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 will be the last month using the tip to reward implementers, starting next month child-bounty will be utilized.
The process for participating is described in this Google Form, which is how the participating members submit their reports.
Discord user frankywild#8573 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 month of February 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 326.25 DOT be awarded, which includes the 20% finder’s fee of 65.25 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.