Topic: Why is it so hard to find 20k American or Canadian who want to get $500 for free (Read 232 times)

This airdorp the program was divided into several rounds, the first one ended already a few months ago, then two new rounds were launched simultaneously - round 2 (USA and Canada) and 3 (Eurpoe, Austaria and New Zeland), round 3 ended after a few weeks but round 2 is still running a after few months due to lack of participants.

 

I have found out that many people from the US and Canada have involved in cryptocurrency and are complying with rules set by crypto projects in terms of involving in bounty campaigns or investing in crypto projects. It means they also have to be ready to provide their KYC procedure if required. So not only from Asia or African countries, people from other countries are also required by project rules to provide KYC information.

Well there are people who might agree to do the kyc for the $500. Maybe you haven't come across them yet or whatever. But my question is this… why is it that you're only targeting only citizens in the US and Canada… Are there not other countries you can target as well? There are many other countries and this cryptocurrency and anyone is free to make use of it. Not only people in these countries you have mentioned deserves the free money, there are people that it will be more important. Well… I'm just saying. I don't even know the reason why you chose those two. Then another thing is… if they are given this money are they able to exchange it and use it immediately?? I think that's something else they are considering.

I think because most Americans still don't know about cryptocurrency, i have an american friend and ask him if he knows bitcoin and he answered he has no idea at all and no interest. So my conclusion is that some of them don't really have an interest getting into crypto.

Expect to see that coming when distributions already been started, the value for this coin will foo deeper as hunters will take the opportunities to
sell the coin within this decent amounts, most of them will not try holding the coin since bitcoin is rallying up, and regarding to US and canadian
citizens they are sensitive with their personal informations as they can easily earn such amount so they will not entertain this types of airdrops.

To the best of my knowledge, many or most were from the US (in reference to the other forum I was referring to, where folks jumped on the stellar offer). Typically they'd be discussing US bank bonus/promotions, so unlikely they'd be from a 3rd world country with no income.

I didn't mean my post to sound like folks should sign up for this, by the way. I just meant it seemed weird to me that other giveaways didn't have a problem finding people -- the stellar giveaway required much more info and paid out a lot less too.

A name and photo is a form of KYC, of course, but it's certainly less info than most exchanges or sites typically ask for. I half expect exchanges to ask for blood and dna samples next... they go way overboard. I also assumed most going for this sort of giveaway were just going to use a fake name --  I mean it takes like 10 seconds to edit a photo. Fake name + blurry photo isn't going to be much of a risk... unless hackers want to steal the identity of a lot of John and Jane Does out there...

But perhaps that's it -- I tend to be paranoid and think anyone even trying to do this would safeguard themselves with a fake name, fake FB, fake twitter and so on. It'd take a couple of minutes for like $500+, but I guess others just assume KYC means full ID, address, social, and they have real FB accounts, so too big a risk. So for anyone being honest, yeah, I can see why they'd avoid doing this.

Yeah, I agree but if they offer it internationally or make it an open offer, that 5000 participants will be fill up in just a matter of days 2 or 3 days with the huge number of people going for airdrops, another reason is the marketing, it seems they are not posting it in a market that are mostly US citizen.

Maybe the "folks" you're talking about are not from US and CA.

First,KYC is just an abbreviation of "Know Your Customer" (I don't think I'm making learn anything new lol) but the fact that a name and a photo is enough to "Know your customer" we can definetely call this KYC.Secondly, a name and a photo is enough to find the person's address and possibily other personal informations.Also,you're talking about photoshop.. The time that an American or Canadian will waste on learning how to photoshop and pull off this KYC with success he can earn way more than 500$ lol..

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That being said, If I were an US/CA citizen I probably won't be interested in this as well I would prefer flip some burgers for the same earning and not risk doing this process 

I think not everyone wish to give their document to third party for $500, currently still need 3500 participants to end round 2 airdrop.

No matter what is the price of energi now, I'm sure that price will dump a lot when team distribution airdrop tokens.

Giving info to blockchain is what I referred to earlier. And I agree, you'd think only 3rd world country people (or those who really, really need money) would partake in that sort of giveaway in exchange for their KYC info.

But I also frequent other forums not related to crypto too (not sure if we are allowed to mention other forums here) ... places that cover bargains, deals, banking bonuses and so on. And tons of people on those sites signed up for the blockchain giveaway. It seemed weird to me at the time, and those folks certainly aren't hurting for money either. But folks do offer up their info for a measly $50 quite often, and it's not solely folks who plan to use an exchange or basically have no income at all.

As for this offer, I would hesitate to even call it KYC. You need a name and photo, that's it. No personal information, no address, no social, nothing really. And as I stated earlier, there is also nothing stopping anyone from flexing their photoshop muscles and altering their name on their ID either.

So basically you give up your photo to  take part in this.... a grainy photo perhaps not even associated with your real name. I tend to be a little paranoid giving my info out, but even to me that seems like a pretty safe form of 'KYC'.

If someone gives us a proposal KYC will get $ 500 free from a project that we have never studied, never believed, surely we will say no. $ 500 seems to be a small amount, but it is nothing compared to the amount that you could lose on exchange if unfortunately your information is leaked.

Well first of all i'd say 95% of "bounty hunters" on this forum are from 3rd world countries where the meager bounties they earn can support their cost of living. If you have a job in a 1st world country you will never be taking part of these shitty bounties. The only 2 XLM giveaways I know of are the ones run by Coinbase and Blockchain.info, both reputable companies that have been in the crypto scene for a long time. Many already did their KYC with coinbase as you need it to trade, and I'd say the majority of those willing to KYC for the blockchain.info giveaway are either planning on using their exchange or again from a 3rd world country.

I'm actually kind of surprised that more folks haven't taken part in this -- basically because tons of folks in other places gladly gave away their kyc info for like $50 in free stellar tokens.

Here it just requires a photo and name. And nobody even says you have to use your real name (magic of photoshop).

I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing to take part in this. But compared to other freebie offers folks have taken part in, this one seems pretty benign in comparison.

$500 is not the worth of their kyc. That's very simple, right? Even though it's free, unless if the said coin has high potential to increase in value, let's say 100 times its value now.

I'm from the US. I make more than enough where there is no way in hell im giving up my ID in any way, shape, or form for $500

But still required gov.id, name and photo. They might still don't want to give it. American really valuing their privacy very high (maybe too much)

Of course they will feel something fishy when someone tell them will get $500 from uploading gov.id, they will think the id will be sold to terrorist lol. While we know it just for proving u r human

Totally agree but in this case the only one required is name (no birthdate, no address no security ID) that's what I was asking about - do you think that giving someon else only the name is also dangerous?



This offer is really good but when it's started 1 NRG coin rate was closer to $1. Now thanks to last months bullrun it grew up to $6 today so the same amount of tokens is worth much more than on start.
Of course now the Energi team claims that there will be no other KYC procedure than sending this photo. Eventually if they change their mind anyone can just left his tokens and go away...

Because identity theft is destructive to the victim. All are just very cautious about these KYc warning. A slip of Social security number can give access to everything. Besides your offer is too god to be true. Seeing an offer like $500 up fro grabs free? But then found out they need to provide government documents, only those who are really in need for the next meal on the table are the ones going to grab them.

I guess you are from Africa from your grammatical expression, and you must know today that free money is free money everywhere and that man is man everywhere. The only problem here is the issue of KYC as this tends to pose a threat to life> Try to get a good engagement on this forum, it helps,

Maybe you have to up your stake or give away like $2,000. With such amount, you will be surprised you won't get influx of people coming in. The reason is simply, KYC involves disclosing personal information and survival rate in the countries is high. The economy is robust, so they won't just sell out like that without proper thinking.