I would also add that when you are copying directly from the article to put that text inside quotation marks, as that's the proper way to deal with verbatim copying. While copying big pieces of article and just sharing link in the end is enough to cover your ass from being reported for plagiarism, it's still not right and in my opinion is dishonest.

I've seen quiet a few of those  ( and not not just noobs ) not doing that part properly, whether due ignorance, laziness or simply wanting to appear that they wrote the whole thing by themselves.

Since we are asking rhetorical question, here is another one: would you do bounty campaign of just another DeFi shitcoin for a couple of months without knowing exactly how much you gonna get, when will those tokens be distributed, with solid chances of not getting tokens at all, and being previously screwed numerous times in the similar manner?


True, that sucks. Since they allegedly migrated from Ethereum to Binance Smart Chain, they could at least give them those tokens as I heard transactions are much cheaper on BSC than they are on the Ethereum.


That bold part is what these altcoin bounty campaigns are, nothing else, so bounty hunters join as many bounty campaigns as possible, not choosing much, and hoping that few of out few dozens will be success. If bounty manager insists on escrow, projects will simply find another bounty manager who won't ask for that, and if by some miracle bounty hunters decide to go on "strike" and not join non-escrow campaigns, there are plenty of those that will see that as an opportunity to join and get even more tokens as majority of them are stake based, or even worse, make alt accounts and join with them. Only possible solution would be if bounty managers/campaigns have to be approved by the forum, but imho there are bigger chances for bounty campaigns to get banned altogether than that to happen.

That quote about insanity generally attributed to Einstein fits well in all this altcoin bounty campaign mess.

Bas gledam na https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper i vidim da i dalje nema naseg prijevoda na stranici. @Trofo vidim da si ti ranije spominjao da imas tamo neke veze, jesi ih mozda kontaktirao da se to ispravi? Ono cisto da se ne sramotimo, cak i Zlovenci imaju svoj whitepaper uploadan i stranicu prevedenu.

Care to explain what's the difference there, connecting your wallet to YFI and some others DeFi and connecting to Dego to claim bounty reward, as from what I know neither ask for your private key (that's an obvious sign of scam if they do). Please explain in layman's terms as I never invested/traded any DeFi tokens and don't plan to, all I really know about it is from what I read.

In the end, if you believe that what Dego is asking from bounty hunters is somehow dangerous (connecting wallet to claim bounty reward) and might make them loose their funds on the wallet, I suggest you open another scam accusation thread, explain the issue and raise the flag.


Is there some other way to get money from an ATM other than inserting your card and entering the pin? All ATMs I ever used worked like that.

Prior asking this loan he was inactive on the forum for 7 months. He obviously came back just to ask for this loan, and just  that is giant red flag, let alone his history of loan attempts



There were at least four loan attempts. Last October he asked me via PM 100 USD as he owed money to the "distributor". Beside sounding like a bullshit excuse to ask money, I found it kinda weird that he asked me as I was still new member, so I told him him to ask for one in the loan section. I wouldn't be surprised if he asked others the same.


I'm sorry to say that, but he is obviously a degenerate gambler. I've seen quite a few of those while working in gambling industry and they don't care much about anything really, let alone some low rank bitcointalk account.

Despite all that, I still hope he honors his deal and pay back the money he owes, despite chances of that being slim.

In that case you should start with FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit where you can find out more what merit is and how to get it. Just to warn you, in order to get some merit and rank up, you will have to change your posting habits dramatically, and start being active outside of bounty campaigns section. Get yourself familiar with other parts of the forum, be helpful and ready to learn and you will rank up, eventually.

Seeing how you quoted whole big post just to ask a question, you should also read this useful guide made by @tranthidung Bitcointalk posting etiquette.

Yet another fake announcement thread with malware. Please delete as soon as possible

User geordie312007
ANN 🚀[ANN] Spacecoin (SPACE) | PoW/PoS | zk-SNARKS | CryptoConditions | Atomic
Archive https://archive.fo/cyMrr


Original ANN [ANN] Spacecoin (SPACE) | PoW/PoS | zk-SNARKS | CryptoConditions | Atomic Swaps
Original github https://github.com/SpaceWorksCo/spacecoin

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One more fake ANN thread. Please delete it and nuke user that is spreading malware.

User mishelljazzz
ANN Xazab project Provides A Faster means of transactions
Archive https://archive.fo/3X1Tl


Original ANN Xazab project Provides A Faster means of transactions
Original github https://github.com/xazab

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New fake ann thread

User hotphutchot
ANN [ANN][POW][SPWN] SpawnCoin | GPU/CPU Cryptonight Turtle
Archive https://archive.fo/9RUnT


Original ANN [ANN][POW][SPWN] SpawnCoin | GPU/CPU Cryptonight Turtle
Original github https://github.com/spawncoin

So I see they decided to rebrand Yieldly as they were caught with fake team members. Yieldly website is now down, and Zelos took its place with the same empty promises of "fixing blockchain & energy industry problems". They couldn't have real team members photos, but somehow they will solve some industry "problems".


Haha what a cheap attempt to sell some more of those useless shitcoins. And somehow we are to believe that in the first 24 hours they managed to raise 800,000 USD, but they are unable to give some tokens for free. That just tells you have desperate they are.




Anyway, thanks for letting me know, ill update first post with new info. These scammers don't give up easily after getting busted, so no surprise that they came back with yet another attempt. Somehow I doubt that they will make another ANN here though.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a DeFi expert (that's an understatement actually) but isn't that the way all these DeFi projects work? You have to connect your wallet (people are mostly using Metamask) in order to stake and do other stuff. Same thing with Uniswap, you have to connect your wallet to it in order to trade/swap tokens, provide liquidity etc..

Regarding bounty hunters getting screwed, nothing new there. This is how it goes when you accept to work for months for the promise of future payment. At least Dego didn't dump hard and still has some value, unlike some others that delay bounty distribution until team is done with the dumping so bounty hunters end up with worthless shitcoins.

Things won't change until bounty hunters become more picky when choosing bounty campaigns, but we know that won't happen.

This would mean a lot of additional time and work, and I'm not so sure it would be a best way to share the merit. I guess that some merit sources have few basic rules how they share merit but I doubt they go to such lengths when it comes to meriting.

IMHO, it's not a bad thing to give merit even to those who don't need it for rank up, as those will pass on the merit for  someone else that needs etc. If I'm merit source I would keep it simple, just merit the good post when I see it, no matter the rank.

All we can do really is tag this cheater and that's about it (an I did that). By the way, have you contacted bounty managers of each bounty campaign where he copied your work? Juts to make sure he is removed and he doesn't get any tokens. Knowing how lazy an average bounty manager is, this tactic probably often works therefore all these attempts.


I was just about to suggest the same thing. It makes sense to report him for plagiarism as he copied everything, including usernames, links etc, only thing changed is spreadsheet number. It's definitely worth trying, and I am pretty sure this cheater will get banned (at least he should be).


@Cadaver20 You can report his case in this thread Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed

Good find @witcher_sense, you caught them almost immediately.

Somehow I thought that fake Uniswap airdrops are behind us as the real one happened more than a month ago, but I guess it's still a thing. Worst of all, even though it is an obvious scam attempt as noone legitimate will ask you for private key, there will be some who will fall for you this, and that's scammers target audience : newbies and ignorants. Plenty of those around.

Na PayPal treba gledati kao na "useful idiot" tj korisnu budalu. Dio ovih koji kupuju "bitcoin" preko PayPala ce kad tad htjeti imati pravu stvar, kad se dovoljno educiraju i onda ce odjebati to smece i uzeti BTC. Samo pomalo.


Samo nek rade, to ni na koji nacin ne moze nastetiti bitcoinu.

Some simply don't know to stop. After getting their ANN thread deleted earlier today due bunch of newbie spam caused by giving tokens in exchange for comments, Dabby is back again with another attempt.

https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5547/55472030.html

Weird part about their previous ANN is that it was just renamed thread of another older project from 2018, Crypt-ON. I managed to archive before it was nuked https://archive.fo/yfats. Here is also their old bounty thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036843.0

Does anyone know anything more about it, as doesn't make much sense imho to rename an old project ANN when you want to start new one, other than appearing more legit as they had 130 pages of mostly spam as they obviously had  sock puppet accounts working there.

For example, this is what you wrote for EpoxyDao : "Fake team with stolen names & photos". When you write something like that, you simply have to provide the proof of that, and that means show whether they used stock photos/AI generated or they stole identity from someone else. But instead of that, you showed nothing.

Yesterday I reported one scammy project which used photo of another person as a fake profile for their CEO. To prove that, I found the real person behind that photo, and contacted him just to confirm that he has nothing to do with that scam. This is what you should do when you claim something like that, you have to provide the proof otherwise it doesn't mean anything. If I just wrote "team has fake photo" and raised the flag, other members would ask me to provide some evidence for my claim.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284719.0


You can share his LinkedIn profile in that case and show that he is lying about his experience. Point is, for every claim you have to provide the evidence. More you can provide, stronger the case against the scammers.


In the end, this is what you claim, so if you said that we can find that on your website, then it should be there, because now it isn't and it doesn't look good.

Medium is probably well aware of the fact that 99% of the articles written by bounty hunters are copy/paste, Google translate or other type of low quality spam so no surprise that they are locking accounts used for that. It's not just you that is getting banned, sooner or later most of the bounty hunters will experience that, that's just how it goes with low quality content.

It's same thing with Twitter, who is also regularly banning accounts that only spam bounty campaign related stuff.

There is nothing wrong with either of those things, as long as people do something about it instead just complaining.

If someone feels that his local board is under merited and has (preferably) support of his own local board he should apply to be a merit source. And the fact that local board already has few merit sources doesn't mean that there is no room  for more, as each merit source has different amount of monthly allocation, and that amount varies a lot so basically 1 merit source can have bigger monthly allocation than 3 merit sources combined. In the end, it's up to theymos to decide.


When I look at your Merit dasboard, it's pretty much the case for every local board I choose, there will always be few very active members that get significantly more merit than the others, whether I choose very active local boards like Russian and German or those less active ones.

It's a textbook explanation of every scammer caught in having fake team member photos. hat he forgot to mention is that they went one step further, they even created fake LinkedIn account using that photo, and that can't be a mistake of a lazy and incompetent web developer. I mean, how can you use someone else's photo by mistake when you are creating your own LinkedIn account? You never looked yourself at the mirror?

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Even though everything is clear here now, just wanted to share response (he agreed that I can share this) from a real person behind photo used, and as suspected, he has nothing to do with all this mess.

Thirteen new  scams have been added to the list since last update approximately one month ago. Pretty busy period i must say. Recent scams are mostly fueled by DeFi hype that is somewhat slowing as more people are loosing money and they are not bringing same returns as month or two ago, but scam numbers might increase even more as BTC is gaining some momentum and getting over 13,000 USD, bringing out more of those that want to seize the opportunity and take advantage of those that are greedy/less experienced.

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	Name			Scam accusation thread			Flag link
	104. MBIDefi			[SCAM] MBIDeFi: New DeFi scam by known scammers MBI Group International			Flag Type 1
	105. MoonFinnace			[Warning] MoonFinance - DeFi with plagiarized whitepaper, 200+ ETH raised!
	106. Yearnify			[SCAM] Yearnify copied website content!			Flag Type 1
	107. HelioSwap			[Warning] HelioSwap plagiarized whitepaper!			Flag Type 1
	108. @NUMAS			User NUMAS selling codes for "dirty" BTC with 50% discount.			Flag Type 1
	109. @millerjohn2792			HYIP script seller			Flag Type 1
	110. UCACOIN			[SCAM] UCACOIN-Latest project of known MLM scheme "Verway"			Flag Type 1
	111. Helix Nebula			[Warning] Helix Nebula - suspicious donations/charity project!
	112. S3 Wallet			[Warning] S3 Wallet- plagiarised whitepaper and website content, possible ponzi!			Flag Type 1
	113. Yieldly			[SCAM] Yieldly- fake team member photos			Flag Type 1
	114. @bitqynetwork			[Warning] Fake exchange listing offering via Uniswap token sale
	115. ETHx2			[SCAM]ETHx2 Ponzi scheme promising 1% daily return!			Flag Type 1
	116. Gchain			[SCAM] Gchain using fake team member photo			Flag Type 1

I was just about to write the same. @OP provided no proof on their website for any of the claims. They just share some arbitrary score for each category, without providing absolutely anything. That is not the  proper way to bust some potential scam and you might be right that this is just a way to get some traffic on the website.

For example, they claim that team  has "fake photos and stolen names" and then for that they give 4.4 rating, without providing any proof. Sa,e goes for aboslutely every category. Same goes for other category, just blank screen and nothing else.

As a matter of fact, all other "reviews" are pretty much the same, no proof and just ratings shared
https://antidolos.com/caracalcoin-org-rating-and-review/
https://antidolos.com/ucoincurrency-io-rating-and-review/
https://antidolos.com/diagon-io-rating-and-review/