A big sign of a bounty scam in recent time.

[Jaephoenix]

Good topic Bro, but banning hunters from the main telegram group is not the sign that they are scam. Majority of bounties has a rules that hunters must not ask questions in the main group specifically if the question is about for hunters. If there is a rule, then they have the right to ban hunters asking question about bounty concern. However, if hunters asked question not related to bounties. Instead related to the project team and the platform. It is about time to doubt them and leave the group is there is a strong sign of scam.

Sometimes hunters asking on main groups are forced. What do you expect a bounty hunter to do when the bounty manager ignores him and even sending pms to the project team are also ignored. Desperate times calls for desperate measures. I have been a victim severally

[Anonylz]

Many of us had learnt some of the signs of a possible bounty projects scams, like no or poor white papers, identity of project team members etc, but I think that the biggest sign of a bounty scam is the hunters telegram ban by project team for speaking out about the coin/token distributions. I have experienced this situations severally and I think that it is the biggest sign of a bounty scam in recent times. What do you think?

I totally agree with you, if they don't see themselves as scammers, why will a bounty hunter that have helped you to promote your project cannot asked a genuine question with regards to what they don't understand about the bounty program or needs some clarification on? I think bounty hunters should be mindful of bounties where Instructions like "YOU WILL BE BAN IF YOU ASK SUCH AND SUCH QUESTION" are the instructions in their telegram forum.

[Freemind]

I agree with you @Anonylz, but sometimes scammers change the rules quickly with little time for people to react. I have seen it many times, the last time I saw a change in the rules of a channel was only two days ago, and now the channel despite having many users is practically silent. Changing the rules is another red flag.

[David0]

I don't think banning of members that speaks about distribution is a sign of bounty scam. Didn't they read the general rules that asking a questions about the bounty in the official channel this can lead them to ban. Most of the bounties has this rules so it's not a sign of scam to me. Research the project is only way that we can determined if the project is a scam or legit.

[indexx]

Most noticeable is the distribution time, where usually the scam bounty is confirmed will not pay and then the team will just disappear.

[gabbie2010]

It's a pity many hunters don't bother to research about a project before embarking on their promotion a simple Google search will reveal a lot of information about that project those without a whitepaper is a sign for hunters to keep  off while the nonchalant behavior of the admin on telegram is also good to determine the legitimacy of the campaign above all DYOR is the key to avoiding a bounty scam

[Freemind]

@gabbie2010 what you just said is what we've been talking about for weeks in other threads. People do not read (most of them) the rules or regulations of rewards, they do not know what to do or where to do it, they do not worry about spending a few hours of their time to verify if a project is legitimate or not, then when they get scammed or just kicked out of the bounties, they complain, and it's just their fault.

[Debasco]

though we cant say that sometime, because their some community moderator that are very strict and they dont like repitition, but you might be right also.
some project gives unnecessary to receive rules to receive reward just clipx.
closing of telegram group. and the likes

[GREENch85]

Recently there was an unpleasant precedent (I don't remember the name of the project, the management was carried out by Bounty Detective) so there the project made a Swap, initially the payment was made in old coins, and after the bounty the pool decreased by 100 times it seems. Total: investors were not affected, but the hunters were deceived. It seems Bounty Detective was never able to get what they(we) needed from those scammers.

[nicecrypto]

Most noticeable is the distribution time, where usually the scam bounty is confirmed will not pay and then the team will just disappear.

I hear you and I recently was a victim of one of such scan. The bounty managers actually distributed the first batch of the bounty and later ask bounty hunters to even download their app for the second distribution but that never came and the bounty manager has refused to respond to any message till date. 

[Freemind]

@GREENch85 I saw what you say a few days ago, I saw it on Telegram. What has happened to that project and its team is another example of human greed, they saw that the token would reach a good price and they used the excuse of the swap to not send the new tokens and deceive everyone. You can report that project on every site you can, including Coinmarketcap.

[Churphans]

Recently there was an unpleasant precedent (I don't remember the name of the project, the management was carried out by Bounty Detective) so there the project made a Swap, initially the payment was made in old coins, and after the bounty the pool decreased by 100 times it seems. Total: investors were not affected, but the hunters were deceived. It seems Bounty Detective was never able to get what they(we) needed from those scammers.

Hey mate you indicated bintex futures project which already scammed with bounty hunters provided old tokens which have no value.

[LaZim]

Recently there was an unpleasant precedent (I don't remember the name of the project, the management was carried out by Bounty Detective) so there the project made a Swap, initially the payment was made in old coins, and after the bounty the pool decreased by 100 times it seems. Total: investors were not affected, but the hunters were deceived. It seems Bounty Detective was never able to get what they(we) needed from those scammers.

Even when the tokens are in the hands of a reliable bounty manager, this does not guarantee that the tokens will not be swapped. I think it is necessary in every possible way to put a stick in the wheels of this project, and not to pass by. So that next time the projects do not think to deceive the bounty hunters.

[hadi97bd]

From my little knowledge, for the banning of bounty participants from the project's telegram group isn't the sign of scam, because every project has some rules and regulations which is only for their project if the bounty hunters can break it then he or she will banned from the telegram group because team can't suffer the once mistakes of their telegram group.

[GREENch85]

Recently there was an unpleasant precedent (I don't remember the name of the project, the management was carried out by Bounty Detective) so there the project made a Swap, initially the payment was made in old coins, and after the bounty the pool decreased by 100 times it seems. Total: investors were not affected, but the hunters were deceived. It seems Bounty Detective was never able to get what they(we) needed from those scammers.

Even when the tokens are in the hands of a reliable bounty manager, this does not guarantee that the tokens will not be swapped. I think it is necessary in every possible way to put a stick in the wheels of this project, and not to pass by. So that next time the projects do not think to deceive the bounty hunters.

There is no hope for solidarity and mutual assistance in the bounty hunter community. As the practice of the last few years shows, everyone here is for himself.