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Quote from: Hyphen(-) on June 11, 2023, 07:41:21 AM

Quote from: hd49728 on June 11, 2023, 03:46:24 AM

If they want airdrop from Optimism, they must follow up Optimism's official website and channels.

The problem is, how can a beginner who is eager to get involved in the airdrop know the difference between the official website and the fake website?

I think the general advice should be that we should avoid airdrops because scammers are using the airdrop channel to scam beginners.

Most airdrops end up being scams, which is why some coins that advertise through airdrops are not getting the attention they need in the public market because most people cannot trust the project unless they follow various advertising systems that involve bounty and signature campaigns.

You asked a very good question because these scam websites have almost the same physical appearance as the original ones and can be hardly distinguished. But I have always known that the days of getting any coin for doing nothing have come and gone. So we need to be careful when these platforms come up with certain packages that are too lucrative. High profitability will always be the bait that will entice people to embrace these platforms. I have decided not to take part in most of these coins, tokens, and NFTs this is because I have not developed the needed skills to identify these fake coins. It will be better to only deal in coins that have shown to be reliable and genuine.

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Op thanks you for bringing this to notice of all. I thought NFT airdrop is no long in existence. This information now not only for newbies but also to other ranks in the forum.
Scammers always have a trick to scam unsmart people but it is hard for them to scam the smart people. Because those people will detect them once they see them. And one thing is to avoid any fast way of making money online. If anyone wants to make money online fast then the person must be scam by them. Stay away from any trap from those guys.

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Quote from: hd49728 on June 11, 2023, 03:46:24 AM

If they want airdrop from Optimism, they must follow up Optimism's official website and channels.

That website isn't from Optimism project and fortunately the browser shows a warning when anyone visiting that site. I am sure that warning only appears after some people reported that scam, phishing site. So if you are the first one falls to that scam site, you might be scammed by them.

These scammers are so trickish that even experienced people in cryptocurrency that ain't careful enough may easily fall for it not to talk of newbies. These scammer could actually make an unnoticeable change to a site like putting a dot or a comma or anything of sort that at a click in your ignorance it redirect you to their phishing site intercepting your data unknown to you. People should be absolutely meticulous while scouting for these airdrops making sure to differentiate between a genuine site and an infiltrated one.

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Quote from: hd49728 on June 11, 2023, 03:46:24 AM

If they want airdrop from Optimism, they must follow up Optimism's official website and channels.

The problem is, how can a beginner who is eager to get involved in the airdrop know the difference between the official website and the fake website?

I think the general advice should be that we should avoid airdrops because scammers are using the airdrop channel to scam beginners.

Most airdrops end up being scams, which is why some coins that advertise through airdrops are not getting the attention they need in the public market because most people cannot trust the project unless they follow various advertising systems that involve bounty and signature campaigns.

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Unfortunately, such phishing methods are very common. You can see many scam ads about them especially on social media. There are plenty of them on places like Facebook and Twitter, there are similar scams on Telegram and Discord. You shouldn't connect your wallet anywhere you don't know. Protecting your multicoin wallet is more difficult than protecting your Bitcoin.
Remember that no one will give you money for nothing. If you do tasks for potential airdrops, only follow the official announcement channels and remember that they can also be hacked. Always be on the alert. Money is hard earned and easily lost in this business. If it's too good to be true, it's probably a scam. Although there are many warnings about this, one can catch it in a careless moment.

As for Optimism, the airdrop has already been done. I don't think there will be a new airdrop. Be aware of new projects that don't distribute their coins yet. I see too many scam airdrop links for ZkSync and Starknet lately. If the project is popular, there is more and more scam promotion about it.

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Quote from: Upgrade00 on June 11, 2023, 04:41:52 AM

I have always maintained that airdrops should be avoided altogether cause they pose more risks than potential of profits. This may seem like an overkill to some but engaging in something that risks your privacy and your assets at the same time with little promise of getting any substantial value out of it should be avoided.

I second this because the era of where airdrops pay are far behind us but that doesn’t mean there aren’t airdrops that pay again but if you participate in like 60 it is possible you will only get rewarded for like 3, the latest was the arbitrum and the Pepe token, and in it is not even enough. The only way to avoid phishing attack through them aside totally avoid them is to use a separate wallet aside the wallets that is used to store ones funds so that when a phishing attempt is made you won’t have to bother or worry of losing your funds

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Quote from: Outhue on June 11, 2023, 03:22:21 AM

I bet what's ahead is very dangerous, you will have to connect your wallet and that is where all your assets will be moved out automatically, Be cautious out here.

Thanks for this warning. I got the same warning when I tried it out. It's now been obvious for everyone to be careful with the coins, tokens and NFTs offer these days, many of them are not genuine but are just there to steal your money.

Albeit, it will be foolish of anyone in this internet age to connect their account with an unfamiliar website. Such shouldn't happen no matter how trusting they could appear, especially when what they are offering is too good to be true.

Be wise!

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Quote from: hd49728 on June 11, 2023, 03:46:24 AM

If they want airdrop from Optimism, they must follow up Optimism's official website and channels.

Not even that — the Optimism $OP token has been airdropped a few months ago already, and I'm pretty sure they can't claim it anymore today, nor will the Optimism team promote the token on social media.

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With each new day, scammers get more and more opportunities to profit from human ignorance and greed, and at the moment I don't see any quick and easy way to prevent them from doing so. For all those who can't resist all those "lucrative offers" I can only advise to be extremely careful, and I would also agree with @Upgrade00 that the best way to protect yourself is to not deal with such things.

The Internet is something that offers countless possibilities, but in addition to the good things, it also has its bad side, which is full of lies and deceptions that lead to where no one wants to end up. Unfortunately, cryptocurrencies (and by that I mean altcoins and NTF) are a perfect tool for all those who have bad intentions, and there are a lot of them online.

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I have always maintained that airdrops should be avoided altogether cause they pose more risks than potential of profits. This may seem like an overkill to some but engaging in something that risks your privacy and your assets at the same time with little promise of getting any substantial value out of it should be avoided.

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Optimism airdrops have been around for a while and just like the first comment made it clear that there is a warning to point out that this one is a scam attempt so that potential airdrop hunters can be guided that the site their want to visit is unsecured but of anyone overlooked that warning it is then the hunter will have himself to be blamed.

This kind of scam/phishing attempt is popular these days and airdrop is one of the most popular means they get the victim scammed, in either having them connect the wallet to their layer two wallets for distribution of the reward but at the end, they steal wallet details and thereafter taking control of the wallet.

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If they want airdrop from Optimism, they must follow up Optimism's official website and channels.

That website isn't from Optimism project and fortunately the browser shows a warning when anyone visiting that site. I am sure that warning only appears after some people reported that scam, phishing site. So if you are the first one falls to that scam site, you might be scammed by them.

What to do to avoid phishing sites

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There is a new scamming strategy on the horizon, newbies be on the watch out

Optimism airdrop is still active and that's why some scammers have come up with a NFT/Coupon Ticket style way to trap unknown victims, especially their ones that have interacted with the optimism chain before.

The image of the NFT has all the information available, I can swap this NFT for 1000 OP token, I believe this will be confusing for newbies who aren't familiar with scammers way of doing things.

Optimism.market is the place or the right place to sell this NFT for 1000 OP tokens and I do visited the market place and I got a very bad warming from my browser to stay away, here is what the warning looks like.

I bet what's ahead is very dangerous, you will have to connect your wallet and that is where all your assets will be moved out automatically, Be cautious out here.

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