REQUEST FOR GAS FEE TO GET PAID ARE SCAM. - page 4.

desticy

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Quote from: semobo on October 05, 2019, 08:38:58 AM

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.

The trick is really very old. However, there are still people who fall for this simple trick. In particular, this happens in the bounty, when the participant has a good jackpot, but to get it you need to pay a little. From the latest examples of such scams, I can highlight the Neluns project. Also I have no idea who will do this for the sake of coins from airdrops.

htsy585

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Quote from: upyem2k on October 05, 2019, 07:03:36 AM

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 remember what happened with STCDR project, after several weeks of marketing by bounty hunters, during distribution, they created a new token and distributed to hunters saying that the token is a gateway to the STC community and not tradable unless hunters donate some eth so they can list it on exchange. It was ridiculous

inanilujimi

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whatever the form, if you have been asked something from the bounty or AirDroid that you follow immediately stay away from the project.
one more thing from me if the project looks suspicious like having to buy their tokens on the web in order to get the bounty to leave immediately, because that is also the way cheaters ensnare you.

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How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way? Or you mean they lure their victims with fake ICO, IEO or airdrop then turn around to demand for ether gas fee from those who want their coins sent to them?

People accept this airdrops blindly unfortunately. They do not research the projects to know if they are scams or not.

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Quote from: upyem2k on October 05, 2019, 07:03:36 AM

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.

Thats an obvious scam why they wanted your "private key" and need some gas to be able to get paid, But sometimes some Bounty Campaigns needs some gas in return to send your tokens in your address by sending it to the "given smart contract" from the company and not directly needed any participants private key or whatsoever, dont fall for that crap its an obvious scammed! and I agree to your opinion that 2019 is a fruitful year for bounty hunters and thats real deal and we cant do anything about it.

semobo

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Quote from: upyem2k on October 05, 2019, 07:03:36 AM

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.

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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.

If you see something like this, better report it or try to inform participants in their twitter/telegram groups. You will likely get banned but at least you've done your part.

Jating

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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.

But in the end, it's either they ask for your private key to be able to deposit (allegedly) but this is obvious a scam or just ask some gas, which I think doesn't make sense to me. Why would a project ask it's hunter a gas just to be able to deposit your reward?

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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.

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