Organized crime in bounties...

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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 stopped writing blog artciles. Because you create a high quality review and put it on your estabilished blog and you will receive almost nothing for it because someone will make one copy paste from another work and put it on 7 blogs and he will receive much bigger reward than you .

[landoffaucets]

I see that more and more bounty managers are scamming bounty campaigns. They received payment from the team, but they didn´t do they work - managing the bounty campaign. I am talking about Smauni, MS bounty, Sylon and many more .

[TomiJerry]

It would be ideal to immediately find a reliable manager who adheres to strict rules for all participants. And, of course, many rewards require the use of KYC to exclude those who want to receive other people's rewards. And it will not be superfluous to carefully check your data in the tables at registration

[crzy]

I see that more and more bounty managers are scamming bounty campaigns. They received payment from the team, but they didn´t do they work - managing the bounty campaign. I am talking about Smauni, MS bounty, Sylon and many more .

So many project that is being mismanaged by the managers and its sad for a developer to encounter such irresponsible user. Developer should also make effort on looking for a good manager, and as a bounty hunter let’s continue helping the DT’s to fight for any scammed projects.

[publicjud]

It's a crypto money area and there is no regulation. It's quite obvious outcome for such environment and conditions. Hopefully there will be some improvements with a new STO period.

[codegnome]

Bounty hunters should also check the project and the bounty manager. A lot of users join the campaign even after its end, what means that they do not even check basic information at all. If bounty hunters will support scam projects, it will never stop. Before joining campaign check very well who is behind the project!

[Thyristor]

Bot accounts is big problem in the recent all of the bounties project. Responsible manager check every entry in manually and sometimes it's difficult to detect scammer because i see in many telegram campaign total entry is 15K to 20K. Just you make a sense how manager can check it manually. Scammers manipulated specially airdrop and telegram campaign. Translation entry is too low, so it's possible to check carefully.

[trader34]

Yes, bounties are a problem right now. Too many scams and people that are not getting paid. Now more than ever, we need to pay attention to where we decide to participate and to the project we choose.

[Christinebeauty]

Every bounty manager is aware of the possible entry of bots in the campaign but they just ignore them and allow them to have their way through because they feel too lazy to check all these things.

[slaman29]

Every bounty manager is aware of the possible entry of bots in the campaign but they just ignore them and allow them to have their way through because they feel too lazy to check all these things.

I agree with this particular statement, that bots are very easy to detect, or even multi accounts held by the same string of people. But this is why I see a huge difference in quality of: the campaign; the manager; the participants.

But don't underestimate the ability of organized criminals to get smarter. I've seen even famous managers only discover scammers after being alerted. It is a tough job even if they're not lazy.

[Golftech]

Bounty hunters should also check the project and the bounty manager. A lot of users join the campaign even after its end, what means that they do not even check basic information at all. If bounty hunters will support scam projects, it will never stop. Before joining campaign check very well who is behind the project!

That's annoying, there's several threads regarding to bounty that we can see those post, irresponsible bounty hunters needs to be changed, before  we engaged to any bounty projects, we need to read everything under the rules and follow each grounds, both Managers and Hunters needs to work alongside for much smooth and successful outcome.

[enhu]

I use to write articles but if they can translate articles into hundred more to other language then those guys can earn bounties without doing anything. That is just a killer lol
Bounty Manager should just accept English if they are too lazy to check which article is being spin and presented to them some other language.  This will be an added work load though so its best to just accept what can be understood by all. Only English.

[DominickA86]

I think the main problem is that there are a lot of cheaters that are using multi accounts at the same bounty to earn bigger rewards. I think KYC solves all this problems and you can also proof that it was your article because you have added it to the spreadsheet first.

[Nasonn]

The major problem of crime in bounties is those who run multi accounts, I've seen a situation where someone registered about 100 accounts in a single bounty. This is where kyc in bounty is advisable because it eliminates most of the cheats.

[AzureDragon]

I think the main problem is that there are a lot of cheaters that are using multi accounts at the same bounty to earn bigger rewards. I think KYC solves all this problems and you can also proof that it was your article because you have added it to the spreadsheet first.

KYC procedure is acceptable for trusted ICO / projects. Sending your personal data to unknown person / group is not the best idea.
Or bounty organizers should also disclose their persons to the participants, like KYBM (Know Your Bounty Manager) procedure

[CryptoAlphaStar]

There is one way to stop this - by implementing KYC. This will weed out the bots, because for every payment there will be an ID. But bounty hunters don't like KYC, too. Because this is even the more dangerous organised crime - some fake ICOs that collect personal data and steal identities through whitelists.

[royalfestus]

Is now the duty of every bounty hunter to look out for scammers or else all real participants will be deprived of there full rewards. Mangers also need to engage in frequent sorting out of scammers and in some cases managers encourage it with delayed update of spreadsheets and activities .

[Ozero]

The problem of bot activity in bounty ICO campaigns does exist. However, it is quite possible to cope with it, using even the available methods on this forum. However, in essence, the ICO teams are not interested in fighting them. For them, it is important that the ICO signature campaigns write quality messages with their advertising for the ICO project. Poor messages, they can not be counted. In principle, I do not think this is a big problem. Now there is enough work for everyone.

[Thanasis]

Bounty managers are allocating the stakes for translation campaign as well but we need to accept that he don't know actually many languages so he don't fidn if they just translated it or did by their own effort so it is better to have reporting campaign which give special rewards to the people who reporting any scamming activities from that bounty participants.

[Teamfearless]

This is really  sad because project manager  and bounty  manager  are losing trust in bounty hunter . Automatic and bot system are really destroying the games .. sometimes you can a telegram of 40k  but when u post in the group then no one seems to reply you because the group is full of bots  ..  its time for bounty manager to do hard work to fish those bot out ..