This should not be limited to airdrops rather anything that involves connecting wallet or importing seed phrase to any web platform. I have seen many ICOs requiring people to connect their wallets to websites. I have also seen staking and liquidity farming platforms that also require connecting wallets. Like the OP suggested, it is always better and safer to transfer the funds planned for such activities into a separate wallet before connecting. This will reduce the damage done should the platform be designed for scam purposes. So the problem is not limited to airdrops like the caption suggested but everything that has to do with connecting wallets or importing seed phrase.
Topic: Risk of import wallet seed to a new web wallet, to chase airdrop (Read 256 times)
April 12, 2024, 04:19:54 AM
Most definitely it's very unsafe to use the same wallet where you store your assets to source for airdrops because thst could be risky and you exposing your wallet to potential danger our there, because some of the web wallet like stated by OP could have potential risk of been hacked and you loose your funds, you don't even have ro transfer your money from your current wallet to another to enable you use thst one, just creat a new wallet and use the new one allowing your old wallet to still hold your assets without you having to bother much about the security of your asset especially if you have your seed phrase safely stored elsewhere which shouldn't be online too.
Wallet security should always be your priority regardless of what you aim to achieve with all the airdrops and other contracts as we are heading towards another bull run, so many smart contract's and airdrops will emerge buy always safe guard your wallet so you don't get to loose your assets.
Wallet security should always be your priority regardless of what you aim to achieve with all the airdrops and other contracts as we are heading towards another bull run, so many smart contract's and airdrops will emerge buy always safe guard your wallet so you don't get to loose your assets.
April 12, 2024, 03:06:42 AM
Don't (never) import wallet mnemonic seed from your current wallet like Metamask wallet to a new web wallet like Bitget, Phantom, OKX. Some wallets have that import feature for you BUT NEVER choose Import.
If a new web wallet is bad, has back door, you can lose your money.
I think this is a bit paranoid imo.
It is not, in fact, there are lots of cases where a person losses his funds on his web wallet because he carelessly inputs his mnemonic seeds or private key to import our wallet. Even linking our web-wallet that authorize the site to access, modify or do an activity to our web-wallet is dangerous since we never know if they have that ill-intention towards our funds.
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Every web wallet is basically the same, and those popular wallets do not have backdoors, this is very unlikely.
Indeed reputable wallets tend to have no backdoors but in this case @OP is talking about new sites that requires a person to link his web wallet. But I would say not all web-wallet are the same because there are some wallet that were released with malicious intent.
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Anyway nobody should hold more than a few dollars in any web wallet.
That should be the case but many of us are too lazy to move huge amounts of fund to offline storage especially when a person is active in trading on swap platforms. So it does not hurt to be reminded to take more precautionary steps in dealing with new websites that requires linking our webwallet.
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I have a wallet which I use the same seed in metamask and another wallet in different devices. This is not a big deal imo.
It won't be a big deal until one finds his wallet emptied by a hacker. It does not hurt to be more careful when dealing with new websites that require us to link our web wallet to their site, IMO.
April 12, 2024, 02:52:43 AM
A new wallet should always be used for airdropping. If you use the wallet you already use for airdrop and connect your wallet to all those airdrop campaigns after airdrop, you may lose your money. Since opening a wallet is not a difficult task and no money is required to open a wallet, opening a new wallet and joining the air drop campaign with that wallet is the best decision in my opinion. Better to have a separate wallet for everything as it reduces the risk a lot. If you keep all your money in the same account, if you accidentally forget the password of that money or fall into the trap of fraudsters, if you share your wallet information with fraudsters, then you will lose all the money at the same time. So I think there is no need to take such risk when you use new wallet to work on all these campaigns.
Crypto campaigns should be popular and we must do what's right if we We should learn vastly how the market operates and enrolled in communities that will become safer for us other than taking crucial risks. There's more risks in the space, they arises when we don't have the appropriate method or approach, just moving around without conference of the entire space. We can be losing and also not hold unto the solid strategies. It's clearly preferably to import new wallet for fresh airdrop inother to avoid complications.
April 11, 2024, 11:20:49 PM
A new wallet should always be used for airdropping. If you use the wallet you already use for airdrop and connect your wallet to all those airdrop campaigns after airdrop, you may lose your money. Since opening a wallet is not a difficult task and no money is required to open a wallet, opening a new wallet and joining the air drop campaign with that wallet is the best decision in my opinion. Better to have a separate wallet for everything as it reduces the risk a lot. If you keep all your money in the same account, if you accidentally forget the password of that money or fall into the trap of fraudsters, if you share your wallet information with fraudsters, then you will lose all the money at the same time. So I think there is no need to take such risk when you use new wallet to work on all these campaigns.
April 11, 2024, 10:30:27 PM
There is an endless amount of phishing sites pretending to be a legitimate project doing an airdrop. Many of them are advertising on major websites like Twitter because they have such low standards, that they will accept money from scammers and even allow them to purchase a verification badge for their profile.
There are even ads like these, which manage to spoof the Coingecko domain underneath the thumbnail, but it’s really a redirect to a phishing site.
Users should always be cautious and never approve any requests made to their wallet when visiting these websites. Getting phished by a fake airdrop has cost even some high profile crypto personalities millions of dollars in stolen funds.
There are even ads like these, which manage to spoof the Coingecko domain underneath the thumbnail, but it’s really a redirect to a phishing site.
Users should always be cautious and never approve any requests made to their wallet when visiting these websites. Getting phished by a fake airdrop has cost even some high profile crypto personalities millions of dollars in stolen funds.
April 11, 2024, 09:48:51 PM
Besides I was not aware of the sweep private key option, but you said it is for Bitcoin wallets, but I don't think if it's for BTC wallets then it is of any use to the airdrop hunters. As there are no airdrops that need such a wallet.
If you can not sweep, you can simply do two separated steps: Create a new wallet (not import current wallet seed); Move part of your fund to a new wallet. Then you can do airdrop's proactive and predictive tasks without fear that you will lose all fund in your main wallet.Moving fund between two wallets with altcoin blockchains is not too expensive, except you do it on Ethereum blockchain. It worth to pay like few cent or even $1 to save your main fund like $500, $1000 or even bigger.
That's important not to use your main wallet for joining such airdrops.
Thanks to be straight and to the point.Use main wallet for airdrop is very risky and import your main wallet's mnemonic seed from old wallet brands like Metamask, Myetherwallet to new wallet brands will increase your risk. We can not conclude what wallets are better and more secure than others. With new wallet brands, we have very little information about their quality and security.
April 10, 2024, 03:10:41 PM
I think OP is just warning about the potential dangers of having to import one’s seed phrase on this wallets, I will say the dangers aren’t different from the warning of importing seed phrase into any online wallet. The only difference is that should the exchanges of this web wallet be compromised then there is possibility of exploiting the wallet itself. Moreover the wallets listed by OP are closed source wallet except Phantom wallet and as such we don’t know what they do to our seed phrase.
My advice is never use your main wallet on online wallet and even the airdrop wallets shouldn’t be left connected to the DApps after interacting with them.
You are right our wallets should not be left connected to any sites, if our work is down with that site, we should disconnect our wallet. And yeah you are right, OP's concerns want to warn us as a reminder that we should not import our main wallet or a wallet's seedphrase which we use for holding purposes, on wallets that we made to use for airdrops. My advice is never use your main wallet on online wallet and even the airdrop wallets shouldn’t be left connected to the DApps after interacting with them.
Besides its an extra security, and OP has given a good alternative to it already but that's for only BTC, I can assume alts wallets must have that feature as well. But the main and easy point that we all should have in our mind is, big amounts, or main funds should not be stored on a wallet that we are using for airdrop purpose. Our main wallet, holding wallet should be placed aside and airdrop wallet should be a new one with no or less funds in it.
April 10, 2024, 12:58:03 PM
Yes import wallet seed for participate on Airdrop is always very risky because scammers can sometimes publish Airdrop with the lure of attractive rewards and if someone tries to import their wallet with key or seed phrase then their wallet can be hacked. so to join Airdrop, you should always use a new wallet or use a wallet that does not have an amount of tokens or coins deposited in the wallet, which can cause us a lot of loss if we lose it. So we should always be careful. then it is possible to keep the wallet safe. Without wallet safe our entire crypto assets are at risk
April 10, 2024, 12:37:31 PM
Having an offline wallet is very crucial, if you wallet is offline the keys will be completely far away from the internet and it becomes impossible to fall victim to this type of scam.
With majority of your funds offline, you can now have an online wallet and as many "burner" wallets as possible, these you would use for airdrops or connecting to untrusted websites, because you do not really have anything to lose in them. People who deal with airdrops, DeFi and even altcoins generally, take a lot of risk with things like these and staking too and fake projects as well, thus they lose quite a lot of money in the process.
With majority of your funds offline, you can now have an online wallet and as many "burner" wallets as possible, these you would use for airdrops or connecting to untrusted websites, because you do not really have anything to lose in them. People who deal with airdrops, DeFi and even altcoins generally, take a lot of risk with things like these and staking too and fake projects as well, thus they lose quite a lot of money in the process.
April 10, 2024, 09:27:55 AM
Importing a mnemonic seed wallet between more than one wallet is a bad choice, as the more times a seed is present in an online wallet, the greater the chance of losing your coins. To claim Airdrop, you only need gas fees. You can create a wallet with enough gas fees and then you will be able to participate in all Airdrop with very low risks.
Creating a wallet with enough gas fee—what do you mean, or do you mean creating a new wallet and depositing enough gas fee into it? Some airdrops have a good value, but you must be very selective in choosing the airdrop, and even if it makes you a 10% profit, that is good.
April 09, 2024, 05:10:34 PM
That's important not to use your main wallet for joining such airdrops. And if they're asking for wallet seed importation or the app they have or website is forcing you to connect the wallet then please don't be to obedient with them. Always use a fresh wallet and as much as possible with new seed for you not to touch your existing funds if you've got it either with metamask or any other wallet that you're using for such. Because you don't even know if that project is going to be something good in the future and yet, you're selling everything you've got to them and the chance of being phished or hacked is high.
April 09, 2024, 04:21:54 PM
I did not say anything bad already happened with those wallets.
It's my reminder that don't import your mnemonic seed from one wallet provider to another wallet provider because it's risky practice.
In Bitcoin wallets, we have options Sweep Private key and is recommended because of risk of import seed to different wallet softwares.
Ok Ok I thought there had been some incidents. Well, that's a good reminder we should really not import the wallets that have funds in them like funds in big amounts. Besides I was not aware of the sweep private key option, but you said it is for Bitcoin wallets, but I don't think if it's for BTC wallets then it is of any use to the airdrop hunters. As there are no airdrops that need such a wallet. But still thanks for mentioning this feature I just looked into it and its a good thing to eliminate the risk of giving away your seed phrase. As it gives us some hope if we will react fast enough.It's my reminder that don't import your mnemonic seed from one wallet provider to another wallet provider because it's risky practice.
In Bitcoin wallets, we have options Sweep Private key and is recommended because of risk of import seed to different wallet softwares.
So besides creating new wallets instead of importing old ones, what do you suggest? I mean let's say we have 1 wallet that we need to use for the airdrop and have to import it on another platform's wallet what do you suggest we should do? As creating a new wallet there and sending funds there is a little expensive in this scenario so its better for all of us that we should use new wallets each time, or if using a wallet where we need funds to pay the tx fee we use that wallet which has some funds only.
April 09, 2024, 11:47:44 AM
This has been said many times over, but it doesn't hurt to mention again cause people still fal victims.
The risk to reward ratio in chasing airdrops is very lopsided. You risk your privacy and assets for the possibility of earning a good amount, but the reality is 99% of them go bust and never get to even have a value and lots of those were created specifically to scam you.
If you must, protect your wallet first.
The risk to reward ratio in chasing airdrops is very lopsided. You risk your privacy and assets for the possibility of earning a good amount, but the reality is 99% of them go bust and never get to even have a value and lots of those were created specifically to scam you.
If you must, protect your wallet first.
when it comes to money, we can hardly control our human behavior, and that is why people keep falling victim because they fail to control their human behavior of not getting satisfied, With the way people are been warned, the first thing I was warned of was to keep my seed phrase safe, and I have held up with that rule and that has kept my assets safe. The dangers of losing your seed phrase are equal to losing your assets, and if not for carelessness, I wonder how someone would disclose their seed phrase to another website. That is just crazy, and those websites are usually well-developed it look convincing, Some things are just too good to be true, The best thing is to avoid them, no matter how good they look, because I don't know how any website will be requesting your seed phrase even when your downloading wallets know exactly which type of wallet you want to download before downloading and uploading your seed phrase on them. and all those airdrops I see them as shit I don't even bother checking them out. Security should come first.
April 09, 2024, 11:07:01 AM
Some of us will be having our wallet with us without any issues, the moment we begin to start with the chase after airdrops set in the beginning of introducing threat to the security of that our same wallet, the hunt after this free offer is what makes so many fall into the pit of their attack and they never realized that, web wallet itself has many disadvantages and risk for someone to use and if we connect our wallet to any link related to claiming any of these offers on airdrops could lead to any form of attack they aimed at us.
April 09, 2024, 10:57:55 AM
Not only for airdrops, but a lot of people make the mistake of connecting their main wallet to a lot of new and untrustworthy websites just to check them out without realizing that they are risking their funds if they have any in the wallet they are connecting.
So everyone needs to understand that whenever a website asks you to connect your wallet with it, make sure that you either use a new wallet or an existing wallet that doesn't have any balance in it because the industry is full of scams and frauds and you never know when you get scammed out of your crypto and as soon as you approve a connection to your wallet, all your crypto is gone.
So all decentralized wallet users need to be vigilant and use these things with care to avoid unnecessary losses.
So everyone needs to understand that whenever a website asks you to connect your wallet with it, make sure that you either use a new wallet or an existing wallet that doesn't have any balance in it because the industry is full of scams and frauds and you never know when you get scammed out of your crypto and as soon as you approve a connection to your wallet, all your crypto is gone.
So all decentralized wallet users need to be vigilant and use these things with care to avoid unnecessary losses.
April 09, 2024, 06:33:23 AM
Is something happened with the wallets you have mentioned? As I did not hear any news that either of these wallets (web wallets) have scammed people's money when they imported their wallets.
I did not say anything bad already happened with those wallets.It's my reminder that don't import your mnemonic seed from one wallet provider to another wallet provider because it's risky practice.
In Bitcoin wallets, we have options Sweep Private key and is recommended because of risk of import seed to different wallet softwares.
I think this is a bit paranoid imo.
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Metamask is not better than phantom or mew etc...
I did not say what wallets are better than others. I only say that be more careful with new wallet brands because they can have flaws in code and can be exploited. I have more reasons to trust long existing wallets than brandnew wallets. 
Importing a mnemonic seed wallet between more than one wallet is a bad choice, as the more times a seed is present in an online wallet, the greater the chance of losing your coins. To claim Airdrop, you only need gas fees. You can create a wallet with enough gas fees and then you will be able to participate in all Airdrop with very low risks.
Creating a wallet with enough gas fee—what do you mean, or do you mean creating a new wallet and depositing enough gas fee into it? Personally, with the kind of experience I have had with airdrops, they are not worth my time, but if I must do any airdrop, I prefer each airdrop to one new wallet; it's safer that way, and I don't even connect any web wallets that have other wallets connected to them, like having multiple wallets connected to one metamask extension.
It's best if I create a new wallet on a new browser, then fund the address with enough gas or tokens to claim the airdrop, and that's all.
Is something happened with the wallets you have mentioned? As I did not hear any news that either of these wallets (web wallets) have scammed people's money when they imported their wallets. Besides talking about bitget wallet airdrop, they are only giving 50 points to new wallets only, as those who will import will not get the early 50 BWB points as a bonus. As I did not received it. But when created new one, I received. I don't think the wallets you have mentioned are risky though there are other many wallets which seems to be risky to me, like the rainbow and rabby wallets, in which people have to import there seedphrases. I find those wallets a bit risky CMIIW.
I think OP is just warning about the potential dangers of having to import one’s seed phrase on this wallets, I will say the dangers aren’t different from the warning of importing seed phrase into any online wallet. The only difference is that should the exchanges of this web wallet be compromised then there is possibility of exploiting the wallet itself. Moreover the wallets listed by OP are closed source wallet except Phantom wallet and as such we don’t know what they do to our seed phrase.
My advice is never use your main wallet on online wallet and even the airdrop wallets shouldn’t be left connected to the DApps after interacting with them.
Don't (never) import wallet mnemonic seed from your current wallet like Metamask wallet to a new web wallet like Bitget, Phantom, OKX. Some wallets have that import feature for you BUT NEVER choose Import.
If a new web wallet is bad, has back door, you can lose your money.
I think this is a bit paranoid imo.
Metamask is not better than phantom or mew etc...
Every web wallet is basically the same, and those popular wallets do not have backdoors, this is very unlikely.
Anyway nobody should hold more than a few dollars in any web wallet.
I have a wallet which I use the same seed in metamask and another wallet in different devices. This is not a big deal imo.
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