What happened:: As stated in the topic title, the bounty manager, @Sosruko, scammed bounty hunters and stole 4000 USDT (2000 from COLLE AI + 2000 from ATUA AI). First, the rewards pool was guaranteed and escrowed by CryptoQuest. The ATUA bounty rewards were supposed to be distributed on December 4th, 2024, and the COLLE bounty on January 7th, 2024. Now, this BM has completely disappeared from the group and is not responding to hunters' inquiries regarding the distribution.
Currently, this type of bounty scam is being observed a lot. Especially after the bounty manager publishes the bounty, the hunters are promoting the project properly, but when the project time is over, they disappear and cannot be found anymore. In the middle, actually hunters are harmed and their time is wasted. Especially those who do bounties, they do bounties to get a small amount of payment but they are not paid.
It is important to stop this scam system, if it can be stopped, ordinary bounty hunters will not be victims of this type of scam.
On the other hand, it is seen that one of the bounty hunters has many accounts. They apply with all the accounts and try to join the bounty. Where bounty hunters are scamming using multiple accounts, it seems normal for bounty managers to scam.
But I think it can be solved by those managers who manage the bounty and set rules and regulations on behalf of their forum. If they manage the bounty within the rules and regulations, they will not be able to scam. And if the escrows that have been taken can be deposited with a reputable member of the forum and a secondary bounty can be run, then scammers will be saved.