Topic: Can something free be a scam? - page 24. (Read 4183 times)

ICO companies evaluate the same as the venture, but taking into account the token. On the company page in the section token design or token economy you can see how the token is designed. If the task of the venture is to sell more, the task of the crypto company is to make the tokens grow in value. If the startup tokens grow - then there are real users, activity, investors. If the tokens fall, the company will die.

you are totally right! Moreover, they are trying to bring more people registrated in order to show huge investors that they have a lot of different followers around the world. You have to understand that this strategy works and many projects like a Filecoin made their hardcap via this particular approach.

There are Airdrops which are scams and ICO es too ,but there are legits too for example i can say DeepOnion Airdrop which last round was today 40 were done since jul 2017 and all is right so you must find yourself.

there phishing site, that's why need to extra careful in putting your information with..need to read a lots of reference bfore putting trust on the site.. observed wisely my friend

Ok   like ppl said  already   giving your time and info  and get nothing back is a scam    now  is it dangerous  ? Well yeah

Did you ever got weird emails  from ppl   that try to scam you with lot of diffrent  ways ?  
Sure you wonder how they got your mail   .. the answer is the scam airdrops

For the mail   they can absolutely  crack the password   since you give them your  date of birth  😁 guess what  most of us  use that as our password for lot of websites and personal  social media   ( sure not me  lmao )

And many more    so   yes  free things can turn to scam

I don't have experience with airdrops and I don't have any intention of trying it soon. Base on what I read from other forum members, there are airdrops that are legit and real with what they are giving. But there are also airdrops that are unreal with their project, I have read that there are some airdrops that are asking you to send them a balance in ETH so that they can send you those airdrop tokens which is dishonesty since the meaning of airdrop in crypto verse is free.

I actually agree with your statement right here man. I was scammed both by investing both time and money for an ICO. I did made a blog about a certain token last year. Yes, they did give me tokens only to find out that the dev team just run away and abandoned the project. It feels bad for me to experience that not just once, but few times already, and it’s just lessons learned.

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offcourse man!!

It very much depends on what do they want? maybe your personal data or just to donwload a simple  "unharmfull" program, and you get hacked... man watch your head, it's a chaos out there,

watch out!  usually if something is too good to be true, just get away from that...

Of course it can be a scam. For an example, the coins that are airdropped, also solds at ICO. And they want many followers and they can ask you to register in ther website or follow them on facebook, etc. They want you to help them to interest investors.

I haven't experience yet that can something free is a scam. It is my first time to join airdrop have no experience, i follow also in telegram. I  attract joining because of free and not exerting effort.

Simply they get your email address and after that they will sell it on black market, also many times airdrops try to steal your private key, so be aware!

Airdrops are not scam in general. You are not getting rewarded for free. You are rewarded for being a community member of that particular project. You are being part of the project promotion. So that reward is not free. Even if you think you are worthless, you are not actually. Your time is worth, your social presence have its value, your words have value. So the airdrop you are getting is not free.

Engaging  in airdrops that did not ask for donations or KYC, might make you feel you cannot be scammed. Good you mentioned e-mail as part of their requirements. If you give your email address out for any scam airdrop or ICO, if they do not use it by themselves, they may sell it to other scammers.
What happens is that, they may send phishing sites to you and if that is the same email you use for most of your security details, such as exchange accounts. If you click on and phishing site they send to you, you might get phished.

As an expansion to this discussion has anyone had positive experiences with Airdrops, either as a participant or an organiser?

no, because all of new project is have potential for turn to a scam, they don't want to be a scam, but the project idea and the execution of the project is not  effective that will bring the project turning to a scam

Just becarefull when joining airdrop from uknown project and dont have any good reputation because just by only by filled the form possible they can harm your device and steal your private key. To be more safe just joined airdrop from legit company and also they run ICO. Although they only collect email adress but they can sell it to third party and make spam and sent link phising to our email adress

I don't think they can steal your data or cryptocurrency, but it's possible that they won't to pay your tokens or these tokens can be zero cost

In some terms especially if they offering huge interest for just a short of time without doing much work.
But joining in any airdrops i think it is not scam since they're asking for our help for making their coins known in the market just by sharing. It is only their way of thanking us  for giving a portion of their tokens.

Something free is often a scam. But not always, you see. Moreover sometimes it is possible even to earn some money through free campaigns and services. In such a way I have got my first money two years ago.