How do you make sure an airdrop is a legit one? - page 4.

fikrett

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Quote from: prp-e on September 18, 2024, 05:58:16 AM

Agreed, for example today I went to withdraw tokens from a bot and it said "you must buy a power booster first". Well, their power boosters have a start price point of around $8 (1.5 TON with the current price of ton it becomes 8 dollars). Which doesn't seem very much, but I imagine how many people may pay them and what they're doing in their withdrawals (maybe it's a ponzi scheme, eh?)

It boils down to the trust for the project - it's not big of an amount if everybody will get something out of it in the future.
These funds can be used either for the future or just to get a quick buck, we will never know.
Some use TON fees to get the NFTs on the blockchain and to pay rent for them, usually for a year or two (that would be ~0,12-0.13 TON, but it depends).

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Agreed, for example today I went to withdraw tokens from a bot and it said "you must buy a power booster first". Well, their power boosters have a start price point of around $8 (1.5 TON with the current price of ton it becomes 8 dollars). Which doesn't seem very much, but I imagine how many people may pay them and what they're doing in their withdrawals (maybe it's a ponzi scheme, eh?)

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Airdrops should be free but it can come with some tasks which you do not require anyone to pay any money.

Quote from: prp-e on September 18, 2024, 04:43:01 AM

But I also saw some airdrops asking people to pay them little amounts of TON or Tron, in order to put them in a better place in a leaderboard.

This is how scam was in airdrops in the past. Many will become scam. Do not pay.

Quote from: prp-e on September 18, 2024, 04:43:01 AM

But I strongly believe that there must be some good measures for this issue as well.
What do you think?

There is no good measure than to avoid paying and also avoid phishing attack.

prp-e

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In recent months, I saw a lot of new airdrops, mostly on Telegram platform. A lot of them are harmless "tap to mine" games which can be trusted (in my personal opinion). Some of them were basically giving away tokens based on your accounts age (like Dogs).
I know when these airdrops are around, they make a hype. One of my friends sent me 15 invite links the other day (and honestly, I still haven't clicked on the links) and most of them are basically these mini games. But I also saw some airdrops asking people to pay them little amounts of TON or Tron, in order to put them in a better place in a leaderboard. It seems somehow suspicious. I just want to know what is the measure of a good airdrop? One of my bitcoiner friends once told me "consider every airdrop a scam until they're not". But I strongly believe that there must be some good measures for this issue as well.
What do you think?

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