Bounty Scam Will Soon Be A Thing Of The Past

[elbans89]

I do not believe that something can stop the fraudsters, because any verification can be bypassed, and the fraudsters know how to do it.

agree, we can't stop scam, It will always happens.
We must be careful and lear  the sign of scam project.
Although It's difficult but we can reduce the loss.
I have met several time scams project, till now, It's hard to detect.

[gurunanakji777]

I don't think this so it can be fully stopped but can be reduced if the dev starts offering in BTC or USDT or any other listed currency that is trusted in the market. Even in the recent time I got USDT from 3-4 campaigns that I loved and participated in because we have been assured that we will get something in value so that matters for every hunter. I see many of the Twitter Ac full of Follow me or follow back I generally avoid such Acs because I always feel they can be blocked because they follow unlimited peoples daily and Twitter can restrict such Acs and this is good to stop the spamming so there should be some regulations for the bounties so that hunters can not be scammed easily until and unless project failed.

[Alcor]

Bounty fraud will continue to exist. Fraudsters, if they wish, will always find a way to deceive bounty participants, regardless of where such a campaign will be held: on social networks or on this forum. Bounty hunters always risk their labor and efforts. As long as these activities are not organizationally regulated by states, unscrupulous teams will always periodically deceive bounty hunters.

[collinsjie]

I don't see the bounty scams declining very soon. There is still a lot of fake projects out there. I have been scammed several times through the bounty campaigns. Recently, I complete a bounty campaign and we were asked to submit KYC and the majority of us passed the KYC. still, we were not paid. They collected our data and they didn't pay us.

[TopT3ns]

I don't see the bounty scams declining very soon. There is still a lot of fake projects out there. I have been scammed several times through the bounty campaigns. Recently, I complete a bounty campaign and we were asked to submit KYC and the majority of us passed the KYC. still, we were not paid. They collected our data and they didn't pay us.

it seems that there are already many bounty campaigns that are scams and have various types of fraud that are different from each other, therefore we as participants in the bounty campaign must be careful and don't get involved in a campaign that doesn't pay, it's just that until now we haven't had any I know because usually they will show a friendly attitude when they are still in the initial process of running a campaign.

[MrSpasybo]

Trust me, bounty will still be an important channel of marketing strategy. Currently, most of the small and medium projects are still conducting bounty campaigns to reach the community. Some projects use other marketing tactics through ambassadors, AMAs, contests but they are not really effective and they are very complicated.

[Renampun]

I do not believe that something can stop the fraudsters, because any verification can be bypassed, and the fraudsters know how to do it.

agree, we can't stop scam, It will always happens.
We must be careful and lear  the sign of scam project.
Although It's difficult but we can reduce the loss.
I have met several time scams project, till now, It's hard to detect.

you are right, I also have a hard time identifying which projects are scams or not. even a project that looks very clear and convincing can end up being a scam or not paying out. now we are forced to be more careful in choosing bounty projects.

[TomPluz]

Social media campaigns are not an option for such forums. Signature campaigns are important for such forums. But no matter what we do, frauds will always be present in bounty companies, wherever they are carried out. The situation can only be corrected by state regulation of this type of activity. Introducing something akin to licensing or at least clear registration for teams will greatly reduce the level of fraud in this area. In the meantime, scammers will always be a few steps ahead of us.

No matter what we do, we are always at the mercy of those people running the project. Anytime, they can declare to be not doing well or they think that it is about to go and say goodbye to their supporters or just say that the project is hacked therefore they decided to have a vacation with a remote island for the time being so they can return back with a new project to scam us again. So many things can happen and there are those who are not really scammers but just decided that the bounty has become worthless and therefore they decided they will never release what they promised to us. I could go on and on with different scenarios...but they bottom line is that we are on the losing end of everything wasting time and effort for nothing at the end. And I see no appropriate and 100% effective cure for this problem...for now!

[mahadev]

~ I also have a hard time identifying which projects are scams or not. even a project that looks very clear and convincing can end up being a scam or not paying out. now we are forced to be more careful in choosing bounty projects.

Yeah, It's really difficult to identify scam project or not.
I also find the project seems very clear ,but end up being a scam, It always happens at crypto world.
So, we must always be careful.

[Dreamer]

Scams are always there and the only way to avoid them is to make depth research on a project before joining their bounty campaign. There are a lot of new bounties almost every day, but only a few will pay the exact amount that allocated during the beginning of the bounty, so it's good to make a good research first to make sure you are joining a bounty of a good project.

[Sharelock]

I myself also have difficulty which projects are scams and projects that are not scams in one way to avoid scams is to research and always be careful to avoid unpaid campaigns

[TOP_ETH]

to detect my own scam, still having trouble or maybe by researching first to avoid scams and get a really good project, we have to be careful

[Hisbullah]

to detect my own scam, still having trouble or maybe by researching first to avoid scams and get a really good project, we have to be careful

It's really difficult to detect scam bounty.
I have joined bounty since 2015, and always faced this problem.
Some times, we join at good bounty manager ,but the project is scam.
Ever joined good bounty, but bounty manager didn't distribute the reward and go way.

[Octoalts]

I myself also have difficulty which projects are scams and projects that are not scams in one way to avoid scams is to research and always be careful to avoid unpaid campaigns

With a good team and a clear product, I think it has more potential for the project to be successful. Although it is indeed difficult to choose which project is a scam or not, but we can choose a Cryptocurrency project with the two components above, namely having a good team and clear products.

[Cadaver20]

I myself also have difficulty which projects are scams and projects that are not scams in one way to avoid scams is to research and always be careful to avoid unpaid campaigns

It is not known in advance which project will be scammed.  However, there are some factors that can be seen that the project will be a scam. Such as fake team members, Plagiarized Whitepaper, newly created social media profile, uncoordinated roadmap etc.