Topic: Telegram airdrop bots (Read 148 times)

In my opinion, participating in airdrops is a bit like gambling, especially when you are told that tokens will be randomly distributed to a certain number of people. For me, the philosophy of random selection is not a fair because the number of participants will determine the quality of the airdrop, considering that the fewer the number of participants, the higher the reward value will be, and the more the number of participants, the lower it will be. I wonder why the project team does not select the first ones who meet the criteria?

Experiences in participating in airdrops show that 99% of participants do not get tokens of good value due to the huge number of participants, and this applies to 99% of projects as well.

I always advise avoiding these projects based on airdrops. But if you intend to participate in airdrop campaigns, I suggest that you take your time to do a deep research, otherwise there is no point in wasting your valuable time that would be better spent watching GIFs.

Since I posted my last comment on this topic, I have stopped following the news of airdrops on Telegram bots and I have also noticed a decrease in the interest in publishing topics about these projects in the altcoins section here on the forum. It is clear that the wave is coming to an end and it will not be long before everyone discovers that they were victims of carefully thought-out scams. One of the most important signs of doubting the credibility of these projects is that there is no information about the development team or the project management body. All of these projects do not have introductory websites and do not publish official announcements on any of the trusted channels (forum...) and few of them have Twitter profiles or a Facebook page where they do not share any data identifying the project owners. This is a clear red flag of the lack of integrity of these projects and I wonder how I followed this wave despite the absence of any guarantees at all. I am almost certain that all the expert members here on the forum either failed to achieve any results from the projects they followed or did not believe in them from the beginning.

No one denies that there are scam schemes.. Some projects have promised and specified the TGE, but they haven't launched it yet, and they keep extending the time to gather more funds from inveestors and their support. Some projects for these bot games have urged people to invest in one of the features to qualify for the TGE and extend the airdrop allocation they would receive. When players invest, their money goes to them without receiving any features or items they purchased.

From my own experience with one of the bots, I had met one of their requirements to stake the amount I had before the snapshot. However, I was surprised to find out that my wallet address wasn't whitelisted just days before the TGE. Even the tokens I had staked couldn’t be withdrawn because they increased the allocation for withdrawals to CEX to a huge and exaggerated amount to prevent anyone from withdrawing their tokens. Then, I was shocked again when their token collapsed unbelievably just one hour after listing, with the value of my holdings dropping to below a dollar. Honestly, these Telegram bots are now being run by greedy teams, and unfortunately, what made their failure and scams easy to pull off is that no one can identify them. Perhaps there are still some good bots, but it reliies on luck... Now, most require players to invest without knowing what they will receive in the end or the project's seriousness in keeping its promises. That's why I tried this once and stopped participating some time ago.

Since I decided to stop caring about the bot wave, I noticed the large number of bot game projects based on the same principle. These projects promise to give rewards in the form of tokens that will be listed, and indeed many of them succeed in getting the support of one or two trading platforms, and then they have many opportunities to profit from the number of users, most of whom are invited from other gaming applications. We saw some applications asking users to send a small amount of any traded token to confirm participation and then get the bot token, the future of which is unknown. The other plan is to sell some features to be able to use the application to play, and the sale is not done with the application token but with another token traded on the exchanges. The other opportunity is when the token reaches the trading platforms, the team will be able to sell the largest percentage if the token succeeds in gaining popularity. The multiplicity of projects confirms the failure rates of most of them, but it also cannot be said that any of the projects, whether the failed or the relatively successful ones, are a scam scheme.

Launching a bot may not be a difficult matter in general, but working on updates and ensuring connectivity with wallets and trading platforms is not easy at all. Someone mentioned $200 as the cost of development, which does not seem realistic at all. At the same time, I agree with the opinion that supports the idea that developers on freelance platforms can perform the service well and their profile is the guarantor of their integrity.

I also thought about whether it is possible to use artificial intelligence to create these scripts. Currently, there are artificial intelligence tools specialized in programming and are able to compete with major developers and major development companies. Artificial intelligence can even help in suggesting solutions within marketing policies.

As much as this seems easy to verify and inexpensive, it represents additional opportunities for fraudsters and scammers to exploit technical facilities available in several technical branches and the issue of ensnaring victims becomes costless. Today, when you try any of these bots, you will be surprised by the number of users in the millions. The personal data that will be collected from those millions of accounts, no one knows how it can be exploited, in addition to the channels that are created on the basis that they are official project channels to be used later to promote other fraudulent projects, and this is what actually happens.

First, the dark web represents a large market for any products that are not available on the clearnet, and considering that these projects are nothing more than fraudulent schemes, some of their tools will certainly be available there. I know that making deals there is not an easy matter, and I do not intend to do so, but my visit to some markets was only for information and not for any other purpose. This is an occasion to warn against the danger of making transactions on the dark web without the user having sufficient knowledge/experience.

Second, it is clear from the multiplicity of these bots that most of them do not have a solid project in the background. The extent of the success of any of them is linked to the success of its promotional campaign. What increases the astonishment is the success of some of these projects in reaching a listing agreement with major platforms in the crypto industry. Even if it is certain that trading platforms will profit from listings, this is not a sufficient reason in my opinion, but it is more logical that these platforms contribute to the development and advertising process for these bots as well.

Last point, I do not see that it is really easy to get the scripts of these bots for free or at cheap prices because they are complicated in many aspects, including the possibility of linking to wallets and performing permanent connection. This is in addition to several other features such as the possibility of signing transactions or the possibility of evaluating subscribers' accounts according to their activity on Telegram. If anyone has information about the sources of obtaining these bots in easy, legitimate ways, please share it with us.

Where I gave up on the telegram bots mini apps projects is in the fact that all of them were left losed the moment the first one was a short term success that never last but gain high hype and publications in the industry, and then after tons of those bons were discharged into the market with various projects and rewards, this arosed my suspicions about the legitimacy of those projects and I have concluded that all the telegram bots and project are all run by one set of scammers who are out with multiple means and strategies to exploit the promoter's and investors, and I know it won't last long before the general public become tired of those so called telegram based projects because their lack the necessary potential a d path to sustain for long term.
That is the reason that 99% of this project ended up as scam, I have never given them my time, not even to read through anything concerning them, and also I will always discouraged anyone I see wasting his time promoting those so called telegram crypto gaming applications.

For sure the market in open to new opportunities, but not in this regard that investors are getting mislead with false information and empty promises based on hypes, you can't even point to any single successful project among them., That point to how whacked this projects are and what damage their doing to the image of future development in this regards.

That's true, it all connects with those tasks that they're advertising or suggesting to follow other projects. But we have an option not to follow them and still claim the points that we'll get from doing that task. It's an ugly way of promoting new projects but I think those other projects are paying that project you are in for the airdrop so they get promoted and included in the task-follow thing.

I'm not sure if you have to go to the dark web because it's for sure available in the clear net and you just have to find those developers that can do that in some freelancing platforms or maybe here in the forum, someone might be able to do that.

It caught my attention that most of these bot applications promote other bots that are supposed to be for competing projects. For example, the application asks you in the "Tasks" section to join other groups for other projects and activate bots for other tokens in exchange for getting more points. This leads to the conclusion that these projects are run by one party and most likely the developer will be the same. It doesn't matter if this is a scam or honest attempts because the integration will always be convenient for that party, especially if the same steps are followed up to asking users to pay in exchange for their shares of the airdrop.

I asked a friend on Reddit and he told me that these bot scripts are available in the dark web markets at good prices, meaning that they are not expensive, but whoever buys them must be a developer or able to deal with them.
In fact, I tried to search for some sources on the dark web but I failed to find any of them.

I'm not sure but you have probably answered your own question with those two possibilities. Even in the ICO height, many aren't real developers there but just someone who casually want to start a project by hiring a developer and offers were like a hit or miss and continue or not.

Just like the creation of tokens, there were developers offering their skills to someone who wants to start a project. So, these telegram apps aren't different from that. There can be a developer and at the same time a founder, or just a founder with money that pays a developer.

Recently, I noticed the popularity of airdrops on Telegram and also noticed the large number of these bots, each of which represents a unique project. So a question came to my mind: Do all these projects develop and launch these bots themselves by hiring developers and specialists? Or do they buy these bots from somewhere and pay for the update services?

Some bots seem complex to develop and must be backed by professional developers, at the same time I see that most of these projects are scams and most of them will most likely fail, so I doubt that a failed scam would be able to pay for some high-quality applications.

I did not find discussions about these details on any of the sites I searched, so I thought of asking here on the forum.

To clarify: I have no intention of developing or buying any of these bots and I have no connection to any of these projects. This topic is for the purpose of sharing knowledge only. Feel free to share your thoughts.