Topic: What do we do when a campaign is discovered to be a fraud (Read 386 times)

Save yourself from trouble by removing the project's signature from your profile or else you will be tagged as a member of the scam project, also I recommend making a report but won't bring down the project, I doubt that this forum is capable of going after scam projects since that's not their jobs anyway

Forum ranks are irrelevant in determining the credibility of a signature campaign. There are tons of hero - legendary users who are involved in scams. Not to mention, there are also tons of legendary ranks who were sold and purchased by some people. That is why, credibility cannot be determined by the rank alone.

If you think that a campaign has been involved in a series of scams, you can always report the ANN thread and/or open a flag accusation against them. The manager of the campaign, also, has to be informed about the accusation. Should the accusation prove to be with merit, then the campaign manager has to close the campaign.

I wish more damages that can be done to fraud projects but unfortunately even red tagging the projects ANN won't do a thing, the project will still live fine off this forum, new projects aren't even scared of red tagging anymore nowadays, sigh 😓

I think we can't call a name and state that they're a scam without providing strong proof here or even if you have it, then better open an accusation thread for them. Regarding your concern, I think rank itself does not represent merely qualification and quality unless they got it purely from working hard, being active in the forum, learning for a long time, or anything that could increase their quality. We can't close our eyes that people who buy high accounts exist. Besides, a couple of years ago, in my opinion, gaining higher ranks was easier than now with the merits method. There's a chance that these people blindly joining the campaign without care about the project itself and their reputation. As a community member who cares about this forum, of course, we can do what we can do along with the rules such as I mentioned in the beginning, make an accusation thread for scam projects or giving negative trust.

Earning a few bucks is more important to them than reputation. Most of the participants seem to believe the negative tags will be removed in the future.
It clearly states on the campaign thread "We have an option to allow users with negative trust. As long as you are a constructive poster". A campaign that welcomes participants with negative trust is a big red flag.

There is a whole lot of difference between a "reputable" member and a veteran. You could safely refer to high ranking members as veterans and not reputable. To be reputable takes strength of character (to be on the part of what is legal and trust, away from scam) which being a veteran member may not accord anyone. It comes with trust one earns on the forum and not ranks. To put it right, those you referred to as reputable members who are supporting an alleged scam site are just after their bellies for what they're worth in weekly payouts. No shame and conscience at all.


That is even an ominous sign for fraud, yet users overlooked.

Betking.io Signature Campaign is one of such campaigns that have unresolved scam accusations in the forum. These campaigns do not care about their reputation neither do the participants of the campaign. Kudos to JollyGood for being at the fore front fighting this scam campaign

I think the first thing you should do is to remove yourself from the campaign. Report the campaign in scam accusations/meta. Some may find doing this difficult because working campaigns was the reason why they came here. That's their mission and only concern.

Most of those 'hero' members are with airdropped merits, they look at payouts and enroll.


Negative trust/scam accusation.


You work first then get paid.

If it was some regulated entity, you can file your case with the regulatory authority. If it wasn’t, you should be careful next time there is something like that.

When the current campaign I'm promoting first launched their signature campaign thread on the forum, they got rejected by the forum (asin, they got attacked due to numerous accusations against them) but they worked it all out (atleast to my knowledge) and today they're been promoted around the forum without any issue. The only thing you can do when you discover a campaign to be a scam is to disassociate yourself from it whether you're a manager or just a promoter.

If you don't disassociate yourself then be ready for whatever outcome the community decision to take in order to contain that campaign. If not for the current red tagging of accounts associated with the campaign you mentioned, you think they won't have had more participants, majority are only here because they read or git introduce to the forum as a means to make extra bucks.

Majority don't care about what happens to those viewing their ads provided they're getting paid which is why we see many shilling a particular project (or signature in this case) all round the internet even though the evidence are there that it's a scam. They just want to profit and move on without caring what reputation such actions bring to the community. Don't be those guys, that they're doing it doesn't mean it's right.

Thats normal actually. Like others mentioned we should not view any manager or criticize them easily just because they got a lower rank or not reputable like commonly managers here. But since this forum is bounded a hierarchy such as ranking then its a plus id you are a high rank and got some let say got some + green on your profile and got good record. Just dont jump to conclusion when we saw some maybe they are just starting their journey.

I would categorize "reputable members" as those who are quite known here for good reason and have established themselves here in the forum very well, and it wouldn't be just those who had higher ranks.
We cannot do anything for them sadly as scams aren't even moderated and we can't do anything to stop it from the root. The tag that DT members is the best thing that could be done.

It is money and those who applied to that campaign do not even care nonetheless if they were even paid by other people's stolen money.

I wonder if reputated CMs would consider blacklisting those people from their future campaigns though, although I think the tag would suffice for that already since many campaign have those rules of "No negative trust".

Yobit participants actually got some red tags from other members despite the reputation of the campaign manager.
I'm of the opinion that the previous reputation of a user should have a linted influence on how you judge them, they should get some benefit of the doubt if they have consistently showed good reputation, but if proven to be involved in a scam, it should be handled as such.

Who ever manage the campaign and its rank doesn't really matter, there are lots of instances that newbies managed campaigns due to the fact that it cost them (project) more from getting one yet they successfully get the trust of their members after a week or more, sample the bestchange.

What really matter is, how the funds will be secured so the participants will get paid. Then the campaign manager, if the accepted participants causes spam in the forum and it didn't stop after some warnings, some instances DT give red tags, that's why its recommended to hire CM if the project team cant handle it properly. This is the same on some instances that even the project is known as worst both service and CS, if the campaign manager is reputed and trusted, then its exempted for red tags, like yobit before.

But if the campaign is known as scam and fraud, automatically it should be stopped or else accept some cons, whoever is the CM and its participants.

Before we go on start tagging users we see with a high rank a reputed member, you first have to understand what the world reputed means, a simple definition will have, well known and a good reputation in them. Now go back and look at the profile promoting the project you mentioned, are those well known members of this forum or have good reputation, the answer is no therefore you can't call them reputed members.

In other news, that the said reputed members are promoting a project doesn't make it legit and not a scam. Money can change individuals, don't be surprised if tomorrow you see well know members joining a particular campaign that is well known to be scammy.

During the yobit sega we saw well known members joining and promoting the campaign even after all we know about yobit exchange and their scammy ways of operations and treating their customers.

And then, the participants and the manager of the said campaign will get negative trust for promoting scam projects unless they stop promoting such projects. It is much better if many people especially those who start a scam accusations to spread that it is a scam and not to be trusted for others to know and avoid it in the future.

Sometimes the community are separated and no consensus on a scam accusation. It is best to leave such campaign in the middle but it would be not wrong if you think that company is legit and keep supporting. Remember the community on the forum might not have enough evidence to judge one company is scam.

A shame behavior is when you publicly said it is a scam, attacked that company but later joined it and took money. Extremely shameful.

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For signature campaign that has active flag or valid scam accusation after the campaign starts, participants or applicants will be given enough of time to take off signature and avatar. If they don't take off such, DT members might tag them. Ultimately, scam is not moderated on the forum, per rules.

Example is Duck Dice campaign.

• DuckDice campaign and warning from @Coolcryptovator

Another case that might happen is a scam accusation in the middle of the campaign progress. If the accusation happens when you're in the middle of working for it, just leave temporarily until the situation is clear.  Especially if the company is new, and not old ones with a lot of feedback and generally trusted by the users. Your reputation should be the priority regardless of how much you make each week. I personally stumble upon those kinds of cases a few times and leaving the campaign is what most reputable users would do.

I think that's an excellent idea

True I couldn't agree more. Big ups to CryptopreneurBrainboss for flagging the project not many would do that.