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But sometimes Even Scam projects can pretend very legit , they even offer smaller bounties that the hunters may be blinded check because the offering is really small that does not looks like promising scams.
but in the end ? this is still scam and that is how scammers do now.
Hard but true that they are now knowledgeable of that "Too Good to be true " effect so they prevent from pointing those up because all they plan is to simply let hunters advertise their project and that's all.
No one could have guessed that the project would be a scam, with the offer of small rewards and with token allocation for a lot of bounties, even by mentioning it will be listed on the exchange soon it looks like it looks legitimate but in reality it is the same no one has confirmed that it will become obvious that we can only look at the background of the project and examine it at your own pace.
In fact, hunters are only used to promote new projects and in the end it becomes a scam that cannot be avoided unless the hunters are aware that the project that launched the bounty must do research to at least know the description of whether it is legitimate or not.
i have avoided some projects back in 2017-2019 because i thought they could be a scam or not successful, but they ended up just okay or pretty good, so sometimes researches won't be enough even if a project is not a scam it could fail, so avoiding scam as a bounty hunter is tough, you don't know what could happen, but a lot of bounty hunters join whatever project they find, and mostly twitter campaign, i see thousands of people in the spreadsheet, scam sometimes can not be avoided tho, even if they seem legit.