I am just looking at Open Merit Source Applications waiting list. There are currently 9 active merit applications, and from what I can see, none of them are from members that are active in Bangladeshi thread. Since getting merit source is the best long term solution to increase merit allocation for your community, why don't you choose among yourself someone that will apply for that position? Preferably someone with good reputation and merit history, to increase chances of getting a merit source. It may take while before you get one, but you gotta make first step sometimes.

In the meantime, what you can do is to gather good posts from your board and once in a while share them in [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. Even better, that can be done by the person that will apply for merit source.

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Since I am generally interested in local boards, I checked  your post and merit  thread activity during August. If I counted properly, in the period between August 1st and August 31, 127 posts were written and 9 merits were sent. That makes an average 0.07 merit per post, and that is way below average, if we compare Bengali with other languages that have their own local boards. Here you can see other local boards activity in that period and check how Bengali compares to them.

If we look strictly at the post count, yours is more active than quite a few of those with local boards, so I might include it in the monthly overview, just to see how it compares to others.

So it is just a coincidence that you are using same token/coin names, same referral and income systems as MBI Interntaional group? For the matter of fact, you even mentioned it on your website, that this is based on "previously successful MBI Project".




Those are just shill accounts that are paid to promote this scam on the forum, fake interest and fake conversations. Classic "marketing stragety" of such a shady project as MBIDeFi is.

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I advise everyone to stay way from this, unless you want to loose money like tens of thousands of people that were involved in previous MBI scheme. Here is topic in scam accusation board with more info about them.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276826.0

Eksperimentirao sam i sa Pie chartom kad sam krenuo raditi ove mjesecne preglede, ali mi je  Column chart izgledao preglednije pa sam se odlucio za njega.


Haha, izgleda da nam ima vise nego sto smo mislili . Danas je google translate toliko dobar da se bez problema pise i na ostalim lokalnim boardovima, sto je super. Jos samo cekamo one univerzalne prevoditelje kao u SF filmovima.

That sums it up nicely.

It is interesting to see that Rfinance made their first announcement thread week ago. First they hired someone to do it for them, but when they were busted for plagiarism by @AhmandM in [WARNING] RFinance (RFI) Plagiarized Website Contents , OP of that thread naturally deleted it. So what else will scammers do than open a new one as they don't really care about reputation. For them it's rinse and repeat business anyway, where they churn out new scammy projects one after the another. It cost them very little time and money, while profits are huge.

That chart just shows that by far most active local board is Russian, and it's like that pretty much every month.


Data I am using for these charts comes from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard, an excellent tool where you can find various info for each local board, things like most merited posts, most merited topics, users etc.

Since March 2020 I am making Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity where you can see local boards compared.

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Part of the problem might be that younger generations are less likely to join forum, they prefer Discord/Telegram. Another factor might be that forum software is outdated (even though I personally like it as it looks like others forums I am using for many years), there is no things like mobile phone support etc and that also can affect amount of new people that are joining, while older ones are getting bored/tired.  I am very active on 2 other forums (not crypto related), and situation is pretty similar in that regard.

Hey @notblox1, first sorry for the late reply, somehow I missed your post.

Regarding Free2ex exchange, you are right, they indeed hired bumping service to promote their announcement thread as accounts use are active on several other threads, doing the same "work" so I added them on the list. Since they only started, If you have some free time, it wouldn't be bad idea to report those posts, they are basically just one-liners and will be deleted  if reported to mods.

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That's not all for today, there is another addition

Uncommonn is a platform connecting vendors and customers 
Uncommon recently started thier IEO on Vindax (home of many dodgy IEOs) so they decided to spice up their announcement thread with fake conversations and hype. "Marketing agency" that is doing that for them is not very smart as some of the accounts used are already tagged for the same thing, so what they are actually doing is bringing negative attention to Uncommon.

Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2338

First post has been updated with the flag as well.


It is true we can't do much but at least we can warn bitcointalk members, and who knows, maybe this result pops out for those that will check MBIDefi  before investing. It is a good question how such people can sleep at night, when you see videos like this Mcoin Cryptocurrency Scam | Chinese held Protests in Malaysia | MBI International Scam Investment. MBI allegedly scammed 350,000 people out of 700 million RM, which is equivalent of 170 million USD. That is serious amount of money...

Even New Zealand Financial Market Authority issues warning against them
MBI International/MFC Clubthe

What happened: MBIDefi is a latest scheme by known Malaysian scammer group MBI Group International. Some of their key people even got arrested, but they decided to jump in on DeFi market, seizing the opportunity, as that's what scammers do. They even kept the same name of their currency, MCoin, under which they scammed thousands of people out of millions of USD.

Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2338

ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276809.0
Archive https://archive.fo/xgaJa

Website https://www.mbidefi.io/about_us
Archive https://archive.vn/Vl6jE




It is interesting that they are even mentioning their previous scheme, and even calling it "one of the most successful empires in the history of blockchain"




And  another confirmation that MBIDeFi is based upon their previous scam




What would this kind of scheme be without attractive referral program?




And here are some news about MBI Group International and their previous endeavors

https://cilisos.my/this-penang-bitcoin-is-so-big-they-have-their-own-mall-but-polis-raided-twice-adi

Chinese MBI International Ponzi victims protest in Malaysia
Investors up in arms after fall of MBI


Explanation of their previous scheme, similarity with MbiDefi is obvious
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/mbi-international-review-recruitment-grc-unit-investment/

Uniswap airdrop is legit, few friends of mine claimed the tokens and sold them via Binance. Everyone that used Uniswap until September 1st is eligible for 400 UNI tokens. Some people claimed thousands of UNI tokens as you were eligible for each wallet you use, so for example if you connected 10 wallets to Uniswap until the deadline, you got 4000 UNI combined. At the moment 1 UNI=6 USD , so it's not a surprise that there are scam attempts using this occasion.

That's what scammers do, they quickly adapt and always try to exploit latest craze/hype/airdrop/giveaway. After all, that's why we have this thread now, but I'm afraid that this is just the beginning and will go on for the some time, until enough people loose the money and everything falls apart, like in the ICO time.
https://gov.uniswap.org/t/learn-requirements-how-to-claim-your-400-uni/1025

Ma mislim da je trenutni broj super, nema potrebe forsirati takve stvari, kad krene posteni bull market onda će nas biti i više, glavno da board kvalitetno preživljava ovo razdoblje.
A Indonezijski i Filipinski su baš pali u zadnje vrijeme, ali oni imaju i dosta prostora za napredak.

Dovoljan je jedan da se pojavi i krene trolat (antikvark).

Nine new scams have been busted since the last update, and have been added to the list. Adding those nine, list surpassed 100 scams exposed by me since my first report that was almost one year ago, on September 2019. When that first scammer kept annoying me on telegram , trying to convince me to invest in a ponzi scheme I had no idea I'll end up reporting them here regularly.

In the last few weeks there is an obvious increase in number of DeFy scams, and since we are not nowhere peak yet, that number will probably keep increasing until bubble bursts, like it was during last ICO hype. Unfortunately, that means this number of exposed scams will keep increasing.

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	Name			Scam accusation thread			Flag link
	95. Tronexpress			[SCAM] Tronexpress- ponzi scheme promising 50% daily profit
	96. Asher trade			Asher trade promising 15% daily profit!][SCAM] Asher trade promising 15% daily profit!
	97. ZYX NETWORK			[SCAM] ZYX NETWORK - Rebranded PZM Cash Ponzi is back!			Flag Type 1
	98. CICLEX Exchange			[SCAM] CICLEX exchange promising 175% yearly return!			Flag Type 1
	99. ETSK-Ether Stake			[Warning] ETSK copied website content from other projects!
	100. Autoxify			[SCAM] Autoxify ponzi scheme, another Forsage clone			Flag Type 1
	101. Antodex			[SCAM] Antodex- yet another DeFi with plagiarized Whitepaper!			Flag Type 1
	102. Ceyptochrome			[Warning] Cryptochrome - another DeFi with plagiarized whitepaper!			Flag Type 1
	103. Uniswap Giveaway			[SCAM] Fake Uniswap giveaway

Da podijelim i ovdje one moje usporedne chartove, znam da ovdje ima veliki broj pasioniranih ljubitelja istih

Kao i uvijek, podatke sam preuzeo sa  @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda pa koga zanimaju detalji nek tamo cacka.

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Broj postova u periodu 01.08-31.08

Nema promjena na vrhu, uvijek standardna ekipa, kao sto mi vec standardno 6 na listi, prakticki preplaceni na tu poziciju.

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Broj merita u periodu 01.08-31.08

Kao sto se zna, prosli mjesec smo razvalili i ostvarili drugi najbolji rezultat. Znam da to nije odrzivo na duzi vremenski period i da ce ovaj mjesec sigurno biti pad, ali je svejedno lijepo vidjet nas na sredini ljestvice, pa makar i samo jedan mjesec.



I na ovom chartu se vidi da smo bili aktivniji nego inace, cak 30 ljudi je slalo merit sto je takodjer rekord otkad se vodi ova statistika.

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Merit/Post ratio u periodu 01.08-31.08

I za kraj chart na kojem smo redovno prikovani na samom dnu, ali ovaj mjesec smo na jednom finom prosjeku od 0.3 merita po postu, sto mislim da je realni odnos kvalitete naseg boarda. Mogu misliti kakav je tek cirkus na Turksom djelu, jer su oni drasticno pali pa su sada na samom dnu po tome. Vjerujem da tom njihovom bivsem merit sourcu redovno spominju familiju.

First thing i thought when i saw yestefay morning that Unisawp is giving 400 UNI to their old users is that scammers will certianly try to use this for their purposes. And voila, there it is. I am only surprised that we didn't see more of them.


Yeah it is good to see that mods reacted fast before anyone sent their tokens to these scammers.


So far nothing, let's hope it stays that way since topic has been removed. This is really a newbie scam attempt as more advanced ones even send some tokens to their address to make it more believable that giveaway is legit.

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Same user, Maze.CO just made another fake giveaway, this time Ethereum based, but mods deleted that one as well.
https://archive.fo/0vLtD

What happened: This scammer is trying to use ongoing Uniswap airdrop to scam people into sending him UNI tokens and giving back double the amount. This was kinda expected to see, scammers using something as popular as recent Uniswap airdrop  and might see more in the upcoming days.

Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2336

Scammer profile link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2853572
ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276577.0
Archive https://archive.fo/60yoh

Well it all depends if you are in the hurry, sometimes even overpaying makes sense to get the transaction done as soon as possible.

Just look at this Uniswap claim where they are giving everyone that did at least one trade 400 UNI tokens. People are massively overpaying transaction (700 - 800 gwei +) so they can dump the tokens before price goes down.

This is is simply nature of the altcoin bounty campaigns, especially those that haven't been listed yet and are in the early phase. Majority of them are pure scams, then there are some that are legit but fail due various reasons etc. The same way investors in those projects risk their money for future profit, bounty hunters do with their time.

What bounty hunters can do is to be more picky when joining bounty campaign and do their own due diligence, but majority of them don't really care about that. They simply join just about anything, no matter what it is, and few months later they cry about being scammed.

Good example of that is Bitwings promises smartphone that can mine 2 ETH/month. Ponzi scheme?. They had huge and very popular bounty campaign. No one stopped to think whether this makes any sense. Even when this was exposed as scam, bounty hunters didn't care much. They got upset after Bitwings cut bounty pool by 90%, and then they massively started crying about it in their Telegram group, not caring much about the fact that they promoted scam and possibly got someone to invest their money into this, all they cared is their own pocket. This tells you everything you have to know about an average bounty hunter (there are exceptions to those of course).

Vjerojatno su koristili CMC podatke, jer je po njima  31.08 Tether imao nesto malo preko 10 milijardi mcap a danas je skoro 15  milijardi. E sad je pitanje zasto se Coingecko i CMC tako razlikuju po podacima, nije uopce mala razlika.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

Uglavnom, ono sto je bitno je da  meme vrijedi, stanca se ko mutavo, znaci u 9 mjeseci rast od 250%+.

Evo jedne dobre vijesti za sve kojoj drže na oku Roobet kampanju, pogotovo za naše Full Member/Sr Member članove koji nemaju baš previše izbora kod prijava u kampanje. Naime, Hhampuz će imati čistku uskoro, micati će lošije membere pa bi se mogao osloboditi koji spot.

Yeah I remember your giveaway thread. Turnout was low, and average post quality bad. Beginners&Help section constantly has abundance of giveaway threads while good low rank members that apply in those are rare. Not a good thing, when you think about forum's future.


This is just forum being forum. People will share suspicions, decisions will be questioned etc, and not just for you, but any member. You didn't break any forum rules, so no reason to take criticism hard.

You are of course free to make your own topic, but I just wanted to point out that it is pretty much standard practice here to use an existing topic if you find some new evidence. That happens quite often here as sometimes you miss some detail and then others chip in with new findings/evidence and share it in the same topic. Makes sense when you think about it, no point making new topic each time someone finds something new.

This was just a suggestion about standard practice here as I see that you are new here, and if you plan to be active in scam accusation board.