Topic: SCAM [AIRDROPs] ⚡ - page 4. (Read 1094 times)

If you can see that the OP in the airdrop is requesting for a donation for verification purposes then that is a red flag for me. It is hard to really determine if an airdrop is a scam or not because some are just genuinely offering free coins to introduce it to the community. I know that with the airdrop announcements every now and then, it is not impossible that there is a scam airdrop just to get some information or donation from people but there are some who are legit because I myself join some airdrops too and receive the tokens so some of them upon being listed in an exchange, the developers just dump their coins while others are genuinely doing some development in their projects and the prices shoot up as well.

check if they have roadmap and whitepaper as long they can not provide one ,you will say that its already a scam.  You must also check thier team they truly exist and not just only a fake details.

Scams are everywhere not only on airdrops, even on bounty campaigns there is a scam ,they will make a pre ico sale and when its succeed dev and team are gone in an instant.

Methods? Then your awareness is just a simple stuff that would help you out and determine which is a scam project or airdrop. Research up things and if you do find that its somehow fishy and doesnt have a clear roadmap or plans then better doubt on it but since you do talk about airdrops then it does mean you are not risking something or money since we dont invest we are just making task or required informations for us to join on these drops.As long they are not asking too much personal then each airdrop is worth trying to join on but dont expect too much from them since most of those coins are just total crap.

Until now i have never seen any ICOs doing what you suppose. The only distrust among members is that some ICO developers are not able to manage the project efficiently and this results the token putting in lesd demand. So far i have participated nemerous airdrops and i have never been scammed they as you think. Of course some tokens don't give you good profits but many have good potentials and they last longer

If you look at it, it's all fake. so far there has been almost no return, and the ones that were absolutely worthless.

None of the airdrops are going to say straight up "I'm a scam - buy my shitcoin/shittoken and I'll give you nothing muhahahah!"

Some have a obvious flags of unprofessionalism, and others are just out to steal from you using sophisticated techniques. But the S word isn't something to throw around for everything that doesn't work out.

Some airdrops will never pan out as the idea behind it never gained traction, for whatever reason, and others just might not of had a good enough idea for anyone to believe in in the first place.

Look for things that don't appear very professional. Spelling mistakes for me annoy me immensely in marketing of any kind. Everyday talk, yeh thats fine, but if a project wants me to give them money of any kind then they can take the effort to proof read. Also an airdrop should not be the first thing an upcoming ICO does. First up they should have a relatively well thought out and professional looking website at the least, and some support contacts, and a basic roadmap. The creation of the token for airdropping should not be needed to be created until well after they've got their idea off the ground. If it all looks like it was hashed together over a beer the night before its probably not going to get far is it.

Airdrops that require you to send GAS are not really an airdrop. Its worse if you have to sign up and send all your details to find out the last thing to do before you receive your tokens is to send us some GAS because our project is sooooo legit, we want small inconsequent amounts from as many idiots...suckers... new community members as we can get! Some use this option under the guise of "Anti-Spam signups"... If they want to protect themselves from spam sign-ups I'd like to protect myself from scam airdrops. So I avoid these and advise people about them as best I can so people can know before they sign up what is required.

Airdrops that ask for a novel of your information to sign up... I'm talking about needing more than the obvious ones here as most airdrops ask for names, emails, BTT, Telegram & Twitter handles and MEW addresses. I mean the ones that want your ID, or just anything you are not comfortable sharing. Then don't share it. It might not be scam but if it feels like a violation of your interests or security. Just say no.

And make sure you are running anti-virus/malware protection if you are worried about scamlinks always. And always watch out for phishing sites for MEW/ED etc.

Most likely this is written somewhere in a more official post by someone higher ranked - but the above is how I'm trying to operate right now and just remember to use an AIRDROP mew or metamask that only has a bare minimum ETH in it. Don't freely post any address that holds your life savings for someone to check out and be determined to drain.

Thanks friends good ideas   I am waiting more info...

Maybe we could start a list of scam airdrops where developers just collected your info like email, twitter and so on and than they didn't distribute coins or they did but abandoned the project soon after.

it is difficult to distinguish nowadays that airdrop is like a daily thunderstorm, but the airdrop scandal is mostly unclear about their project from white papers and websites.
strange again sometimes airdrop ask for donations to the members who want to join in it window like this I suggest do not join them just want to take advantage of all that because I have repeatedly joined this airdrop after in coin market they are cheaper than the amount on donation ...

That is pretty unfair for you to say. First of all, the OP is asking about AIRDROPS, not ICOs/investments. So there is no money to be taken from investors in airdrops.

Secondly, airdrops have been good and legitimate means for coins to promote themselves and ensure wide distribution. Look at Stellar Lumens and look at Byteball (GBYTE). Both are respectable altcoins with growing community, and not a single satoshi ever asked from their users. Of course, majority of new airdrops now are either useless or want your email or wallet address to try and do funny things with them. But do not let 99 bad apples ruin the 1 good apple

Some airdrops are scam so beware when you're clicking a link within their OP, might be a virus or whatsoever. Remember also if they're asking for a donation, think twice before doing it so. Recently I saw newbies creating an airdrop disguised by a donation, or a scam attempt. Be vigilant in joining an airdrops.

  Thanks bro .But i look for a way to reveal this cheating 

almost all of them is scam and just want to take money from investors thats why they created a token .  i suggest not to invest in any of them if you are investors try to find a legit project.

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