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October 07, 2019, 07:39:26 AM
#49
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.
Nothing surprising on with these kind of scheme and this had been known already in the past where project owners
do ask out some gas fee for them to sent out those shit tokens?thats total BS if you do sensibly think on but there
were fools who do easily believe into those claims without even realizing that they are throwing out money into the
mouth of those scammers.Yes, gas fees are just too small but if its being accumulated it would really be still a good cost
for those scammers to enjoy on.Lastly, Bounty hunting is nearly considered to be totally dead nowadays.
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October 07, 2019, 06:51:18 AM
#48
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?
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October 07, 2019, 06:45:19 AM
#47
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.
Its just old scamming trick,not sure still people falling for it? Its just an obvious scam when they ask you small amount of ETH to give their tokens.
There are some airdrops are still using this kind of a crap trick to the airdrop participants to sent a little amount as gas fees to the developers. If the dev is a real developer with a lot of experience and the dev can create such a new contract that can be executed after the address was requesting to the smartcontract and this needs fees in the airdrop participant's wallet and the dev doesn't need to do a lot of effort for that.

This is an old trick but if you wanna try to search even more and you will find some airdrops are using this trick but even some scammers have made the airdrop participants to sent its privatekey.
This trick very similar to the phishing method.
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October 07, 2019, 04:09:58 AM
#46
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.
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October 07, 2019, 02:03:24 AM
#45
Quite right, in almost all cases when someone from the company’s team asks airdrop or bounty hunters to pay for gas to get tokens for their work, it means that you either will not get anything or you will get tokens that won't even cost one cent , therefore it is better to bypass such frauds right away and you should not wind up your nerves because of such problems.
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October 07, 2019, 01:04:07 AM
#44
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.
I have heard alot about scam projects that ask people for gas fee to receive their tokens but since i have been in this crypto space i haven't come across any which means they are easy to ignore or avoid, its an old version scamming skill and even if you see any of such just stay away
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October 07, 2019, 12:13:42 AM
#43
It's an old style to scam people, I remember in the year 2017 airdrops was profitable, instead of sign up the form and do a little task, scammers requires you to send a little amount of eth in order to get the token. Stay away this kind of airdrop it's a scam!.
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October 06, 2019, 11:23:58 PM
#42
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.
Actually bounty hunting still pays off but don't expect to get the same amount as we are getting back in the days where bounty hunting will give you a lot of fortune. But if you're doing this as a part-time job you don't need to worry about getting a low reward from this.
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October 06, 2019, 11:14:01 PM
#41
basically the airdrop program is a kind of giveaway that is used as a promotional tool, as a condition of getting free crypto tokens, participants usually have to follow orders to do certain tasks. I found lots of airdrops scattered about and almost everything was rubbish. Airdrops are now stubborn, from stealing user identities to someone who deceives potential airdrop participants frankly, because now airdrops ask us to fill in Private Key data and there are airdrops that ask us to transfer eth in small amounts but through links the website that they set, and I have seen the website, and the website is clearly phishing, so be careful choosing airdrop
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October 06, 2019, 10:58:53 PM
#40
Agreed. As long as airdrop/bounty hunters will keep promoting such garbage projects, they will keep popping up.

Stop giving attention to them. They will disappear.
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October 06, 2019, 10:31:15 PM
#39
Those are the so-called selfdrop where you will send ETH to the given address then you will received the token instantly. Many people fall for this scam i don't know why, maybe they are taking risk to make x10 when it hits exchanges but the reality most of it just runaway.
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October 06, 2019, 10:04:16 PM
#38
Only know about that kind of airdrops, but never join it. Don't know what it called, in my facebook group people only said selfdrop which we must send 0 ETH with gas and then we get the tokens. Don't know what the purpose but i never join something like that.
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October 06, 2019, 09:57:13 PM
#37
Its obviously a scam because they are requesting a gass fee.  Lmao.  It's like some bitcoin generator around the internet which they use bots in their public chat in order to convince people to participate and to show that they are legit  . But after gerating free bitcoin they are asking fees before sending the generated btc.  Haha wtf!! Modus to obtain victim . Stay aways on it bro .. I suggest.   Cool
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October 06, 2019, 09:43:01 PM
#36
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.

In my months of being a cryptocurrency bounty hunter before, I have experienced a project asking for GAS in order to transfer the fund or payment for the work I've done. Let us say, yes, I have encountered allot of scam projects, but none of them asked me to pay for GAS. in that case, it is not normal for a project nowadays to ask for gas fee, if we are about to see such project like that, I advise not to support it anyways, projects have allocation for their funds and should do such said acts.
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October 06, 2019, 08:46:29 PM
#35
It become popular a year ago, airdrops can bee seen anywhere not only in this forum but also in social media, by becoming part of their community, you will receive payment that can be sold on some exchanges. but after the trend, many scam airdrops also came. you will pay for gas and then you will receive a coin without a value.

I don't know when you started noticing airdrops but it was even more popular in 2017. Ethereum smart contract enabled a lot of devs wannabes to create their own token and flood the social media and telegram channels with google forms.
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October 06, 2019, 12:34:15 PM
#34
Bounties are so good over the last few years but now it is not that good since the market has undergo depression and then there were a lot of projects that aren't that promising anymore. Unlike when it was 2017, there were many good projects to join to. That's the bountiful year of bounties. Right now, it's sucks to join bounties since the ending would be pretty much high anticipated. You'll get scammed. This is why I would like to join more in IEO based projects rather than ICO projects.
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October 06, 2019, 12:14:35 PM
#33
I thought nobody is doing that anymore. This is the first sign of scammers, asking money for anything. If somebody asks you to provide a gas fee, even for legit bounty payments, you can be sure that such project won't last for long.
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October 06, 2019, 12:08:06 AM
#32
Nowadays, even those projects that do not ask for gas fee or anything at all such as KYC are mostly scams also. So those that are requesting gas fees are more scam than the rest. It is not advisable to take unnecessary risks with these kinds of projects. Always remember also that there are only a small number of projects that are really pursuing a legitimate objectives. The rest are merely taking the opportunity to ride with the current crypto waves.
We need to realize these things around the market. Why bother to join airdrops like this and send any gas fees without any assurance in return?
Many people are still stuck with the mindset of 2017 crypto bull where hope is still circling inside their minds that there are chances that airdrop tokens will bring something huge. There are no clear directions for this kind of project. There are now only few developers who are really keen on making their projects successful in contrast of the majorities who are only making projects just to scam people.
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October 05, 2019, 11:30:48 PM
#31
OP is lucky to have gotten 1 with value out of 10 from airdrops that asks for gas fee. It could be easily 1 out of 100 for other hunters.

How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?
Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.
Airdrops spread like wildfire before. You see a lot of twitter accounts and many telegram channels with thousands of followers sharing the airdrop forms. A newly created airdrop can get hundreds and thousands of registered participants in just an hour.

It become popular a year ago, airdrops can bee seen anywhere not only in this forum but also in social media, by becoming part of their community, you will receive payment that can be sold on some exchanges. but after the trend, many scam airdrops also came. you will pay for gas and then you will receive a coin without a value.
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October 05, 2019, 11:23:04 PM
#30
I use to see a lot of these give-me-gas-fee airdrops when I was a very active hunter back in 2017. I also call them scamdrops because gas fees should be handled by the team distributing it. If they cannot even take care of the gas fees, then that means they have no funds to develop their own project.

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?

Bounties doing that is even worse. It is understood that campaigns running bounties already got enough fund from their private or token sales and that's why it makes no sense to ask gas fee from hunters. It's not fair for participants to be required to pay after promoting for weeks or even a year.
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