Reward for finding and taking down scam sites as part of the Anti-Scam Community Initiative

The Anti-Scam Response Team has come up with an initiative to incentivize community members to find and report to DNS registrars’ scam and phishing sites that plague the Polkadot ecosystem.

This initiative aims to make use of the child-bounties pallet once it’s part of the runtime to issue rewards, but in the meantime, it is being tested out with a small number of participants and the rewards are issued with tips. This tip proposal is for such a reward.

The process for participating is described in this Google Form, which is how the participating members submit their reports.

Discord user pastaMan#9738 has done excellent work since this initiative started and has already received a tip last month for his efforts. This tip is for the sites he found and took down in January 2022.

This is a list of these sites:

All these sites have been reported to the polkadot.js phishing repo as well: https://github.com/polkadot-js/phishing

All these sites posed a direct or indirect threat to users and their funds and were damaging the reputation of the ecosystem.

So, we propose to the Council that a total tip of 361.25 DOT be awarded, which includes the 20% finder’s fee of 72.25 DOT of the curator that submitted this proposal.

The curator of this initiative and submitter of this proposal:

• ccris02: Discord moderator on the Polkadot server, Polkadot Ambassador

attests that he has verified all the information submitted by the beneficiary based on the rules of the initiative.