Topic: 1 merit per applicant who find qualifying posts or topics on Scam Related Issues - page 2. (Read 1347 times)

Save Yourself From, "Wallet Scammers".
“risk-free”, “absolutely safe” and “guaranteed profit”, Latest scam!!
Some basic crypto scam you should know to avoid loss your hard worked money.
Safeguard your crypto investment and avoid getting scammed.

The third week passed without a single application, so I bump the topic and wish that the fourth week will have applications and winners.

Thank you @tbct_mt2, was a pleasure to share my work and get the award of 1 merit.

You are right that most of the posts published by other members are not relevant to this contest because I checked a couple of them (to know the concurrence  ) and found that a lot of them don't match to the requirements.

I assume people are just lazy and don't read the first post fully or at all only a thread subject and the latest posts before they publish an answer and that is why almost all of them are not as requested.

Anyways, I am happy that the concurrence was so weak because I won and that's what matters to me.

A little selfish? Maybe yes but that's the truth and I can't change it.

Check day again (I actually checked all applications one day earliert than the checkday), for the third week of the contest, we have only 1 winner. Congratulations!

1. wwzsocki You win due to all your applied topics. You made all constructive and helpful topics.

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or too short to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

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• I will try to keep the contest alive, but when I have no single sendable merit, the contest will be closed for new participants.
• Check day for the fourth week of the contest is 7th May.
• I have 26 sendable merits in total. So, sMerits are all waiting for your good works

Good luck.

its actually not about scam or nonscam there are now many more things

failure, because of lazyness

failure because of lack of funding

failure becuase of higher power preventing success etc.

i doubt these classifications will work

regards

This is an objective link, please check it and hope it is useful

I hope it's a good topic and worth it

Some roads to the monument and stealing money

Bezpieczeństwo na giełdzie i rady dotyczące obsługi klienta.
MLM - niebezpieczna strategia marketingowa
WATCH OUT MALICIOUS BLOCKCHAIN.INFO WALLET PAGE!!
Bountyhunters.io probably will scam their members. Watch out!!!

Check day again, for the second week of the contest, we have 3 winners. Congratulations!

1. madrogue You win due to this topic, 🔴 Ongoing exposed scam ICO list, must read to save money; Update: 03/09/18 🔴?, (Coolcryptovator)
2. Oyarebu, you win due to this collected post, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.36570772
3. YoloBull, you win due to this blog post: The 4 Traits of a Successful Masternode Project. The blog post is not a perfect one, but it actually contains some valuable points, that help you win.

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or not contentful, helpful enough to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

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I changed the rule again:

• Maybe most of current available topics have been collected here, so next joiners should make own efforts to create their own posts or topics to apply the contest.

I will try to keep the contest alive, but when I have no single sendable merit, the contest will be closed for new participants.

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Check day for the third week of the contest is 30th April.
Good luck.

Here's are some topic which i forwarded for your perusal.

How can the ICO scams be identified?
Past ICO SCAM Analysis
Evidences of bad ICO

I did not check all applications for the second week of the contest, but I would like to say that all applicants should read the note (that I just recently added into the OP). In fact, you should self-understand it, but I added into OP today to make the contest clearer a bit, and to avoid any complaint in the future.

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Next checkday is 23th of April, the second round of the contest.

This focuses more on Masternodes but it's a pretty good beginner resource to sort out bad projects and bad actors based on four simple factors.

The 4 Traits of a Successful Masternode Project

I hope i will get it next week
1. 🔴 Ongoing exposed scam ICO list, must read to save money; Update: 03/09/18 🔴
2. Crypto Scams - fake ICO's

Hi, I'm really newbie here, but I'm in crypto since beginning of the 2018, that was not really good for my finances, but completely great for my experience 
I will be happy  to share some advice from btt  indigenous people with other beginners this to help them avoid many traps on the way:
How to check if ICO is scam or not?
And this list of scammed project, that better to know in face:
[ICOSCAMS.NET] Scam ICO alerts
Thank you, have a nice day and good luck !

Check day, for the first week of the contest, we have 3 winners. Congratulations!

1. QueenVera You win due to this topic, [GUIDE]How to avoid scam?, (Daboy_Lyle)
2. TeQuiero, you win due to this topic, Guide - Some useful additional tools for SCAM ICO detection, (Hellmouth42)
3. rabbitfairferry, you win due to this topic, [Guide] Using Google Alerts to avoid getting scammed, (whotookmycrypto)

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For the rests, I am sorry because your suggested topics are not relevant to my contest, or not contentful, helpful enough to win. Please feel free to try your luck next time.

Reading the whole discussion thread is very time consuming and may be you still did not get the full information. It is still better that somebody have created topic explaining the tips and tricks.

PS: I do not see any good/extensive guidelines posted by OP of these threads.


Nice to know that you are still working on collecting all these good guides.

I'll help finding thread on how to avoid scam ICOs or tips. Someone might need these threads to learn on how to avoid scam icos and don't get scam by those fake icos/projects. I don't know if you already found/know these threads and I found some thread tips, guide and discussions on how to spot or identify scam icos. Someone might need the threads to learn on how to identify scam icos.

Here's the thread:
How to avoid ICO scam.
A good way to avoid scam ICO projects
HOW to 100% avoid SCAM ICOs
Tips on how to avoid Scam ICO's?

It is not the main purpose of the merit contest.
As you can see in my another topic: Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects
What I wanted to collect is topics that provide basic skills to investigate scam projects. So, it will be good if crypto investors can do their own research to identify projects are scam or not for their interests with their investments.
Relying on scam accusations of others is not a good option for crypto investors.
I can easily find out those topics but I wanted to give opportunities for others to earn merits via their contributions in the forum (even small contributions). As I noted in the OP, I will take a look at (at least) two factors before giving them reward (1 merit):
- Applied topics;
- General quality of applicant posts (via their post histories).
I can do it myself, so I open chances for others to contribute and get rewards. Therefore, please appreciate my generosity (you can call like that, because I started with good purposes). I understood that people have to struggle with their first merits (me too, months ago), so if anyone get reward from me, from the contest, please consider it as small gift and as one of stimulation to maintain doing contributions to the forum later.

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Moreover, scam accusations are abundantly and you raised right ideas that most of scam accusations are wrong ones, or abused ones. Scammers, fudders who want to spread FUDs will open fake scam accusations.

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Important note, thank you.
I don't add scam sites to my collection, for now. Maybe, someone will add the site to their list, and if I see their list interesting, contentful, I might add their list to my collection later.

It's not only newbies and jr. members are the only one that is vulnerable to scam sites or scam icos but also member ranks which is only one step higher than jr. member rank. Well, in addition to your list (I don't know if you will add this site to your list) you might also add this site where I found not long ago. I did not bother to check when this site is created because it's obviously a scam site. I know the thread is not a guide on finding a scam related threads but this thread is a forum user posted a link to a site and later on the site is proven scam. Anyway, my goal here about sharing this information to notify forum users that this site is scam.

here is the link of that site which is proven scam and also you'll get a virus/malware that can harm your device.

BitStarz.live - trusted roulette, 100$ promocode for new users.

I agree with this and will surely enlighten some newcomers.

I don't think we need merit giveaway for hunting scam. All scam accusations are not accurate and its little bit hard to determine valid scam accusation. But you can send your smerit to any accuser if you think their accusation is valid. Also you can help newbie from other board as well who are making quality post. I know your intention is motivate more newbie to hunting scam. But not sure how they will recognize.