A lesson you should learn from this is do not claim ownership of something that's not yours, in this crypto space nothing is for free.
I don't think that this is entirely true. We can't make our conclusion on the entire crypto system based on what happened with a particular project. It's just like airdrop, we've seen countless numbers of airdrop were participant waste all there time and energy to engage in them and at the end they don't get anything from the campaign but that's not enough reason to discourage people from getting into airdrops. In the midst of the board ones we still have some good project that one can still involved in but the key here should always be to go about them with caution.
A more correct recommendation are
- Use new wallets for bounty tasks, claiming whatever.
- Never use your main wallets to do things in the first recommendation.
- It's better if you can have one device for bounty hunting but I know this point is difficult to achieve with many people. Anyway if they can, they should do this recommendation.
I totally agree with you. For those that have been into bounties for a while, it's a mix of failed and succesfully projects but you can't write them off entirely. The best security measures to be taken would be to use an entirely different wallet and device if you have the means while keeping your main wallet entirely offline or not related to your bounty stuff.
It could even be that your mobile device could serve to take care of those kind of project while your desktop device would be in charge of your main wallet. Whichever way that's convininece for you is totally okay as long as you're being security conscious and you're not loosing or endangering your coin in the process.