POKEREUM. some kind of scam to increase the number of twitter followers?

[Fullcoinese]

Don't mean to accuse but I suspect with pokereum and now pokereum is running 2 bounty campaigns with BUSD payout. budget each campaign is $12k and $69,4k.
Bounty 1 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5389102.msg59480305#msg59480305  $12k
Bounty 2 : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5389836.msg59535096#msg59535096  $69,4k
The campaign payout on bounty 1 was $25k in pokereum coins but recently the user changed the rules on the first campaign with a value of 12k in BUSD.

before change : https://ninjastic.space/post/59480305

https://ibb.co/FWgpm2s
Pokereum, a decentralized poker DApp that uses smart contract and client-side cryptography to provide efficient, provably fair, secure and decentralized global poker, has released a demo that is now open to the public.

Pokereum is the first poker DApp to be announced and is the most mature poker program in the Ethereum and Binancesmartchain ecosystem – factors that have attracted interest from a number of major brands in the online poker industry. SuperDAO (Pokereum’s sponsor DAO) currently has an open pre-ICO / token pre-sale to support its expanding team – including newly acquired developer alumni from Uber, the New York Times, and Google. The pre-sale is the only funding round for the organization’s development activities.

BOUNTY POOL VALUE= $25000 in Pokereum Coins.

Signature           60%
Twitter          40%

1. Bounty campaign will be managed by me Pokereum.

2. 250,000 Pokereum tokens are allocated for this Bounty.

3. The bounty program was launched on 10.03.2022 and will run until 10.04.2022

4. All participants must join and follow Pokereum

5. KYC is not required for the bounty campaign. However, the project's team has the right to require KYC for suspicious cases.

6. Please note that any offensive or inappropriate behaviour will lead to immediate disqualification from the campaign.

7. Using multiple accounts, cheating and spamming are not allowed.

8. All participants must send the Proof of Authentication post to join the bounty program.

Note: This bounty distribution will be done by me as the project owner.

Rewards:
Newbie $15
Jr. Member: $25
Member/Copper member: $35
Full Member : $50

Rules:
1. Every participant must follow Twitter Pokereum.
2. Signature and personal Text must be kept until the stakes have been calculated after the end of the Campaign.
3. A minimum of 10 constructive posts per week must be made during this period. Off-topic, Local topic, spam, and meaningless posts will not count.
4. Posts must have a minimum length of 100 characters
5. Participants must have at least Newbie rank in the forum
6. If you have negative feedback from a trusted member for a legitimate reason you will not be accepted.
7. All posts within 1,2 days will not be counted. A maximum of 3 posts per day will count.

How to join:
1. All participants must join/follow Twitter Pokereum
2. Fill the registration form Signature in Thread:

Code:
#PROOF OF REGISTRATION
Forum Username:
Forum Profile Link:
Telegram Username:
Participated Campaigns:
BEP-20 Wallet Address:

Rules:
1. Twitter Campaigns

Rewards:
1. Have more than 500 followers: 1 stake/week
2. Have more than 3000 followers: 2 stakes/week
3. Have more than 5000 followers: 3 stakes/week
4. Have more than 10,000 followers: 5 stakes/week

Rules: 
1. Every participant must follow Twitter Pokereum.
2. Twitter accounts must have a minimum of 500 followers.
3. Participants have to make 5 retweets and 5 tweets per week. Create your own tweets about this project, if not enough tweets from official Twitter. Retweets should be with positive comments and hashtags.
4. Maximum 2 retweets/tweets per day.
5. Participants must use #Blockchain #Ethereum #Binancesmartchain #btc #bitcointalk .hashtags in every retweet/tweet.

How to join:
1. All participants must join Twitter owner Pokereum
2. Fill the registration Twitter in Thread:

Code:
#PROOF OF REGISTRATION
Forum Username:
Forum Profile Link:
Telegram Username:
Participated Campaigns:
BEP-20 Wallet Address:

SIGNATURE CODE UPDATE

after change :

Pokereum, a decentralized poker DApp that uses smart contract and client-side cryptography to provide efficient, provably fair, secure and decentralized global poker, has released a demo that is now open to the public.

Pokereum is the first poker DApp to be announced and is the most mature poker program in the Ethereum and Binancesmartchain ecosystem – factors that have attracted interest from a number of major brands in the online poker industry. SuperDAO (Pokereum’s sponsor DAO) currently has an open pre-ICO / token pre-sale to support its expanding team – including newly acquired developer alumni from Uber, the New York Times, and Google. The pre-sale is the only funding round for the organization’s development activities.

BOUNTY POOL VALUE= $12.000 (USD).
Twitter          


Submit Your Weekly Report On This Thread.
Week 1 (10.03 - 16.03)
Week 2 (17.03 - 23.03)
Week 3 (24.03 - 30.03)
Week 4 (31.03 - 06.04)

1. Bounty campaign will be managed by me Pokereum.

2. 250,000 Pokereum tokens are allocated for this Bounty.

3. The bounty program was launched on 10.03.2022 and will run until 06.04.2022

4. All participants must join and follow Pokereum

5. KYC is not required for the bounty campaign. However, the project's team has the right to require KYC for suspicious cases.

6. Please note that any offensive or inappropriate behaviour will lead to immediate disqualification from the campaign.

7. Using multiple accounts, cheating and spamming are not allowed.

8. All participants must send the Proof of Authentication post to join the bounty program.

Note: This bounty distribution will be done by me as the project owner.

Rules:
1. Twitter Campaigns

Rewards:

3000 followers: $25 /week
5000 followers: $40 /week
10,000 followers: $55 /week
20,000 -30,000 followers: $75 - $85 /week

Rules:  
1. Every participant must follow Twitter Pokereum.
2. Twitter accounts must have a minimum of 3000 followers.
3. Participants have to make 5 retweets and 5 tweets per week. Create your own tweets about this project, if not enough tweets from official Twitter. Retweets should be with positive comments and hashtags.
4. Maximum 2 retweets/tweets per day.
5. Participants must use #Blockchain #Ethereum #Binancesmartchain #btc #bitcointalk .hashtags in every retweet/tweet.

How to join:
1. All participants must join Twitter owner Pokereum
2. Fill the registration Twitter in Thread:

Code:

#PROOF OF REGISTRATION
Forum Username:
Forum Profile Link:
Telegram Username:
Participated Campaigns:
BEP-20 Wallet Address:

Rules changed!

We removed the Signature section on the grounds of "no participants" and we only run a twitter campaign.

For Allocation Bounty

We reduce the number of allocations based on the removal of "Signature Campaign" - Current allocation: $12000 For "Twitter Campaign" - Payment will be made every 2 weeks in USD

Immediately send proof of registration + weekly report. we will lock the thread at the end of Week 1 (10.03 - 16.03 - 12.00 AM)

the spreadsheet will arrive in the start of Week 2 (17.03 - 23.03)

Thank you for participating in our project. #pokereum

another suspicion that there is a source twitter profile that resembles pokereum
1. https://twitter.com/pokereum
2. https://twitter.com/23Prikituw
My guess, the original owner is https://twitter.com/pokereum and there is an ANN thread that resembles Pokereum

Another weird thing, does it make sense for project owners sell their own project sites?
their project site: http://www.pokereum.io/
on a bounty 2 campaign running 8 weeks in duration, a budget of $69.4 BUSD. whereas if it is calculated the total prize should be worth $77400 with each written participant rule.

Payments

Jr.Member $25 / 10 Participant
Member $45  / 15 Participant
Full member $65 / 20 Participant
Sr $85 / 20 Participant
Hero $105 / 25 Participant
Legendary $125 / 25 Participant

But with a campaign of this budget for 8 weeks, you need to have $77400, who will pay the rest as you have a total budget of $69400?
Come on. This proves how much authentic are they. They are looking for twitter followers only I guess.

as quoted by @LittleMouse

so what do you think? is this project shady? or a scam project planned to increase twitter followers? or how?

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[NeuroticFish]

so what do you think? is this project shady?

It looks shady to me too. The explanations are somewhat reasonable, but anybody can come with those. There's also a very good chance that they are not related at all with the original Pokereum.
However, this that old Twitter handle not posting since 2019, with the old domain actually for sale, ... the old business can easily be considered dead. So it may not matter much if they replace that.

I see two more real problems here:
1. Without escrow all those jumping into the campaign may get scammed. And the miscalculation of the funds is unprofessional at best.
2. The new Twitter handle has link to the campaign held on Bitcointalk; some may (wrongly) think from this that they're somehow endorsed by Bitcointalk. And if Pokereum turns out to be a scam, some may blame Bitcointalk and Bitcoin. Nothing new under the sun, still ... not a nice thought.

I would stay away...
Still, I don't have any proof for wrongdoing so I cannot tag...

[skarais]

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so what do you think? is this project shady? or a scam project planned to increase twitter followers? or how?

Move this thread to the scam accusations board, apparently reputation boards are not suitable boards for this thread.

Let's be honest that I haven't been involved in altcoin bounty in a long time and I also don't know much about the project you're guessing. But if you really have any doubts about the project, then stay away from it. OP, you'll get more answers on the scam accusations board if you move this thread there.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

What's funny is that they are advertising a domain that is on sale at the moment. I really wonder what their end game is.




According to the archive: they had a planned crowdsale back then - https://archive.ph/oKLgg which I believe they carried out (https://startuptracker.io/startups/pokereum?t=ab), and now they are coming for another "Pre-Sale"?

Looks like a scheme to gather some ETH or BNB from unsuspecting folks.

[Poker Player]

Payments

Jr.Member $25 / 10 Participant
Member $45  / 15 Participant
Full member $65 / 20 Participant
Sr $85 / 20 Participant
Hero $105 / 25 Participant
Legendary $125 / 25 Participant

But with a campaign of this budget for 8 weeks, you need to have $77400, who will pay the rest as you have a total budget of $69400?
Come on. This proves how much authentic are they. They are looking for twitter followers only I guess.

as quoted by @LittleMouse

so what do you think? is this project shady? or a scam project planned to increase twitter followers? or how?

so what do you think? is this project shady?

It looks shady to me too. The explanations are somewhat reasonable, but anybody can come with those. There's also a very good chance that they are not related at all with the original Pokereum.
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I would stay away...
Still, I don't have any proof for wrongdoing so I cannot tag...

What's funny is that they are advertising a domain that is on sale at the moment. I really wonder what their end game is.
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Looks like a scheme to gather some ETH or BNB from unsuspecting folks.

Same here. I don't seen enough compelling evidence to negative tag but on a personal level I wouldn't get involved with any project in the crypto space that I had the slightest doubt about. And even less projects like this one that raise a lot of doubts. With all the scams in crypto space it is better to stay away. You can find legitimate projects without having to make a lot of effort.

[rhomelmabini]

If week would pass and pokereum account still haven't be firm on what has been said they are working to escrow the funds then the suspicion will just getting huge on their side. For now better to follow the thread to know if they are legit or not, maybe a neutral tag will do or just leave it be.

[Little Mouse]

If they were serious, how come all that shit would be there? Website on sale, twitter handle doesn’t seem official, error in campaign budget. All these points toward one word and that's "Scam". I would recommend anyone to stay away from them. I will wait for this week and tag them soon.

[Fullcoinese]

So far I see no sign of pokereum life on their thread,but I found another oddity.

Gamdom.com is looking to advertise their casino and would like to hire 50 users from Sr to legendary rank to help them out. Announcement thread Here is a link to their gambling topic so that users can check them out. Take a look at the site and if this is a project you would like to help out advertising for, then drop your application in here.

Pokereum is looking to advertise their casino and <...> Take a look at the site and if this is a project you would like to help out advertising for, then drop your application in here.

looks like pokereum not only copied the post at the beginning of the line but pokereum also took the code signature design courtesy of yahoo62278,by changing the letters of the project name.

[NeuroticFish]

looks like pokereum not only copied the post at the beginning of the line but pokereum also took the code signature design courtesy of yahoo62278,by changing the letters of the project name.

I've cross-posted your "report" to the thread Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed.
And I'll report that bounty page for plagiarism. Let the mods see/decide.

[Fullcoinese]

looks like pokereum not only copied the post at the beginning of the line but pokereum also took the code signature design courtesy of yahoo62278,by changing the letters of the project name.

I've cross-posted your "report" to the thread Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed.
And I'll report that bounty page for plagiarism. Let the mods see/decide.

Yes,I just saw your report.thank you NeuroticFish for reporting this case.
correct,it can't be left. I hope the mod can block and also some bounty hunters to were more thorough before sending proof of registration on any project that looks shady especially by offering such a large budget amount.