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September 15, 2019, 04:22:35 PM
Signing from your wallet is not gonna take your asset off. But still you need to be careful you are not doing any kind of transaction. Airdrops these days are nothing but useless coins which take your space in your wallet. Most of the airdrops are fake and very few of them come to the market and the price of the whole things is not equal to your time that you waste in most of the cases. So joining a airdrop is not useful these days and if some airdrop rule sign massege then its better to back of from that.
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September 15, 2019, 03:38:05 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?
Airdrops are meant to be free and in no case whatsoever are you required to send anything to them. Also, when they asking for private information like signing of message which involves your keys, you need to be careful especially when they provide a link for you to access your wallet with. Most airdrops are fraudulent and one really needs to be careful with the way they go about it; the first step should be having a separate wallet for all that pertains to it.

Airdrop's goal is advertising, aimed at disseminating information about project tokens to potential investors and crypto market enthusiasts. Mostly Airdrops carry out projects that are only planning to enter the market and are not yet known to anyone. In this way, the organizers are trying to publicize the startup. However, they collect private information of the project participants, and it scares sometimes.
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September 13, 2019, 02:15:28 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?
Nope. You should stay away from airdrop that require your personal information and Private Key, then they can't steal anything from you. You will safe on blockchain if you keep your PK safety. Just participate airdrop that you have to fill out the wallet address.
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September 13, 2019, 12:23:34 PM
Crypto airdrops, much the same as whatever else in the crypto part is inclined to tricks and cheats. There is no fleeing from this. It is similarly tantamount to utilizing the web. It isn't altogether sheltered yet you need to take prudent steps to ensure yourself against such terrible act.
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September 08, 2019, 08:32:35 PM
Yes its safe as long as they will not ask for the keys or anything , and money from you its pretty safe, don't transact to personal messages saying they are the developers or anything, make sure that they
dont redirect you to other sites and always be alert to the links, and to the thing you are singning-in
if you do those steps and extra careful your good to go and safe
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September 08, 2019, 06:12:07 PM
Firstly most of the airdrops are nothing but some useless coins. They never come to the market if they come the price is almost negligible. But if you reaaly want to join you can go with it. Most of the airdrops are easy to get they give some task and they you have to provide your address they send the time. But if a airdrop asking for kyc through their form. I don't think its a fine job. Many asking for sign from the address. Though it is safe but I usually ignore this kind of thing.
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September 08, 2019, 06:10:33 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?
Airdrops are meant to be free and in no case whatsoever are you required to send anything to them. Also, when they asking for private information like signing of message which involves your keys, you need to be careful especially when they provide a link for you to access your wallet with. Most airdrops are fraudulent and one really needs to be careful with the way they go about it; the first step should be having a separate wallet for all that pertains to it.
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homt.net
September 08, 2019, 05:12:13 PM
all of airdrop campaign are safe, but if some airrop ask our personal identity like private key, personal information or something like phising we must be aware because many of them just are scamming airdrop.

and for me i never participate in shit airdrop campaign
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September 08, 2019, 05:04:35 PM
Well airdrops are kind of risky but safe and profitable though some dubious people use this as a means to scam investors. You just need to be careful about the airdrops you want to invest in.
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September 04, 2019, 01:00:37 PM
it depends on your definition of safe
Telegram is mostly used in crypto because of it privacy and anonymity features
You may also decide to create an ERC20 wallet specific for airdrops
You may also decide to create an email specific for airdrops
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September 04, 2019, 12:02:02 PM
Airdrops are safe but some dubious people use airdrops as a means to scam people by asking you to send them money or your private key before you receive rewards. Be careful of such airdrops.
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September 04, 2019, 09:35:24 AM
Well the airdrops are pretty risky. They collect all the informations and even then we are not sure that they are going to reward us with something or not. While collecting the passwords, they can also guess the password for individuals. Most people usually keep same password on different websites.
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September 04, 2019, 09:20:06 AM
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?
What I know is Airdrop only works to promote on social media. Not all airdrops are safe, if you ask to enter your network, it might be a form of scammer to take your funds, because that is their access to enter your account.
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September 04, 2019, 09:12:33 AM
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?

If you put your private keys in their form to qualify airdrop then it can hack your bitcoin. Not all airdrops are safe, some there requires you to download a wallet in order to receive your token, but it is a malicious software so be aware don't be fool.
It happens but most of the time with newbies who are not well aware with how things are going to harm them without knowing it, people who are just wanted to earn without studying and without any concerns with the securities of their assets, airdrops can be good but also can do bad things when hackers able to catch your keys and sucks everything inside your wallet.
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September 04, 2019, 08:01:22 AM
Sending airdrop to your address may not create or permit anyone to steal your coins, moreover, airdrops are mostly sent in to Ethereum wallets not Bitcoin.
Just be extremely careful when trying to sign messages or make transactions .
Besides airdrops are worthless, they are mostly equivalent to few cents or dollars to the tokens or coins. So why take the risk just because you want to claim some tokens.
Yes, I strictly agree with this, being extremely careful is the key.
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September 04, 2019, 07:27:34 AM
I think the airdrop is safe, but does not bring any profit to the participants. And we must not forget that airdrop can be a scam.
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September 04, 2019, 01:39:15 AM
Some airdrop are not safe any airdrop asking for any sort of payment or signed message that requires exposing a sensitive information about your wallet isn't safe. Airdrop are designed d for building community for a said project. Stay safe put there.
I don’t understand why projects are requesting any data for participation in the airdrop.  the main goal of creating airdrop is to increase the number of users on social networks.
But now they are abusing it and collecting member's personal information. Maybe they will use it for many evil purposes and it will seriously affect people
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September 04, 2019, 01:36:10 AM
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?
Airdrop is currently more insecure,which is often caused by malware viruses through social media sites or other media,especially if you have to send bitcoin to get coins,I have long since left airdrop I think if you are interested,you should be careful because it often happens  data theft.
The best time I only enjoyed airdrop was during the bull run, all I got was ETH tokens that can easily be traded in Ether delta at that time.
But when some of the airdrop I joined ask some KYC information, I loss my interest in such as I know most of the airdrop are scams.
It will only be safe if we don't give anything, except our ETH address where they will send the free tokens.

I made a good amount from airdrop, but that was only when the time people are still in FOMO due the bull run, but then as the market starts to stabilize and correction happen, airdrop has slowly gone in the space.
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September 03, 2019, 04:37:19 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?
Airdrop is currently more insecure,which is often caused by malware viruses through social media sites or other media,especially if you have to send bitcoin to get coins,I have long since left airdrop I think if you are interested,you should be careful because it often happens  data theft.
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September 03, 2019, 04:35:16 PM
Any airdrops are not safe, but it is a free money (if real) and we dont need much time to do this.

Just remember some tips.

Never do any KYC on Airdrops.
Never fill up a form asking your private key
Use an email and wallet for airdrop only different from what you are using personally.
Never send any amount just to get tokens.
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