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Topic: Ethereum Faucets Gone Scam? (Read 8094 times)

newbie
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November 15, 2017, 01:55:57 AM
#25
I found this list of working Ethereum (ETH) faucets http://bitcoinfaucets.info/ethereum-faucet-list/ I'm using this site for some time now and it seems the list is updated weekly or so. Most faucets listed here are paying through Faucethub some pay directly to your wallet but it takes a very long time to reach the payout threshold.
member
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November 06, 2017, 04:22:33 PM
#24
I found one more.. Here is a new Ethereum Faucet which works: http://ethereumfaucet.net/

10 Minutes / min. withdraw 0,05 ETH. It's a new but payments are high..
I hot good on it this morning and now I went back to try again and it says my account has been suspended lol what some crap that makes me so mad
I am hooked into it, is that leggit or not!?  Huh Huh Huh Shocked
newbie
Activity: 10
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June 23, 2017, 06:36:17 PM
#23
No way! I already have 180000 ethereum there!!!!

Its always better to use faucets that pay instead to your wallets. If not so , choose a faucet whose owner is very active in the forum , so that you can ask him if there is any issues.  Epay was the only microwallet that supported ethereum faucets . Now it has turned into a scam. So better to use faucethub microwallet. But it doesn't have ether faucets.But you can use other altcoin faucets and get exchanged in a exchange if you want ethereum.

I mean, I already have 0.00180000 eth on free-ethereum.com!! Nooooooo hahaha
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 500
June 23, 2017, 12:52:16 PM
#22
No way! I already have 180000 ethereum there!!!!

Its always better to use faucets that pay instead to your wallets. If not so , choose a faucet whose owner is very active in the forum , so that you can ask him if there is any issues.  Epay was the only microwallet that supported ethereum faucets . Now it has turned into a scam. So better to use faucethub microwallet. But it doesn't have ether faucets.But you can use other altcoin faucets and get exchanged in a exchange if you want ethereum.
newbie
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June 23, 2017, 09:24:03 AM
#21
No way! I already have 180000 ethereum there!!!!
hero member
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April 24, 2017, 02:27:04 AM
#20
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And then what the hell you necro'd bump this thread?

~snipped~
Or they can't manage their faucet because laziness and lack of traffic I think, this thread last active on 2016 and we didn't know Ethereum's price on that day.

If i need etherum to send coin i just buying etherum.
Easy method to get Ethereum quickly.
hero member
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April 23, 2017, 04:35:46 PM
#19
i think accident same with bitcoin faucet
bitcoin price incraese high many bitcoin faucet is closed service or reduce reward
same with ethereum, ethereum price incraese high, so many ethereum faucet lose because owner not get return
yes buddy, you are right. If the price increase, faucet owners will find difficulty to manage the faucet and eventually it turns into scam. or if they dont have enough users also, faucet owners will get no profit and lose interest and they stop managing their faucets and finally it becomes scam. I think here its the second option.

Due to the rally price of Ethereum, some faucet owners close their faucet for a while, obviously to reduce the rewards and to update a new set up. Last week, I visited some faucets site I used to claim but the balance of their site was empty. I don't know if they retrieved their ETH to be hold and wait for the price to increase more.
hero member
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April 23, 2017, 09:14:22 AM
#18
i think accident same with bitcoin faucet
bitcoin price incraese high many bitcoin faucet is closed service or reduce reward
same with ethereum, ethereum price incraese high, so many ethereum faucet lose because owner not get return
yes buddy, you are right. If the price increase, faucet owners will find difficulty to manage the faucet and eventually it turns into scam. or if they dont have enough users also, faucet owners will get no profit and lose interest and they stop managing their faucets and finally it becomes scam. I think here its the second option.
hero member
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April 22, 2017, 01:04:37 PM
#17
If i need etherum to send coin i just buying etherum.
hero member
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Chainjoes.com
April 21, 2017, 04:42:54 PM
#16
i think accident same with bitcoin faucet
bitcoin price incraese high many bitcoin faucet is closed service or reduce reward
same with ethereum, ethereum price incraese high, so many ethereum faucet lose because owner not get return
sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 250
April 21, 2017, 09:29:51 AM
#15
I found one more.. Here is a new Ethereum Faucet which works: http://ethereumfaucet.net/

10 Minutes / min. withdraw 0,05 ETH. It's a new but payments are high..
I hot good on it this morning and now I went back to try again and it says my account has been suspended lol what some crap that makes me so mad
member
Activity: 63
Merit: 10
April 17, 2016, 01:25:56 PM
#14
Here is a list of Ethereum faucets : http://winbc.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_28.html
full member
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Merit: 101
March 01, 2016, 05:46:54 AM
#13
I found one more.. Here is a new Ethereum Faucet which works: http://ethereumfaucet.net/

10 Minutes / min. withdraw 0,05 ETH. It's a new but payments are high..
legendary
Activity: 3416
Merit: 1225
February 14, 2016, 08:54:09 AM
#12
Has anyone been paid by these faucets recently? Usually payments were sent the next day and now it's been quite awhile since I received one.  My guess is the price of ETH soared and the site turned scam.

http://www.etherfaucet.org
http://www.ethereumfaucet.org

And this site was supposed to pay on the weekends, yet I haven't heard of anyone getting anything and there are no proofs on the site.  Also today my balance zerod out yet I didn't receive anything.

http://free-ethereum.com

Anyone have a different experience or can these sites be labeled scams now?

It saves me time and effort I was about to join here and be active seeing that ethereum has become a huge coin in this past few weeks,I am still on the search for the good ethereum faucets it's better for this faucets to be escrowed I don't trust faucets who do not escrow
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 506
February 13, 2016, 05:51:10 PM
#11
They never are in the end it is always the same. With most of these so called "faucets", you probably spend more on electricity using your computer to surf them than they payout.

A couple of years ago faucets were what they claimed, a way to give out a few bits of a coin to help spread the word about that coin and to help promote adoption, now they are just a get rich quick scheme for the operators.

So while faucets may be good for a chuckle, or to teach someone very new about wallet basics, etc., at the end of the day they are doing more for their owners than the users.

True, the only exception to this I think would be if a user has a bot to scrape bits from various sites without much effort on their own part.  This is probably why many faucets have been attacked by bots as doing them manually is mostly pointless.
sr. member
Activity: 420
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February 13, 2016, 04:30:57 PM
#10
The failure of faucets as a distribution paradigm is an important economics lesson.

What it teaches us if that users only do a mundane activity with no value to obtain coins, then they don't value the coins very much either.

If we want to distribute coins to users and have them place a high value on them, then either they must expend their money (e.g. ICO or cost of PoW mining) or some other way they can express value through an activity.

The design of my marketing plan hinges on this observation.
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1011
February 13, 2016, 04:20:53 PM
#9
Yup same here, not getting anything from them recently. Expect the rewards to be way less once they come back.

Well you were right.  Payments started again on the main first 2, but the payouts are WAY lower.  Almost to the level of what a bitcoin faucet would pay in number amounts, though btc is worth MUCH more than eth.  So those faucets aren't even remotely worth the time.

They never are in the end it is always the same. With most of these so called "faucets", you probably spend more on electricity using your computer to surf them than they payout.

A couple of years ago faucets were what they claimed, a way to give out a few bits of a coin to help spread the word about that coin and to help promote adoption, now they are just a get rich quick scheme for the operators.

So while faucets may be good for a chuckle, or to teach someone very new about wallet basics, etc., at the end of the day they are doing more for their owners than the users.
legendary
Activity: 3234
Merit: 1375
Slava Ukraini!
February 13, 2016, 03:43:47 PM
#8
Can somebody suggest Ethereum faucet which are paying?
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 506
February 13, 2016, 03:33:27 PM
#7
Yup same here, not getting anything from them recently. Expect the rewards to be way less once they come back.

Well you were right.  Payments started again on the main first 2, but the payouts are WAY lower.  Almost to the level of what a bitcoin faucet would pay in number amounts, though btc is worth MUCH more than eth.  So those faucets aren't even remotely worth the time.
sr. member
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February 10, 2016, 04:15:34 AM
#6
Yup same here, not getting anything from them recently. Expect the rewards to be way less once they come back.
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
February 10, 2016, 04:08:50 AM
#5
free-ethereum.com zeroed out my balance as well, with no payment. I suspect that the formula for calculating the win wasn't working properly as it only ever paid 0.01 ETH for every win. This is not longer the case, so I assume that they reset all the balances because of this mistake. Personally, I would have preferred they reduce the wins rather than delete them, as this well and truly puts them in the SCAM category for me.
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1011
February 09, 2016, 11:03:13 PM
#4
They probably closed for maintainance because the price is rising so fast.

Exactly what I was thinking, no way to keep up with the price going from $1 to over $5 in a month. I am sure the original payouts were based upon the assumption any rises would be slow and payouts could be adjusted slowly. Kind of crappy they bailed without paying out, but not surprising.
full member
Activity: 140
Merit: 100
February 09, 2016, 10:57:12 PM
#3
They probably closed for maintainance because the price is rising so fast.

He have reazon with theme
sr. member
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FREEDOM RESERVE
February 09, 2016, 09:38:48 PM
#2
They probably closed for maintainance because the price is rising so fast.
hero member
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February 09, 2016, 09:36:35 PM
#1
Has anyone been paid by these faucets recently? Usually payments were sent the next day and now it's been quite awhile since I received one.  My guess is the price of ETH soared and the site turned scam.

http://www.etherfaucet.org
http://www.ethereumfaucet.org

And this site was supposed to pay on the weekends, yet I haven't heard of anyone getting anything and there are no proofs on the site.  Also today my balance zerod out yet I didn't receive anything.

http://free-ethereum.com

Anyone have a different experience or can these sites be labeled scams now?
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