**I am opening a proposal at the request of the Anti-scan Bounty Curation team to top-up their bounties in order to continue with their initiative for the months to come, after the test period. Reasoning behind the proposal, along with budget, a report on all child-bounties opened and roadmap can be found on their post below.**

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Link to the original discussion post: [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1159). 

With this proposal we request a top-up to the [Anti-Scam Bounty](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/bounty/11) to continue funding the community initiatives that aim to protect users in our ecosystem from falling victim to scams.

The bounty expanded on the previous community initiative targeting scam sites that was ongoing for several months, by adding new tasks that aim to create a holistic solution that addresses the problem from several aspects, while bringing awareness to the community, and educating users of both the problems and the efforts to address them.

The Task to find and take down scam sites is still the flagship of the bounty, taking the lion's share of the rewards, but several others of the tasks are being worked on with good progress and we aim to have all of them completed/active by the end of September 2022.

All the details of the proposal, along with spending analysis, can be found [HERE](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12JAtLuwzQjk5AejR_cxvMgz1xnWGwr90r2L34zBs1v8/edit). 

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PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE BENEFICIARY IDENTITY ON-CHAIN (this is the address of the bounty, created once the bounty proposal is accepted) BUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CHECK THIS [ON SUBSCAN](https://polkadot.subscan.io/account/13UVJyLnbVp9RBZYFwHYxa6GPKJ2SqkGg4Mo7jG7uLAbPkT8).

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Approve a proposal. At a later time, the proposal will be allocated to the beneficiary
and the original deposit will be returned.

May only be called from `T::ApproveOrigin`.

# <weight>
- Complexity: O(1).
- DbReads: `Proposals`, `Approvals`
- DbWrite: `Approvals`
# </weight>

- The Anti-scan Bounty Curation team is requesting a top-up to their bounties to continue their initiative.
- The initiative aims to protect users from scams in the ecosystem.
- The bounty includes tasks to find and take down scam sites, as well as other tasks to address the problem.
- The team aims to have all tasks completed by the end of September 2022.
- More details and spending analysis can be found in the provided link.

#236 Treasury Proposal: Anti-Scam Bounty Top-up