Topic: All newbies should be aware. - page 2. (Read 404 times)

Before these kind of airdrops are quite legit like around 2017 to 2019. There are really just wallet add and email like form style airdrops where devs giving tokens and had valuable prices. But now its change aside from doing a lot of task in the end the reward is not worth it cause some shift to nft prizes or tokens that arent being distributed. It seems the worth it drops are into spending like retroairdrop and interactions to protocols.

Any airdrop that you didn't put interest in participating in them by looking for them and registering should be considered a scam, I'm talking all those airdrops that we received as email invitation without knowing where they got our email from. Those projects buy emails for marketing purposes and this experience of receiving unwanted airdrops invitation emails should let us know that our information can't be trusted with centralized platforms because they collect our personal data and sell them to third parties for marketing purposes. When you receive those airdrops invitation, just block the senders and move it to spam so you don't receive emails from that sender again or you don't see them when they're sent.


He isn't a hypocrite, he wasn't lying when he said some airdrop are scams, you're only misunderstanding him as he didn't say all airdrop are scams. When he said some airdrop are scams, that's the hard truth especially airdrops that we received invitation in the way the OP is describing. We shouldn't trust anything that we didn't initiate interest in, because there are alot of scammers looking for the slightly mistakes we'll make to steal our coins. Some airdrop are paying but not every airdrops. Some Bounties are also playing but not all. We have scams in everything and we have them in airdrop and bounties. The airdrop that are paying don't need to invite you to participate in their airdrop through email, the hype of the airdrop will advertise itself.

Many airdrops today are scams, because for scammers this is a good place to carry out their actions. That's why we have to be careful when we receive an email notification and suddenly coins enter our wallet. Because many fraudsters carry out their actions by sharing links that have writing similar to successful airdrops such as Arbitum, sui etc. They deliberately use names that are similar to the original so that victims are easily caught in their depraved actions, and indeed this is a common practice in phishing fraud schemes. The reason is, users who are not careful will easily get trapped in this mode. Moreover metmask, and actually I'm a bit afraid of the vulnerability, someone can empty your wallet by connecting it to a phishing 'exchange' they send you, and they can control it to approve your transactions.

It's a shame that things like this often happen to beginners. They must understand that when they accept a smart contract trade, they are giving the contract permission to interact with their wallet. even though they do not interact with smart contracts. The contract interacts with their wallet. If you don't think you buy it, don't ever touch it. The best thing you can do is leave the tokens or move to a new wallet.

If I get an email that I don't recognize coming to my email address, I will immediately delete it and won't even look at what's in it. I often get emails like that but don't respond because I heard from my friends about scam emails. And that makes me more careful.

If they promote the airdrop on social media, we have to be more careful because it is in a public place where we don't know whether it is real or fake. And if you have doubts about the airdrop program, let alone asking you to do KYC, it's better just to leave it. Doing KYC with a $5 reward is simply not worth it. There are still many airdrop programs that you can get.

Whatever it is, you have to be more careful because the current popularity of crypto makes scammers more creative. We may never have a program turn out to be a scam.

And yet people still go for airdrops thinking that because it's free these airdrops are harmless, they even give their important data to developers not knowing that these developers are selling their vital information.
People should stop patronizing these airdrops it become the hub of scammers.

Good airdrops are long gone, it's past their glory days, people should realize this so there will be no more developers creating airdrops to scam people, especially newbies.

Airdrops coming to Mail only are not scams. Almost all airdrops are now scams. And airdropping can't be any kind of skill so it's stupid to waste time on them. People who are new to crypto are very happy to get few dollars like $1-$5 which addicts them to waste their valuable time doing things like airdrops. This is the biggest mistake beginners make. Of course, beginners should use that time away from tasks such as airdrops to hone their skills.

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.

I believe only in famous exchange airdrop like Binance new registration/Trade and speculation airdrop for big projects like Arbitrum/Optimism/Zksync/Layerzero/Starknet.

Mail are the old way to scam people where they send malware/phising sites or fake wallet app to access your fund. Airdrop are now mostly used for hacking wallet and they used advance technology to completely washed out your wallet when you connect one time your wallet for claiming airdrop. This year most  of newbie fund stolen by this way. recently Ethereum CEO twitter hacked and before this other projects discord and twitter hacked and scammer just posted phising site and airdrop greed cause million lost for these newbies.

Many pro users will think that no one will be decieved now after saveral cases but situation is totally different. yesterday my friend send me screenshot that I won btc and ask for just 10$ , from where I should sent btc. when I saw screenshot, It was totally scam but as a newbie ny friend was not aware of it. we should teach newbie whenever we feel hackers are being strong.
 

Lack of information and greed is the main reason why many people become victims of scam. If you don't want to be a victim of these scams just focus on only Bitcoin. There is also a need to ignore all those airdrop ads that always come with offers to make one rich overnight. Sometimes these scammers partner with some celebrities to promote these scam projects. It is now popular to see some celebrated actors, sportsmen or even comedians endorsing this project. Engaging in proper research about a project and controlling the drive to get rich quickly should be encouraged.

Airdrops have become the playground for scammers so as much as possible, we should be aware of it and avoid participating in any suspicious airdrop as that will only steal our funds without us knowing. And while our Gmail has become an avenue for fake airdrops that keep coming, then we should learn to educate ourselves not to fall on their traps. Otherwise, these fake airdrops will continue to scam innocent and greedy people.

If you find money on the ground, this does not mean that you will find it daily at a pace that enables you to pay all your obligations. This is the same behavior that encourages people to airdrop, as there is a small possibility that one of several hundred of them will make a profit. However, this small gain makes people rush to it as long as it is written "Free" on them, but they do not feel that this free price comes with a price, either by trying to steal them, stealing their data, or wasting their time on worthless tokens.

Ignore every free Airdrop that comes to you, as you will lose a thousand dollars every few years, and use this time to learn something useful that will give you a continuous and guaranteed gain instead of dreams that may not came

Many newbies think that some of these airdrops are legit, but after giving much of their time to it, they later find out that they are fake and not legit. The worst part of it is that they waste their money buying data to claim those airdrops and time wasted too.
Lolz, some, after calculating the amount they will receive, might end up telling other people who don't know about it to join and even putting their money there just to claim those airdrops. I have seen some airdrops where, after everything, nothing profitable comes out of it, so we should be vigilant of those false airdrops.

The entrance through email messages, where even some of the messages also end up in the spam box, is the easiest way for fraudsters to carry out their actions and the victims are definitely beginners who are still not very smart in the crypto space. And it cannot be denied that this is still happening today so we need to provide a better understanding for beginners in terms of entrusting airdrops or messages about airdrops that come in via their email messages.

I will not blame airdrops completely for this kind of event because of the many airdrops there are definitely still genuine ones like those made by well-known exchanges now. But because there are now more and more airdrop makers and most of them were deliberately created by irresponsible developers. So we airdrop lovers really need to be careful about this because fraudsters will never stop making traps for everyone through anything, including through airdrops.

Ignoring all notifications that come via email or private messages via Telegram and other social media is better than being tempted by big prizes offered by scammers. Always avoid connecting a personal wallet to their platform to receive airdrop rewards as it can threaten all your assets. Instead of being tempted by offers of big prizes offered by scammers, you have to be realistic by prioritizing the safety of your assets from hacking because you want to make money easily.

@OP you're a hypocrite, if you said airdrop is scam, bounty is also scam if the funds isn't escrowed and not paid with top 50 coins.

You were joined 🚧 [BOUNTY] Pepemo | Meme, AI, Fun! Break the Matrix PepeMo! where this shitcoin is only worth $0.00000000003641, this is definitely scam.

This is my counter advice: @OP, you should be aware and avoid to join any bounty because it's scam.

Not your keys? Not your Bitcoin." Featuring Andreas Antonopoulos.
If anyone ask you private key, mnemonic seed of your wallet, they are scammers.

Even if airdrop does not ask for private key, mnemonic seed, airdrop serves nothing than expose people with new projects that mostly are scam projects. By exposing people through airdrops, those projects can attract investor capital to their scam projects. If you don't lose money by wallet hacks, you later will lose money by buying and holding their scam tokens.

More like:
Anything promising you free money + wallet details= Scam
Unless we talk of food banks there is no such thing as a free meal.

Yes, there are many ways that scammers use to trick their victims. The easiest way is to send a mass email offering the promise of free profits, then they will ask for a certain amount of funds to be transferred or worse, they will send a phishing web address. I am quite careful in reading emails, if it provides an offer with big profits and is not logical then I will ignore it.

I think the era of altcoins is over, although there are some airdrops that provide tokens for free and have high prices such as uniswap and sui, but they are very rare. I don't want to expect much from the airdrop

I agree, I had received a lot of mail about airdrops, and many of them even stated the same project in different email addresses.  All I do is just ignore them, I don't even dare to open them since I know the fact that airdrops like these are just bait to phish our wallet information.

We must be very vigilant to this kind of phishing/scamming strategy so we better not get too greedy and blinded by the rewards since most airdrop if legit costs too little to compromise our wallet information.

Much better ignore all emails receive if its coming from unknown sources since to many scammers use this to make people think that they can earn a fortune with them by participating on any activities they offer. Also for additional security don't use your main email since scammers is using that to do their scamming scheme and pass it up to other scammers so beware about spreading your emails since for sure you receive a lot of shady offers coming from unknown group of people. Altcoin airdrops is famous and we shouldn't let those scammers stole our wallets as well as important accounts.