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Quote from: kotajikikox on March 01, 2023, 12:40:27 AM

We cannot compare Airdrops from the past and how it is now so best to remind yourself if this is still worth it or not? because the way airdrops being advertise now it is given that they are only luring stupid people to let them becomg popular and earn while airdroppers will be losers.
I forget about this since years ago because of constant scam accusations i have been reading , lucky that i never become one since day one.

The word "stupid" is a harsh description for those people that are still trying to do those though. Let's just call it "inexperienced" instead. There are some recent replies pointing out that there are somehow still legitimate airdrops going on, but I ain't going to try to attempt them regardless since I do not have the time to do another airdrop hunts again like I usually do before.

It's just not worth it in my own time. Others might enjoy it though so good for them.

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It is wasting your time and effort. There are only a few, almost none, that you can earn in airdrops right now, unlike before, like, 5 years ago, when it was really good. We called it before "There's money in garbage" because we could earn money from it. There will be times when you get lucky and earn a lot of money, but it will be on a weekly basis. But now most of them are scams, so it would be better to focus your time on others than join those, unless you have plenty of time.

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Quote from: profgates on March 01, 2023, 12:58:58 AM

Airdrop hunting is no longer lucrative and I'll consider it as a waste of time and effort. Secondly, there's a risk of loosing your information to the wrong person's as those information could serve as a tool for hacking or luring you to be hacked. I'll prefer to stay away from airdrops as they no longer worth the time, effort, and risk.

Not all but I have to admit that the majority are just a waste of time and effort.
I have been participating in airdrops before and I would say that they will pay you good amounts and really profitable. But unfortunately, the trend has changed and it is just about to happen that scam/fake airdrops have been growing fast. As we can see, airdrops are flooded in the market but people are rejecting them because they are useless and they might compromise your personal information especially if they are asking for your KYC.

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Quote from: profgates on March 01, 2023, 12:58:58 AM

Airdrop hunting is no longer lucrative and I'll consider it as a waste of time and effort...

You equates all airdrops as fraudulent, while they differ greatly from each other by different levels of difficulty. In addition to those airdrops in which you previously participated, there are also airdrops that pay for testing in the testnet and retroactive airdrops, which are the most profitable. Read more about such airdrops as DYDX, 1inch, Aptos, Uniswap, Optimism and you will understand what you should devote more time to in order to get a profit of tens of thousands of dollars.

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Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

Almost all airdrop videos on YouTube are all scams, do not try hunting for airdrops using YouTube videos, those airdrops links in Youtube videos are all fake links and once you connect your wallet your tokens will be wiped out.

Find the project team or the o projects official telegram group and ask them if they are doing any airdrops or giveaways, this is the perfect way to expose or know the truth about any airdrop campaign.

Let's be careful what we connect our crypto wallets to.

I still participate in airdrop events; and i participate in the credible ones. Such as retroactive airdrops and testnet airdrops; i also run testnet nodes for different projects in return for incentives at main launch. When it involves retroactive airdrops, you should use metamask and your pc, and you would need some funds. When its testnet event; you need to use brand new wallet to protect yourself. For nodes, you need your pc and an attentive mind to set up easily.

Airdrops are rewarding; just always remember that projects that will pay have the easiest instructions in an airdrop event

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Airdrop hunting is no longer lucrative and I'll consider it as a waste of time and effort. Secondly, there's a risk of loosing your information to the wrong person's as those information could serve as a tool for hacking or luring you to be hacked. I'll prefer to stay away from airdrops as they no longer worth the time, effort, and risk.

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We cannot compare Airdrops from the past and how it is now so best to remind yourself if this is still worth it or not? because the way airdrops being advertise now it is given that they are only luring stupid people to let them becomg popular and earn while airdroppers will be losers.
I forget about this since years ago because of constant scam accusations i have been reading , lucky that i never become one since day one.

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Quote from: JeffBrad12 on February 28, 2023, 06:56:17 PM

needles to say there are many airdrops that is still beneficial like aptos, had you followed it you got good chance of having good rewards but overall there are so many airdrops that are purely useless.
the thing is to find some real good airdrops you need to repeatedly follow all these airdrops because no one could know how much value it's gonna have and how much you could earn from airdrops.
even though just finding the fact that some project that did airdrops are having good devs team that kind of guarantees the outcome it still hard to see how much you can earn from the airdrops so getting too much reliant in these airdrops in general is a mistake.
i'd say, take airdrops only for side hustle that didn't guarantee any outcome. because most of the time you'll get nothing.

And that is the problems with airdrops, even if the amount was small as long as people could get that amount in a reliable way then their efforts as bounty hunters will not be wasted, but since many of those airdrops are scams or the never pay their bounty hunters then looking for airdrops has become a complete waste of time, which explains why over the years the interest on bounty hunting seems to have dropped considerably.

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needles to say there are many airdrops that is still beneficial like aptos, had you followed it you got good chance of having good rewards but overall there are so many airdrops that are purely useless.
the thing is to find some real good airdrops you need to repeatedly follow all these airdrops because no one could know how much value it's gonna have and how much you could earn from airdrops.
even though just finding the fact that some project that did airdrops are having good devs team that kind of guarantees the outcome it still hard to see how much you can earn from the airdrops so getting too much reliant in these airdrops in general is a mistake.
i'd say, take airdrops only for side hustle that didn't guarantee any outcome. because most of the time you'll get nothing.

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Do you still hunt for airdrops?

Yes, before but now, it isn't that much worth it and it seems wasting of time.
I will not generalize, there are some legitimate projects that use airdrops as a way to promote their token and build a community around their project. In these cases, participating in an airdrop can be a way to gain exposure to a new cryptocurrency or token and potentially benefit from its future growth.

But most commonly fraudulent airdrops are designed to steal your personal information or crypto. These scams often ask for sensitive information or require you to send cryptocurrency to receive your airdrop reward. If you really wanted to join airdrop, be cautious of any airdrops that ask for personal information or require you to send cryptocurrency, as these are often red flags of a scam.

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Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

Let's be careful what we connect our crypto wallets to.

This is what commonly happened to airdrops. Many airdrop scams are in the telegram group and we need to connect our wallet to theirs. This really opens the chance to scammers or hackers to make it a way to connect to our wallets. And this is very risky because we will not know what will happen. I personally will avoid the airdrops that need to do wallet connection like this. Although I am not using the main wallet, this will be also very risky for me. Additionally, I don't think that there are still many worthy airdrops. because so far, I am not getting good earning from airdrops. Or I am not able to take the worthy one Cheesy

It is a no brainer if you're connecting your main wallet for the airdrops and it is also a no brainer if you use your main wallet to participate in any giveaways like airdrops.
I don't even see any risk if you're using a dummy wallet to participate in any airdrops. I'm kinda confuse as to why you're still afraid of the risk in connecting your other wallet, when of course it does not have any crypto stored on it.
Well, airdrops ain't worth your time today anyway, unlike before.

Airdrop hunters should practice having a wallet that is only intended for wallets and giveaways like this. You can possibly lose some assets depending on the situation you have. Most of the airdrop hunters use one wallet for their airdrop hunting activity, This is for them to be organized and be move way easier than keep changing wallet each time they join airdrops. The risk in this is your airdrop wallet be hacked with a valuable token inside you get from another airdrop that you don't know like forgetting to check the value of coins you receive or you don't check the coins you receive. There's always a risk in every move you make especially if you don't really focus on things you do on crypto.

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Quote from: lalabotax on February 28, 2023, 05:04:57 PM

Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

Let's be careful what we connect our crypto wallets to.

This is what commonly happened to airdrops. Many airdrop scams are in the telegram group and we need to connect our wallet to theirs. This really opens the chance to scammers or hackers to make it a way to connect to our wallets. And this is very risky because we will not know what will happen. I personally will avoid the airdrops that need to do wallet connection like this. Although I am not using the main wallet, this will be also very risky for me. Additionally, I don't think that there are still many worthy airdrops. because so far, I am not getting good earning from airdrops. Or I am not able to take the worthy one Cheesy

It is a no brainer if you're connecting your main wallet for the airdrops and it is also a no brainer if you use your main wallet to participate in any giveaways like airdrops.
I don't even see any risk if you're using a dummy wallet to participate in any airdrops. I'm kinda confuse as to why you're still afraid of the risk in connecting your other wallet, when of course it does not have any crypto stored on it.
Well, airdrops ain't worth your time today anyway, unlike before.

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Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

Let's be careful what we connect our crypto wallets to.

This is what commonly happened to airdrops. Many airdrop scams are in the telegram group and we need to connect our wallet to theirs. This really opens the chance to scammers or hackers to make it a way to connect to our wallets. And this is very risky because we will not know what will happen. I personally will avoid the airdrops that need to do wallet connection like this. Although I am not using the main wallet, this will be also very risky for me. Additionally, I don't think that there are still many worthy airdrops. because so far, I am not getting good earning from airdrops. Or I am not able to take the worthy one Cheesy

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I couldn't think it joining anymore but by chance given the opportunity and seeing that airdrop is worth participating in, then why not? But if we are talking about hunting them and spending/wasting our time digging into hundreds or thousands of airdrops, I don't think so.
I guess we are not new to the information about fraud and scam airdrops, and I can't afford to lose my personal information as well into them especially when asking for KYC.

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Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

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Even if you do find the project team, official telegram, LinkedIn pages of each team with a lots of followers, they are not entirely the indicator of something of "not a scam". A scummy team would pretend to be another team just to make the public believe that they are legitimate cause who in the legitimate team would check it anyway, right?

I would steer clear of airdrops if I were you. It is not just worth it. Upgrade00 also mentioned "identity theft" and believe me, it almost happened to me back then as well with just an icing on the top of the cake of phishing website.

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Quote from: Sterbens on February 28, 2023, 12:40:49 PM

Yes I agree with what was said, the official channel doesn't guarantee it will actually be a promising project (don't end up being a scam). Everything is still a possibility that it can still happen, it's just that there may be a smaller chance of becoming a fraudulent project.

That's wrong. When you consider that over 90% of projects turn out to be shams or scams the chance of them becoming fraudulent and misusing your information is very high.

As I recommended earlier, avoid applying for multiple airdrops as you risk your funds and privacy.

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If it doesn't require me a lot then I'd just sign up for it but to say that I'm hunting for it, is not in that situation. I've got real-life friends that have a lot of time doing all of those things required by a project that's giving airdrops. There is no guarantee with it and yet they spend their time on it in hope that one day it will be like those projects that have got some buff and managed to get listed in various exchanges adding value and price to their tokens. I've given them my word already that if it asks for their personal information it might later be sold somewhere they didn't know in exchange only for that hope and potential token that might give them pennies in value. I can't blame them for that since they look enjoying of what they do but enough is enough and I've given them some words already.

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Quote from: Call_LSI on February 27, 2023, 08:31:33 AM

Almost all airdrop videos on YouTube are all scams, do not try hunting for airdrops using YouTube videos, those airdrops links in Youtube videos are all fake links and once you connect your wallet your tokens will be wiped out.

Find the project team or the o projects official telegram group and ask them if they are doing any airdrops or giveaways, this is the perfect way to expose or know the truth about any airdrop campaign.
Let's be careful what we connect our crypto wallets to.

Not only should you never trust any airdrop where you need to link your wallet. You should ALWAYS double check even the official telegram group. Any telegram group that's offering you free stuff is most likely a fake group. I know some fake telegram groups made for mid level cryptocurrencies that claim to be an official groups and they have even more members then actual official one.

That being said. I don't hunt for airdrops. I usually get them just by being an early supporter of some projects. And they have been paying a lot in the past.

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The majority of the people here have not tried to hunt for airdrops anymore—the members who are active in the forum. Active bounty hunters are those people who probably still hunt those airdrops and get free currency. Whether it has value or not, they probably like having the crypto in their wallet. Those tasks to gain the airdrop are quite easy for them because that's probably how they do to earn money.

As long as you know what you are doing, scams can be prevented. You just have to be wary of the value you are doing.

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Quote from: KingsDen on February 28, 2023, 09:24:08 AM

Quote from: Upgrade00 on February 27, 2023, 08:41:46 AM

You can still be scammed through project's official channels, as the actual project could be a scam in the end.

That statement of yours is so true. I have said it before that not all projects are from the beginning. Some of these projects come with real vision and clear intent to make good impact in the cryptocurrency industry . But due to the hurdles and difficulties of new projects. They may try their best to keep the project going but in the end all their efforts fail and it will be termed as scam Project.

Not all projects are scam, some just turned to become scam amidst frustration and maybe mismanagement.

Yes I agree with what was said, the official channel doesn't guarantee it will actually be a promising project (don't end up being a scam). Everything is still a possibility that it can still happen, it's just that there may be a smaller chance of becoming a fraudulent project.
There are projects that really have the intention of cheating from the start, there are also projects that start out well but are not managed properly so that it turns out to be a scam in the end, I once again agree with that.

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