Quote from: mightwalker on March 10, 2018, 03:11:15 AM

Quote from: rajatjain on March 10, 2018, 02:36:09 AM

Quote from: mightwalker on March 09, 2018, 07:17:11 PM

Guys , we have to do something .

I see a some posts like giveaway tokens for anyone who do some easy tasks and write their info in google doc form .

This is actually scam . Because they invited them to their airdrop telegram or directly joined in a invited airdrop link .

It's make people who scam get more refferal and they no pay for people who do the tasks as promise .

What you are referring as scam would more or less qualify most of the bounty campaigns and airdrops as scams! For a project to be called as scam i follow some basic steps:-
1) Check if the team has pictures and videos of them talking about the project. No pictures and videos of the team means a higher probability of running away with the money with no way to point at a face. Always crosscheck the pictures placed on the website with a reverse image check to ensure that the pictures are not taken from shutterstock or any other website hosting tons of photographs.
2) Check their whitepaper and try to find similar projects or run a search of the whitepaper to find if there is a similarity with the other project and then you can call them out on their thread or start your own with some facts.

Regarding giveaways, that is still allowed. Most of the people refer people other projects with the hope of getting "a little extra for themselves" by doing it.

Some projects put in a lot of effort so you need to do your bit of research and then accuse any project of scamming or not following rules because it might damage someone's reputation if accusations are made without any facts! No one is going to do the research for you if you simply put up a project name and call it as scam!

It's too strange , i see many people think that scam is " take money and go away " .

Furthurmore , they can steal your information to use for their benefit . Airdrop for no airdrop to get more refferal register under their link or spread virus for controlling your computer .

Let's think deeply . What's about a project that required kyc . And after few days ,they're gone ? supplying detailed information of yourself for unknown person is very dangerous .

If someone kept kyc as requirement and took your personal details and any identity information such as passport/driver's license/national identity card, then it hints that these people are mostly looking at entering a single bounty campaign with multiple bitcointalk profiles and they will supply those kyc details when they are claiming bounty or airdrop from those campaigns. It is a scam indeed!
I can't think of a way as to how we can get rid of this issue since any one can ask for KYC disguised as a token and it will altogether come as a personal responsibility only. I do hope that bounty campaigns do not put spreadsheets of the participants list along with their details on the forum since that will make for a little less chance of people getting scammed.