Topic: REQUEST FOR GAS FEE TO GET PAID ARE SCAM. (Read 427 times)
They are going to pay you decent amount of money then why they were asking to send fee for the transaction this alone can make this as scam attempt but its sad to know that people still falling for this old scamming trick.
Thanks for the info, it gives me more understanding. Actually, I rarely participated in airdrops, so I just know the term "scamdrops".
But I saw several bounties required "gass" to claim the rewards. If it was applied in airdrops, I doubt the bounties are also scams.
Do you think all "gass required for claiming rewards" are scams, mate?
But I saw several bounties required "gass" to claim the rewards. If it was applied in airdrops, I doubt the bounties are also scams.
Do you think all "gass required for claiming rewards" are scams, mate?
Logically, how poor are they not able to pay distribution costs? Are those project failing, without a penny? If so, then you don't need to claim your rewards, because they failed and will leave. If you have other reasons than that, maybe it's a scam or it will soon be over.
I guess that's just a luckiness on the side of that guy, The developers of that kind garbage coin usually use the money to make some kind of fake liquidities on the exchange (usually garbage exchange aswell) to bait people into adding liquidity and buying that coin so that developers could dump his coins that are created out of thin air even further resulting in a huge profit on the developer side. It is like that scheme when turning mainstream coin to ethereum blockchain still popular back then they are doing this kind of method and manipulating the pump and dump activities.
For the people out there just don't expect something from airdrop that demands money just for the sole reason of sending the reward, I mean if the developers can't even afford the fee what do you expect?
For the people out there just don't expect something from airdrop that demands money just for the sole reason of sending the reward, I mean if the developers can't even afford the fee what do you expect?
I do not think it has something to do with his luck because the project who asked you a few ETH as a fee before sending the airdrop had run away before it gets listed on any exchange. It is a completely different story if we are talking about unlimited token from the minting, it happened before but the team gave the airdrop free without asking any fees.
they did that because they have a capital to manipulate the market unlike this one, in this case the developer does not have a single penny that was why they were asking for fees before sending the tokens and the total the dev gathered won't exceed 5 ETH.
I would tend to agree that bounty hunting is no longer profitable this year. I guess this is due to the bearish alt market. But there are still a lot of companies who you just describe. They still bounty hunters to promote their site through air drops.
I agree with that, 2018 and 2019 are not really good for bounty hunters. Lets call it an autumn season that poor or no earnings at all but always be patience because harvest season will come to most bounty hunters that keep on doing bounties despite of the current market condition. All hard works will be paid off for sure.
Most people are trapped in this situation when the airdrop distribution date has arrived, airdrops don't have to send gas fees just to get tokens that don't have a price, I personally would not do such a stupid thing, research before joining even if it's just an airdrop.
This incident has been a lot happening in the airdrop they ask around 0.02 eth to get tokens if you want to get the tokens scam? I think this is a real scam because usually, AirDrop does not ask for money to get tokens. everyone should be careful because there could be no large projects requesting funds for the cost of gas is not unreasonable.
I totally agree that the teams which request for gas fee from bounty hunters are scammers. I remember one fraudulent project that was advertised on Bitcointalk a year ago. The scammers who have run their bounty campaign promised huge rewards and after the ICO they asked participants to send some ETH coins to be paid. In the end, this scam project has stolen about 600 ETH from investors and then disappeared. If a team cannot bear the cost of sending tokens, they have no money at all. In any case, they will not pay with valuable tokens traded on cryptocurrency exchanges. I advice you not to send any ETH coins to such fraudsters.
Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
That's true imagine if thousands will send at least 50 cents, it's like the dev has launched a crowdfunding, even if they sent the token there will still funds left, these developers are very wise and cunning, they know that people are very greedy to get coins even though it is worthless and sometimes will not get into the market.
Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
I always considered participating in Airdrop wasted time. Almost 100% of all airdrops are hype. Deception is manifested, as in a very small amount of payment, by deceiving payment for a commission, and also often in a complete refusal to pay or to pay in part. Even those Airdrops who have fulfilled their conditions and paid, all have a terrible price for their token or coin. Unfortunately, what could have helped many participants get start-up capital just turns out to be ordinary fraud.
More and more complaints come from the participants because they have not yet paid even some participants already done a lot of efforts.
It's a scam and i never call that strategy as a marketing effort.
It's too far from the marketing context.
I've joined one bounty recently, where the team asked for the small amount of gas fee to distribute the token, but based on the credibility of the team they are reliable, so anyway I sent and received my reward also. But this is only an exemption because I've participated a lot of their bounties.
I think in the future you should be able to choose projects carefully with the professional team that is available. however it is very unethical if a project asks for gas costs in advance to distribute tokens that will be given to the participants. a professional team will certainly give their best for the projects they have developed and will not charge gas costs to each participant who participates in promoting it
Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
I always considered participating in Airdrop wasted time. Almost 100% of all airdrops are hype. Deception is manifested, as in a very small amount of payment, by deceiving payment for a commission, and also often in a complete refusal to pay or to pay in part. Even those Airdrops who have fulfilled their conditions and paid, all have a terrible price for their token or coin. Unfortunately, what could have helped many participants get start-up capital just turns out to be ordinary fraud.
How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?
Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.And all of those records were being stored by the manager or the bounty management or the company that ran that bounty. That's why all of those information were kept for another purpose.
It can be sold by them or they can use it again for another project to market. That's why if your email was receiving unnecessary notifications from different bounties, that might be the side effect of using your email through bounties.
Any project that request you pay gas to send your airdrop token, is a pure scam. They are actually saying they lack the capacity to make the project successful. Only neophyte fall for such cheap scam.
I've joined one bounty recently, where the team asked for the small amount of gas fee to distribute the token, but based on the credibility of the team they are reliable, so anyway I sent and received my reward also. But this is only an exemption because I've participated a lot of their bounties.
I hope you are not mixing things up, hope you aren't talking about claiming tokens through metamask that you will be ask to send little amount or zero eth to a contract address? if this is what you are referring to then it is legit and not scam, i have claim both airdrops and bounty tokens this way
You are 100% right and I have no doubt on this. Why would a project request for eth as gas fee and pay you with thier token which will never start trading 
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.
You are 100% right and I have no doubt on this. Why would a project request for eth as gas fee and pay you with thier token which will never start trading
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.
Airdrops are a waste of time as mostly projects demand KYC details or end up paying few cents as tokens which cannot be even transferred anywhere as the gas charged is more than the worth of the tokens. I have seen projects charging GAS fee but they were genuine and not scam. I received few airdrops this year without even participating. I feel some are misusing my address to get paid.
I cannot agree with you, because I have experienced another side of a coin. I took part in a bounty programme and devs ask to pay the gas fee, because sending rewards to participants would be roughly 50k USD, so I got my tokens and sold them successfully at the ICO price on exchange.
Mind to tell me what project is it?
I never knew sending multiple transactions in ETH network could ask you that much of fees, what is the average fee he was using when he sent the transaction?
most dev or project who asked you to send some ETH to their address to cover up the transaction is a scam.
and your case is quite strange, how much you have spent and how much you get?
For the people out there just don't expect something from airdrop that demands money just for the sole reason of sending the reward, I mean if the developers can't even afford the fee what do you expect?
I normally don't participated in airdrops. Cause they are not worthy. Its waste of time. Normally airdrops are free. But if some airdrops asked for gas fee I would suggest to not join them.
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