Topic: TONEE project, is a scam. (Read 166 times)

This is the most common practice of scamming, at first they shows you huge rewards and when its time to withdraw they will add more terms and conditions like buy that , transfer that, invite 20 more people to withdraw . basically you did not gain anything and lose your time, money, patients. the hype of this kind of mini app games spread too much now. it has to be stopped.

It seems like a depressing situation. And unfortunately, such schemes are quite common in the crypto space, projects that require upfront funding. Especially where a fee or disbursement is clearly promised. Likely to cause risk I've seen this happen with other Airdrop projects where they trick users with the idea of ​​a simple reward. Just to ask for rewards for boosters or unlocks that never happen.

It is certainly more important to catch projects that require funding before they can be considered questionable. I hope you get your money back. But if you don't receive it It might be a good idea to report this project on the relevant platform or community. To avoid others falling into the same trap in the future, sticking to reputable airports or doing more pre-service research can help avoid these problems.


I completely agree with that. Unfortunately, these so-called "T2E" (Tap-to-Earn) projects have evolved into something that requires more effort and risk than it's worth. Therefore it is often overlooked. Under the cover of a simple award Many of these locations bank where users will pay as little as $6, which may seem harmless at first. But it increases over time for the scammers behind them.

before proceeding in high-risk, low-reward areas. It is worth considering proven and legitimate opportunities such as trading or simply holding a major asset such as Bitcoin. The crypto space is full of ways to make real profits if you are careful and informed. Unfortunately, these scams disappoint people by getting quick and easy rewards.

$6 from each user, these scammers are patient to make profits from such fraud, the T2E philosophy requires that you earn without making any effort, but with the increasing popularity of these services, we want to see many conditions before earning tokens, which made it move to being more of a job than being fun and profit, so it is better to invest your money in trading or buying Bitcoin instead of giving it to these scammers.

yeah, the sad state of the TON ecosystem. people are so desperate to find the next gem they just throwing around their money not knowing that the money they spent will cost more than the reward they received.
but worry not, it seems these projects aren't selling as much as it was back then anyway, so I expect the scam to be decreasing and decreasing as the time goes.
but still for the people out there, your money better spent elsewhere, even better for trading or investing, if a developer team demands you money to be qualified for their project, well you can guess they are stingy developer and will give minimal rewards . because it clearly shows, that even the developers team. are short in pocket and want to make money. they be going to pull some stunt to also get some allocation to their own pocket eventually.

Developers will continue creating scam projects like this because they understand the hype around these tap-to-earn projects, many people are even joining the crypto industry because of them, they believe they can earn "free" money from it, and it is they who are more vulnerable to scams. Good thing for the developers making money from this is that no matter the warning, people will still rush into the next one that will be developed.

This is what I think about before but later found out that there are projects which are really legit and works like that. I'm not affiliated with this one but I remember Electroneum is one of it. I'm not sure either if I got its name correctly, since the project is old already. There are other which aren't really mining but are also legit and paying. It is because there are ads on their apps and that is where the devs gets their money to pay to their users. It will still be better if they will be transparent and remove the mining term, for them to look more reputable.

Making money is hard before but I can say that it was easy now because we already have cryptos and then there are online casinos too which can also give free bonuses. We only need to do an investigation to eliminate the scam one because they are also rampant now. If I were you, I won't get deceive of that traction they gain in social media because for sure most of it are only fake. If you are not new on this, you can easily avoid it, so don't worry too much now.

Well, they need to be creative because people are also getting wiser. Airdrops are still on a trend, so no wonder why they are also here. Good thing that you dodge an incoming danger mate. Indeed that apart from researching on our own, we can finalize it by asking those who already have an experience with it, to add an extra layer of security.

This concept of paying first always finds a way to get in on many concepts, and now these scammers are doing it here on airdrops, I almost become a victim of this kind of scheme in one casino, glad that I as the community first before taking their offer.
You did the right thing, asking the community first, and there are many more airdrop platforms that's going to do this, Rocky Rabbit did this, and where's the project now, People have forgotten it after paying for fees; they dump their useless token just to recover what they've paid.

Whenever a project claim to reward users for mining on phones or apps, it's not legitimate, these are just a team of developers looking to make a fortune from naive people. Funny enough, those who patronize it assume that making money online is as easy as these scam projects portray it. I noticed that their social media pages are already getting tractions, and more users would fall for this... However, it's good Op made this thread to create an awareness in the forum and for investors that'll want to do their research to realize they are skating on a thin ice.

Never trust such DApp, from your story it seems like that DApp has a system with a HYIP scheme, after spending quite a lot of time to collect 1.2 $TON, you have to spend some $TON to be able to make a withdrawal, better avoid it, I can say it's a scam.

This is another twist of the scheme: pay first before you can withdraw, that was very rampant in the old days on casinos and exchanges, I'm not surprised that they find a way for scammers to do that in the Telegram airdrops.

Airdrops are airdrops; they should have stated that they will have to send fees before you start working on the airdrop and not when you already accumulated and you have no choice but to send fees to get what you've worked for, for so many months, I think this kind of scamming will be the trend so we have to be very careful on the airdrops that we are working on.

This is classic red flag, since ton blockchain has been popular anyway, there's no doubt that some scam project will creep in and try to profit off vulnerable people, one thing you need to know, usually the legit project doesn't require you to deposit or make it optional, at worst they'd require you to make some transaction with fixed requirement but in no way they demand you money to unlock something, this project clearly gives the vibes of scam project.

also anyone can deploy their own mini app inside telegram app, there's no verification whatsoever and many time the developer remain unknown, with this , I won't ever interact recklessly with some random project without knowing who's behind it.

so maybe, you can try to see whether the project is legit, try to contact maybe the moderator if it has some group questioning that there's a mistake, if however the project is truly a scam, then I guess there's nothing you can do, be sure not to be tricked into giving them more money though.

There are obviously many in the same situation as you who complain about what happened to them when they bought the boosters at the prices displayed in the bot and were unable to withdraw until now, such as this [tweet!], where the withdrawal button was not working, and they published their transactions on the X platform demanding a refund for their Tons tokens but to no availl. There are also those who liken this mini-game to a Ponzi scheme.

Now, many participate in airdrops on Telegram and may invest their money based on the harsh condtions that the developers of these mini-games impose before allowing withdrawals. They often charge excessive fees and some invest money hoping to make a profit or withdraw their tokens, only to be met with the harsh reality of falling into a scam. Not all mini-games are high-quality, and frankly if those playing these games intend to receive free rewards, it makes no sense for them to be forced into investing money,, especially if they are not confident in the game they're participating in.

That's the grand scheme of these cons that are ploying with the hype that goes around with the tap to earn projects. But that scheme isn't different from those scam platforms that are asking hefty amount of money to deposit before allowing them to withdraw. Imagine how these millions of users will transact or deposit even a 1 TON for each of them then they'd get millions of bucks already easy within the day. THat's why for those that have been following the movement of the tap to earn projects, don't be overwhelmed because many of them are likely to do these schemes and because of your optimism, you're just going to give it a go as that amount isn't that much to ask but don't tolerate these projects.

Most of all these telegram apps are turning out to be scams, people are no longer making money from them again, most of the airdrops that happened recently turned out to be dust, what most people received isn’t really worth it, and most of them do request for users to either make some transactions or for them to pay some amount of money to increase their rank, but at the end, what people do receive sometimes is not even up to the amount spent on the transaction or amount spent to increase rank.
 
I know nothing about the project that you are talking about, but immediately they ask you to pay before you will be able to claim your reward. It looks suspicious, you shouldn’t have paid the money. When participating in an airdrop, you are not even supposed to put money in them, if you don’t put any money in it, if the airdrop turns out to be a scam, it’s not really going to be painful compared to when you put money in it.

Someone please give markm rep here, if possible, thank you. Your creative imagination is an asset to the community.

It would be really awesome if all those millions of people who clearly want to be able to honestly earn by playing would gang up to do it right.

One of my possibly ridiculous ideas alludes to the perennial popularity of "good stories"...

It seems to a possibly far-fetched imagination that if even relatively few awesome players played out some really good stories they could, simply by playing a decent game really really well, build together a Galactic Edutainment Network (GEN) that would drive and manifest such awesome tales that it would become a tempting acquisition target for the likes of Disney.

That would entail playing so well, probably being so welcoming to new players and helping new players develop striking characters with mass appeal to the audiences of empires such as the Disney empire, that in essence the players would be co-operatively building a "franchise" type of thing that ultimately hopefully the best players would end up eschewing the idea of selling out to the likes of Disney, pointing out that such parochial operations on such backwater (and possibly mythical) planets as the planet known as Earth are possibly themselves too tiny and trivial even to be considered tempting acquisitions for GEN...

-MarkM-

I have a newbie friend who is not on this forum but a newbie to cryptocurrency, who fall for this scheme also so their victims are mostly newbies, since their lack the basic knowledge to know what the step to take and how to spot a scam, just like in those case, the ops who have to pay fees which are call gas fees this ended them in scam from the project.

What you people should know is that, majority of the current projects that engage is the tap to earn thing are scam and riding on the success of few of those projects, to keep scamming people along the line.

Charles-Tim is correct, imo, since Tap-To-Earn simply doesn't produce enough honest revenue to share anything with the users. TONEE was probably designed to be easy money for the devs not you. If anyone finds a flaw in that simple logic please let me know. Now that we've established a logical mindset, why are so many millions of people going nuts about tap-to-earn? Insanity is almost everywhere these days.


Edit: (Partly for humor) Catizen is flying high with huge profits for so many people. Did you get in early? Tap-To-Earn is so easy and the money is great! PM me to receive 420 special referral bonus links!  

ps. Catizen is swipe-to-earn instead of tap, makes sense that one has real value.

Any tap-to-earn or tap-to-scam (tap-and-pay) or whatever they are called that directly or indirectly want you to pay coins for you to get more rewards or for you to be able to withdraw, just know that will be the lastest scam just as scam were in ICOs in those days. So do not pay anything is the best. A friend sent me many of the tap-to-earn invite links some months ago, begging me to just access the link for him receive the referral reward. I did and I noticed two among them is luring people to pay. I just clicked on the link and later I deleted them because they are spamming my Telegram with unwanted messages.

A few months ago, one of my friends sent me his invite link to this project. This project claimed a new airdrop called TONEE and also they claimed that their mini telegram app also rewards people with TON coins (which is native to Telegram's own chain).
I had almost 1.2 TONs based on what they said on the app, but for withdrawing the coins, you needed to buy a "booster". I paid 1.4 tons (honestly, I did twice, I know I acted greedy) and the mini app says withdrawal was successful, but the only successful withdrawal was from my Tonekeeper app )
if anyone from the project sees this, please explain to me. Otherwise, we have to consider them a scam project.