I also think the anti-scam bounty needs a full review and investigation. The earlier Polkadot Anti-Scam Team 2025 Top-Up proposal didn’t pass [ check here ] but worth check the comments. Finally they managed to get the top-approved [ check here ] Are we spending $9000 per month in curators? I just ca…

I just put this here: October: 5323 impressions on X (1 month), on main posts (1st only if thread). 12 posts October: Social media = (200 + 800+ 250) = 3050$ [image] → Clearly not their mission. → Don’t know if they have other reach but definitely useless. I summed up concerns here during r…

The Polkadot Anti-Scam Team cracks me up. They haven’t actually stopped a single scam, as far as I can tell. I genuinely have no idea what they’re doing over there… Also if you pay someone to take down phishing sites you incentives them to make sure there are always phising sites.

Hi, Megadot, I’m happy to answer all your questions. The average expenditure since the last top-up for managers+curators has been around $8,400 per month, one of the lowest rates in the ecosystem (if not the lowest). So I don’t understand why you find that number surprising. As for being curators …

Hey Thomas, Let me explain those numbers you’ve mixed up randomly: $2000 was for the X badge. This is an annual amount. $250 was for the Reddit threads Only $800 was for handling the X account So, $800<<<<<$3050 Do you think paying $800 per month to one person to maintain our X account is too m…

[image] frankywild: , the average reward that implementers receive is about $8.7 per site removed. If you knew how to create a domain, you would not mention creating them in advance to remove them, as that would be much more expensive than the reward itself, so it makes no sense. I will paste…

It’s hard for me to understand how much you are been paid in this bounty. Here is a breadown of your two core activities: Removing fraudulent/malicious sites: You have been paid $230,000 for 4 years: 2022-2025 If you are paid $8,7 per site removed as you say, that means you have removed 26,436 s…

This is 0xpasta activity removing fraudulent/malicious sites in 2025: [0xpasta] I’m skeptical that all the sites Franky and 0xpasta claim to be removing as allegedly fraudulent or malicious actually exist.

I have taken down 18,240 websites since we started this bounty in 2022. The rewards have been decreasing every year thanks to the improvements we have made to the process. Therefore, the average reward per website was higher when we started. You can see all this information in the same spreadsheet y…

Thank you for the clarification. I have a couple of factual follow-ups: Do you have any estimate of how much money Polkadot users have actually lost to the phishing sites you’ve taken down? Even a rough range or methodology would help contextualize the impact of the bounty. Are all 18,240 site…

Anti-Scam Bounty - what a joke

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muddlebee November 27, 2025, 3:01pm 2

Previously major concerns and red flags were raised here.

@jeeper @flez I think we also need to uncover and audit all the spending here.

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Anti-Scam Bounty - what a joke

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