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If you receive an email saying:

BREAKING: EOS Devs Announce Massive Airdrop

beware!

is a scam very well performed that will link you to a fake coindesk site
original:
https://www.coindesk.com/
fake with the ṡ:
https://www.coindeṡk.com/EOS-halves-token-amount-for-blockone-leaves-tokens-to-be-claimed/

that link you to a mywtherwallet veryfied page with a contract ready to be deployed

beware because scammers know that all of us wants free coins!

Thanks for the info. Even today, also to attention, there was a mailing, a free course of training cryptography, which allegedly costs $ 1000, where they offered to open a text document, and then received a bunch of viruses after opening the file, the attack of which is set to mail, wallets and passwords to exchanges! The information is not 100% but I think it will be useful!

thanks for the info  bro .

Noted and bumped!

thank you for sharing this information with me, I hope with this information will make the crypto to be more careful in following a crypto project especially airdrop, if want to make a good future investment, I suggest to the crypto to invest in daneel project .io, only 10 days left, ICO daneel will finish, immediately join and make profit as much as possible. www.daneel.io

Thanks for the information
I got the email this morning and I would have fallen victim without this
God bless
Also beware of phishing emails

This info is pretty good and it show how kind you are. There have been fake sites 
by scammers on internet of recent, getting too much. We should not because we are hunting for free coins then fall victim of activities of scammers. If we watch most of these sites carefully, we will discover that some letters gave dots either at the base or the top. It will be quite unfortunate if we fall for this.

Scammers and hackers are running wild in this cryptocurrency world of free money

Thank you OP. Reading about scammed people makes me sad and that's why I think most people are skeptical about cryptos. There's nothing to do against those scammers? Nobody can stop them?

Can someone explain this?  :(

Thanks so much for this inforamtion, so just save some people from losing their portfolio, I don't know why some people always feel that frees things are free, this is one of the things that its comes with, and any greedy perosn will nd up losing his fund to these scammers

Daneel project is good choice to invest in ico project. Its first idea based on AI.
However, i always stay away from airdrop because its more scam rather than legit. So i will stay away

This was posted on AirdropAlert sadly. Don't they do verifications first.

Thanks for the warning. This information will help a lot and save people from such scams.

Anyway thanks for your information. I think people must see carefully for what they click, research and ask about the website validity.
Too much Phising and Scam Website come with absurd name. Example like you share, also Bitcointalk.to (It's phising site!)

you can obviously detects if the the airdrop was scam or true because the official telegram group of each project will announce if their having an airdrop or not and most important thing dont give some eth or donation because AIRDROP are free

Thank you for the heads up. Recently, I got a lot of scam emails like this. Don't know how did these scammers get my email and my name.

that if you click the link in the email you are redirected on myetherwallet original site with a smart contract prepared to steal tokens from your etherwallet wallet


scam in cryptoworld is the same of a scam in real world, there are always a lot of thieves that try to steal what is yours. the only way to stop them is be aware of much as possible and be informed and first of all share and invest time in sharing with the community and with newbies all that you know.

only if we learn to share we can build a great community and make cryptoworld a safe and healthy place.

I`m also receiving countless phishing emails and I suspect the reason is an airdrop registration or even a bounty registration (unfortunately, I took part in a scam ICO managed here, on Bitcointalk). Luckily I haven`t used my primary email for this.

very good choice, it's a good practice to have differents emails in order to avoid scams emailings affect primary and most important email accounts

It would make no sense for EOS to hold any sort of airdrop because that would be scamming the previous investors out of their money by inflating the supply of the coin that has been sent out for no cost.

Also, I'm sure that EOS wants to raise a lot more money than just giving it away via an airdrop.

Thanks for letting us know. It's an obvious one. These phishing emails are really common these days, don't ever click on anything until you verify the sender is legitimate and you've done your reasearch.

These scammers make use of the idea that people want to get something for nothing, so don't just click on the link from any website, because it might steal your all money.

that was a good information for airdrop hunter. I got many suspicious email like that and I know that is all just phising. just ignore it, mark as spam.
search info first on trusted websites or official website to make sure that email fake or not

There is a new EOS airdrop.
It's a telegram airdrop and google form to fill ETH and telegram username:


Doesn't seem like a scam, but they are giving away 5 EOS.

Anyone knows about it?

That is sick,i dont understand how they get that domain name because its impossible to have that s .The oginal website and the copy has almost the same contents,it should be reported to the domain registrar so the copycat website would be take down for good,a lot of people find ways to get what they want and this is the firstime i have seen domain names like that,but thanks for the warning.

The form was removed and Telegram group renamed in "EOS Info" and emptied.
Seems suspicious. Almost 26k ppl joined the group.
let's see, what they do.
Don't follow links posted in such groups.

Clone phishing
Clone phishing is a type of phishing attack whereby a legitimate, and previously delivered, email containing an attachment or link has had its content and recipient address(es) taken and used to create an almost identical or cloned email. The attachment or link within the email is replaced with a malicious version and then sent from an email address spoofed to appear to come from the original sender. It may claim to be a resend of the original or an updated version to the original. This technique could be used to pivot (indirectly) from a previously infected machine and gain a foothold on another machine, by exploiting the social trust associated with the inferred connection due to both parties receiving the original email.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Clone_phishing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Clone_phishing)

I also got the same email but am damn sure its a phishing scam because I happen to be a member of the official EOS telegram and there has been a warning before the scam mail.

Well that is something new , so they now try to trick us with fake site which is not MEW then direct us from it to the scam in MEW but with the wrong contract address .  People really need to be careful most of the scams happening is coming from emails .

I will tell you guys something might be useful , When you get an email with important news about a token you own just close your email go to the social media channel of this token or the website and see if there is something really happening . That what I always do .

It is amazing how many users thanked Op for his thread , and now one gave him any Merit .   BTW that is what Merit for ( thanking someone for useful thread or to show him/her that your liked  his/her  thread )  ;)

There would be no EOS airdrop because it already one of the most important and the strongest Cryptocurrency in the market today.
I really don't believe EOS would announce their airdrop, for what? They already earned the position as of the top altcoins in the market and would never give their tokens to the public for free.
There's another ICO today that is called EOZ, maybe that ICO will give away free tokens through airdrop.

Thanks for the information i was also experience that kind of emailing but i don't mind it i rather delete it to be sure that i will not become one of there victim,nowadays this kind of hacking system is prone to everyone co'z hackers know that we like a free coins in airdrop.

thanks for alert .
best method is use bookmark always important URLs .
and never open wallet/exchange link direct from any site .

I received this e-mail too. It's very similar to the original one. Congrats to scammers, this was easy to drop into it.
Not this time to me. =)

there's an encreasing activity of scam emailings, omisego, eos, etc

please beware and check always the sender

never deploy any contract without knowing the third party you are dealing with

your knowledge and your rensponsability will make crypto community unstoppable!

The Scammers are getting sophisticated daily and it only warrant us to be extra careful in our online doings.

Too many bad people attempting to steal from others.

Thank you for providing information on fraudulent schemes, this is very useful for everyone. Of course, I long ago learned to be suspicious of the letters of "happiness", but sometimes you want to take part in the easy money.

SCAM WARNING ➤ Don't get fooled by the VeChain fake airdrop. There isn't any running @vechainofficial airdrop currently!

oh man, i clicked that link today. thank god found out myself that site goes to this domain - xn--coindes-jhb , no one can see that in first attempt looks like real. please spread this message to everyone. Thanks for posting here.

and if anyone get that email, please click in your gmail options "Report phishing"

That's one reason I stopped joining airdrops except from the ICO I am joining, but if they don't give airdrops then it's fine with me, I don't want to waste my effort joining those craps, I've learn my lesson.

ALL GREED MUST BE AWARE OF THIS..those kind of users that being victimized by this kind of scams are those whos always looking for free without doing anything..greed will lead us to failure better change that attitude,because everything that we earned must came from our labor or works.

This scam is circulating on the web and the email passes spam and gets into your inbox. Beware.

Hope it was "only" phishing and not sending also viruses and what to ever on top.

Thanks so much. Thanks to your information, I got out of trouble. I think it is necessary to make a section with such warnings.

I got scammed on this. They drained my MEW of $16,000 in coins.

Anyone knows what happens if the contract is executed? or is it just fishing for private keys.

Your coins go into their wallet. I don't think there's anyway to get them back, like you can't undo the contract. If anyone does know how though, I'd surely appreciate your help.

Thanks for the information. As far as I know of, there aren’t any eos airdrop. Let’s stay safe and be careful with such good deals.

hi I am very sorry....

when you deploy a contract you are assuming that the party you deal with is legit and the process is one way, you can't come back.

sorry man

Thanks for the information. I hope not to fall into trap. I saw this airdrop but I don't remember if I subscribed it or not. I have decided not to enter airdrops anymore. Maybe somebody earns from airdrops but I havent earned anything yet, also I have lost too much time.

I think I have something like that, I guess joined to many airdrop have this kind of effect lol. For today I always check the link twice and if I am not sure I will manually search the email mentioned airdrop on google.

Thanks, these warnings are very useful to protect the community from too many scammers. In fact, we would need here on Bitcointalk a category of posts dedicated just to signalling scams which are appearing in the crypto-space and which must be avoided.