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Quote from: joseyphil82 on May 26, 2020, 09:49:20 AM

I got countless of Airdrops like that in my email address but I don't bother to check them out because I've know about spammers and scammers since 2010, I knew what phishing mails looks like, I only click on mails I am expecting to land in my email

It good to hear that but it will be very kind of you if you can open a thread and share your experience about how to identify phish email in the beginners and help section because there still some people out there who are a victim of this activity everyday which is the reason why i create this thread in the first place.
Meanwhile, I'm locking this thread since there's nothing much to talk about here.

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I got countless of Airdrops like that in my email address but I don't bother to check them out because I've know about spammers and scammers since 2010, I knew what phishing mails looks like, I only click on mails I am expecting to land in my email

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Quote from: Mammothcoin on May 25, 2020, 02:45:40 PM

The number of scammy airdrops just seems to increase on a daily with these people inventing new ways to defraud unsuspecting victims. It's truly appalling, there are fewer legitimate airdrops with most just farming people's details to use for malicious purposes.

Yes, I completely agree with your opinion on this topic, nowadays many people have been doing such kind of scams on a daily basis. That's why we have to keep a distance from such malicious mail, we simply have to ignore such kind of mail to avoid being part of their scammy airdrops. And if anybody wants to join airdrop then they have to join their official group before joining the airdrop.

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Quote from: shadowdio on May 25, 2020, 09:36:44 AM

good that you detected a new airdrop scam, for sure many crypto users will fall for this scam because it looks legitimate stellar airdrop. I hope that they do research first before to join airdrop because 90% airdrops are scam nowadays.

Why do you think they are legal ? if you stay in this market long enough, just look at their website, you will know if they are scam or not. To me this is one of the bullshit airdrops and can easily identify them as scams right from the first check

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Quote from: Mammothcoin on May 25, 2020, 02:45:40 PM

The number of scammy airdrops just seems to increase on a daily with these people inventing new ways to defraud unsuspecting victims. It's truly appaling, there are fewer legitimate airdrops with most just farming people's details to use for malicious purposes.

As long as we do research before participating in airdrop and bounty, I believe you will avoid scam projects like that. Everyday I also get a lot of promotional emails like OP, but just ignore it and everything will be fine

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The number of scammy airdrops just seems to increase on a daily with these people inventing new ways to defraud unsuspecting victims. It's truly appaling, there are fewer legitimate airdrops with most just farming people's details to use for malicious purposes.

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Attempts at scams are very widespread and scammers are resourceful. The first information is a questionable email and then of course the other steps. Mostly they want to get an privkey from you that scammers want to abuse.
You need to be careful not to give such information to anyone, especially not to a third party you don't know.

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Quote from: BlacksmithCorporation on May 25, 2020, 09:49:12 AM

The current airdrops are mostly scams and bullshit, I get a lot of emails similar to yours., I will ignore them and create a filter to stop them.

It is a smart decision, never to participate in any airdrop and bounty promoted via email. Most likely those are fake airdrops and scams, don't waste time with it. Just ignore those emails and continue to do research here to choose good campaigns to join

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Quote from: shadowdio on May 25, 2020, 09:36:44 AM

good that you detected a new airdrop scam, for sure many crypto users will fall for this scam because it looks legitimate stellar airdrop. I hope that they do research first before to join airdrop because 90% airdrops are scam nowadays.

yes, and that is indeed one of the new airdrop scams today. as we have seen about how scamers launch their actions through gmail bot attacks or telegram bots. on the other hand not only with them, but for us all especially for crypto users more thoroughly and selectively before joining any project.

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You can easily recognize the scam, all of these hot emails or telegram aggresive spam messages are promoting only scams. The real and valuable projects are listed on airdrop websites like: airdrops.io, airdropking or airdropbob. Wink

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do not pay attention to messages sent to emails like that, because it will make you dissolve in the delusion by the urge of spam email, I get emails like that but I ignored it and immediately put it in the trash because now a variety of ways are done in order to reap the benefits from us.

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It's better not to use your main email for airdrops and other freebies shits or you'll keep spam mails like this one. And also try to verify any airdrop from official group before joining.

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Quote from: madnessteat on May 16, 2020, 06:10:12 PM

I thought that every e-mail user and especially the crypto enthusiast knows that 99.9% of emails coming from strangers to his or her email box are fraudulent. It's very strange that you still believe in spam mailings in 2020.

Not all of it is a scam. I also get a lot of spam email but I always check them because it's interesting, they only look for referrals for them. I checked the project they were informed about and it turned out to be true, they really did hold an airdrop campaign and others. But never visit the url they send to avoid phishing.

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It's wise to create separate emails for Airdrops and bounties just because of scammers and spammers, sometimes you will promote the wrong projects that only aim to get your email address so that thy can start sending you trap mails and phishing mails too, be careful, I don't bother reading such mails

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Quote from: Latines on May 25, 2020, 01:28:52 AM

I have not opened letters for a long time if they come from those projects in which I did not participate. It’s clear that this is a fake. Everyone is trying to deceive, the main thing here is not to start reading, otherwise you can believe it, they speak too fluently.

I have not open an email in years. All the email addresses I use today are just throw away emails, unless I take the exchange seriously ten I will use my personal email. The scammer must have sent his email to a real email that is checked and its Op's email. Somehow this scammer is very traditional because normally these days they all are just using social media accounts.

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Scammers always doing this kind of shit.. they will use a project to scam people.. sending emails,, mentioning you on social media..

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As other mates told I also receive so many mails but i just ignore those. I never open those mails even. Newbie should be more careful about such things. I never click on those sites even, they scam so just open the trusted sites

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Its not actually new, all of these scam airdrops done by google forms (plus with ID verification) are here since 2016-2017 when many newcomers join the market looking for free earnings opportunities.

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The current airdrops are mostly scams and bullshit, I get a lot of emails similar to yours., I will ignore them and create a filter to stop them.

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good that you detected a new airdrop scam, for sure many crypto users will fall for this scam because it looks legitimate stellar airdrop. I hope that they do research first before to join airdrop because 90% airdrops are scam nowadays.

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