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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Scams are almost everywhere, it is really hard to trust someone online, especially strangers. These scammers will never stop finding ways just to see someone fall into their trap. A reason why we should not just be aware of their evil doings but also, know how to avoid them and determine if that is a scam or not. Most of their trick is to offer free money, big bonuses, and rewards while encouraging you to invest more. They are actually nice to you at first but later on, intentions are revealed when you already fall into their traps.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam
-snip- Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

I agree that the airdrops offered through gmail probably scams. Unless you follow the sites or the platform that offer the airdrops, it is better to ignore the airdrops offers on gmail. It is not a new issue, we already got hundreds of airdrops offers on gmail since few years ago. But newbies may be not aware about this. So, it is true that we must let them know.

Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media.

I don't how the percentage of real airdrops and scam airdrops. But I know that most airdrops are worthless, they pay us for cents (too small money). FYI, I never joined again airdrops due to so many times the failure in working airdrops. I concluded it jus wasting time.

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Quote from: sokani on September 20, 2023, 04:46:01 PM

Newbies should not be carried away by freebies and airdrops, some of them are fake and are created to launch an attack. They should disregard unsolicited PMs and mails, be mindful of the links they click and know the sites they grant access to their wallets.

Even if we remind them for so many times, it's hard to know if many of them will follow that. They're also curious with those links and that's why we have no idea how many are going to easily click those unsolicited links that they don't know the contents of it.
They could seriously malware or fill up forms that are going to ask for their log in details and as well as the private keys of their wallets. The targets are they and that's why whoever send those type of links are going easy on them because they know that many might fall for that.

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Quote from: Onyeeze on September 20, 2023, 04:57:08 PM

Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

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Newbies do not know the kind of coin they will promote, some times them promoting a scam project some of the newbie doesn't know as I said, tye people I blame most for all this airdrops is the people that know that it's irrelevant project and finally they still project same project, to notice fake coin is something I know that we have to research and make sure that we have known the budget and plans of the project

The most common mistake beginners make is that they tend to promote something blindly without being able to do thorough research. Of course it's not worth the time and what they get, but at least they need to do thorough research to prevent free work.

My worst experience as a beginner was, the altcoin project I was promoting didn't really pay value for my time. I only have myself to blame for my inability to do research, but I learned a lot from the experience. That's what beginners have to do so that they can successfully value their time on the forum.

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Yeah, you are right, mahn. I fell pray with those guys before, and they hacked my wallet. There's also this experience I had with airdrops too when I started my crypto journey. After the airdrop was concluded, a fake coin was deposited to my provided address, and I was asked to swap the coin for some USDT or another fiat that is trading on some unknown DEX. As soon as you connect your wallet, your wallet can now be accessed by those hackers. There are more fake airdrops now than ever before, but I think some projects still do airdrops because it's also helpful to promote their projects.

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A lot of these kinds of emails are circulating around the internet and each of them has a different approach to their victims they already made some automotive replies in order to further confuse and eventually fool their victims. in order to prevent yourself from falling into such scams, it is good to just directly delete the message whenever you receive it, or if there are lots of them you receive every day, you should consider changing your email because I believe your current email is already been sold out in the black market and it will continue to be scrap and sold all around to scammers just to sent you those malicious emails.

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You are correct about everything you said, especially the air drop and the wallet address; these days, scams also target senior forum members because some of them are also ungrateful, and when someone is not satisfied with what they have, they will encounter a lot of unexpected challenges. Although airdrops are among the best ways for many people to make money today, they are not as popular as they once were because the majority of fraudsters now employ them.

Scammers can do anything to ensure they get your details, but I advise anyone who is interested in cryptocurrency to never pray to get involved in their hands because the scammers will scam all of your future savings. Newbies shouldn't be greedy by allowing them to be scammed on social media because most of these scammers always what will make you feel greedy and get into your wallet.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Newbies do not know the kind of coin they will promote, some times them promoting a scam project some of the newbie doesn't know as I said, tye people I blame most for all this airdrops is the people that know that it's irrelevant project and finally they still project same project, to notice fake coin is something I know that we have to research and make sure that we have known the budget and plans of the project

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

I would try to explain this. You receive a mail to participate in an airdrop with the hope of being rewarded with some token for the work done. However, the scammer gets hold of your address and sends a fake token and in the process of transferring the token to another wallet you compromise your wallet and lost your funds. More also, you might be asked to connect your wallet to a particular fake site in order to claim your reward and you end up losing your funds.

Newbies should not be carried away by freebies and airdrops, some of them are fake and are created to launch an attack. They should disregard unsolicited PMs and mails, be mindful of the links they click and know the sites they grant access to their wallets.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Gone are the days when airdrop projects were something with a good experience, right now scammers has hijacked the means away that we can't differentiate from the genuine airdrop providers and scammers scamming people of their funds in their wallets. That's why anyone chasing airdrops still shouldn't I repeat shouldn't connect his personal wallet to any airdrops requesting for such linking as condition to benefit from it. If you must chase airdrops create a completely different empty wallet's for it and also a new email not connected to your accounts in that way you're safe if you kind of fall to an airdrop scam. Don't joke with this tips.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Yeah, many scammers did a scam by using the name of Airdrop through social media but email is their common trait. No doubt there are some authentic and reliable sources of airdrops but you can't ignore the scam ones. Scammer mostly targets the new ones who are not so knowledgeable about the scams and when they know they got scammed. So I recommend to newbies to follow your instructions that will be beneficial for them.

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Quote from: Porfirii on September 20, 2023, 08:21:46 AM

Past are the days when you could earn some money giving away minimum to no personal details. One of my first activities with cryptos was taking part in the airdrop of Decred, several years ago. I think that we were around 3,000 people registered, and we were airdropped more than 1,000$ in exchange. Of course, I was a newbie and sold too early (price went nuts in the 2017 ATH and regretted my impatience) but, compared to "modern" airdrops (to call them in some way), it still was a great deal.

Now we can say that if it seems too good to be true, it is almost certainly a scam. Edit: if not backed by giant service providers like Gladitorcomeback just mentioned.

Exactly. Those golden days are over for airdrops so we can't expect to stay profitable at the moment like we're used to before. Maybe if you can find reputable airdrops today then you will be in profits but looking at the current trend, it's rare to find legit airdrops these days. What we have are these scam airdrops that are here to lure every participant that are hunger with instant profits.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

This is not new anymore as airdrops lately have been more on scams. Gone are the days where airdrops are giving us reliable and consistent profits. So don't be deceived by the promising offers made by these airdrops providers. They are not for us to profits, but for them to satisfy their pockets.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Before now I think some these airdrop were actually paying and was fun to participate in but as time grew alot of fake and scam projects have been developed overtime and many of these projects are now meant for the purpose of scamming people off their little money as so many people are with the previous idea that's some airdrop actually paid some folks not knowing that's the number constant in life @change has had it effect on the whole airdrop system.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Not just newbies but the entire forum and one thing I've always held in mind about airdrops is that they're scam and I've always learned to only feed from what I worked for and thats why I don't fancy or even trip for airdrops because I know that out of 100 aridrops, 99 percent of it are already scams and very serious time wasting projects and I wouldn't want to waste my time and energy on.

I was a fan of airdrops at sime points and I did all of those airdrops simply because I wanted to follow a thread of bitcoin holders and I never profited a cent but rather kept wasting my money buying BNB.
Airdrops aren't worth it and I wouldn't advice anyone getting into it.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Whenever I hear about airdrops, the first thing that comes to mind is scams. Scammers are always using airdrops to get people’s attention. Everyone is always desperate when they know they can get free money. Some of them don’t even care about this risk that might be involved in the action they are about to take. Since they know they are going to be making free money, they will just jump into it, which at the end they will end up regretting and it will be late already.

Most of the airdrops are scams, it will be difficult to get free money in cryptocurrency currently. If you are looking for free money, you are likely to lose the money that you have in your wallet. I don’t even think the airdrops that will really pay will be promoted on social media. The ones that are promoted on social media are just looking for people, which they will scam.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

You did well by bringing this up again; this is a well-known strategy used by fraudsters to always entice their victims. By bringing this up again, newbies will be made aware of how readily scammers convince individuals to fall into their trap. It is a fraud and not legitimate if you are required to connect your wallet before you can get your reward.

I've seen projects that have defrauded a lot of individuals simply by connecting their wallets, they infiltrate their wallets and steal all of their other savings. Not your keys, not your coins, as the phrase goes, especially when utilising a closed source wallet.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Have witnessed such before but don't you think the notification shouldn't be only newbies or rather it should be for everyone not a specific rank? I said that because like you all know, we have scammers all over this Forum and is hard to identify them so I think some of the newbies here are also responsible for these scam shit, don't you think so? Just saying though.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Airdrop has always been a strategy scammers use in getting people because of the free offer of getting money at the end. Airdrops these days are mostly scams, people just need to be very careful with the airdrop they are engaged with. Mails received related to wallet is a scam, non custodial wallet doesn't have anything to do with sending a mail into a email. Newbies needs to be vigilant always and to try their best not to fall into the tricky ways of scamners. In every non custodial wallet their is security guide for every user, but most people sees it as stress to spend time to go through it. Getting information about security helps to overcome the tricks of scamners.

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Quote from: Jocuserious on September 19, 2023, 12:45:30 PM

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

When those who actively register for an airdrop campaign, of course, their emails will be full of scammers trying to trick them into another airdrop campaign.
I don't know where they got the airdrop info, but I saw on social media and several Telegram groups continuing to share airdrops. indeed, not all are successful, and more will not produce anything. There are even some airdrops that require capital.
especially if there is a successful airdrop with participants getting quite a lot of money. after that, there will be several new similar airdrops. it's clear their goal is just to seize the moment.

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