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Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 01:29:30 PM

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

Are Airdrop safe.? well my ans is no. Because good projects are not going to give you free money. But yes there is some projects that told you to do some task for them like subscribe there social channels or register there website, for those matter you can inquire those project and then you can fill the application. Please avoid those airdrop which told to you such a lot of money. just think why anyone give you money without any reason. Do not give them any personal information for your safety. keep safe, think twice before you do something.

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Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 01:29:30 PM

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

Just be safe please, don't EVER follow a struling that tells you to sign a contract with your private key except through metamask cos it will notify you whenever they want to spend from your wallet.
Great Airdrops don't usually ask for such. Be guided pls

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Airdrop is safe but sometimes hacker open airdrop and they ask for Privatey key Or they want some ETH.This kind of airdrop is not safe.Before joining any airdrop be aware

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Yes it is safe provided they don't start making request for your private keys. You also gave to be careful with the Ines that will ask you to donate. Some are genuine some are not. Truly, some are designed to collect your information which they sale to companies. Some individuals also collate your information and make you join telegram groups which they build and sale to aspiring projects.

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As long as airdrop is free and does not require payment or your identity, it can be said to be safe to join.

There are airdrop like that but you can't expect you'll get a good value of your airdrop, probably just a shitcoin.
Simple math, why would they pay you if they don't get anything from you?

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all of that is wrong. the way airdrop works isn't like that. they give us rewards because we have promoted their projects and not us who gave them gifts. usually our task in an airdrop is to retweet or post their project to our social media. and once again an airdrop is not an agreement but we help them promote the project they are doing with later we are given a reward. after all, we only give wallet addresses, so just calm down they can't take our money.

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Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 01:29:30 PM

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

Never join an airdrop that asks anything from you. That is not an airdrop anymore. By design, airdrops should be completely free. If in exchange for a dime of their worthless coins, you are asked to deposit a certain amount to prove your ownership, or provide your private keys and other private information, or even asks for your personal information, disregard it immediately. That is pure bullshit. As much as possible, you even stay away from airdrops.

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Most of them will not pay or doesn't have a value in the market therefore you are just putting your private data at risk specially if they asked for KYC as requirement. So i suggest that you avoid them as your personal information is not worthy against the risks.

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Its safe if you want to join airdrops but make sure the airdrops are from known sources and stay away from those that ask for KYC

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Quote from: Dannaey on July 28, 2019, 07:50:19 PM

We do not know, but I've gained a reasonable amount of money for some airdrops. Some airdrops require to do KYC, that I won't participate because they will get your own identity for just a few bucks and its not worth the risk. Just be careful on clicking links of those airdrops, it might be a virus or their means to hack your computer, we do not know.

I better skip airdrop which requires our documents for KYC. A lot of airdrop now requires KYC and I don't think it's worth the airdrop value we get. I agree that we must carefully click on the airdrop link because what we get is not commensurate with the risk we get

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Quote from: Dannaey on July 28, 2019, 07:50:19 PM

We do not know, but I've gained a reasonable amount of money for some airdrops. Some airdrops require to do KYC, that I won't participate because they will get your own identity for just a few bucks and its not worth the risk. Just be careful on clicking links of those airdrops, it might be a virus or their means to hack your computer, we do not know.

It depends on different factors. How their lives easy or difficult? How high money they can receive from airdrops compared to their usual daily income? How about the level of their needs on money (for them, for their families) at specific time points, on which airdrops announced for participants), so many factors. However, whatever reasons force them to join airdrops that ask them to do KYCs, they should know all or most sorts of risks before accepting to join and throw away their identities.

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We do not know, but I've gained a reasonable amount of money for some airdrops. Some airdrops require to do KYC, that I won't participate because they will get your own identity for just a few bucks and its not worth the risk. Just be careful on clicking links of those airdrops, it might be a virus or their means to hack your computer, we do not know.

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No this is impossible...once they dont ask you for your private key they dont have anything to do with you just be cerful

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As long as you don't give your identity to KYC airdrop, I think airdrop is safe.
leave it if airdrop asks for your data, and don't sell your data cheaply.

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They are safe and one of the easiest ways of earning crptocurrencies in this industry. However most of the airdrops that are run in this forum these days are worthless as they end up as shit coins and scam coins. I have tons of them in my ethereum wallet Grin

. i have moved on from the days of participating in bounties and airdrops only and also invest into some IEOs and ICOs of good projects in the cryptosphere.

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That is not my experience. What airdrops are you talking about? Anything that asks you for money before giving you something for "free" is a scam and anyone doing it is just silly.
I have never heard of proving you own an address. What will that do? That will prove nothing. Just stupid. I can't even think how a scammer would use that info at any rate.

A true airdrop is free and only requires your address.

A bounty airdrop requires certain tasks to be completed (this is not free and you must earn it) Retweeting making tweets or using FB to post or follow etc is not free it takes time and is work. If you earn something doing something else you cannot call it free. There is no such thing as "earning for free"

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Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 01:29:30 PM

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

For me majority of the airdrops are not good, but there are few of them are good just like what I saw in some of the bounty campaign such as Bcnex, Cma. And if there are some airdrops asking for KYC don't join, because our documents is much more important than anyone don't exchange it with a small amount of return.

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My friends got reward from airdrop, this huge profits was in 2018. I don't support because my privacy and security is first. Scam project sell your information for money and exchange little reward.

They are selling our soul also... Grin

We can't expect airdrops could give us valuable coin but just only a shit coin. Mostly, airdrops I participated before never been listed in a reputable one but just listed only at Forkdelta and Etherdelta. And looking its value today..not surprising cause it is still zero and nothing can afford to invest these coins.

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on July 26, 2019, 01:35:01 PM

It has been a while since I have joined an airdrop. From my experience, none of them has asked me to sign anything. Airdrops are supposed to be free and you do not need to send anything to them. Anyone asking you to send first are scams.

Sometimes I thinks one might appreciate signs up before it get to ones wallet, what if is not safe and u got it without your consent and it becomes a problem. However, I prefer it in an exchange than in my private wallet. Exchange wallet could come as result of holding certain coin and exchanges will be responsible for security check-up of such coin.

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Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 01:29:30 PM

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

It you are not really sure of what you are doing or you are in doubt please don't do it. It is for the safety of your account, better to study more if signing a BTC address would harm your funds but i think it doesn't but it would be good that the knowledge comes from you.

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