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~~Exactly what I am thinking. I don't think it's fully resolved. I am waiting for the complete information in detail.
They asked the bounty participants to participate in pre-sale and also provide liquidity for the ARTD token. Few of the bounty participants purchased their tokens in pre-sale. Later they stopped responding and claimed to closed the bounty and project. But on protest of the participants, they returns all the money which we have invested in their pre-sale. I got refunded along with everyone who participated.
According to your comment, you have received a refund of your invested money. Since this project is no longer moving forward and they will no longer run Bounty, it seems to have been resolved. But the question is, the bounty hunters who participated in the bounty and promoted the project got nothing for their work. So it will remain pending until the Bounty Hunters receive the payment.
There was some ambiguity in the last week of the bounty as the manager told that only those will be paid who will participate in the pre-sale. So we were not paid for that week of the bounty and that still remains pending but in general people are happy to get their invested amount back.
Also note that this bounty was paid weekly and only the last week we were not paid.
The last week were not paid, therefore it is a scam. You can't just say that they aren't because they are paying the other months. If they are legit and really legit, all weeks must be paid without judgement, and they should stick with their rules that they made.
What you've said let me think of those other scams where they do business as regular and let the first customers bring more customers as they are satisfied. But in the end, as people start to believe, they got scammed at the last minute.
If they had to scam they could have run away with the pre-sale invested amount and but instead they returned it. Before the start of the last week, they announced that they will only pay to those who will participate in the pre-sale which no one listened. So technically they did not scam anyone.
Yes it is, it is a mask or cover-up to lessen the suspicion and make them back in the business. It is a simple trick scammers use every now and then. Making others gain a profit while milking others. It is not that hard to do.
