Topic: HOW CAN ONE KNOW A FAKE AIRDROP? - page 4. (Read 1208 times)
Stop trying to figure out how to spot a fake airdrop. Just ignore all of them. Since around 99.9% of those air drops are fake, it is not worth wasting your time collecting those shit coins and keeping track of each and every of those coins. You would be better off doing something more productive. And you need to be really lucky to get a good airdrop. Remember, airdrops are given for free and everyone receives them. So, there is always a high chance it won't be of any value other than few dollars. And like I said, you need to be extremely lucky to earn something significant from an airdrop. And its more like you have better odds placing bets on dices and winning something.
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Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
99.99 percent of all telegram airdrops are fake and scam, am very certain about this, trust me, if you wanna participate in airdrops, choose any platform you like but not telegram, some of this scammers have become so smart that when ever they launch a fake airdrop, it will be very difficult to tell if it's fake or not. 
There are many signs if it is a Good airdrop or Fake airdrop. Those who experience receiving airdrops today knows that most of the tokens they got have no value at all, If the token they received has a value, They just received a very small part of it. One of the obvious signs that an airdrop is fake is when the airdrop is requiring the participants to send eth for fees, Airdrop is some kind of promotion of the project, and letting participants spend for "gas" somehow make participants doubt about the project.
When one claims something so major that they are going to make super rich by joining them, you should know that it is not real.
I am saying the same thing for uniswap as well but people are not believing me right now, there are people who think each of that worths 400 dollars and they are going to have tens of thousands of dollars just because they joined, and some even managed to cash out as well somehow which I congratulate them for but the reality is when it is not locked and when it is exchanged to cash you are going to see that it worths nothing, nobody in the world would give you tens of thousands of dollars for free, why would they do that? What is it in it for them? This is why fake airdrops are fake obviously if you look at the amount they claim to give.
I am saying the same thing for uniswap as well but people are not believing me right now, there are people who think each of that worths 400 dollars and they are going to have tens of thousands of dollars just because they joined, and some even managed to cash out as well somehow which I congratulate them for but the reality is when it is not locked and when it is exchanged to cash you are going to see that it worths nothing, nobody in the world would give you tens of thousands of dollars for free, why would they do that? What is it in it for them? This is why fake airdrops are fake obviously if you look at the amount they claim to give.
Its so tought to say now that which airdrop is real and which one fake. Perday lot of airdrop now introduced among them only 1 or 2 are real project and others are scam. But you can check some criteria like a real project must have an website, a roadmap, whitepaper ,active social media and team activity.
Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
This is something that is hard to guess, even an Airdrop from a large project can be a scam.For Airdrop, I think you are prohibited from having big hopes and just think that your participation in the airdrop is just for fun. and of course, don't believe it if you are told to pay to join.
It actually can be tough sometimes to determine whether an airdrop is fake or not. I usually look through there website, LinkedIn, and whitepaper(if available) to determine whether the project is legit. I don't participate in KYC unless I 100% believe in the project.
This is a non-crypto but I remember someone busting fake tech scammers where their LinkedIn profile seems legitimate because there are a lot of people vouching for them in the feedbacks. Take it as another advise for everyone that LinkedIn feedbacks can be faked or even paid if that thing still happens these days. LinkedIn might seem like a professional website for professional people but after I watched that video of scammers being busted and calling by their real names, I was moved.
dont pay anything for Airdrop to spread awareness about new coins and their products.legit Airdrop will not ask for any money
This is the Golden Rule in Airdrop. Don't ever pay or send ethereum or anything in Airdrop that is definitely a big scam, airdrop rewards is for free, Another things is when the telegram group is newly created without any other contents and is filled with new members some other are bots that usually spams in the group.
Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
It's easy to detect fake and genuine airdrops, you only need to check the website, update information on Twitter and activity on the telegram group,I'll explain a simple analysis:
1. Website, Every legitimate project has an elegant UX/UI appearance and is not duplicate
2. Information updates on twitter, make sure the team updates some information recently
3. Telegram group activity, every legitimate project has a main conversation about the project and the admin always gives the latest feedback
4. If already listed on the exchange, make sure the trading volume is real.
Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
Most important thing is experience. There is some way by which we can find it. Like we have to observe their website very carefully. All the mandatory points like Team, Partnerships, News Articles, Whitepaper (where available), should be checked. Research about their team carefully. Check their Roadmap and compare their Twitter tweets with their roadmap. You will understand if they are working properly according to their plan or not. One of the best character of a genuine project is they work according to their roadmap and updated the community via twitter. So twitter is one of the best platform to track an project's progress.
Instead of all this many projects scam. Because they also know how we check any project. So they put fake team, fake products, fake updates about their project and also try to create wrong hype like "Binance listing" etc. And for this kind of projects our experience and knowledge comes into play to protect us. Proper knowledge about cryptocurrency network and products and helps you to understand and correlate the updates with the happenings.
And I strongly believe that never do kyc in any project that is not 100% confirmed genuine.
It is easy to determine an airdrops if it is legit or a scam to determine if an airdrops is legit or a scam first look at their website when the website thinks you can check all their information especially their team leaders because the other is fake airdrops are imitating or they are using another picture of the person to put on their website most of the scam that airdrops is the telegram bot too many scams do it.
Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
If you don't have time to investigate the web or the ANN Bounty/Airdrop developed in this Forum, you can visit here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0, every day, maybe you will find some Airdrops that you promote are scam or not.The link I provided above can help you find out which Airdrop is a scam of at least 60%, and so on 40% more depending on you to consider and find out about the Airdrop that you are following a scam or not.
In general, half of the Airdrop journey is going, you will know a scam or not, based on what they show on ANN airdrop.
It actually can be tough sometimes to determine whether an airdrop is fake or not. I usually look through there website, LinkedIn, and whitepaper(if available) to determine whether the project is legit. I don't participate in KYC unless I 100% believe in the project.
Sometimes it is easier to perform the necessary actions to participate in an airdrop than to check its legality. This is the strategy followed by most bounty hunters who take part in all airdrops that they meet. Some, just like you, are stopped only by passing KYC, but this is also not an obstacle for most.
dont pay anything for Airdrop to spread awareness about new coins and their products.legit Airdrop will not ask for any money
I often encounter fake airdrops on the bot's telegram channel. and in my opinion, fake airdrop criteria such as offering high rewards and requiring participants to perform a KYC system or even asking participants to send ETH fees that are not worth the pay.
This is the mostly use platform that want to make fake airdrop.they are just want boost the group telling them they are given free tokens or coins then selling the group they get many members to join.This is common happening right now I don't why still many people to continue joining of that kind of airdrop even they know that no one earning by participating in it. You will join in many groups but you will receive nothing in exchange for it
A lot of these airdrops are hardly worth the effort in my opinion. The ones that are fake pay of course nothing, but even many that are not fake pay very little or close to nothing. I've seen very few lately that pay alot, and therefor I can't really see why people bother to join to maybe get a dollar or so.
well, if you already know that there are losses experienced by many participants because the price is too cheap and sometimes they don't give results from what the airdrop participants have done, so in my opinion you have to be more selective in determining the airdrop and dont wasting your time to work that has no results. 
It's not easy to tell if the coin is fake or not, or some kind of airdrop bot. and usually a fake airdrop bot will be detected a scam after many users report that the project is fake. For example UNIBOT at that time, after the party ended, UNI botV2 airdrop appeared and people flocked to Join in it but after a few days the airdrop was detected as SCAM and the scammer had pocketed 4 ETH from fake bot.
You must join a group that specifically talks about airdrops, because if you are looking for an airdrop yourself, the possibility of being caught in an airdrop scam is very large,
and if you have joined the telegram airdrop group, there you will find a way to find legit airdrop,
and usually you will find out the airdrop scam or not from the discussion there.
and if you have joined the telegram airdrop group, there you will find a way to find legit airdrop,
and usually you will find out the airdrop scam or not from the discussion there.
Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
If you're added to an airdrop group on telegram without your consent, it's always a scam most times. That's an easy sign. Genuine airdrops run on referrals and not coercing people into groups. Secondly, if an airdrop demands you pay a certain amount of money to get a code to claim your supposed earning (no matter how small the amount is), please run. It's obviously a scam. Lastly, be weary of any airdrop that asks for a KYC. Once the demand extends an email and ERC wallet address, don't do it. Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.
When you say Airdrops in Telegram, I already knew that it is already a scam because they are mostly bots, and only showing you fake earnings on your account. Sometimes they also asked you KYC or proof of identity, that is why it is sometimes suspicious to participate in airdrops nowadays. Airdrops nowadays are not that profitable or will help you to become rich, so it is not worth to participate with. Jump to: