Organized crime in bounties...

[Holla123]

Scamming bounties has become a new source of income for organized groups of scammers. Groups with developers on their payroll are using software to create thousands of bots and dumping them in airdrop bounty to collect 100’s of thousands of dollars in bounty tokens. Airdrops may not seem like much, but when you have 20K fake accounts receiving 10-20 tokens, it’s a huge payoff.

In addition, these groups are paying copywriters a few hundred dollars to write 3-4 articles and then google translating them in many languages and posting under many fake accounts. Often using newbie BCT accounts to protect the higher ranking accounts they created to put in signatures campaigns.

This kind of scam has started to flourish because the bounty managers who manage the projects are too lazy or inexperienced to watch out for these scammers.

Bounty hunters get a bad reputation because of these scammers. Also projects can’t  get quality work because good bounty hunters don’t want to waste their time, since their hard work will be diluted by scammers.

So to protect yourself when doing a bounty:
1. Watch all activities and report scamming to bounty managers ASAP
2. Google your own articles to see if someone has posted it under their account.
3. Don’t waste your time with airdrops

To the admins
1. Check everyone who enters the bounty.
2. Updates stakes frequently so scammers know you are watching.
2. Don’t be lazy, put in the work...


I hope this was helpful...

Ok so what are you saying? You expect the regular bounty manager to be able to fight against organized crime? If they have enough fake profiles I do not see how it would be possible how to track that. For the duplicate texts hmm maybe with proper text analytics but that has to be cost effective as soon as it is done.

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[Bittalk12]

There are different methods used by experienced bounty managers nowadays where they are using minor KYC by posting on the thread or using telegram bot before you get the form o be filled out when joining specific campaign. Your suggestions are common but would be helpful for inexperience bounty managers. Bounty hunter scammers are those who usually do identity theft to multiply their reward so we also have to be aware checking the spreadsheet.

[thesosorr]

Scamming bounties has become a new source of income for organized groups of scammers. Groups with developers on their payroll are using software to create thousands of bots and dumping them in airdrop bounty to collect 100’s of thousands of dollars in bounty tokens. Airdrops may not seem like much, but when you have 20K fake accounts receiving 10-20 tokens, it’s a huge payoff.

In addition, these groups are paying copywriters a few hundred dollars to write 3-4 articles and then google translating them in many languages and posting under many fake accounts. Often using newbie BCT accounts to protect the higher ranking accounts they created to put in signatures campaigns.

This kind of scam has started to flourish because the bounty managers who manage the projects are too lazy or inexperienced to watch out for these scammers.

Bounty hunters get a bad reputation because of these scammers. Also projects can’t  get quality work because good bounty hunters don’t want to waste their time, since their hard work will be diluted by scammers.

So to protect yourself when doing a bounty:
1. Watch all activities and report scamming to bounty managers ASAP
2. Google your own articles to see if someone has posted it under their account.
3. Don’t waste your time with airdrops

To the admins
1. Check everyone who enters the bounty.
2. Updates stakes frequently so scammers know you are watching.
2. Don’t be lazy, put in the work...


I hope this was helpful...

Yes. This is very helpful. Very much scamming bounties occur. No exception on the bounty project and on the airdrop project. They do it very organized. There are a number of bounty projects that I have participated in, they only posted profiles of other people's accounts and only changed the address of the wallet.
I think, the admin really needs to check the authenticity of the accounts of the participants who joined.

[Gekkoo]

From the moment some campaign allows the interaction of newbies, the catastrophic results you just mentioned just demonstrate what fact this forum has become! The newbie should be concerned with interacting and creating experience in the early days of the forum! If the newbie is going after bounties campaign, it is possible to raise several discussions and doubts about its relation with the forum.

[DAVETUN]

Scammers have abuse the bounty platform, reducing the amount of token earn by individual, I feel bounty is heading to extinction except there is a control mechanism to checkmate scammers and  individual that use bot and people with several acount, Airdrop  platform is over as token receive this days is very low in value.

[codegnome]

From the moment some campaign allows the interaction of newbies, the catastrophic results you just mentioned just demonstrate what fact this forum has become! The newbie should be concerned with interacting and creating experience in the early days of the forum! If the newbie is going after bounties campaign, it is possible to raise several discussions and doubts about its relation with the forum.

I think that such behavior could be easily eliminated. It's enough that bounty managers will not accept Newbies for any campaign. Unfortunately, this is probably impossible, because managers want spam so that the advertisement can be seen in as many places as possible.

[smyslov]

Good observation, we need a good and experienced bounty manager to catch these scammers, they are now so good and so organized that if the bounty manager does not have a team they will not get caught, these scammers there are huge money to collect in the bounty.

[sell my ac_________nt]

Yes, I agree there is such a problem and I faced it when I made the content, and the scammers copied it and received the same ratings. So I stopped working.

[Huntler1993]

It sometimes amazes me how people could be such heartless to dupe others of their hard earn monies through this way. Its really becoming rampant since they normally go away freely with their bad deeds. Its about we do something about these act before it escalates.

[castiloros]

I think instead of admin tasks to check for a bounty. the most appropriate is of yourself which should be able to analyze or protect yourself to be better and to avoid the project containing the scam. a lot happens is many do not ignore it and go directly to the project that looks good.

[Alohadance]

Yeh, I agree with you. There are hundreds of scam bounties now. So many projects ignore hardworking bountyhunters. THey should work more carefully while checking our work too. There are so many bots which are participating in bounties.

[Furious 7]

bounty is not the main job, but companies should appreciate their hard work. currently there are too many dramas, delaying payments and exchanges.
even bounty payments are paid in installments until the end of 2019.

[miropp]

Because of this, many projects are beginning to introduce the KYC procedure. This is the only way to get rid of hundreds of multi accounts and bots. But you give the right advice, everyone should be order, and then all will be well.

[deloodin]

In bounty that I provide - very strict rules. There no place for cheaters! Link in signature

[soramon]

The number of scammers is high it makes choosing real bounty project hard. I think the team should have a super strict rules for their bounty hunters so scammer cant join in. Doing bounties is not fun anymore scammer ruin everything.

[79b79aa8d5047da6d3XX]

bounty is not the main job, but companies should appreciate their hard work. currently there are too many dramas, delaying payments and exchanges.
even bounty payments are paid in installments until the end of 2019.

They are doing many different ways to create difficulties for bounty hunters. Maybe because the market is going down, they don't want to pay for bounty or pay very little, unlike 2017 when everything goes smoothly. Now we should not waste too much time on bounties, it is too difficult to receive an income

[nreal]

I am really sad because of fraud in bonus programs, many Bounty managers are not interested in this issue. It is time to take strong measures to prevent this situation.

[cryptogeek101]

Scamming bounties has become a new source of income for organized groups of scammers. Groups with developers on their payroll are using software to create thousands of bots and dumping them in airdrop bounty to collect 100’s of thousands of dollars in bounty tokens. Airdrops may not seem like much, but when you have 20K fake accounts receiving 10-20 tokens, it’s a huge payoff.

In addition, these groups are paying copywriters a few hundred dollars to write 3-4 articles and then google translating them in many languages and posting under many fake accounts. Often using newbie BCT accounts to protect the higher ranking accounts they created to put in signatures campaigns.

This kind of scam has started to flourish because the bounty managers who manage the projects are too lazy or inexperienced to watch out for these scammers.

Bounty hunters get a bad reputation because of these scammers. Also projects can’t  get quality work because good bounty hunters don’t want to waste their time, since their hard work will be diluted by scammers.

So to protect yourself when doing a bounty:
1. Watch all activities and report scamming to bounty managers ASAP
2. Google your own articles to see if someone has posted it under their account.
3. Don’t waste your time with airdrops

To the admins
1. Check everyone who enters the bounty.
2. Updates stakes frequently so scammers know you are watching.
2. Don’t be lazy, put in the work...


I hope this was helpful...

I think this is a great advice for bounty hunters and bounty managers alike,the advice will go a long way to serve as a check to many crypto projects scammers who are in the market carrying out these organised crimes. Thanks

[Goodvalony]

after my first two months in airdrops, i discovered that it is useless and time consuming. people should not for once waste time running airdrops. for the bounty, somebody has used my btc account for a bounty i was part of. it is quite clear that some of the people involved in this game are here in this community.  they create more than 10 accounts and distribute  merits. some even sell out the accounts.

[Perfect35]

Sometimes i just wonder how some people manage to write so many articles at the same time and it baffles me that, some of those who really devoted their time into writing, might not write more than two. Which then mean that some managers do not do through work, when it comes to access some of these entries. Then bounty hunters also have a lot to do in this regards.