That's good to know but you should also know this that you cannot trust any of these projects owners. Because they may very well be running multiple scams and you might be asking one scammer the question about their second scam.

In any case I hope nobody will fall for these and will be careful in future in taking part in such projects. Some basic checkup in the form of a checklist is good enough to detect such bad players.

That "certificate" is definitely a new addition to these scammers faking inventory to gain trust.

People who dont know how photoshop can be used to edit any picture and make them seem legitimate (just like fake actor/actress nudes ) - they will fall for this only taking it to be real.

Possibly when questioned about it, the scammers have it ready to forward to any suspicious user to calm them and go forward with the scam. Pretty neat scam indeed.

Well I have had talks with other managers too when I was mocked at by the telegram accounts running the project for asking details of the team in many cases. It's very unprofessional for them to ask me a counter question like "do you know who is satoshi?" by the team members.

I accept that they wish to remain anon, but if they do they are not getting money from users like me who always do their due diligence.

Its my suggestion though to steer away from any DeFi investments now. Bitcoin is the way to go.

One of the good and bad things about the next yield farming projects is the team's ideal of remaining anonymous. While the concept of yield farming is not new, previously it was called just passive income through staking and so on, the basis is same.

Moreover since the projects chose to remain anon, it protect them from any sort of legal or physical trouble. It becomes very risky to invest in these projects in general if ICOs were not worse.

Anyway it also leads to these scammers making up new projects with fake images and copied whitepapers.

Very tempting, and this is the way you reply when faced with criticism against your project?

The level of unprofessionalism in your approach makes it obvious to think that you are a con-artist and nothing more. I hope you don treat people like this in your real life when talking to them.

Many people fall for these scams and the scammers never stop because it is an easy way to make money for them. Greed is something that removes the rationality from people and thus the scam happens.

I think it becomes a matter of choice with time and people become more comfortable using a P2P exchange or a CEX. For those countries where crypto is somewhat legal, people will go with CEXs because they can happily undergo KYC and transact without hassle.

P2P exchanges become more common with the opposite group. However there may be users in the previous group who might go with P2P because of custom rates.

Even then check and keep using both is a better approach than being stuck to one.

I appreciate that you did security estimation but you are unfortunately quite correct that the risk can not be removed and it is present in every aspect of life. What can be done is that traders undertake less risky investments and then modify them with time.

However you are wrong about signal groups. They are scam groups because they pump some shitcoin that the owners of the group baghold and then sell it off when asking the members to buy. None of them are honest and you will be stuck with some random shitcoins if you follow them.

Congrats Vator, you deserve to be a Legendary after all the work you have done in the forum in educating new users about scams, helping the ones in need of guidance about scam projects and busting them.

Unlike some naysayers in this forum, these small efforts from every user adds up to something big and noticeable enough with time. Keep up the good work and being the good campaign manager that you are.

Very soon some "ignored users" will come and comment on this thread, because they get a hard-on with every new thread in Reputation, obviously because they dont have a life to lead, forget about them and keep doing what you do best!

Maybe move from the CMC design and create your own web interface. After all you are doing this to grow the site into something big and probably put up ads in future and sell those spaces for money. We know how it works.

Hence I would suggest you to develop your own template and not copy from other making it very obvious.

Further suggestions would include users to make accounts on the site and leave their reviews on the site, not based on personal opinions but as a general objective overview of the project behind it.

This could be made into something big if you are willing to work on it.

Flag supported, lets hope that no newbie falls for this scam and ends up sending their entire ethereum stash to the accused hoping to generate free money on the go by doing nothing.

For any bamboozled newbie reading this - If it was so easy to get 8ETH by depositing 10ETH there would no longer be any poverty in this world. But that is not happening, so use your common sense here to know what is true and what is not.

Well you cant be expecting the teams to treat their bounty hunters as kings and queens. Obviously the bigger money came from the advisors and thus their interests have to be protected. Just plain old concept of who has the deep pockets.

One of the reasons why many projects have failed is because these advisors will dump their tokens after the lock-in period and the bounty hunters will cry without having a single token at hand. Once the price has been dumped the tokens for the bounty will be sent out and they will never get a chance to make a profit off selling them.

The same story repeats every day and still the bounty hunters never learn.

OP, suggest you open a flag against the the accused for now. PM them respond to this thread as well. Will keep an eye on the thread and support it.

Since it is a newbie account, I assume it is not a bounty manager posting the thread but the scammers themselves. So probably they will not respond in which case we can tag the accused as well.

They even got a copper membership to post this scam (?) - but I have seen similar cases in the past.

I dont think being grateful needs any effort as well. Now it is painful to see work and time gone to waste but this should act as a lesson for many bounty hunters. They must realize from this that majority of the projects they join in are ending up as failures and thus assume that the time they spent making articles, doing translations or just spamming twitter is going to go to a waste unless they get lucky that one time in a million.

Sadly the projects look for cheap labor and they are protected by their own terms. Bounty hunters are literally powerless to do anything even if they feel like shouting at the project owners. Like always I would remind them to move on to bitcoin paying signature campaigns from this lesson.

There are certain problems regarding this. The forum is free for all so it is not their responsibility but only the manager's responsibility to take.

You see, the users who are making multiple accounts to cheat are not willing to stop and anything done to stop them will be faced with extreme retaliation because it will reduce their earning significantly.

The bad thing is that users can complain of identity theft and KYC selling away to wrong marketplaces which is rampant today through these campaign data collection.

In the end the managers have to face a middle ground. So leave it to them to take care of multiple account users or cheaters.

Most campaign managers have pre-made templates from paid designers or their own for the projects they manage and promote.

If you ask me, this is the only professional method of doing so.

Looking for designs from internet only shows that you are not willing to pay for a well designed thread. Cheaping out with free designs does come close to professional and that can hurt your reputation in future. Talk to the designers on this forum for more info.

Overview of Bitcointalk Designers(Signature,Avatar,etc)

So forget about free if you want to make a name for yourself in this competitive market.

Great to hear that. In future please make sure you keep an eye on the telegram channels of the different ICO projects that you participated in. It is somewhat your own responsibility to do this and keep yourself updated. There are other ways too like signing up for periodical newsletters and so on. Choose whichever is feasible for you.

Also lock this thread (check lower end of the webpage) because the question has been answered to prevent unnecessary posting after this.

But Sujon, you have to accept the fact that calling someone "zero to hero" does sound pretty legit - does it not?

I mean every newbie is out there trying to become a hero but nobody wants to work hard to reach their goal but want it quick and easy without working hard. They fail to comprehend that such methods to get rich are frauds and dont use their logic at the same.

FlagNTag is the way to proceed here. The accused seem to be leaving retaliatory feedback as well. Ignore that.

Alright I guess I got misinformed about the functionality of ViaBTC and thanks for correcting me on that.

However I still dont consider the services provided about transaction acceleration by some members of this forum and like I said I would defenitely like to hear from them too instead of just giving it a one sided speculation. The last time we tried to ask CoolWave about it, SFR10 remembers it I am sure, it ended up being a childish thread in Reputation.

The point is that there are risk takers and this becomes gambling to some extent, investing that is, not trading. With these shady tokens and no legally bound securities it is always going to be failures and looking for a profitable project would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Thus what I always suggest people is that buy bitcoin because it is the only thing that matters. None of the other projects need your money, they already got enough.

Some may differ with this statement but they will also learn their mistake with time.

It is somewhat constant. There is always a change in price with buying and selling. Now whether it stays under or above resistance levels depends on the trend. You might have some chance to buy at this level too.

Remember that one should not become impatient about such things. Study the curves and see where you can find such levels and this will only help you in trading.

I think it might cross 14k which seems to be the next level but lets see.