Beware of Voting Bot Delegation Scams.
Many people are requesting delegation to fund their voting bots. Advertising to get delegation in itself is not bad. In fact, it is a great way to make earnings on Steemit for both the investor and the entrepreneur. You may argue that voting bots are bad, but that is not the warning I have.
The problem is that people are promising ROI of 50% 90% or even 100%. Don't be fooled by those claims. ROI is an acronym for "Return on Investment". In this case, the Investment is your SP. The Return should be a percentage that you get with respect to your investment. For instance, you have 100SP and a 10% average ROI would mean that you get equivalent to 10 STEEM in a period of a year. A year is the assumption if no time period is defined. When people advertise crazy high ROI they could be scammers. They are not going to give you a percentage return based on your investment. Instead they are going to give you a percentage of the bot earnings. For instance someone that advertises that they will give you 50% of the bot earnings and the other 50% goes pay the developer and the maintenance of the bot is not giving you 50% ROI. A percentage of the bot earnings is NOT ROI. In fact, this is much less than ROI, yet the scammers will try to make you believe that the bot earnings will be huge. The returns are based on the voting bot usage, so they will vary. Even when they vary, bot returns are not that profitable.
I've done some test delegations to verify myself with some very prominent users. One person was advertising 90+% ROI. Actually, I got an average of 12.23% ROI. You might argue that it is not a scam if you are at least getting a return. I feel that they are being deceitful if they advertise ROI and they really mean a percentage of the bot earnings. They are not the same. There are good deals out there. If you want to get good returns by delegating your voting power, I recommend one of the two.
- Find a good deal on MinnowBooster
OR
- Find someone on Steemit that will pay you a flat rate to delegate your votes to them.
It is just that simple. You don't need to know how to delegate. It is up to the person that wants the delegation to provide you with the instructions.
Please remember to VOTE and ReSteem
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