[SCAM] Citizen Finance [CIFI] - Scammed Bounty Hunters

[irfan_pak10]

What happened: We [BountyPortals] ran the bounty campaign of this project for a month period for which they owe 100k USD worth of tokens to the bounty participants, who worked for them for a month period. After the bounty ends on May 13 2021, they asked us to announce the delay in the distribution, which we did, as this is common in most bounty projects. But once that period ended they again delayed, after delaying a few months In payments, they agreed to pay in chunks in 3-4 months like 10-15% in each month, which again we agreed. But they only paid the first month's agreed payment which was ~30% to the Signature and Content creation campaign participants, They are still waiting for the remaining 70% payment from them.

Please report:
Scammers website: https://www.citizenfinance.io/ & https://www.metalands.gg/
Scammers twitter: https://twitter.com/citizen_finance
Scammers telegram: https://t.me/citizenfinance
Scammers discord: https://discord.com/invite/xqNxf63sHx

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5327870.0
Amount Scammed: 50k+ USD in tokens
Payment Method: cifi Tokens
PM/Chat Logs: https://imgur.com/a/EAhjvpN

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[TimeTeller]

If I may ask, is your team [Bounty Portals] been paid for your service?
Because from your post, it seems only bounty hunters are not yet fully paid.
And when I checked their CMC data, their token is only traded at pancakeswap with small trading volume.
Maybe, this is the reason why they are hesitant to pay the bounty.
But as per agreement, they should really pay even if their token is not doing good in the market.

[cryptocma]

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

[irfan_pak10]

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

It means the cifi team is here too. who is here to defend the project side. scam is scam, people will be grateful once they receive the full payment not the 20%. If they had done the distribution in early days then the price would not have been that much. Its again the team fault.

[Bollexz1]

The CiFi team has been nothing but disloyal in all their agreements, neither they're the type that fulfill promises. Now tell me, what progress do you see in a project that lacks honesty and loyalty.

But its so obvious and painful how many projects stop paying when they started achieving some certain milestone crypto space with the same help of the hunters they're refusing to pay up for their outrageous work done.

This is just uncalled for, and such act should never be condoned in the Crypto space. All these cheating just have to come to an end.

CiFi are scammers and their reputation deserved to get spoilt.

[Alert31]

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

You know why there is a bounty hunter? If Cifi team don't want to pay the hunters, Why they need to use the people from bitcointalk to promote their project? After achieving some success you forgot the bounty hunters...Your team is unprofessional, no word of honor and can't be trusted.People hard work in promoting cifi project is not a joke. Cifi team is a great scammer.

[JayTrain]

I think everyone wants to see payment for their work and the most valuable time that was spent by bounty hunters on the cifi project, if the project showed itself so negatively, then it's on their conscience, because the amount of payment is not so high, they could still win on this, many bounty hunters would support the project if everything ended well.

[KaliLinux]

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

You must be part of the SCAM TEAM. The agreement is an agreement and should be followed to the lata. There shouldn't be any excuse for not paying because you said this is what you will pay and the time you will pay for it, It is obvious that you created this account just to answer this post, SHAME on you, if you really wanted to defend your position then you should come as who you are. Was there any specification that if a certain amount is paid even if the token was at ATH means the rest will not be paid? would you have paid more if the price was at its Lowest? You guy are SCAMMERS and will be labeled as One and you claim you are surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto and here you are 

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

It means the cifi team is here too. who is here to defend the project side. scam is scam, people will be grateful once they receive the full payment not the 20%. If they had done the distribution in early days then the price would not have been that much. Its again the team fault.

[Texac]

CIFI admins could have not started the bounty campaign at all or stopped it before it was over if it wasn't necessary. but they didn't and extended it for another week.

[Rikafip]

This is just uncalled for, and such act should never be condoned in the Crypto space. All these cheating just have to come to an end.

This thing will come to an end when you (and by that I mean bounty hunters in general) will stop joining bounty campaigns that are not escrowed by your bounty manager. Since we all know that it won't happen and that you will continue to do the same thing you will end up getting scammed, like in this case. No one else can ave you from yourself.

Considering the ICO price of token was $2.8 (and I guess bounty pool of 5000 CIFI was based on that price) and now it's ~$36, I am not surprised at all that they decided to stop with bounty distribution. It's not a valid excuse not to pay bounty hunters of course, but its probably one of the reasons. And yet another lesson to be more careful when joining bounty campaigns as more often than not you will end up with nothing.

People hard work in promoting cifi project is not a joke. Cifi team is a great scammer.

It sucks that you got scammed, but that narrative about "hard working bounty hunters" is a bullshit, especially coming from a someone that is tagged for shitposting. Bounty hunting is probably the lowest possible form of crypto work, with the lo amount of effort needed, hence the reason why so many can do while having dozens of alt accounts.

[Texac]

This is just uncalled for, and such act should never be condoned in the Crypto space. All these cheating just have to come to an end.

This thing will come to an end when you (and by that I mean bounty hunters in general) will stop joining bounty campaigns that are not escrowed by your bounty manager. Since we all know that it won't happen and that you will continue to do the same thing you will end up getting scammed, like in this case. No one else can ave you from yourself.

Considering the ICO price of token was $2.8 (and I guess bounty pool of 5000 CIFI was based on that price) and now it's ~$36, I am not surprised at all that they decided to stop with bounty distribution. It's not a valid excuse not to pay bounty hunters of course, but its probably one of the reasons. And yet another lesson to be more careful when joining bounty campaigns as more often than not you will end up with nothing.

People hard work in promoting cifi project is not a joke. Cifi team is a great scammer.

It sucks that you got scammed, but that narrative about "hard working bounty hunters" is a bullshit, especially coming from a someone that is tagged for shitposting. Bounty hunting is probably the lowest possible form of crypto work, with the lo amount of effort needed, hence the reason why so many can do while having dozens of alt accounts.

visit Citizen's bounty branch and you will see that 5000 tokens have been allocated for a total of 100k$.  the price of the token was calculated as 20 dollars per token.  they could have paid out when the token went down to $1.50, but they didn't.

[cheezcarls]

What happened: We [BountyPortals] ran the bounty campaign of this project for a month period for which they owe 100k USD worth of tokens to the bounty participants, who worked for them for a month period. After the bounty ends on May 13 2021, they asked us to announce the delay in the distribution, which we did, as this is common in most bounty projects. But once that period ended they again delayed, after delaying a few months In payments, they agreed to pay in chunks in 3-4 months like 10-15% in each month, which again we agreed. But they only paid the first month's agreed payment which was ~30% to the Signature and Content creation campaign participants, They are still waiting for the remaining 70% payment from them.

Please report:
Scammers website: https://www.citizenfinance.io/ & https://www.metalands.gg/
Scammers twitter: https://twitter.com/citizen_finance
Scammers telegram: https://t.me/citizenfinance
Scammers discord: https://discord.com/invite/xqNxf63sHx

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5327870.0
Amount Scammed: 50k+ USD in tokens
Payment Method: cifi Tokens
PM/Chat Logs: https://imgur.com/a/EAhjvpN

I’m one of those who got paid in the bounty under the content creation category, but yes only 30% was paid to me where the remaining 70% isn’t distributed until now. Although that they have reached all-time high last time and their game was about to launch, it’s just disappointing that they haven’t kept their promise to bounty hunters like me. I haven’t sold mine yet because the remaining CIFI owed to us isn’t distributed yet.

No matter the situation of the price and what it has been agreed before, the promise should have been kept by Citizen Finance.

[lovesmayfamilis]

CIFI admins could have not started the bounty campaign at all or stopped it before it was over if it wasn't necessary. but they didn't and extended it for another week.

How many times have we seen similar accusations from bounty hunters? This is not the first time. Administrators, as you write, could have known in advance the entire outcome of the "promotion". You can promise any large sums, and it is precisely on this that bounty hunters fly like moths, but promising and doing, unfortunately, are far from the same thing.
I absolutely agree with Rikafip. Until the money is deposited with the manager, all the "hard" work of the hunters is a game of roulette. The hunters are partly to blame. But we also often see that hunters do not disdain to violate the rules of companies, deceiving with the participation of alternative accounts. Therefore, you can put an equal sign here. Boomerang rule. If you want the truth, be truthful yourself, whatever one may say, in all situations.

[thesmallgod]

Things won't have gotten into this stage if CIFI team stick to their promise. Irfan really tried a lot and so also the hunters because the CIFI team keep changing the rules and for almost 6 months nobody heard anything about the distribution until they promise to be paying the hunters 10% every month. The bounty hunters did not complain because they also believe and trust anything Irfan told them. Not until the team started playing games and laying accusations that the bounty program did not help their project. The whole thing get worse when they decided to block the manager. For me, I honestly believe the team have a plan not to pay at all because if they wanted to pay, they would have done that a long time ago. This element of distrust and unfairness is very common this day among dev teams and if any investors neglect this behaviour and decide to invest in CIFI, they already have themselves to blame. Just a few tokens were allocated for this campaign, yet they cannot pay. I have already seen some community members here such as cryptoblabla taking up a job with them. They overlook what the team has done to their fellow members and yet some of them will come here to the forum to complain about members promoting scam projects. seriously, we are our own problem here on this forum. As for the Team of CIFI, we shall see how far you want to go with this manipulative attitude.

[noorman0]

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as this is common in most bounty projects.

This is a common thing that hunters hate and they always complain about it, and yes we are tired of reading threads of complaints about bounty injustice (according to them) in this forum. I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but you as a manager old enough should be able to fight this common thing.

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You should be grateful

The bounty hunter's entitlement is full payment as per the initial agreement, not just a few % in the hope that they will gratefully accept it.

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And yet another lesson to be more careful when joining bounty campaigns as more often than not you will end up with nothing.

More precisely, there is no more warning of selecting any bounty with project tokens payment because basically the hunters has 2 worst consequences, the token is worth $0 and is not paid. Hunters just need to decide whether to stay with the profession or quit right away and then develop themselves to become more professional in order to get jobs at the rates they want.

[nimogsm]

I am surprise bounty hunting is still a thing in crypto. I saw the thread, seems they paid all other campaigns in full as you only signature and content creation (which means reddit, discord, twitter and youtube was fully paid). You should be grateful they even paid 4 out of 6 campaign fully and 30% of the other 2. Also, if the timeline they paid 30% was a peak of their token which means the token your hunters got alone for signature and content creator alone was more than $100,000 worth of token which you specified.

LoL
A team member tries to pretend that he doesn't know what's going on.Give people their tokens for their work.isn't that your address?
https://bscscan.com/address/0xE2890165e8685153F7A460472a2247Da922606c9

Don't think that it will just be forgotten)

[albon]

Thank you, Mr. Irfan, for posting this topic. I hope this topic reaches all investors so that they refrain from investing in Citizen Finance or Metalands Project because the project team is dishonest and did not fulfill its promises to the bounty hunters who worked to promote this project and did not receive their full tokens. I reported their accounts on social media and we need to write articles about this project in order to expose them.

[UmerIdrees]

CIFI admins could have not started the bounty campaign at all or stopped it before it was over if it wasn't necessary. but they didn't and extended it for another week.

How many times have we seen similar accusations from bounty hunters? This is not the first time. Administrators, as you write, could have known in advance the entire outcome of the "promotion". You can promise any large sums, and it is precisely on this that bounty hunters fly like moths, but promising and doing, unfortunately, are far from the same thing.
I absolutely agree with Rikafip. Until the money is deposited with the manager, all the "hard" work of the hunters is a game of roulette. The hunters are partly to blame. But we also often see that hunters do not disdain to violate the rules of companies, deceiving with the participation of alternative accounts. Therefore, you can put an equal sign here. Boomerang rule. If you want the truth, be truthful yourself, whatever one may say, in all situations.

Yes, this is easy to say but difficult to implement. The projects (both good and bad) usually do not send the coins in advance to the bounty managers and it is very likely that if good managers demand this, they will hire another manager. There is no shortage of new managers on the forum who are willing to take responsibility for managing the bounties.

Irfan tried his level best to get the funds from the company but it seems that cifi does not care for its bounty hunters. If each and every participant of the campaign can go to their Twitter and Facebook handles and bad comments on their project, the project will surely face a setback. But unfortunately, bounty hunters only post when they are offered bounty tasks. 

[Little Mouse]

Who to accuse here? I don’t see anything citizen finance would be worried to lose here. They don't have a business profile here.

This thing will come to an end when you (and by that I mean bounty hunters in general) will stop joining bounty campaigns that are not escrowed by your bounty manager.

While you are right, this is also true that most projects don't want to hand over the fund to a campaign manager because campaign manager may scam too. We have seen such case a lot of times. If campaign manager scam the hunters, that will be a huge amount and it will have influence on the market too.
I have been offered to manage few campaigns but had to deny for such reason. Team doesn’t want to escrow the fund, doesn’t want to trust me. Well till this day, I have learnt that you are very unlikely to get a project to manage, if you have straight rules.

Considering the ICO price of token was $2.8 (and I guess bounty pool of 5000 CIFI was based on that price) and now it's ~$36

ATH was $381 according to coinmarketcap. That makes sense why they don't want to pay the hunters. We have seen such excuse a lot of times.

[cryptocma]

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Now who is the scammer? A team who paid 80% of all bounty campaign and 30% from the last 2 campaign or hunters who use multiple accounts to cheat the team? Excuse me but that line “hardworking bounty hunters” is an insult to the term “hardworking” because we all know each hunter owns more than 2 accounts which is against the rules your manager set. If you guys can go against rules and feel comfortable then see others going against it as a scam who is deceiving who? Because it affects you directly, it’s a scam while you do same against the team, it’s not a scam.

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