Man, that's a sad story.
I have a question (forgive me, I have no experience in bounty management). Can't those guys first get the tokens into a trusted escrow before the bounty campaign begins, since they mint them from a thin air anyway?
That way there will be no stupid bending of rules by the scammers like they did.
Tagging and supporting the flag.
Exactly my thoughts, clearly this bounty was pronounced as weekly payment bounty which means participants are to get paid every week before the next week campaign commence, if that was not implemented in the beginning then there is no need to blame a scammer for refusing to pay now that project is successful and doing well,
It's about time escrowing bounty funds is taken seriously, this goes to other bm's as well, opening scam accusation afterwards don't usually serve any good. The hunters will just accept it.