It is really hard to detect scammed bounty campaign. After completing all the requirements to be able to get accepted in a bounty campaign, spending much time to participate in forums and not to mention carrying their banners, completing all the tasks and reports then all of a sudden you will just find out that you have been scammed already. luckily I am not the only one but to think all participants did the same efforts as well as you did. But it is really happening, lesson learned and could be just charge it to experience and move on. If we could only find out at early stage if we were in to scam or a legit bounty campaign. Who would really know anyway?
It's so disheartning since so many bounty campaigns are turning out this way. Howbeit, it has been on my mind lately that there should be a way to devise some mechanism to detect these scam projects flying over everywhere
I think that we ourselves can do little to reduce fraud among ICO projects. This can be done only by authorized state bodies in which there will be appropriate opportunities. If the ICO team identifies and registers with government agencies and they monitor its fund-raising activities for some time, the level of fraud in ICO projects will drop dramatically. Therefore, I place hope only on government regulation of ICO activities.