Bounty hunters will never learn

[$crypto$]

Yes, you are right! Bounty hunter will never learn. Because whenever they see a bounty they don't waste time because they become busy to submit their POA! New participants are coming continuously, so, they won't do research which is normal, maybe I was the same when I was new! But mate I am really worried and feeling worst that how can high ranked member goes for those scammy, shitty low reward bounties!

That's what bounty hunters do, they don't think long in the future, how the project will run, especially if it's been caught like this, falsifying the CEO's photo, even though that's the most important thing before joining this bounty.
I am not so sure about this project so I never researched it, maybe at the end it will be a scam too. 
What I saw in the spreadsheets was a lot of new participants and this project was on average promoted by a layman really annoying.

[DDante]

Whatever happens to you is your own fault, as a bounty Hunter it's must to use research ability to pick good projects, we have nothing but 'research' to safe our neck and time when joining bounties, if you want good results you know what to do, most bounty hunters from Asian parts of the world like Indian and Philippines are the worst hunters I know of, they simply never cared about end results

[minairia3]

The fastest way to detect scam projects is clicking on their image and searching with google image search engine and you will get some secrets in return, nice try OP, nice try, this is very simple and easy

This is the most effective way IMO. Google is always been a helpful tool as search engine and one thing is for sure all data related to what you search will show up including images, videos and etc.

It means the bounty manager himself is not a serious type, how can he even accept such project just to ruin his reputation? I guess it's same mistakes that bounty hunters use to do, lack of research

I guess, money can buy anything and even his reputation is at stake he is willing to sell it off. Hunters should not do what they could chew off cause later on its gonna be a hell of a mess.

[jessyj48]

As some bounty hunters find it hard to do research it's same thing with some bounty managers, it's better to find reliable bounty managers if you find it hard to choose new bounty projects, BMs like bubbalex ,arteezy, juelerz12 are still very trusted

[TheUltraElite]

The fastest way to detect scam projects is clicking on their image and searching with google image search engine and you will get some secrets in return, nice try OP, nice try, this is very simple and easy

They are scammers for a reason. While it is true that many projects are scam, it is not always possible to detect a scam within proper time. The bounty hunters are less knowledgeable regarding this. They check a couple of accounts and then think that the project is legit. Specially the fist few team member links are often like that.

One will understand what I am trying to say if they have done a thorough research on these projects. But bounty hunters will always suffer if they are not careful.

[Furryball]

The fastest way to detect scam projects is clicking on their image and searching with google image search engine and you will get some secrets in return, nice try OP, nice try, this is very simple and easy

That's only work if their team are only copy pasting from image which we can find on google. How if they are use some photos or images which there isn't on google? How can you detect them? That's why it's big risk to join on altcoin bounty

Very true, I was investigating a new bounty on this forum but I can't find any copy of the images used as team member on the project's website, I used almost all image search engine available, I wonder what's next to easily detect scam projects now

[Altcoins enthusiast]

Today I managed to do research on cerlos bounty project and I find few red flags that I will like to share with you guys, here is the bounty project link

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226965.0

1. At first, the red flag I spotted was the teams pictures, how hard can it be that teams can't take high quality pictures with a camera or their smartphones instead they used blurry pictures and it's same pictures on their LinkedIn account, the only difference is color, Black and White.

2. Secondly the CEO himself has two different names, the project website ( cerlos.io ) says Robert Bedard and on another website ( myitguyrob.com ) says Robert .H , to me I think the real Robert is Robert .H because the same picture was used on myitguyrob.com website, here is a screenshot from myitguyrob.com



3. Another red flag is one of the team advisor named ( Antoon Eggenhuizen ) which real name is unknown but another LinkedIn account says this man name is (Jaap Kolk ), below is another screenshot to back my claim



Now my question to all bounty hunters promoting this project is, what the hell are you guys doing? How do you even do research in the first place? These scams aren't that hard to see , I'm surprised many bounty hunters joined, this have a lot to say that people don't do research anymore and yet you will see them creating posts about not getting paid from bounty projects on this forum when the fault was theirs, Grow up Hunters, Grow up.

You are to see bounties hunter as a gambler because we have see so many projects that were classified as scam here and at the end those projects turned out to be one of the best rewards coins or tokens of that time. We are all here seeking for opportunities and at that participating in some of these bounties may turn out to be a rewarding decision.

[milewilda]

The fastest way to detect scam projects is clicking on their image and searching with google image search engine and you will get some secrets in return, nice try OP, nice try, this is very simple and easy

They are scammers for a reason. While it is true that many projects are scam, it is not always possible to detect a scam within proper time. The bounty hunters are less knowledgeable regarding this. They check a couple of accounts and then think that the project is legit. Specially the fist few team member links are often like that.

One will understand what I am trying to say if they have done a thorough research on these projects. But bounty hunters will always suffer if they are not careful.

Most of the time they do uncover or do know things when the project is already on the concluding phase when theres no time for you to go back or you already have done the works until you realize that you are dealing with the wrong or fake devs.Scams now do become conservative and comes too realistic even how careful you are on making up some search but this doesnt guarantee you out on not to step to these fake or fraud ones.
Just stick with some basic rules on identifying things like legit dev and some realistic project goal compared to those who do keep telling almost impossible things.Ive encountered it for how many times
and these projects are destined to fail.

[SacriFries11]

They will never learn unless someone will give advice to them not to join that campaign or tell them how they will know if it a scam project or not. Some people browse already and figure out how they will not trap from scammers. Many projects are just copying the idea of project that have been successfully launch then try to create different name of their token. I always check the environment of their website and it's the first thing that I do then read the ANN thread about the review of the project. If the campaign haven't project team and some suspicious names and image are stated this will be hint for another a scam project.

[TheUltraElite]

Most of the time they do uncover or do know things when the project is already on the concluding phase when theres no time for you to go back or you already have done the works until you realize that you are dealing with the wrong or fake devs.

Sadly they dont learn and repeat the same mistake. The mindset that bounty hunting is a easy way to make free money is a wrong one because there is no such thing as free money.

Scams now do become conservative and comes too realistic even how careful you are on making up some search but this doesnt guarantee you out on not to step to these fake or fraud ones.

Like I have said, it is a cat and mouse game. You catch one and another one will appear. They scam and make money from these scams so they continue doing so ripping bounty hunters and investors.

Just stick with some basic rules on identifying things like legit dev and some realistic project goal compared to those who do keep telling almost impossible things.Ive encountered it for how many times and these projects are destined to fail.

It is easier to conclude that these projects are all going to be failures. No use hunting behind them and no use trying to find a pin in a haystack. The days of ICOs being big are long gone and it has been 3years where no such coin has risen to come close to bitcoin.

[Viscore]

They will never learn unless someone will give advice to them not to join that campaign or tell them how they will know if it a scam project or not. Some people browse already and figure out how they will not trap from scammers. Many projects are just copying the idea of project that have been successfully launch then try to create different name of their token. I always check the environment of their website and it's the first thing that I do then read the ANN thread about the review of the project. If the campaign haven't project team and some suspicious names and image are stated this will be hint for another a scam project.

What you are explaining are good pointers on how to avoid bad projects to promote in bounty campaign, however, it's not really expected that majority would do due diligence before joining a campaign, for the reason that they are lazy and some of them does not really have an idea about what is crypto, they were just invited by some friends, do some lazy job and expect some return, pretty much they think its still 2017.

To be able to see a great project, bounty hunters should think like a real investor.

[Kupid002]

They will never learn unless someone will give advice to them not to join that campaign or tell them how they will know if it a scam project or not. Some people browse already and figure out how they will not trap from scammers. Many projects are just copying the idea of project that have been successfully launch then try to create different name of their token. I always check the environment of their website and it's the first thing that I do then read the ANN thread about the review of the project. If the campaign haven't project team and some suspicious names and image are stated this will be hint for another a scam project.

Most of them is just a copy and never add any ideas belong to them which is i think the reasons why more of the ICO failed.

Greed to raise funds from investors that is the reasons why more of the project failed they dont want to use a money from thier own pocket they just use an easy way to advertise which is we called (  bounty ).

[Sanitough]

To be able to see a great project, bounty hunters should think like a real investor.

I wish this is possible, even without full regulation, this would help a lot as nothing beats an educated bounty hunter.
And if they are investing at the same time, it's impossible that they will allow to dump the coin which would only result to a struggle of the project in the future.

[TheUltraElite]

Most of them is just a copy and never add any ideas belong to them which is i think the reasons why more of the ICO failed.

I agree here. I have many projects following the same sector of the market, like gaming coins, advertisement revenue system ICOs and so on which have all failed horribly because these market are highly saturated by big players in the contemporary fiat ecosystem. They dont have a crypto version maybe but having so many ICOs do that is also a blunder.

Again this point seems easy to understand now but was difficult to understand when the hype was on.

Whether project owners have been greedy with paying the hunters less is also a debatable question. While hunters always feel self entitled, there are cheaters who ruin the projects bounty funds and make the other hunter suffer.

[Rodeo02]

The fastest way to detect scam projects is clicking on their image and searching with google image search engine and you will get some secrets in return, nice try OP, nice try, this is very simple and easy

That's only work if their team are only copy pasting from image which we can find on google. How if they are use some photos or images which there isn't on google? How can you detect them? That's why it's big risk to join on altcoin bounty

Very true, I was investigating a new bounty on this forum but I can't find any copy of the images used as team member on the project's website, I used almost all image search engine available, I wonder what's next to easily detect scam projects now

by searching it in the web you can easily see thier fake identity.
But to be honest more of the scam project use thier real photo and identity tomake it easier to investor's to belive in them.

The large raised funds scam by a project is not came from fake people but in the real persons that promising a fake project.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

Is this the right place to discuss this problem? I may will be happy if you move it to scam accusation if there is no thread who have been discussing it.

There might just a few bounty huntee who wonted to see the scam accusation thread and they will be spared to promote scam project.

But for those who just open this forum for bounty section only then they will never aware of it. Even, most of them will keep promote the project because they didn't know that the project is scam and it is horrible.

I'll be agree if this forum's rule obligate for those bounty hunter even for all user to have an understanding to spot scam project at least they know the basic knowledge to differentiate the legit and scam project.

[TheUltraElite]

Is this the right place to discuss this problem? I may will be happy if you move it to scam accusation if there is no thread who have been discussing it.

Upto the OP to post it there if they wish too.

There might just a few bounty huntee who wonted to see the scam accusation thread and they will be spared to promote scam project.

True but we dont see much of them coming to check these sections at all. Their life here is only login-bounty-logout.

But for those who just open this forum for bounty section only then they will never aware of it. Even, most of them will keep promote the project because they didn't know that the project is scam and it is horrible.

They will come back, like 4months after completion of the promo and spam the bounty thread begging for reward and not reading the posts. Sucks to be these pople.

I'll be agree if this forum's rule obligate for those bounty hunter even for all user to have an understanding to spot scam project at least they know the basic knowledge to differentiate the legit and scam project.

You cannot help a person who has a flawed insight and does not know how to judge investments. There is nothing called free money here. Anything being given out free will end up being your loss.

[ahyadinnn]

Very true, I was investigating a new bounty on this forum but I can't find any copy of the images used as team member on the project's website, I used almost all image search engine available, I wonder what's next to easily detect scam projects now

try to pay attention to the social media of the project team that you promote usually they have other photos, I usually use a search on google images and there are some images that are not displayed in search engines because they edit and make images feel different in search engines

[seleme]

I am impressed with the simple but strong research, at least you decrypted the hidden information behind the bounty campaign. The project doesn't look like promising but there is another reason why bounty hunters join this camping. The exchange promises make the project attractive compared to the alternative projects with no idea about the listing on exchanges.

[TheUltraElite]

try to pay attention to the social media of the project team that you promote usually they have other photos, I usually use a search on google images and there are some images that are not displayed in search engines because they edit and make images feel different in search engines

They have grown to know better you know. Scammers are cunning so they know how we research to prevent being caught. What they do is modify the fake team image in such a way that the pictures yield zero search results on search engines.

Thing is the fools will always be fooled because human stupidity has no end.

Now the only way to stop being scammed by them is to stop investing in ICOs and stop hunting any bounties provided for them. If you are willing to take the risk and the anxiety thereafter then they can do as they wish.