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member
Activity: 1120
Merit: 68
September 28, 2020, 02:50:13 AM
First of all, the number of active bounty campaigns have declined very significantly.

It is that obvious too I think it has. The scammers have really taken a lot of money and time from investors and hunters. But the good thing is as you have observed too. Hunters are tired of being scammed and are being careful. So they are selective which has really reduced rate of new scam bounties.
The irony is in the bounty section of the forum, the bounty hunters are hunted for having less skills and experience compared to old dogs. The good side the bounty hunter will gain an experience which will help him to be more selective as you mentioned. The cycle will turn and the scammed bounty hunter will look for his rights sooner or later. History repeats itself and this is true for scammed people vs scammers.
History indeed repeats itself. I think scam bounties will only lessen, but never go away because there are still people who will be a victim of a scam as long there are victims of these scam bounties, not only in bounties but in every kind of cybercrime in the crypto world. So we should not be ignorant and learn every type of illegal scheme that scammers used to avoid being a victim of these scams.
hero member
Activity: 2058
Merit: 538
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
September 27, 2020, 06:36:21 PM
First of all, the number of active bounty campaigns have declined very significantly.

It is that obvious too I think it has. The scammers have really taken a lot of money and time from investors and hunters. But the good thing is as you have observed too. Hunters are tired of being scammed and are being careful. So they are selective which has really reduced rate of new scam bounties.
The irony is in the bounty section of the forum, the bounty hunters are hunted for having less skills and experience compared to old dogs. The good side the bounty hunter will gain an experience which will help him to be more selective as you mentioned. The cycle will turn and the scammed bounty hunter will look for his rights sooner or later. History repeats itself and this is true for scammed people vs scammers.
hero member
Activity: 2660
Merit: 630
Vave.com - Crypto Casino
September 27, 2020, 03:50:03 PM
First of all, the number of active bounty campaigns have declined very significantly.

It is that obvious too I think it has. The scammers have really taken a lot of money and time from investors and hunters. But the good thing is as you have observed too. Hunters are tired of being scammed and are being careful. So they are selective which has really reduced rate of new scam bounties.
legendary
Activity: 3234
Merit: 1214
Vave.com - Crypto Casino
September 27, 2020, 01:28:43 PM
Scams were always part of the cryptocurrency market. Bounty scams happen as a result of lacking in development due to insufficient funds or improper planning. Scamming in the name of cryptocurrency is found globally, as there is no perfect framework. Bounty allocation with most projects were based on the circulation supply. Compared to the past the bounty scams have decreased a lot.
member
Activity: 687
Merit: 11
September 27, 2020, 12:43:52 PM
Bounty scam is not stopping anytime soon, the issue of buying fake social media followers has grown over years and almost 80% of hunters are already adapted to the system. Stopping bounty scammers won't be easy.
sr. member
Activity: 873
Merit: 268
September 27, 2020, 09:23:37 AM
Bounty scam will disappear only if bounty will disappear in general
member
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www.cd3d.app
September 27, 2020, 08:43:28 AM
For me, the only way to get rid of scammers is just to report them. Every project that claims promising and yet they only scam in the long run, should be ban and report all, so that the scam will slowly gone or we can say it will gradually go away. Most scam scenario in this forum is by promoting fraud airdrops and unpromising projects, so let's report them all so that they would be ban forever.
sr. member
Activity: 1988
Merit: 453
September 27, 2020, 08:34:25 AM
First of all, the number of active bounty campaigns have declined very significantly. Even those bounties which are active now no longer have senior members participating in them. Most of the participants are newbies and junior members. Unless the bounties are able to attract high ranking members, they will not be able to attract the investors in a big way. And despite this, they still refuse to listen to the bounty hunters. They want to go ahead with the exploitative terms and conditions.
sr. member
Activity: 1162
Merit: 253
September 27, 2020, 03:04:36 AM
Not only bounty scam is cancer for cryptocurrency, fake Twitter account is also part of it. New projects are doing it and also some hunters. I think only bear situations can recover from this cancer. Hunters can't take advantage of the decentralization, if BTC payment continuously increases. Rather my suggestion is for escrow service, bounty manager should agree to promote new projects.
The bounty campaign is only a marketing strategy to provide information to investors so that the developers of a project will get a lot of enthusiasts who want to support the project being developed because the more participants the bounty campaign is, the wider and the more people who know the project.
full member
Activity: 399
Merit: 100
September 26, 2020, 06:41:47 PM
Not only bounty scam is cancer for cryptocurrency, fake Twitter account is also part of it. New projects are doing it and also some hunters. I think only bear situations can recover from this cancer. Hunters can't take advantage of the decentralization, if BTC payment continuously increases. Rather my suggestion is for escrow service, bounty manager should agree to promote new projects.
hero member
Activity: 2744
Merit: 588
September 26, 2020, 05:36:23 PM
It wont go away, that is just wishful thinking. People will still join shady bounty campaigns regardless the obvious red flags. The bounty section is a wild west and anyone can open a campaign with fraudulent intentions, which is completely understandable. You just have to learn to live with it, its a part of the game, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose, bounty hunting is sort of a lottery.

Before joining the bounty campaign, I always study the project and if it has prospects of at least being non-fraudulent, then I work for it. There is no point in rushing into the first bounty campaign you encounter, because you can waste your time and effort.

And that would lessen your chance of being rekt.
Also, it is better to join those projects that are already listed in the market, if you can't join those btc paying campaigns.
However, it is hard to find those projects. Or you can join those that have weekly payments, at least it is credited in your account already.
But checking and evaluating the project would give you initial impression if the project is heading to be scam/crap or legit one.
legendary
Activity: 2884
Merit: 1115
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
September 26, 2020, 02:34:07 PM
If the bounty programs paid every week, there would be no more bounty scams. Paying at BTC or ETH is much better, there are many people of us who work only in the service section. Most people who work in the service section go to the bounty section very rarely. I think now a days launching any program  in the service section is more effective than the bounty section.
jr. member
Activity: 296
Merit: 1
September 26, 2020, 01:48:12 PM
i think,Gift deception will never go away. As long as there is money to be made, people will always try to make as much as possible even by underhanded means. Nowadays people do it online more often. To be honest, I now see that quite a number of projects become a scam for making payments without going through escrow. things like scammer prevention have been recommended. However, choosing a bounty that has an escrow will be preferable.
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 503
September 26, 2020, 11:36:33 AM
Just recently we are beginning to have some Twitter campaign giving hunters reward in btc in the service section. This is one sure way to take off this muster that seem like a cancer called bounty scam.

In the Service section, we have a lot of campaigns that are paid in BTC, ETH or USDT. There we always make quite a lot of money but in return everything we make is of high quality. Those who want a stable salary will choose Serviec. For me, I still like to work for bounty campaigns. Although the majority are almost scams, if we are lucky, we will be rich on a project. (DIA is an example in 2020)
sr. member
Activity: 1036
Merit: 329
September 26, 2020, 11:31:30 AM
i insist that the scam bounties will never go away. Rather, hunters should try as much as possible to do away with suspicious projects. easy ways to figure out scam bounties are projects with unknown developers, Newly created accounts. ,medium, twitter, facebook and linkedin. most new campaigns here are fresh projects with little or No background on crypto.

Yes , the hunters should be the one who need to learn if they will stop advertising scam bounty then no one from them will try to make another scam project .because scammers  know when to stop and find other scheme instead  if the they know they will not get any support from hunters.



The more people chose to join in legit project the more chance that scammers will not get free advertisement.
sr. member
Activity: 1848
Merit: 341
Duelbits.com
September 26, 2020, 11:25:59 AM
I doubt if the bounty scam can fade away hmm, but I presume it can be reduced by erection of certain policies and forum managers, to reduce scam projects and hunters was the reason for KYC but how many projects use that again now, it has even discouraged many from joining those campaign. bounty hunters are to take necessary precautions against falling victim of scam project, they waste one's time energy and resources.
Yes, it can be reduce but impossible to totally go away. Scammers will always take advantage about the people that have less knowledge about the cryptocurrency. Bounty scam will be avoided if hunters will always conduct some research about the project and help the community to avoid the bounty that possibly another scam. Bounty hunters need to learn about the mistakes that the committed. There's some bounty reviews threads that they can rely on. It will help us to identify which can be trust. 
I think people who are already ranked in this forum will always do research on the bounty that will be promoted but sometimes it is also always subject to a bounty that never pays because scamer always takes advantage of the moment when they are working that's why because every time someone is suspicious it is necessary conduct further research so that the project does not develop.
But the average newbie account doesn't have any viewpoint, they will continue to do their work without doing research.
member
Activity: 746
Merit: 10
https://axiomapay.com/
September 26, 2020, 11:22:33 AM
no .. Gift scams cannot be removed if you look at them honestly. Besides, seeing the large number of Bounty hunters, most of the project scams were increasing. regarding Bitcoin payments for social media campaigns then that's fine in one perspective, but that won't stop fake gifts from being promoted.
sr. member
Activity: 882
Merit: 253
September 26, 2020, 11:14:15 AM
I doubt if the bounty scam can fade away hmm, but I presume it can be reduced by erection of certain policies and forum managers, to reduce scam projects and hunters was the reason for KYC but how many projects use that again now, it has even discouraged many from joining those campaign. bounty hunters are to take necessary precautions against falling victim of scam project, they waste one's time energy and resources.
Yes, it can be reduce but impossible to totally go away. Scammers will always take advantage about the people that have less knowledge about the cryptocurrency. Bounty scam will be avoided if hunters will always conduct some research about the project and help the community to avoid the bounty that possibly another scam. Bounty hunters need to learn about the mistakes that the committed. There's some bounty reviews threads that they can rely on. It will help us to identify which can be trust. 
full member
Activity: 1064
Merit: 101
September 26, 2020, 03:21:32 AM
It wont go away, that is just wishful thinking. People will still join shady bounty campaigns regardless the obvious red flags. The bounty section is a wild west and anyone can open a campaign with fraudulent intentions, which is completely understandable. You just have to learn to live with it, its a part of the game, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose, bounty hunting is sort of a lottery.
sr. member
Activity: 1246
Merit: 255
September 25, 2020, 10:30:44 PM
I doubt if the bounty scam can fade away hmm, but I presume it can be reduced by erection of certain policies and forum managers, to reduce scam projects and hunters was the reason for KYC but how many projects use that again now, it has even discouraged many from joining those campaign. bounty hunters are to take necessary precautions against falling victim of scam project, they waste one's time energy and resources.
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