Actually organized crime is a little bit exaggerate the situtation.
Yes they are scamming bounties but the biggest guilt is caused by bounty managers. If they do their jobs good, there won't be such a problem. Even with a duplicate check it is very easy to find crazy amount of fake entries.
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Yes there are problem like this around us, some are filling out the form such signature form in order to get stakes without work. Just change the wallet address of course, well for us the owner of the sccount kindly check it weekly and report to the manager to erase the name. But for me dont psrticipate in this kind of project which bounty manager cant do the job. You will esrn nothing because his not good at managing campaign. Anyway we have a good list of manager which real good in bounty management
I also want to add that inexperienced bounty managers make google spreadsheet without worrying about security and scammers now just fix their wallets in google spreadsheets with their own ... more about your advice to keep an eye on the spreadsheets and report, now unfortunately it often happens that and inform, and the reaction from managers is zero or inadequate ... maybe you just need to work only with proven bounty managers, but now the choice is very small and the bounty as such disappears, they are replaced by an office bounty with KYC, with a referral link and a small reward ..the sphere of bounty due to scammers dies and has become irrelevant for honest people 
Bots are huge enemies for bounties if really people are using them and that is plain bad,imagine if half of participants are bots leaving the only few humans the remaining pool allocation ,I hope something can be done about this to detect them and block them ,I hope bounty hunters will take there job very serious and be on look out for these criminals
All points that you said are good OP, but it's back to the bounty manager again. I mean, sometimes the bounty manager is so slow (no offense) to check and update the participants. I know they are super busy, but please at least spare some time to check all those cheaters.
It's nice of you, thank you for sharing it.
I agree, bounty managers since they are managing the campaign, they need to make sure they aren't promoting scam projects,
bounty hunters does not make a lot of research, as long as they will be paid, they will join.
I agree, bounty managers since they are managing the campaign, they need to make sure they aren't promoting scam projects,
bounty hunters does not make a lot of research, as long as they will be paid, they will join.
What you are saying is so true but the problem will expected to persist because both bounty hunters and managers are only working for the cash and they would not really mind if the project that they are working on is a scam . im not saying all but most of them for sure especially if the campaign reward is too high enough .
Organized crime on bounty do also happen sometimes when the owner is and the manager as well as the promoters are all the same or owned by the same person . it can be simillar as to an inside job .
Scamming bounties has become a new source of income for organized groups of scammers. Groups with developers on their payroll are using software to create thousands of bots and dumping them in airdrop bounty to collect 100’s of thousands of dollars in bounty tokens. Airdrops may not seem like much, but when you have 20K fake accounts receiving 10-20 tokens, it’s a huge payoff.
In addition, these groups are paying copywriters a few hundred dollars to write 3-4 articles and then google translating them in many languages and posting under many fake accounts. Often using newbie BCT accounts to protect the higher ranking accounts they created to put in signatures campaigns.
This kind of scam has started to flourish because the bounty managers who manage the projects are too lazy or inexperienced to watch out for these scammers.
Bounty hunters get a bad reputation because of these scammers. Also projects can’t get quality work because good bounty hunters don’t want to waste their time, since their hard work will be diluted by scammers.
So to protect yourself when doing a bounty:
1. Watch all activities and report scamming to bounty managers ASAP
2. Google your own articles to see if someone has posted it under their account.
3. Don’t waste your time with airdrops
To the admins
1. Check everyone who enters the bounty.
2. Updates stakes frequently so scammers know you are watching.
2. Don’t be lazy, put in the work...
I hope this was helpful...
In addition, these groups are paying copywriters a few hundred dollars to write 3-4 articles and then google translating them in many languages and posting under many fake accounts. Often using newbie BCT accounts to protect the higher ranking accounts they created to put in signatures campaigns.
This kind of scam has started to flourish because the bounty managers who manage the projects are too lazy or inexperienced to watch out for these scammers.
Bounty hunters get a bad reputation because of these scammers. Also projects can’t get quality work because good bounty hunters don’t want to waste their time, since their hard work will be diluted by scammers.
So to protect yourself when doing a bounty:
1. Watch all activities and report scamming to bounty managers ASAP
2. Google your own articles to see if someone has posted it under their account.
3. Don’t waste your time with airdrops
To the admins
1. Check everyone who enters the bounty.
2. Updates stakes frequently so scammers know you are watching.
2. Don’t be lazy, put in the work...
I hope this was helpful...
Bounty campaigns managers must take care of this situation, otherwise bounty campaigns will beome pointless and only a leak of funds for the companies.
It's nice of you, thank you for sharing it.
I agree, bounty managers since they are managing the campaign, they need to make sure they aren't promoting scam projects,
bounty hunters does not make a lot of research, as long as they will be paid, they will join.
I agree, bounty managers since they are managing the campaign, they need to make sure they aren't promoting scam projects,
bounty hunters does not make a lot of research, as long as they will be paid, they will join.
Infact,this can be frustrating,people using fake and multiple account to deprive genuine account user what should have been a reward to them,i guess bounty managers need to do alot of work on that.
Sad but it is all true what you said about and these things making a bad image to all bounty hunters that doing a great job to make an ico projects successful but these are targeted by scammers want to fool investors in a scheme. For this reason no more investors wanted to participate on ICO and they lost faith on it.
for admin or bounty manager, you should often see bounty activity when running, whether it's on a thread, telegram, or other group. so that you can update, and you see unnatural activities from participants. often the occurrence of scam or spam from participants is due to low supervision of participants.
agree with you, many peoples using fake account to join airdrop
Greedy all that i can say, and of course it cheating the team and developer too
Greedy all that i can say, and of course it cheating the team and developer too
99% the project creators them self are scammers, you think they would care? The scammer bots only make them legitimate and they even wish that would happen so they don't pay people to do it. Or even this was intended by them self, the project creator or the bots they're paying.
it's just that each of us needs to create unique content that some bots cannot copy. I am sure that very soon the bounty in which bots are used will stop to exist, and only tasks will remain in which you will be needed to create unique content 
I think now there must be special staff who oversee bounty activities, either the participation of the participants or the development team. it will be fairer, and between participants and the development team already have their respective duties. but if it doesn't cost more during ico.
it must be present, and it will be better is the scam in bounty campaigns will be as a crime and team can be arested 
Thank you for your news. In order to pay attention to the quality of project promotion, I believe that many projects are trying to avoid the opportunity for robots to get airdrops.
But the problem for participants at this time must also be noticed where they themselves also get a lot of losses due to the decline in the quality of the current project, as we know that currently there are so many project scams that exist 
I think now there must be special staff who oversee bounty activities, either the participation of the participants or the development team. it will be fairer, and between participants and the development team already have their respective duties. but if it doesn't cost more during ico.
99% the project creators them self are scammers, you think they would care? The scammer bots only make them legitimate and they even wish that would happen so they don't pay people to do it. Or even this was intended by them self, the project creator or the bots they're paying.
This is an important accusation that must be looked into by all bounty program organizers.
I didn’t even think that such sophisticated methods of the bounty campaigns participation results falsifying take place. If this is really true, then KYC verification procedure should be implemented for all bounty hunters without any exception.
Good BMs care for their campaigns and asking for authentication posts on BT and/or on telegram to filter out the bots.
Their methods are sophisticated but it is important to fight against them.
Their methods are sophisticated but it is important to fight against them.
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