now 90% airdrops is fake, I ask in official telegram group of project about airdrop, also in all official sourses you can find info about airdrops if they are exist
It's not 90% but it's more than 99% of airdrops are scam coins. remember EBTC that has become a scam project dude. This time there was a lot of problem in this space. So many people are still taking the shitty airdrop token with the hopes that they can sell or dump them all instantly in the market. 
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Yeah they are not official airdrop, someone do that for increase airdrop member in their channel, and they will no pay the member
This TIP based only on my experience how to know if the airdrop is fake
Few months ago i encounter a fake airdrop using a TELEGRAM BOT.
An airdrop bot pretending as a real airdrop of a coin already listed on CMC
How i find out if they're scam or not?
First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..
Second i search the TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT link from the WEBSITE of coin
Then i ask the ADMIN in TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT if the airdropbot i saw is legit or not and they said to me its not legit..the COIN that using airdropbot i encounter are using only the name of their coin.
Another FAKE AIRDROP i saw last month is BITAIR, BITAIR asking for selfdrop to buy their token
i search the BITAIR WEBSITE and i find it.i see the TWITTER account from there website
and i notice on there last post was november 2017 if im not mistaken, and bit air ico sale was ended last november.
Both of this type of airdrop are SCAM, I noticed they both collecting a member for their TELEGRAM CHANNEL and collecting FOLLOWER on their twitter account, And asking for selfdrop then dissapear after of ICO Sale.
I hope this post can help some NEWBIE to avoid to be a victim of airdrop with selfdrop SCAM SCHEME.
Any other tip on checking if airdrop is legit?
Quite useful information you have here, the most important thing is that we need to check on the project thoroughly, when we know that the project is real, then most probability that the airdrop will also be the real thing. Few months ago i encounter a fake airdrop using a TELEGRAM BOT.
An airdrop bot pretending as a real airdrop of a coin already listed on CMC
How i find out if they're scam or not?
First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..
Second i search the TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT link from the WEBSITE of coin
Then i ask the ADMIN in TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT if the airdropbot i saw is legit or not and they said to me its not legit..the COIN that using airdropbot i encounter are using only the name of their coin.
Another FAKE AIRDROP i saw last month is BITAIR, BITAIR asking for selfdrop to buy their token
i search the BITAIR WEBSITE and i find it.i see the TWITTER account from there website
and i notice on there last post was november 2017 if im not mistaken, and bit air ico sale was ended last november.
Both of this type of airdrop are SCAM, I noticed they both collecting a member for their TELEGRAM CHANNEL and collecting FOLLOWER on their twitter account, And asking for selfdrop then dissapear after of ICO Sale.
I hope this post can help some NEWBIE to avoid to be a victim of airdrop with selfdrop SCAM SCHEME.
Any other tip on checking if airdrop is legit?
This TIP based only on my experience how to know if the airdrop is fake
Few months ago i encounter a fake airdrop using a TELEGRAM BOT.
An airdrop bot pretending as a real airdrop of a coin already listed on CMC
How i find out if they're scam or not?
First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..
Second i search the TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT link from the WEBSITE of coin
Then i ask the ADMIN in TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT if the airdropbot i saw is legit or not and they said to me its not legit..the COIN that using airdropbot i encounter are using only the name of their coin.
Another FAKE AIRDROP i saw last month is BITAIR, BITAIR asking for selfdrop to buy their token
i search the BITAIR WEBSITE and i find it.i see the TWITTER account from there website
and i notice on there last post was november 2017 if im not mistaken, and bit air ico sale was ended last november.
Both of this type of airdrop are SCAM, I noticed they both collecting a member for their TELEGRAM CHANNEL and collecting FOLLOWER on their twitter account, And asking for selfdrop then dissapear after of ICO Sale.
I hope this post can help some NEWBIE to avoid to be a victim of airdrop with selfdrop SCAM SCHEME.
Any other tip on checking if airdrop is legit?
Mostly you have said all of the things that we have to do to try to determine if an airdrop is fake or not. I would like to point out though that this is not always going to work all of the time. Generally airdrops do not take a lot of time to do so the best thing you should just do is to do the airdrops, put your wallet address in and forget about it and move on Few months ago i encounter a fake airdrop using a TELEGRAM BOT.
An airdrop bot pretending as a real airdrop of a coin already listed on CMC
How i find out if they're scam or not?
First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..
Second i search the TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT link from the WEBSITE of coin
Then i ask the ADMIN in TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT if the airdropbot i saw is legit or not and they said to me its not legit..the COIN that using airdropbot i encounter are using only the name of their coin.
Another FAKE AIRDROP i saw last month is BITAIR, BITAIR asking for selfdrop to buy their token
i search the BITAIR WEBSITE and i find it.i see the TWITTER account from there website
and i notice on there last post was november 2017 if im not mistaken, and bit air ico sale was ended last november.
Both of this type of airdrop are SCAM, I noticed they both collecting a member for their TELEGRAM CHANNEL and collecting FOLLOWER on their twitter account, And asking for selfdrop then dissapear after of ICO Sale.
I hope this post can help some NEWBIE to avoid to be a victim of airdrop with selfdrop SCAM SCHEME.
Any other tip on checking if airdrop is legit?
now 90% airdrops is fake, I ask in official telegram group of project about airdrop, also in all official sourses you can find info about airdrops if they are exist
I don't think it is such an easy thing to different between scam airdrops, and genuine ones. Sometimes, you have already participated in the airdrop and time has passed before you will even find out that it has been a scam all along. I think that the best we can do is to b careful out there, and not just jump on any project that we come across.
Whenever i'm trying to join on an airdrop, what i done usually is checking on the data of the project thoroughly. without doing that mostly you will end up regretting somethig that we joined the scam airdrop.
It's really very difficult to distinguish between a legit airdrop and a fake airdrop. I fill a lot of airdrops but what I do is to create a different login details to all those airdrops and the moment the tokens are dropped in my airdrop wallet, I quickly transfer it to my main wallet to avoid stories.
If an airdrop is offering a ridiculous amount of money worth of tokens (think $1,000+) then it is likely fake. In fact, 99% of airdrops don't end up trading at the value they say they are worth. If you participate in an airdrop, do so with the knowledge that it will probably be worth one tenth of what they say the value is.
I don't really like to participate in airdrop because most of them are scam and the ones that are not scam are worthless. But if airdrop go to the stage of asking you about your personal information then it is a scam and you shouldn't proceed with it.
Best thing is to ask about airdrops in their telegram channels. Most of the time you will get a correct answer for those. Even the airdrop is a legit one, the rewards you get will be very very small.
It is actually rather difficult to tell when an airdrop is fake or scam, most of the times you know that just after several months have passed and you didn't even get the rewards, also you could check the ICO project that is chained to the airdrop to see if they look reliable.
Not many of them are fake, it's just that their ICOs end up a failure. They're not worth the time doing them.
Am I not getting this right ?
I mean ICO and token distribution and bounty all can be fake but how can airdrop be fake ?
Isn't it like a constant thing or is one time thing ?
I mean in both cases if you own a coin than you get airdrop of something else, if its fake you will sell the initial coin back, you are not paying for the airdrop, you are paying for a coin that will have airdrop like neo and gas, just get neo and if they don't give you gas than sell your neo ?
I think in the end if you are really betting on an airdrop than you probably researched it really well and you can probably understand if there is something fishy going around or not.
I mean ICO and token distribution and bounty all can be fake but how can airdrop be fake ?
Isn't it like a constant thing or is one time thing ?
I mean in both cases if you own a coin than you get airdrop of something else, if its fake you will sell the initial coin back, you are not paying for the airdrop, you are paying for a coin that will have airdrop like neo and gas, just get neo and if they don't give you gas than sell your neo ?
I think in the end if you are really betting on an airdrop than you probably researched it really well and you can probably understand if there is something fishy going around or not.
Thank you for sharing, it's helpful.
To me I don't think airdrops should be asking for kyc or self drops. Once I noticed these two, then am out.
Personally, I have done kyc for an airdrop which turned out to be scam. ANATOMY airdrop precisely.
So one should just be careful and trust God not fall victim.
Thank you.
To me I don't think airdrops should be asking for kyc or self drops. Once I noticed these two, then am out.
Personally, I have done kyc for an airdrop which turned out to be scam. ANATOMY airdrop precisely.
So one should just be careful and trust God not fall victim.
Thank you.
There is no way you could tell if a certain Airdrop is a fake or not, you'll just know it at the end. You couldn't see something like a killer would tell you that he will kill you in that moment, right? that goes the same to your question OP. So, it would be a must that we should always be wise and choose only the airdrops we are going to join and not just randomly joining.
I really do not like doing airdrop. I find it wasting time and I do not get anything from it. because now the whole rogue airdrop steals the participant information. I like to do bounty. The campaigns give me a good profit. I need capital to invest
Newbie is often fooled by their lack of knowledge and experience. However the newbie should not worry, look for a group airdrop on the telegram and follow them. The airdrop programs have been tested.
I don't have any way to know about the fake airdrops, and it's best to check their program in detail so we don't get stuck in fake airdrops. It's really hard to find a good bounty event or an ICO project to join or invest in.
It's very difficult to determine the airdrop is fake or original because many people make the airdrop that resembles the original airdrop, so in my opinion only a few people can see the fake airdrop or not. It made me not follow the airdrop anymore because I was afraid of being fooled by fake airdrop.
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