there are many ways to find fake airdrops if the airdrop it uses a famous project maybe you can visit social media or official telegram
you can ask there and of course you will get a direct answer from the team, that's what I usually do
Topic: HOW CAN ONE KNOW A FAKE AIRDROP? - page 6. (Read 1208 times)
To tell you the truth, it can be hard sometimes to tell the good ones from the fake airdrops. I look for a well written whitepaper, if they don't have this you shouldn't bother by signing up or doing tasks for them. Often they only wants you maillist, or your twitter, or your facebook details.
Often times the white paper is also plagiarised and the project seems obviously fake which is definitely a red flag and hence that airdrop is to be avoided, other than that I research about the team members on LinkedIn and other platforms where if they are active then it is a positive sign and thus I take part in those airdrops. Out of the airdrops that I have selected only a few give me good profit and others are just like doing work for a few pennies.
Airdrop can be lucrative, but it portrays a huge role in the world of scammers. It has become their method for the past few years and up until now. Therefore, you need to be careful and evaluative. By identifying the credibility of an airdrop, you can review the details of the project on the official website. You can also gather further information on their social media platforms that will support their announcement that they are implementing an airdrop.
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 of the times, I find myself in different telegram groups and when I check around I will realize they are hosting one airdrop or the other; to me such airdrop isn't to be trusted. Also, nowadays I see many airdrops flying around and when checked, I will realize that their twitter page was just created recently, not even upto a month; to me, such airdrop isn't to be trusted. In addition, I do see some airdrops which the admin of the group will create a form, limit the number of participants so as to make it look serious while creating unnecessary hype, people will rush the airdrop, then presale will start and people will still invest only for the admin to lock the group and exit scam.
Going through telegram, a lot is happening, people are joining many fake airdrops, people are getting scammed and so on. Now when looked at all these airdrops and projects, one thing was clear, they lacked whitepaper, no website nor visible team, what they have is just a telegram group.
So from my little explanation, fake airdrops from a project will lack the neccessary information to show if the project is legit or not.
for me it's hard to tell what's good and what's fake and scammers with airdrops were around a few years ago, simply check on social media and their official announcements if it's a little suspicious then don't join.
Fake airdrops are everywhere right now. Trying to ride the hype of the development of crypto. My way to spot fake airdrops is by checking the website of the project saying they have airdrop. Fake ones are not usually refined and information are either copied from other projects. Check also the team running it. Fake ones normally just put profile of people not even involved in the crypto industry.
To tell you the truth, it can be hard sometimes to tell the good ones from the fake airdrops. I look for a well written whitepaper, if they don't have this you shouldn't bother by signing up or doing tasks for them. Often they only wants you maillist, or your twitter, or your facebook details.
Determining a legit airdrop from a scam can be challenging especially when you got the hots for that sweet sweet coin. The way i do it is i check their groups and site and even whitepaper if there is available. Just try not to rush on to the next freebie you could find.
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.
Unltil you've joined all of them, you wouldn't know which one is fake or not. You need to gather some experience from those airdrops as long as you avoid those airdrops that involved depositing money from your wallet to win some giveaway. Just join all of them and when you finished you will see some will pay and will not. It's the same for the bounties and you will not be disappointed as long as you only doing it for the sake of gathering experience. later on you will know the important of trying to joined them all so that when a new Airdrop has launched you will have some idea whether it's fake or legit.
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 of the fake airdrops used airdrops bot, and if they ask anything that you need to send any amount of ETH, or Bitcoin for you to be able to receive the coin don't listen to them or don't send any coins if you don't want to regret in the end. This is most often happened in the fake giveaways or airdrops.
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 is complicated to find out the scam projects. But one can try to find out some basic clues to know whether it is scam or legit such as whitepaper information, their twitter,linkedin account activity. Their website development information,aim and conception of their projects etc. One have to research those before joining.
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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.
Airdrop hunting is almost dead now, I know a lot of people are still applying for airdrops but it isn't worth it anymore as these aren't profitable anymore because of the increase in number of users that are in it for quick profit. I guess it will be better to rank up a twitter or Facebook account and use that account for these purposes as it will be more profitable than applying for 100s of worthless coins that will be filling your wallet and not having any future at all. Right now most of the airdrops are complete scam and they on't even be listed on any exchange in the future. 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.
The genuine airdrop will always be running by reputable party and in this case reputable party means the party who has already known by a lot of people. If you were seeing the airdrop that was asking your identity and you should not join on it. It has a very big probability to be the scam airdrop only. The airdrop from the unknown coin must not be trusted too.
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to take part in the airdrop now is not the same as before, for me the results of following the airdrop now are just a waste of time because most of the coins given are trash coins that have no market, if you want to find out about fake airdrops you can find some performance information about the airdrop
Whenever I see huge participants in an airdrop program sometimes it looks genuine to me but I understand that's not actually true and on this basis we mustn't determine that an airdrop is real because we have already seen many fake airdrops in the past in which there were too many participants anyways It's really difficult to find out which airdrop is genuine or fake it's all totally depends on our deep understanding.
It's not a question if some airdrop is fake or not. There are also malicious Telegram bots so people need to be careful when they are using them. For example, often those airdrop TG bots require users to open some web site in order to participate. You never know what is on that web site until you open it. Some web sites can install malicious software on your computer and then you have bigger problem than knowing if some airdrop is real or fake.
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.
although with airdrop we can get tokens or coins for free, but to assess projects that do aidrop (legit / scam) is not much different from doing an "investigations" like we want to invest in the project (if the Time is money, then the Time we use to work on the airdrop is our investment "indirectly") 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.
We can validate the airdrops of this token on their legitimate social media account. Like before, when I see some airdrops shared one of my friends on social media. My first move is to check if there's an announcement on their social media account. I found out that there is an announcement regarding fake airdrops spreading on social media. And sometimes, we can validate it first by just seeing the amount of airdrop per person. If the value is too good to be true, then it's fake. 
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.
Now is not 2017, so they have already come up with other ways to distribute their tokens, for example, farming.A striking example is the SUN token, I wrote about it here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/defi-tron-financial-ecosystem-september-2020-5274430
I am sure that 99.99% of airdrops are scams or fraud. Block these messages and report spam.
In the best case, the amount will be so small that the transfer fee will be higher than the selling price.
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