stagnate at the rate determined by the bounty manager or project developer.

Interestingly, the chief dealing with that mission acknowledges btc and not token or obscure alt. I chose to go to crusades in administrations since crusades in administrations pays bitcoin week after week. Be that as it may, for me as a full part, the benefit in administrations isn't as large contrast with benefit I can get in alts. Extortion ought to have been maintained a strategic distance from if the abundance chief set out to deny a venture that needed to hold an abundance yet they didn't escrow assets or tokens before the abundance started.

Don't hope for scam project to disappear from crypto space, they will always be around like forever, it's your job to learn how to do good research on new projects to avoid scammers for good, don't expect scam projects to exit this space, they will always find new tricks to use

The Bounty scam cannot completely go away until the bounty hunters promoting the project without knowing the potentiality and investors stop investing without a detailed idea of the project. When investing in a project, an investor prioritizes the popularity and high profitability of the project, so it can be a misconception to worry about the reality of the project. However, now that investors are aware, the number of scam bounty has been greatly reduced, and some thinkers are refraining from promoting scam projects as they identify them.

Undoubtedly, if the Bounty Hunters are more attentive, the scammers will stop offering them jobs, since everyone will know about their plans. Today the situation is such that some Bounty companies on the forum are too obviously in doubt, but the Bounty Hunters are still involved in these projects. I believe that if a person is not well versed in how exactly to do research on a specific project, then at least he should pay attention to the bounty manager, since an authoritative Bounty manager can be a certain guarantee.

Exactly it is not difficult if you are too familiar with everything going on, by looking at the project to find some development criteria in the future that i always think it holds true for most projects beginning : clear work, good community, team, fund, and a few more minor criteria. And i see this you have to experience it yourself to know if it is correct or not, if you dig into it carefully then i think you will have the confidence to work on that project more.

If you don't like to be used by scammers you must take things very serious around bounty hunting, do good research before wearing any signature campaign banner, scammers aren't going no where anytime soon, as a master of fact I don't think they will exit crypto space, be determined and try as much as possible to evade scammers projects

Scammers aren't going anywhere, they are making money out of newbies that pushed learning away, that's why scammers will always be in crypto space, things can change if every newbies put learning first before investing, once this start happening scammers won't be able to make reasonable money any more and they will slowly go away.

Newbies can't all decide to start learning before anything else, they are always too eager to make some money so they will invest in anything they see without doing proper analysis on the projects first, I believe this is why scammers are still trying hard to create scam projects today

The problem is not even that scammers will never go away - but that many people perceive the fight against them as a new challenge.
Today you have come up with a way to limit the world from scammers and tomorrow these guys will find a way to bypass your system and this will deal an even greater blow to you.
I believe that scammers are peremptory good - because they test the stupidity and greed of newcomers and make it clear to old players that they do not know everything in the world. They make the market less sterile and more risky which allows you to create a certain barrier from completely incompetent and very susceptible people. Fraudsters by their existence allow you to increase the overall level of literacy. In nature, there is a concept of «good predators» - we can say that scammers in the crypto space are the same predators.

Scammers will always find new ways to scam investors, so it's not going to be easy for scammers to exit, even if you are smart and know how to do good research you might still fall for scam tricks, quit expecting scammers to quit crypto, it's never going to come true

we have many choice about bounty payment, for stable earning from campaign  we could find it on services section which is provide many btc campaign. so it should not be problem for us, just work and do all task as best as we can . the problem will occur when campaign didnt paid us .

it's hard to avoid bounty fraud they have all the great ways to scam bounty hunters such as cut allocations, locking tokens or not paying at all
most scams will occur when the bounty has been completed So the solution to this problem is Escrow if the bounty manager dares to set up an escrow system certainly will avoid bounty fraud

There is no reason for scammers to quit crypto space for now since many new ideas to scam newbies or even old crypto users can come up at any time, everything on here is opportunities, DeFi hype brings up many scam DeFi projects, scammers are always waiting for new opportunities, they won't quit.

All we can do is try since we can't predict how a project team will behave after bounty ends, not all new projects team will decide not to pay bounty hunters, few still cares about their project and reputation, they will try to avoid any bad credibility

There are always scammers in every cryptocurrency project. I think the scam in the bounty program cannot be eliminated, because scammers always have new ways to earn profits. Most of the scam victims are beginners who don't understand much about cryptocurrency. Maybe we all should research more in detail about the project we are going to, whether joining the bounty or investment program

In my opinion it will be very difficult to find such a bounty, because it is very rare to find a social media bounty doing audits, there may be some bounty projects for social media campaigns that do audits, you can find out for yourself but I don't know if the project is a scam or not you can judge for themselves how scammer they are or not.

no one can say that scammer will disappear in the next few days or seasons. Because as the crypto world grows and advances so do scam projects. So we just have to be more careful so that we avoid being fooled and deceived by these fraudulent people.

There is hugh money in crypto space that's why it's a perfect haven for scammers, if you think that scammers will leave this space its a big lie, it's better to prepare yourself for new projects and do good research on the projects to safe your neck

The bounty scam will never go away. The new projects will keep on coming every day and few of them will always scam the investors and the bounty hunters. What's more sad is that there are few scammers who keep coming up with the new projects to scam people but with new coins and projects every time.

bounty fraud will still exist because social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are still a lot of people who sell it and it is sold at a cheap price. Many hunters buy Twitter accounts with thousands of followers and make it all seem easy. the price is cheap and it is an opportunity for bounty hunters to add to their accounts.

I think bounty projects aren't as organized as they used to be because new projects are getting smaller. To organize a bounty program project owners need to pay the manager up front so that they create a bounty campaign theme. They need to consider how fundraising works before organizing such a program. I have observed that bonus schemes are getting lesser nowadays. There was a recent scam project CLIPX stole the hunters' KYC and disappeared. I could not have imagined that they would be able to cheat that way.

There is no way to get rid of scammers from crypto world, every day in crypto space is fill with different opportunities, scammers aren't going to stop scamming newbies especially, one thing I do hope for is newbies will start learning about how to avoid scam projects instead of rushing to try new things out

Well it's really are good to have the audit on Twitter to prevent accounts that has a fake followers, but still it's not enough to stop the scammers from scamming. IMO, the current technology does not have the full capability to stop scammers from scamming in bounty projects due to wide aspect of internet. The pandemic have change everything and soon Internet will be the main medium of transaction so better to expect that the government will do it too and soon take some actions to control and reduce the scammers.

OP I believe that your point is mainly talking about bitcoin paying bounties only, what about altcoin bounties? That's where scammers target hunters to promote their scam projects, there isn't scam projects using Bitcoin to pay bounty hunters, scammers will always use bounty hunters that have no research skills

However, it is acceptable to see that there are presently web-based media crusades that are bitcoin paying. Numerous instances of misuse has been submitted going from not paying their commitment and blaming abundance members for cheating to avoid paying. I imagine that misrepresentation won't be effectively lost, perhaps the abundance mission will gradually vanish due to the expanding number of deceitful missions and members who cheat and literary theft.

If you want to be a real bounty hunters start taking some responsibility like doing research and making decisions yourself, when failure occurs you should learn from them and move on, bounties are unpredictable as they can bring good rewards some times, change the way you choose projects to promote to reduce your bounties failure

Yeah, to knockout the scammers, The bounty hunter must be smart when choosing a project. Before deciding to join a project, The main task of the bounty hunter is to check the bounty website, and see if it's transparent or not, such as the number of supply coins and the roadmap on the bounty, usually a good bounty will be transparent at the time of pre-sale and token sale, and of course the role of a manager is very important, usually good projects will always employ the services of a well-known manager.

So many exit scam happen before especially when Altcoins were too popular, by that time campaigns were managed by different top managers and so what more now that the campaigns are too few and managed sometime by not experienced campaign managers. Bounty can be replace now or lessen into signature campaign and better payable in BTC than their coin that may not have any value in exchanges.

Paying in Bitcoin pays off, but it also picks the participant. The campaign bounty should be open to everyone and it is because of the scam campaign bounties that appear. We need to accept the issue of the campaign bonus. Good best is know how to get to know and from the remote project that you feel you do not trust.

Well you are partially right but some times very low looking project can gain the upper hand and bring good rewards to bounty hunters, you can never predicts what the end result of a project will be, I've underestimate some bounties in the past and those that I choose end up pretty bad

It is a shame that scammers exist here. I believe that soon, the crypto society will work out the scheme of watching each project and checking and background of every team. The law about these scammers can also work. Otherwise, thousands if not millions of deceived investors will suffer.

Do you really think this will be corrected? Or fade away? I don't think bounty scam will end that easily because hence there are scammers in Crypto space, there will certainly be bounty scammers. What everyone needs now is to always wish not to encounter such. Even some trading bounties do scam. It's what it is.

Old Members in bitcointalk forum are tired to promote campaigns without any payment. So before joining in any campaign they will learn it, to avoid any scam bounty. But for new people who join this forum, they are very excited to join the bounty and will skip to learn it before joining. But don't worry in the end they will be tired and stop join in the untrusted bounty campaign. And YES the bounty scam will gradually go away

Bounty scams are unlikely to disappear in the market because as the cryptomarket grows and grows, exploitative people are also increasing to do these scam projects. So we just have to be more critical of the bounty projects we participate in, because learning is one of the good process of indentifying good ones.

True, if it is not made in the near future, then new investors will always be deceived when they try to enter the crypto realm, so functionally the law against scammers will clearly function very well in the future to minimize the occurrence of scams on each project.

One of the issues is that cryptocurrency is a relatively new market and every year we have tens of millions of people who are investing in it for the first time. The scammers mostly target these people, who sometimes fall in to outlandish claims of massive profits. To complicate things further, cryptocurrency is decentralized and there is no central authority where the users can look for guidance. And if they turn to other sources, there are more scammers then ordinary investors present.

I have quit the bounty for two years, because of many frauds and many failed projects .. and now I am starting to jump into the bounty again, because I saw many positive developments, many projects that pay off, unlike last year, many tricked bounty hunters

The increase in bitcoin prices really affects the income of the current bounty participants and there are many crypto projects that get quite a big profit on each of their sales so that automatically this also has a very positive impact on the bounty participants even though currently bitcoin prices have started to rise and there are many good projects that appears, but we should still be careful in choosing projects for us to follow because in my opinion the crypto scam project has not completely disappeared right now and there are still some crypto projects that still seem to be indicated as scam projects.

I don't think bounty scam will go away no matter what rules or what app you will put to detect those scammers. There will always be cheating and scamming that will happen believe me. (Lol). But the things you are saying are good anyway to lessen the scammers and cheaters in the bounty program, in such way those hard-working bounty hunters and project that is in good faith will be rewarded fairly.

Fraudsters keep updating their ways if they think their way to cheat has started to be discovered, they will never stop until whenever.  I've been in crypto for 3 years and I see them keep appearing and never run out, joining the current bounty is a 50% chance of success and 50% chance of a scam.  do not rush to join the bounty program, learn more about their whitepaper..

It is not impossible to have scam free bounty but it will be a bit difficult and will take longer time to filter.This is possible if there will proper monitoring and and if the bounty project can pass through some sort of vetting/scrutiny. Also there is need to properly study the project if its a scam there will be some hint that will indicate that.

From my side, this is somewhat cycle that has no closure. There are bunches of bounty hunters unwilling to go through a proper case study before joining a project. Act so lazy, and keep applying even though the project is an obvious scam. You won't change other brain so let the game proceed.

Your response are good, this draw my attention on the recent announcement made from service section about a particular project which intended to make their awareness in the forum, after them be accused for scam related issues some promoters still went ahead to make promotion for the same project that was accused of scam. There are those with desperate minds to promote anything promotable irrespective of the fact that the project stand for scam.

People learn from their mistakes and try not to do it again, so they will choose only quality projects, they learn everything before they are joining. And if many people do like this and Yes The bounty scam will gradually go away.

I see in the bounty section there is lots of bounty campaign managed by an untrusted manager and people who join most of them are a newbie because, for people who have the knowledge they will skip it, this is the sign that bounty scam will gradually go away.

The bounty scam can ONLY go away when the greed in human beings is totally neutralized. Participants want to scam project owners by enrolling multiple accounts while some campaigns are just using bounty hunters' time as they knew the reward will not be distributed. This kind of scenario will continue. The only thing to avert such is to engage in a noteworthy project that has some chance to succeed.

It is imposible that bounty scams will go away because there is always a fool bounty manager that Operates bounty even he knows that it is a scam, it is just a money matter for them and also for the part of bounty hunters be careful on what bounty you have may join and please do more effort to conduct a research for it.

There are more scam bounty projects on this forum today because of the greenish market since DeFi hype and success begins, if you can do good research on the bounties in altcoin section you will see that most projects there are from scammers, be more careful with bounties from newbies accounts.

Your job is to avoid scammers by doing research, stop hoping for scammers to go away themselves, if that happens it means that crypto is dead, for wherever there is success and profits scammers will always be available to take advantage

Yearn global isn't the only scam project in bounties section presently, many bounty hunters are still promoting projects blindly, they aim for big rewards because of the probably upcoming altcoin season but they don't know that scammers have the same aim too

Fraud will disappear from the bounty only with the complete disappearance of the bounty companies themselves. They are closely related to each other. While there is an opportunity to get money in a fraudulent way, the scammers will not refuse such an opportunity, and it is not possible to track everything.

He didnt know that. Some managers are good with bringing scam projects on board because of their selfish reasons, we should identify them and avoid their project, if possible tag them. They understand what investors and hunters are looking for in projects. They even provide very attractive reward but things are changing now and we dont fall for those craft. The bear market has thought us so many lessons even as we hunt some bounties. follow credible managers, learn to research project and follow the project.

It is not a job, it is our responsibility to avoid it. They won't go away since there is money involved that's why it is best if we try our best to avoid them. Since scammers are always there waiting for the right time and for their victims, we should continue to be more strict on investigating projects to avoid scammers.

It has always been like this in forums. the more projects, the greater the percentage of scammers. when many projects are successful the scammer will always be in between. we have to limit ourselves to choosing projects that we actually research on our own. and of course we already know the risks of supporting the project, including the possibility of a scam.

you are right, they will always be there and waiting for us in the middle of anyone they can use. our job is to do our best to avoid scammers. however, we have seen many successful projects as well as many failed projects. we will definitely learn a lot.

The ultimate way to gradually bounty scam go away is by controlling ourselves to be involved again and get trap by the scammers. Its definitely our responsibility to avoid those scammers and no one could tell us that this bounty campaigns was a scam or else but its our sole responsibility to know it. In fact, if we were never do it those scammers will just keep on smiling and waiting for an instant money while we are hoping for a false promises of those scammers.

We got a lot of scammers already outside crypto, what more of inside of it plus it is in the internet anyway.
In the internet, you never know who are the people behind the monitors that's why it is more of a risk to throw your money in the internet even when there are sets of regulations.

bounty project scams will never disappear in this forum, every day bounty project scams appear or we don't even know. but in my opinion there will always be a scam project and cannot be lost in this forum. Scamers are always around us.

Actually now the most of project paying their token to rebuild the trust of bounty among participants.After 2017,their was huge scam bounty and create a disaffection over bounty.But now the view of bounty hunters was changing positively.

Lately, a lot of Bounty companies have indeed been recorded, which have paid out remuneration for Bounty hunters without any problems. But if the Bounty Hunters promote fraudulent projects, then deception cannot be avoided. Thus, very often the results of their work depend on the hunters themselves. Although if you remember the Bounty to ClipX, no one expected such a catch.

That would be a weird way to give away BTC since its easy to cater a lot of followers by creating some fake account then renaming it some time later. These twitter accounts should come for a legitimate community of people and not just fan pages. From these kinds of accounts, they might pose a threat of scamming fellow users with their elaborate schemes.

The question now is, are all projects willing to pay hunters with bitcoin or other stable coins? Scammers will never disappear from this forum because I see until now there are still a lot of scammers who come every day, what's more when the Defi hype a few months ago, I saw 100 scammers coming every day

This is the problem that can't even resolve to oust these scammers in this industry. The best thing that we can do to avoid such is always take time to find a good project to join. What we need to do is always do a proper research in order for us to avoid scam. Scammer will not gradually away in fact they are just waiting to scam people.

Bounty campaign still running softly during many ICO success listing with higher price and developer give applause for bounty hunter by giving reward depend with campaign joining. There are not have chance for bounty campaign become scam if ICO success and worth higher price later after listing, but when ICO down and not success we as participants or bounty campaign have understand is not wrong from bounty campaign manager or developer of ICO, but not lucky with campaign is not running well and we can't make investor trust with our promoting coin, maybe we can try other chance with new ICO and campaign bounty project, just looking with potential coin should promote to get success with reard later and have higher price.

It's impossible for bounty scam to exit this space, if crypto keeps surviving for many years to come scam projects will still remains in the space because there are still many people investing on scam projects since they have no experience and they want to make quick money

It's better to focus on identifying the good projects among the bad projects today, I believe it's possible with deep research and analysis, there is always a first time for everything, even if you end up choosing scam project you should learn from it, this is the way to get stronger and understand more about crypto projects and scam projects

There are huge money to be made in crypto space, if any new project team tell you that they are only here to offer services to crypto users they are just lying to you, developers are here to make money as well, it's same thing for scammers too, investors are investing in crypto for good ROI too, how will scammers go away when people still patronize them?

The first sight of bounty hunters is money, when you put a title with the word BTC payment, then automatically + 60% of hunters will register without needing a little research. Basically, this kind of understanding would only make a fool famous.
To eradicate scammers, we need to upgrade our mindset towards a campaign. If it makes sense, money is escrowed and accountable, then it's a good campaign.

And if the existing data is not enough to build our trust, then we can discuss it first to be sure it is a good campaign. We must be skeptical of this issue.

if there are regulations for new projects I am sure the scammers will also disappear,
but this is a difficult job, the country must have its own regulations,
or if this forum has verification to review good or bad projects I think it is very good.

Thank you, your first line is exactly what I wanted to say, bounty scam can not go away as long as bounty remains, the only thing I know is that the rate to which bounty scams happen might reduce with time, but I dont think it can ever go away entirely, even though this is what we all wish and pray for.
Social media bounties now paying in btc is a welcome development and I know fans of social media like Twitter and Facebook will grab this opportunity to make some good money for themselves. Good luck to everyone.

The latest scam method at airdrops is "send us 0.005 eth and we will give you the airdrop, the money is for transaction fee's" is going around becoming huge. Thankfully most airdrops are telegram based with auto bots and telegram labels a project scam when enough people report it as scam so there is a bit of prevention but it takes a while and during that period they may actually get away with it.

I have checked one of them to see how much they made and they made only 110 dollars from scamming people and that gave me hope, it looks like people are finally not going into scam that much, sure that 110 dollars is sad and gone for some people and it could be a lot of money to some people but I remember millions of dollars stolen by scam projects so we are on the right track.

Service and Bounty are completely different. As for the Services, they pay us with their cash but in return we need to market them with all our efforts. At the service, the quality of the article is brought to the top and so the admin will censor very strictly to accept the participants.
I hope that in the future there will be more such services instead of scam bounty campaigns. I really like cash because we don't have to worry about our reward after it's done in the campaign. In addition, the campaigns at the Service also pay token or coin very on time. It's time for the bounty scam to be pushed to the sidelines.

in 2017 there were huge amount of bounties and not surprising that there were many scams. now the quantity of bounties is well lower and the payment is lower too so the bounty hunters  are not so active.

This will certainly be a shame, honestly. Such BMs should be called out so that others take note of their sleazy intentions. I once called one out few months ago here and the BM went ballistic. Instead of accepting their fault and mending their way the BM was belligerent and irresponsible, attacking those who disagreed with them and tagging any they felt they could tag in the process. That also got the BM red trusted by some DT members. Beyond all that, I believe this crypto space is still a big risk because sometimes you get to find projects you think were genuine turned fake before you could say Jack Robinson!

Bounty scam is going nowhere, scammers will doing their work, trying to use hunters and running after cashing out, hunters should just keep doing thorough verification before joining any bounty, that's the only way to avoid been scammed.

For new people, of course it is still difficult to avoid some kind of bounty scam, besides the lack of knowledge, scammers are also very smart in doing their job,
so we have to read often so that we have extensive knowledge and also as you said as a bounty hunter we have to do deeper verification.

Even thorough verification, they will still be scammed if the dev team decided to run away with their stash. The bounty scam will go away if there will be no more hunters that are willing to participate their program. I think that's the only way they will be stopped. If only participants will just join bitcoin-paying campaigns handled by reputable BMs here, then only serious projects will eventually make their campaigns here in the forum. 

Indeed, currently many bounties are experiencing scams, so don't get hit by a scammer,
make sure before you join the bounty you have to do an analysis first.

Now that the bounty hunters are being so vigilant in identifying a much legit bounties, it really lessen gradually the numbers of scam/fraud bountied which for us bounty hunter is a very good thing because at some point we can potential earn and get paid from all the hard work, effort and time that we gave for a certain bounty campaign. Hope that other bounty manager adopt the paymend method that instead of paying the project's token they maybe try to ask the developer to pay us bounty hunter in terms of stablecoins in this case I think it is a win-win situation to all the parties.

Obviously it won't go away because we can't control it. Scam projects are still created and have a bounty campaign, it's so bad that even people know it's a scam but still join and contribute work to those projects. So things like that in this space will be hard to lose, to avoid wasting time and effort.

Things are getting more worsen in bounties today, if you don't open your eye very well you will keep promoting scam projects over and over again, scammers are reshaping their hunting skills, now they are even using AI tech to present fake videos with real team members just to deceive, scams isn't going away anytime soon infact its getting worse

The reward is safe yeah. But the worth/the value of the reward  is still questionable.

If the reward you get from bounty worth nothing once get listed in exchange, then that token is pretty much useless. I mean, having an escrow to escrow the funds is really good and make the project much more trusted but still it's back to the team about how do they manage the price to stay in good-range.

people will learn about the characteristics of a bounty scam. it's just that, there are still many people who don't learn about it, and immediately register themselves, and do assignments without doing research. this is proven by so many reports of the results of working on social media bounties. after all, there will always be people like that, but little by little, people will learn the difference between choosing a potential scam project, and also not.

actually the bounty scam will never disappear gradually instead it will continue to grow if the market looks green or there is some hype, like some time ago when the Defi hype, we see thousands of scammers popping up every day and to avoid all that we must research carefully

I don't think to agree to bounty scam going gradually away, we have many greedy investors who will continue to take advantage of bounty hunters and since this deals with human beings I doubt if is going to go but I will rather say reduced because I know many new development will arise to curb all this cheat.

I think the emphasis is on the rules set by the manager. when all campaign managers can band together to only promote the projects they are researched and good at, there will be fewer con artists. so we can trust projects handled by the manager, not projects handled by his own team.

If we look at it basically, everyone will not like and agree with all the fraudsters in crypto, so if in the future there will be new developments that can curb all scammers, I think it is much better because with such a thing, the scammers will starts to diminish and those who intend to cheat again will think up to 10 times to do it.

It's good some campaigns are paying in BTC but we can not say the bounty scam will gradually go away because it is very very limited. Scammers will keep scamming the way they are doing for a long. It depends on us how wisely we select the project. Even bounty hunters know very well most of the projects scam the hunters.

I might even expect everyone to do so but it won't be easy and it is unlikely that all the scam projects will disappear. considering there are so many projects popping up every day. but trying to see changes about the project also doesn't hurt while adding to our experience in selecting projects.

I must tell us the bitter truth here, I do not believe bounty scam go away in one night. As long as there are still good bounty projects, there will always be bad ones which we refers to as bounty scam. What we should expect in the coming years is the reduction in this bounty scam. When projects managers ensures that measures are put in put to curb this huge scam. Only God knows the number of projects that we are having in cryptocurrencies world monthly. This calls for a big concern, cause the rate of scams has increased erroneously.

For me, social media campaign most target oriented and it is old way with bitcoin installments. And they are moreover not a ensure that they will not trap bounty seekers unless they have escrowed. Extortion ought to have been dodged on the off chance that the bounty supervisor challenged to deny a extend that needed to hold a bounty but they did not escrow reserves or tokens some time recently the bounty started. Conjointly I think that extortion will not be effectively misplaced, perhaps the bounty campaign will gradually vanish since of the expanding number of false campaigns and members who deceive and plagiarization.

I don't quite understand what has changed, even if in this case they may not pay for participation. Only the form of payment has changed, and there were no guarantees either. I believe that here we need to completely change the registration system for bounty campaigns. It is necessary to register with a passport to create any topic in the bounty section, as well as make it necessary to make a deposit for the creators of the project. This will be a really effective step to prevent fraudulent bounty campaigns.

Ive always read some threads in here now about complaining of the bounty campaign, And one the concern they say is not receiving a bounty rewards or a scam bounty. And we all know on the year of 2020 we all experience so many bounty campaign that would not distributed a bounty rewards or else leaving the project and gone in any social media they have. But until now we always here finding such a trusted bounty campaign and hoping they will be back again in the track.

The social media bounty making payment in BTC give social media bounty participants feels but the project owner appears to be interested in Twitter and articles campaign than facebook and the explanation behind is what I dont understand even with the scam activities done on Twitter.
With that been said, if some bounty manager dont upgrade their responsibility as a manager bounty scam may still exist.

Well, yes, there are no guarantees that you will not fall for deception, here you just need to be as careful as possible.
Even the most reliable project can expect that you can be deceived, with this approach to projects the percentage of deception will decrease, because most often inexperienced beginners are deceived.

LOL.. all these measures were discussed manytimes in the past and no progress was made. As of now, anyone can post a bounty thread and the onus is on the bounty hunter, to decide whether he want to participate or not. Now I can't complain about it, as it seems fair to me. There are several trusted bounty campaign managers out there, and as a first step you can limit your enrollment to campaigns which are managed by them.

If so, of course I also think that there will be many bounty hunters taking part in signature projects, other social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, media, articles, videos, blogs etc. at least that's a guarantee for bounty hunters with payments using real coins such as BTC.

That would give a great opportunity for online job seekers, but remember that the reward is not as big as before when bounty hunting was still very popular.  Kind of jobs you've stated will need a lot of workers and with less scam and bounty hunters happy, I think it will make the market better as it will result to a high confident of investors also.

There are many projects that have been in this area for quite a long time, they have developed their projects, but they still arrange bounty programs, there are still dozens, maybe even hundreds of Bounty in which you can take part and receive awards for this. , and do not doubt the scam / deception.

There are really many new Bounty projects now. You have to spend a lot of time on screening scam to participate only in proven projects.
I think the most proven way not to fall for the tricks of scammers is to find reliable sources and participate in the Bounty only from them (Telegram nice resource).

I don't think the bounty scam will disappear on the grounds that, supposedly, the scam will consistently be there on the crypto market. At the point when the new pattern comes, numerous scammers will be prepared to scam individuals, particularly new individuals who don't have a lot of data about crypto. It is difficult to say that the bounty scam will leave us since when money is included, individuals will pursue it, and they won't check the project's legitimacy. So consistently be cautious when you need to invest or participate in the bounty program.

I agree, even in our present world where regulators are strict, there are still a lot of scammers. As a bounty hunters, we should act like an investor, we need to be knowledgeable and responsible on the projects we are promoting, that way scammers will not succeed because we are not supporting them.

Let's just accept the reality that the market is still in the status of a "HIGH RISK" now, all we need to do is to manage it minimize its risk.

The bounty scam may step by step disappear over the long haul after the gathering has set up exacting standards to ensure the privileges of the members. I trust that it will occur with normal bounty crusades like what occurs with the week after week bounty crusade and the project group sends the members 'contribution to an arbiter and after the mission closes, the middle person sends these duty to the members. So everybody can be certain that this bounty will be paid to them eventually.
These projects really need to stop scamming bounty hunters and start paying people for the work that they have done.

Bounty scams wont go away any time soon especially if this new bounty hunters keeps hopping on all the new bounty they see and the major problem is that most of them know nothing about the project, they dont do their personal research to check if the project is good or not but using payment with btc is goodnews for us all and hopefully we can get more projects to pay with stable coins

It is impossible to predict based on telegram resources because we have seen many potential projects very active during their fundraising, in order to find out the best one it is not an easy job, many projects scammed their investors and bounty hunters by giving false promises to the promoters.

Don't fool yourselves, scammers will always be on here and now that crypto is really in good shape I believe there will even be more scam projects, make sure you do your own research and avoid scam projects at all cost, do research, ask deep questions, go to scam accusation section on this forum from time to time

discussing the bounty scam we have to see from the beginning there was a bounty a few years ago with the number of bounties out the stronger the scam happened, something phishing or fraud will disappear if there is an authorized party to make official rules so the scam is likely to disappear if there are still many people admit the scam will never go away on this forum

Will the rules really control the productivity of the scammer? the problem is that not all countries support the crypto industry. the application of regulation currently only occurs in countries that support crypto. whereas for the creation of a new crypto or blockchain project, there are also no clear binding rules. if there is, I believe the project productivity will decrease.

I still participate in various bounty companies and try to study all the bounty companies in which I participate, but still a very huge number of companies that conduct bounties turn out to be scammers and it is very difficult to deal with this, so I don’t that think this situation will ever change, so you shouldn’t count on any incredible profit by participating in bounty companies, it’s better to take it as a hobby and in general, when you have been participating in bounty companies for a long time, you already get used to the fact that most companies will not pay you anything.

Scam bounties will always exist at any time, we really need an institution that can regulate the bounty campaign so that there are no more bounty scams. therefore, my way to avoid a bounty scam is to follow a trusted bounty manager, because I don't want to take risks

Even if you follow a trusted bounty manager, it doesn't prevent you from taking risks. believe me, if there are regulations governing bounty campaigns and projects, there will be strict selection to be able to participate in a bounty campaign. Now some managers have done that. but of course, none of that will kill the scammer.

You know, just by looking on Ethereum transaction fees, it makes me feel that there soon will be no bounties at all. Why would projects even start bounties, when distributing rewards will cost same at their bounty budget. And who they usually scam? Small investors. Investor would think 100 times before spending 50 bucks on the fee just to buy 1-2k$ tokens.

I completely agree with you, but I believe that the situation with high commissions in the first place will raise the bar for developers to make their projects interesting and productive, even against the background of high commissions. And if the efficiency of the project is extremely high, including thanks to the bounty company, then the payment of the hunter for the bounty will also correspond.

The trusted bounty managers are just one employee, part of the scheme of scam projects, they need trust from investors and these managers are reputable enough to create that trust, although the managers are experienced, unfortunately, bounty projects have too many tips and sophisticated techniques to scam, so I never blame project managers when a project starts to show fraud. Fortunately, when the project costs and activities get too high right now, I have more facilities to choose a bounty project, at least won't stick to too many bad projects

If it doesn’t stop many hunter will leave bounty for sure.
Most of the people had already left in late
2019 because of low paying and uncertainty of paying.
But i think i should be stopped as early as possible so that hunters can work with certainty. And also be sure of their payments

They can do things easier - by switching to other blockchain. Even if they "make their projects interesting and productive", transaction fees will be one step ahead. Making project better wont make people agree to invest. Investor not only can lose money due to project being unsuccessful, but all his profit could go only to cover fees. Its a double risk for investors. Switching to other blockchain with lower fees might help, but projects need to hire specialists, that can code on that. That is another point of expense.

Today is Feb 6th and we already have so many bounty projects in bounty section some are good and some are not, the truth is everyone is on their own, you need to make decisions yourself and if things don't work out the way you intended you have to keep trying, many scam projects are out there, make sure you don't get used and also visits scam accusation section often, some know their ways of bursting a scam project

it is not generally recommended to invest what you can't afford to lose but some investors prefer to ignore this suggestion. The same is true for bounty hunters, they tend to waste their time and the scam projects became more popular than ever. The scammers know pre-caution and they are going to prevent the investors to find the hole in their perfect scam plan. The perfect scam plans are still ongoing around the bounty board of forum and scammers use all possible ways to scam more. Be careful with new bounty projects and don't waste your time on small rewards.

I really don't imagine that scam projects will just vanish in this gathering, they will consistently be around every now and then. we have heaps of btc paying mark crusades but there are such a lot of scam project around, so an incorporation of web-based media (twitter) in btc paying effort won't lessen anything, other than not all project will hold a btc paying effort.

as long as there are people who will fall to this kind of scheme they will not stop, at the same time as the technology change so as, the people technique to scam others changes, the most perfect approach to avoid this is to make a research, ask friends and other colleagues of what they think combined with your research, at the same time don't spend money if you are not sure to this investments so that it will not hurt your pocket,

You can't imagine because they won't ever vanish.
Just picture this out.
We already have the authority that busts these scammers outside crypto, but then these scams still manage to slip past of the authority.
Even the scambusters I watch in Youtube like those call center scams, they're a lot and still operating.
There will always be scams.

Fraudulent projects will exist as long as the states do not begin to organizationally regulate this type of activity. Since fraud is a crime in all states, the relevant government authorities must register and verify all team members who intend to conduct an ICO. Only in this way it is possible, if not to get rid of, then to significantly reduce the number of fraudulent projects.
However, it should be said that investors and bounty hunters have already in many cases learned to distinguish fraudulent projects and therefore there are fewer of them. However, this problem will still exist.

what you see is true, and you can share it with us.
I think the scam project will never disappear in this forum. they are always making new, even though much has been seen and proven. but we can't do anything.
The best way for a bounty hunter is to choose a project that is already listed on the stock exchange. although sometimes only with a small allocation, there is a belief that what they will get can be money.

The only thing i dont agree with here is that bounty scam would go away because i dont think that is happening anytime soon, because it would definitely take alot of moving parts..... but i think paying with btc is a right step forward and hopefully sooner or later everyone would start making escrowy as payment for bounty hunters , which would definitely reduce and twitter audit would disqualify people with fake twitter followers

There are always new bounties been launched on the bounty section almost every day, but just like you said it's a matter of choice to choose between one that you will give you more more, for me I always take my time to carry out an in depth research before deciding to sign up on any bounty, cause scam bounties will always be available, so carrying out an in depth research before participating in the campaign will help alot.

i think scam project still exist as long as bitcoin exist, i dont know how the system can avoid the scammers but im pretty sure someday theres a rule to make company or project with tight rule so make a little chance to scammer scam lot of people especially bounty hunter who really need money because this pandemic situation

in my opinion, the  scam bounties would never go away unless there are rules or consensus about that, but since all of this cryptocurrencies revolve around decentralization, I doubt it. It's all just about supply and demand. As long as bounty hunters take all the job being offered without do some tight selection, then the scam bounties will always be there. Paying in known token/coinlike bitcoin is a fresh air, but not so many developer will do that.

Recently I saw the BING airdrop rewarding traders, but after a few hours, the airdop turned out to be fake.
Twitter is a great social media platform for gathering information and I think fake projects will be easy to spot because there will be lots of people looking at the details of the project.