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Comrades, I need your opinion. I signed up for an airdrop from the DFINITY project, which promises to send coins for an amount equivalent to 100 CHF. At the same time, they ask to participants to pay $ 9 for the passage of KYC. It seems to me that this is a fraud, but what do you think?
Can the project require money for the passage of KYC and should I do it?

I thinks this is another kind,ponzi airdrops  this DFINITY project,in other words this is  deceptive or fraudulent kind
of  project,because based on my experience there's no one kind of campaign that asking a payment in order to regain a rewards coming from airdrops campaign,thats why its better that you stay away from that airdrops campaign,because i can assure you theres nothing you can gain this kind of project  is only loosing your capital.

As far as I know, this money ($ 9 per participant) is required by the team to pay the work of mediators involved in the KYC procedure. At least such information I found on the Internet. To pay or not it is your choice, but I would not do it.

I refuse to do the airdrop project that requires KYC. Why? The airdrop is given free of charge. And there are also projects that will cheat your KYC information. Everyone is still away from the KYC airdrop project.

Too risky, airdrop who only get $ 9 just for KYC. not worth it.
Our identity is more important than $ 9.

KYC it now looks like they want to make it so that people completely verify themselves networks, but you do understand that this is a nasreshunie personal life on the network, it's not right this should not be.

You shouldn’t give your valuable data it’s really risky you are not knowing who is going to use your identity also paying money for airdrop is joke . Airdrop name only suggest it’s free money so never get trapped for this .

I did the KYC for the Dfinity airdrop because I think Dfinity actually has some potential. I was a bit hesitant too about the $9, it said it was a "processing fee for compliance costs". Seems like they are trying to be very compliant (though US citizens and residents are not eligible for airdrop). I went for it. Then after a day or so I received a refund of the $9 and a message saying this:

"Due to large amounts of fraudulent activity, we were required to issue refunds to some airdrop participants who used credit cards to pay their processing fee. Unfortunately, due to an abundance of caution, legitimate participants were also issued temporary refunds during this process."

Finally, after a couple weeks they notified me that they were done investigating and that they determined I was legitimate (duh). But they said because of the what happened I would still receive the airdrop but not have to pay the $9 compliance cost fee.

Interesting situation, but my take is that the fee has something to do with them trying to ensure they do things as legal as possible. I have a pretty good impression of the project...but who knows....

This case should not be tolerate for it was clear that they asking money from you guys. And don't give any even a single cent. Leave the aidrops and search for other. What is the purpose why they ask you $9 ?

Why would they need your money to verify your identity? It's bs and even if they are legit you shouldn't want to deal with someone who does the kyc that way. Wouldn't be surprised if they decide to sell your identity in the future ;)

I received an email yesterday 19th August that kyc date extended on Coinlist and i should sign up apply for kyc and pay USD 9 for verification. I tried to contact DFINITY telegram group admin confirming this. He asked me to PM . I send him personal message but he didn't reply so far. Seems to be a scam. Why admin can't reply me in group and ask me to send personal message. I am not going to to claim this Airdrop. They collected our datas, now wants our IDs and on the top of it USD 9.

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It's like selling your information to others. They may use your information for malicious purposes and may endanger you. Be careful and consider carefully if you want to overcome it

yes it's a fraud why you need to pay for the free money you also want to receive.

If you will donate the money you are helping them to collect money from you and other members   , so I suggest to forget about this airdrop and find other legitimate airdrop that will not also ask for KYC verification .

Definitely they will sell them in the future. There is nothing free in this market. And they are abusing KYC in this market for their evil purpose

in my opinion, all faucets and the airdrops that require kyc should not be done at all, even if they are not all scams, why put our documents at risk by giving them to unknown companies for a few pennies?

I recommend you stay away from airdrops that ask for KYC, because they will sell your information or do some evil work. It is really insecure for your information, in this market you should only do KYC at the top exchanges, it will ensure your safety.

It can't. KYC is not required for airdrop as long as that doesn't force you to register on its platform and it's also asking the participants to pay some money to receive their airdrop is a sign for a scam airdrop. i hope you can avoid dealing with this garbage airdrop

It was obvious mate it was a fraud, as you said it was an airdrop but why do you need to pay $9 to pass in their KYC? that was ridiculous you should avoid participating in that fake airdrop your data are more precious compare to that few coins/tokens. the legit platform doesn't require any fees to pass the KYC. you only need to submit the required documents to pass nothing more nothing less. 

How much will be the reward for this airdrop? Is it big like 1k USD cause if not then its not worth it. Why do they insisting to have KYC for such giveaway hence you did not pay any investment for such product which states the purpose of KYC.

For me you should not pursue this airdrop chances they can use your details is high, I know its a legit project but given the circumstances would you choose to have that risk?

as far as I know, KYC will not need a fee in its registration. it will be very bad when we become stupid about being fooled like that. especially for something free we still have to pay, it would be very silly.

I think that with a probability of 99.9 percent this airdrop is a scam. For a long time no one has made such stupid mistakes. This is the same as agreeing to spam offers in a telegram that you should send to some person 0.1 bitcoin and he will send you back 1 bitcoin  ;D

An airdrop asking for $9 to deposit for KYC? I didn't get you may be but if the above statement is correct, I think the project is a scam one. Why they ask for $9 for KYC while they can simply ask people to complete the KYC? You should certainly avoid this.

That is clearly a scam, airdrop is a free token and there is no need to make a payment of fees or KYC. Stay away from those who ask for something like this

KYC was via Coinlist, it is not a free of charge. Dfinity is obv not a scam, lol. Huge VC firms are backing it, Polychain capital, az16 etc.. Tungsten will be now released and airdrop is coming later this year. GL

I also think that it's too cheap for a KYC. but believe, that there will be very many people who will give the KYC they have to get the airdrop. I have seen this often in social media groups. quite a lot of people sell their identity at low prices.

I can only give up my I.D to claim Airdrop tokens if the price is over 40$ or so, for just 9$? Not for me and honestly I don't see reason to go through KYC if the Airdrop is a new project it's most likely a scam, I sti join Airdrops to this day but only well known projects

For 9$? No I will pass by and why wasn't it stated in the first place that KYC will be required? Why after? It's not worth sending out your details for few tokens, it's likely to be a scam project, do your research, even if the project is not a scam, KYC for 9$ sounds unworthy

We need to be more careful about selling our private information just for a token, lots of scam airdrop out there, they sell your information to third parties, thereby exposing you to lots of harm, trading $9 for your personal information is absolutely ridiculous, and there would have been lot of people who fell for this

if you are willing to exchange IDs with some money then do it but don't regret if in the future your ID is used for a crime with them, love and protect your ID properly and don't do anything stupid

If you think 9$ is enough for you to drop your I.D and documents then proceed, just know that not all projects keeps users KYC safe, some even go ahead and sell them off to those who need them

Some people are ready to do anything to make pennies that's why bounty hunters are been treated like they have no value, while you turn away from a particular project for paying too low reward you will be amazed by many people who would rush to join the project even if all they will pay is 1000$ worth of tokens, I'm not surprised because I've seen people claimed tokens that worth 3$ with KYC

Is that really call an airdrop when your going to pay for coins ? That's already trading or investing but if you can pay for that , why not pay for the coins that are more better than chf . They ask for  9 usd to process your kyc , what the heck was that . Is that some kind of kickback for your entry to get priorize lol , and in return youl get coins that have unsure future  .   Asking kyc is already too much but asking kyc plus paying is more funny . For God sake your the ones that must get paid because you give your kyc .

The choice is yours to make, are you satisfied with giving out your KYC details for 9$ worth of tokens? If it's ok by you then just do it, you don't need to ask why, some even give up their I.D for lesser value worth of tokens

Damn! these scammers getting crafty each passing day. I knew they used to ask for ETH which they will return x3-4 but now asking 9 bucks for completing KYC is a new type of scam lol not only they will steal the 9 bucks but also your KYC data.

its better to find another two or three people who has already done this KYC , There is no point in asking from the team. But i think this is seems to be an another ponzy airdrop.

I refuse to do airdrop with or without KYC is just wasting time , so many time they will not send you anything! Mostly are scammers.

Airdrops are waste of time, you want to join Airdrops that will definitely pay? They join Airdrops from existing projects that are already trading on exchanges, the last Airdrop I joined this year was Apollo and origin protocol, I haven't seen any new one that interest me since

I personally won't continue an airdrop that requires any form of payment. The honest truth is that majority of people who carry out airdrop tasks are doing so because they need money. The value of the tokens at the end of the day may be less than the amount already paid which simply implies that you're working at a loss.

Secondly, the kyc submitted could be sold by the project and used for other illicit jobs. Its far wiser to abstain from such airdrop and save your $9. Come to think of it, imagine 1000 person who joined the airdrop pays $9, the project has already made $9,000 without stress.

You are the one to decide if you will like giving out your identity to claim pennies, I will only do this if I promote a reliable bounty project, at least I will earn more than 9$ from a Airdrop

In my personal opinion, when we participate in airdrops. And the condition is KYC or, for example, having to pay, it is not wrong. Because it is a condition, only if we do not like and do not agree with it and assume it is fraud. Then don't participate in the airdrop, it's simple. If you still want to participate, then you must be available with these conditions.

Comrade, this is too risky!!!! First you are providing your personal information as well as $9. At the first place, you are loosing both your information and money but there is no guarantee that you will receive anything. Even if you receive, there is no guarantee that the exchange value will be more when it lands on to the exchange. I would suggest not to submit your personal information for any project who ask for it.. Stay away from it, stay safe Comrade!!

Yes, what you are saying is true, just in terms of the Airdrop category we also have to know that the Airdrop program is free, and if there is an Airdrop program that asks participants to pay to get a token, then it is less logical in my opinion, different things if the party from Airdrop only asks the KYC of the participants, because the KYC document is only to find out the participant is valid or invalid.

Its absolute craze giving out your identity card to claim 9$ worth token when the value can even become worthless, it's seems you don't know that KYC verifications don't guarantee getting paid, it's left for you to decide

Of course, don't participate in such a project. This is the first time I hear about a paid KYC, this is very strange. Many projects scare away their participants with the usual KYC and this one is paid. I think that this project isn't interested in its promotion but only tries to get your money in this way. Perhaps these are scammers.

It is crazy 99%, of the entire project are just scam and when they say you can claim airdrop for 30 $ be sure when you sell them if you get candy for it you are lucky, best scenario!

Airdrops that requires KYC can still pay but not all of them, I hope you've done good research on this Airdrop first before planning on joining OP? There are other reliable Airdrops on airdropalert presently, I don't think it's worth joining KYC for 9$ Airdrop

It's definitely a scam airdrop since participants are asked to make payment of 9$ before submitting their KYC? That's two way losses, first was the money and second was your identity which I'm sure will be sold off for money.

KYC for an airdrop campaign is very bad. don't sell your identity for just a few coins which may not even be valuable. when the airdrop is the big platform that is already on the market. then you can follow it.

Any project that requires payment is 1000% a scam, stay away or you will end up losing your money, Airdrops are free and so are giveaways, they should stay that way if they are legit, once you are asked to pay it's scammers at work

for me personally it is better not to do it, airdrop is a free coin, especially if the airdrop requires participants to pay or perform the KYC procedure it will only make you lose time and loss of your personal data as well. I don't think you need to do that just to claim a free token from Airdrop.

Airdrops should be free, someone asking you to make deposit wants to scam you, open your eye and think very well, no real or genuine Airdrop project will ask you to make deposits for whatsoever reasons

I agree, we do not disclose identity for a few coins. Besides, most aridrop at this point is usually a scam, most likely they are just trying to collect people's information and sell them.

In my opinion you should not do that, there have been many aridrop collecting user information for malicious purposes. In case aridrop is real then chances are you will only get a pile of junk in your wallet.

You are a full member, you should have experience about projects or giveaways that ask people to make deposits first, are you truly the owner of that account OP? Or you buy from the owner? Asking this type of question doesn't sound right, majority knows that it's complete scam, I'm confused

I believe it's a fraud. How can you pass KYC for $9 before token can be sent. Good airdrops don't ask for payment, why pay for free thing after-all? For me, I rather buy a shitty coin with it than gift it to an airdrop together with my KYC.

Sure it is a silly mistake that you should know better since you are in the market for a longer period of time but people would do anythng for pennies and it is evident with the recurring trend of seeing similar scams and people are willing to submit their documentation and majority  of the projects that asks out identity died, so risking your identity for a few pennies is not worth the time.

I hope the OP will see the reality here. That the project wants to screw their participants. Asking few dollars to complete their KYC in exchange of what? Not buying this strategy. But yes, even with 100 naive users, they can already get a handsome amount of eth. Why would you pay first for an airdrop and give your vital info? Think people...

If they want to comply with the law within the jurisdiction in which they operate, they should be ready to pay for any transaction cost. It should not even be called airdrop again but feedrop. I will immediately distance myself from any kind of these unjustifiable claims.

DFINITY airdrop is an example of a project scams, more careful in choosing projects. Especially with the requirement to make a deposit
first to get bigger rewards. There is no way to make money that easily, especially if you are airdrops hunter. You should choose airdrops
without asking for payment and KYC. Because airdrops are indeed giveaway destinations, so they shouldn't ask for anything. Legitimate
airdrops only need to register.

I only just found the airdrop that requires paying for KYC requirements, you better stay away from airdrop like this, because it only harms you, not to mention the document is very important and must be maintained so that it is not utilized by others, I often stay away from airdrops that are requires KYC

If it's just an airdrop and ask KYC or required payment, I choose to leave it if the payment I get is not comparable, but for your case 100% I will leave it for whatever reason. Now, many reasons and way are made just to scammed not only investors but also bounty/airdrop hunters. We need more carefully.

talking about KYC to invest in Airdrop will certainly make gift hunters unhappy or feel their identities can be known by others and raise doubts. if indeed it is a rule to get the tokens as they promised and will promise to give payment then I think that is a not problem. you can research beforehand before joining and hopefully you get $ 9 for your KYC trip. good luck for you buddy.

Asking a KYC for airdrop is fine but asking 9$ for passage is obnoxious, sounds really fishy and that's not airdrop anymore which supposed to be a free, if fees required to claim then that's "pay-drop". Better not to pay for that and not to submit KYC bro, it's scam for sure and probably a fake airdrop after all. Better to stick on airdrops that don't give too much hype in the beginning and its more legit that way based on my experienced.

it is not worthed if we do KYC just for few dollars. our personal data more important than couple dollars from airdrop, moreover when we recieve this reward it have value in market. some airdrop program need long time to list in market , so its very dangerous to give our document. even good project in market never ask their investors about this.

I know dfinity and its a good project. Airdrop with KYC is probably a very bad move if they are really serious on launching this one. For few bucks would you give your information on such private firm? Its like surrendering your posession voluntarily with a bribe of merely pennies. If the airdrop is worth 1k to 2k usd then we can spare some ego here of course its money and we all knew its very much needed on the time like this.

But those who benefit with this are the people who are using others information for joining airdrops too and giveaway with KYC using your profile, sounds harsh right but it is fact. Dont ever joined low class airdrop asking sensitive information.

private document very dangerous to spread in world wide, moreover we know in dark web there are many hacker sell this private data without any restriction at all. profesional airdrop hunter will not use their own personal data to claim their reward. they  have own trick to pass KYC requirement.

You must have got the same answer from every one right now that the project is scam if you are really asked to make payments, airdrops don't ask for money, they are free and airdrops that asked for deposits are scam, kindly consider closing this thread

Even if that was a trusted airdrop and will we sell our identity for only a few dollars? that's the worst thing that i have ever seen in my life and i remember so many people have been participating in the old KYC airdrop and they were also getting scammed.

They ask for $9 dollars before they sent 100 CHF in coins! It's a scam, if this is a regular airdrop they would just sent to people with a valid address, who will the form! With or without KYC, some airdrops ask for KYC some don't, but to send them money for the airdrop is a clear scam. And not just to send them $9 to do a KYC too, I think we have some greedy scammers!

You are here even before the 2017 Pump happens yet you are asking this kind of question?

There is no legit company that will ask you first of 9$ just to pass your KYC.

We don't even trust those project that asked for KYC and here you go?joining a airdrop that seek payment first?

This is a True scamming so better leave this one and find other legit company(but i am sure you will be harder to find lol)

In short it is a bad idea for a kyc to claim airdrop, i don't support that idea at all, everyone knows that most airdrop tokens are usually small amount so why someone will even think of doing kyc for such small amount, it doesn't worth it in my opinion, but different stroke for different folks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5221497
Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless

It is not reasonable to transfer your personal data to unknown persons and pay for this service.
You will lose money and your personal data.

This is definitely scam,

There is no way that participants should send a few bucks before they get their free drop. It should be free since they are the one who needs the participants. Also, they require kyc which is not really recommended because they might use it to illegal activities.

I think KYC procedure for an Airdrop should always be free, otherwise it is not an Airdrop at all. It is very strange to ask to pay 9$ for verification process.

Such requirements are similar to the fact that airdrop itself is a scam. 100 CHF is approximately equal to 100 us dollars. So there is no point in giving you 100 Swiss francs in exchange for your $ 9. Ask them to give you 90 CHF instead of 100 CHF, but without sending them $ 9)
In addition, there is no guarantee that these coins will actually be worth 100 CHF.

I joined few airdrops that asked for KYC in 2018 and few of them paid, coinsbit and origin project airdrop was the one I joined last and they paid but I have never seen a airdrop project that ask people for deposits before sending them token, it's red flag

It's because a SCAM all over. Asking participants to pay $9 is just absurd, and this is not the first time that we have heard this kind of stunt that is being pulled out by those so called bounties. Others will ask for your wallet's private key and then this scam.

And I do hope that no one will fall for this kind of trick because this is well-known already. Besides, not just the money but your personal identification is being stolen here.

No. Why do they need to require you some payment just for your KYC? This is clearly a scam and you should start avoiding this airdrop. They should give their airdrop for free and they don't even need to require anyone to undergo KYC process. Don't fall for their scam activities, you will only regret it in the end.

Immediately they ask you to pay for KYC should know you shouldn't even consider further. When KYC is required, it is checked in order to prevent the business owner of being charge with AML and abating crime. This doesn't require anything except physical examination. The dangerous is even supersede being scam but you stand the chance of your documents being sold in the dark web. If your document got sold and it is being used for illegal activities, you stand the chance of being convicted

As far as I remember, in all cases when they demanded to send money for a KYC check or for any other reason during the ICO bounty, this did not lead to anything good. As a rule, all projects turned out to be fraud. Anyway, the requirement to undergo KYC, if the award can be less than one thousand euros, from June 21 is already illegal according to the FATF recommendation.

Don't be surprised, there are a lot of airdrops like this right now. Even people will still KYC with 1-2 $. I do not understand why they did so because it was not worthy

Who still give up their identity for airdrops nowadays? Only referral airdrop Campaigns are worth it and that's even if you have alot of friends who will like to join anything you ask them to join, Airdrops isn't worth your time belief me, I know few projects still pays but too many airdrops are waste of time

I'm not surprised, people like give up their I.D for 1$ to 5$ worth of tokens but that isn't my problem, some don't know about identity theft, not all Airdrops are legit, the fastest way of grabbing people's identity is through Airdrops, in the end you won't get the token

A lot of airdrops require KYC but people still participate in it. People are only concerned about money but not their safety. Their identities may be exposed and bad guys can use them for malicious purposes

It has been more than two years now and if I am correct no one has received this Airdrop from DFINITY. They have failed to launch their main net till date. A lot of people had payed $9 to complete the KYC.

I hope this does not turns around to be a scam as if it then it would be one of the biggest one related to airdrop.

Paying more for KYC to get approved? Sorry how doesn't this sound so wrong to you? This is a real scam Airdrop project, you've been warned, anything online that involves in sending money first before anything is a complete scam

So far, I strongly avoid airdrops that use KYC to get rewards. it's like selling our identities at cheap prices. however, if it is me, then I will reject it. but, it all depends on your response regarding the project. I quite believe many people will do KYC for that.

DFINITY Airdrop looks like a scam and can't be trusted, genuine Airdrops will never ask for payment before verifying participants, I smell a big foul play here and again it doesn't make sense to join Airdrops that requires your identity card, be careful because there is always more that meet the eye

If the airdrops requires kyc to their participants, for me that is not a good giveaways to join in.
Because, we all knows that the profit on airdrops we could get from it is just a small amount of token for
us to earn to that program.

KYC has become a popular trend among airdrop hunters, even though they are only paid $ 5,
they still want KYC, even though in my opinion KYC is very dangerous

this is really crazy they require money for verification of your KYC? Avoid this kind of airdrop it is a scam. Even there is no verification fee for KYC, still risky because your information will be use to scam people. Airdrops nowadays are not good to you

KYC for Airdrops is not a big deal for many, those 2$ to 5$ that you are complaining about is satisfying to many Airdrop hunters, the choice is yours to make here but this DFINITY Airdrop ask for payment of 9$ means it's scam, Airdrops are free and they don't require any payment

Even now the airdrop is still scattered, I'm sure those who follow the airdrop will do KYC without thinking about whether it will be worth it or not because for this it is too ambitious to make decisions like this.
That data is very important not to do only for $ 5.

Question to you: Is it worth risking your documents submitted to be misused for the sake of 2$ to 5$?

It is not, there is too much risk and with so much uncertainity revolving with altcoins you can't tell which one is scam and which one is not (Most of them are scam). You are sharing some sensitive information about yourself to some untrusted party which bounty hunters need to understand.

This seems like another Twitter scam but this time it isn't in the name of Elon musk or John McAfee, they are again targeting the airdrops hunters and this time also they are asking money in return for airdrop tokens instead of giving double ethers as other scammers do on the Twitter.
Most people fall in this kind of traps because they think that it's just $9 what will the company do by doing a fraud for such small amount, but even if 1k people send $9 to the website address then it becomes a lot and the scammer succeeds in the scam as well and also gets motivated for doing more scams in the future.

It was perfectly done. Well I will say those are the days when anything goes. But now no one will ever respond if any project tries this out. It will fail from start no matter how promising it looks.

KYC will be a popular trend in the airdrop scheme because 96% of all airdrop hunters are ready to go through the mud just for some few cents and this lead to some project owners abusing the airdrop scheme because there's no reason a airdrop participant have to go through KYC when he's not an investor but the project advertiser

CHF? This is my first time hearing this coin. Is it tradable? Or it is already on the exchange that has good amount of the price? I think you should consider the amount of the possible price of 100CHF equivalent to how dollars.

Are you kidding me? You want to join in an airport but you must send the payment to pass KYC? As far as I know, KYC needs certain documents to pass and not money. Moreover, I personally am not the kind of person who want to give my identity to the airdrop. therefore so far I never join airdrop that requires the identity card.

You should be careful mate.  don't want to make it bad. But it seems so strange to me. It may be a scam or other fraud. Analyze again your participation.

Your identity more important than $9.
Be carefull, don't KYC for airdrops and it only $9. Don't sell your identity for $9.
After recevied your identity, they can use your identity to another airdrops with KYC. And your identity are not safe.

Don't be fooled from those promises,i don't really understand why some company are offering a payment just to get our KYC?

if the company is really legit and willing to pay truthful then there is no need for "Buying our KYC" right?
this is not ethical for a project owner to pay just for His applicants details.

I had undergone a lot of KYC before and none asked for a fee. I stopped participating in airdrops due to KYC. Airdrops should be free and yet they are asking 9$ for the KYC. Most airdrop will not even give you a penny, the answer is obvious, stay away from this airdrop

it is clearly a scam, an airdrop program will not ask members to pay for them. There you will get a free coin, just block the program and it is an old way for victims of scam airdrop. Forget that, my advice is not to do KYC if what you get is not worth the value of your personal data. KYC is used to expand the community and avoid multiple accounts, but your data is not completely safe from data theft.

I agree, even if how much it is, do not undergo any kyc verification. Your identification is much more important, we should be careful because it is possible that they will sell it in the blackmarket, your identity will be used in illegal activities.

yeah, even more than that. if for a KYC we are promised a few dollars, it doesn't seem worth it. some people sell their identities at high prices. to be honest, I really avoid using KYC. if it's not necessary, I won't do it. in addition, airdrop also has unclear payments. however, personally I would not do it.

Quite right, it will be used for malicious purposes and they will sell your information on the dark market. Just like when I participated in the airdrop, my email receives more than 50 spam emails from bullshit every day. It is clear that my information has been sold many times

how can we give our personal data document for just little money. its about our personal security while there are many people to try misuse this data. if someone hold our data they can do anything with this, maybe its risky for online lending or fintech which is only need ID number or our id scan. personally i will not give my data to unknown people moreover for penny money.

You are not claiming an airdrop, you are actually buying their coin, and I consider this kind of scheme as dubious, airdrops should be free, we have so many scam giveaway where you have to send a fee to claim it and we have proven that this kind of scheme, so don't fall for it. 

Personally, I will see which airdop should be followed for KYC if airdop is done by large projects and large exchangers I will not hesitate if I have to do KYC to get a prize, examples like blokchain or coinbane

blockchain or coinbene ws reputable so we should not worry when we join in their airdrop campaign . our data will save with them, so many airdrop hunter already get money and even there is no complaint about KYC ,every one join it freely and feel happy. beside this campaign , upbit usually also have legit airdrop for member that passed KYC.

Usually I only KYC for the bounty that I join, it's a lot safer than the bullshit airdrop. I will never sell my identity for just a few dollars. It is not worthy of us being able to do so

I don't know if it's late already but no any airdrop is worth paying for! DFINITY seems to be a reputable coin and it has quite a hype in the industry although i don't know anything about them but it might be some set of scammers impersonating them. Either way, be it from the original DFINITY or impersonators, no one should pay a fee for airdrop, airdrop are way of rewarding the community not an investment opportunity for the devs to raise funds

This called for questions best airdrop and bounty I know is for free without any payment so anyone telling you to deposit an amount to claim your coins is actually trying to tell you to buy his or her coins so it's no longer airdrop rather investment. Best to understand the project and make your choice.

Personally I no longer believe in Airdrop asking for kyc, seems most of this people are after hunting for people's kyc details and not because of their so called scam project. I will advice you do your personal research very well on the project you are about to run kyc for if is a good project and if not don't waste your time.

It's a matter of choice, if you can drop your identity info for few dollars then it's good for you, for me it ain't worth my time, this DFINITY Airdrop is asking for money to get your KYC, it's double money making for the scammers, they will get the little 9$ from participants and still sell your I.D too

By transferring $9 in exchange for their coins, you risk not only your money, but also the disclosure of your privacy.  It's possible that the team thinks their coins are equal to 100 CHF, but why would they give it away for $9? These coins most likely may not cost anything at all and your money will be sent for nothing.

It's normal if an airdrop project requires KYC from participants, some new projects just have to ask for KYC because of the project's use case but it seems this DFINITY is a scam project, I haven't seen where legit project will ask people for deposits just to accept that KYC

don't do that, kyc alone is suspicious because they are asking for our personal data, plus there is a $ 9 fee. I think that's enough to be seen as a fraud.

hello guys.

What is the latest situation do you have information about dfinity airdrop. I received an e-mail from the coinlist in the morning When I checked my wallet also had 120 ICP tokens defined, but it is now locked. Can I get information about the latest situation?

Does anyone regret not doing KYC like me  :)?

I always avoid following airdrops that require KYC, because in my opinion it is not worth it, for me airdrops don't make too much money, only a few of the many successful airdrops, so I don't want to give KYC which in the end is misused

Let's see in few hours now if you are right  ;) I went trough the kyc process in 2018 and am now eligible for this airdrop (coins are waiting on coinlist since months, now).       

But i understand the way you think, and Dfinity airdrop is not an usual airdrop. I would avoid, too, giving my ids all around.

Why KYC is necessary, airdrop like this would usually end up in a scam. Be careful on giving your personal information, you don't want to see your identity being stolen because it was sold in the dark market since you give you real info in exchange for a scam token or coin.

Crypto is a high risk for a reason, you should be aware of that.

I see no reason why any airdrop should demand for your private information in exchange for a few dollars worth of tokens, and it is more ridiculous that they are asking you to pay around $9 for the airdrop. This has all the signs of a scam project and you shouldn't incest your time, money & personal data in this kind of project.
Avoid scam projects because your data is worth more than any amount of tokens they will offer you.

what I know is that any genuine or non-fraudulent airdrop will not ask for money for any reason, and if it is true that if it asks for money it means that the airdrop is doing fraud.

Airdrop is a means of introducing a project to the crowd and with an airdrop, the developer will be able to form a community to build their project, but if an airdrop charges gas token delivery fees to the airdrop participants, it is certainly questionable about the authenticity of their project, I think most Airdrops that ask for rewards from participants for sending tokens are fraudulent airdrops that we should avoid, after all there is no guarantee that after we send a certain amount of money in the form of usdy / eth they will send tokens to us and it could be that the tokens sent have no value in the market. so my advice is better just forget about airdrops like that.

You're right, airdrop is a gift. But this time some people decided they were ok to pay a little amount. Reason is Dfinity will be huge !  ;)





Guys i invite you to get some informations about Dfinity.   

Do you understand now why some people were happy to submit a kyc ? (airdrop --> 28 to 128 tokens)

really difficult to recognize a legitimate project from a fake one and 3 years ago no one could have imagined this huge debut.
congratulations to those who participated and managed to get this huge gift.

For airdrops I always avoid doing KYC but for the bounty I still do it but if I see the project is legitimate, to be honest I even though the project looks legitimate but I'm still worried

If you knows nothing and it's better if you try to check about the project. it's on the top 10 CMC. You don't need to feel worried because all of people have been complete KYC verification already got airdrop worth more than 30k USD for each participants. This is the biggest  airdrop in the cryptocurrency history.
It's better to ask someone who knows about it better than you.  :P

I saw a few friends they shared that they got the money from $50k to $200k from this airdrop, I was also surprised and happy to have them share that they did it a long time ago and right away not even I remember exactly about it. Anyway congratulations everyone who has participated and been with this project, you are having fun from it.

damn so many people underestimating this project including me and boy, the airdrop was worth a shitton of money just for signing up for KYC and pay $9.
KYC was really the reason for me not following many potential airdrop, if i knew things gonna turn out like this I would, it's not like my data so signficant anyway, definitely not gonna miss something similar again.

This also happened to us they require us of kyc and also promise to give us but until now happen.. we're still waiting hoping they will do what they say, at first having kyc is quite alarming what if its scammer what will happen next? but we trust them... but still they did not give what we expect.

Fortunately for you with this project, and indeed this is a huge amount of money from the Airdrop of this project. I missed this project, but I also do not feel too regretful because there will still be opportunities waiting for me, indeed receiving such a large amount of money from the airdrop, everyone will be very happy, congratulations to you.

Based from what you have been saying above and you didn't know what this project is and what the result from the airdrop. what you are saying totally BS. Try to go to the coinlist site and then read how legit the airdrop is even that requires KYC. You are also accusing without any proof. They give us more than what we have expected before.
instant listing to the top coins and each ICP token worth a lot of money right now. Try to learn more.

It makes no sense to participate in such projects. The requirement to undergo KYC, and even more so to pay for it, is absolutely illegal.
KYC can be carried out, according to the FATF recommendations of June 21, 2019, only to prevent cases of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism and involves checking the persons who invest their money, and do not receive it. In this case, a check can be carried out if the amount exceeds one thousand euros.
What does KYC have to do with this in this case?

People can't sell the entire airdrop since Coinlist will deliver 1/12 of the airdropped tokens each month  ;) Value could fall in 12 month (or rise ...).


don't fall for every new airdrop asking for a kyc : scammers are clever and know some people will react that way because of icp airdrop.

How did they get such huge amount of tokens, when in airdrop rules it was mentioned that "Users who subscribed before April 4th will get between $500 – $2500 DFN and users who subscribed after will receive at least $100 worth of DFN tokens." ?

In Reddit, people mention that they receive either 28, or 119 tokens. With the price of roughly $500, these 119 ICN tokens could be "$50k". But how did they get $200k? Cheated and participated with multiple accounts? 

You have been cheated by them because you trust them too much, so whatever you hope for now they will never give for you at all,
because they already got what they want from you.

First of all I have stopped partaking in Airdrops long ago for my own personal reasons and secondly, why would I want to pay any thing  to pass kyc that I dont want to do In the first place? I might do a KYC for an exchange I really want to use if I feel it is important to me but not for any other thing most especially not for Airdrop and i dont care how much it is. So its a No No for me.

In essence, giving KYC for the Airdrop program is very ridiculous, because there are other things that are more important than Airdrop, so it's not worth giving KYC to any Airdrop program in the crypto space, that's the point, but for popular exchanges like Binance, Kucoin, Gate and Okex I think giving KYC wouldn't hurt.

If I look at the percentage of Airdrop progression is very large with different task requests and most of them are risky and only a few are paid, talking about KYC is important. KYC is personal information. if used incorrectly it will be bad for us. I recommend reconfirming and communicating with the team that handles the DFINITY project in detail.

Obviously a scam. The last time I was involved in any type of Admin not wanting to discuss any thing in public chat was with Fedlio exchange and eventually turned out to be a scam exchange and I lost some money there too so I never do any thing with any admin in any group that will not discuss in public chat that's a clear sign of scam and besides, why would i want to pay to KYC for an Airdrop?

I don't know how they do it either, but I know they have been in the community before and can benefit from refs with their community. Or they could be cheater airdrops, and that value is just the total amount of coins they can get charged with its closest ATH price as they say. It's not my money anyway, that's all I know if I get such a large sum I'd really seriously dig deeper into this project, even though I've heard about it said a lot ago these times I think still not ready to start hoarding it for long time.

It does not rule out that it is just a special strategy used by certain individuals so that the airdrop seems very attractive and makes people have a strong desire to be part of the airdrop. You can be fooled by this kind of game, not only is the money lost, but the most important part of you that you give, namely your complete identity, becomes a dangerous threat in the future.
Data misuse is very common in this era. We all know that data is more important than gold. For example: Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok which have successfully monetized their user data for the benefit of the platform.

When UNI airdrop becomes known to everyone, there were scam sites trying to give away UNI which will tell users to submit private keys before they could get the airdrop tokens.  I wonder be surprised to see there will be another airdrop from scammers just like that which lures users for the high-value ICP tokens.
I still can't believe the ICP project just climbed up the top overnight.

It seems that its appearance is helping many former airdrops have great fun. I heard about this project's airdrop, and its excellent value, didn't know this project will plan to pay the people who have been with them. As for the KYC verification issue, I think it's very necessary to eliminate cheaters and possibly harm the project.

like if an airdrop asks for money for any reason it must end up being a fake airdrop or fraud. be careful and multiply your own research.

Never give your identity for just an airdrop, don't put to risk your identity for just a small amount of money in return, no one knows if they have something bad intention to your identity, for all the beginners out there, if you have encountered an airdrop which is asking you to give your identity or KYC then ignore it, just find another airdrop that does not requires KYC or the best thing to do find another way to earn money, airdrop for me is not that too profitable because some airdrop only chooses a limited number of persons to be given the reward.

the only airdrops that allowed me to be happy are the ones I attended without knowing it, the Uniswap one was a really great gift.
I have done many on telegram but nothing and I share the advice to pay attention to the KYC.

It's funny that the theme of 2018 came to life and replete with new colors. Has anyone received this airdrop?
Apparently, in 2018, I also did not dare to go through the verification procedure, as a result of which I did not receive anything. I wonder if it is still possible to get this drop.

it's not possible anymore to get this airdrop and i have received my free ICP from the coinlist airdrop. I can get a few thousand dollars without doing any work and this will be last until 11 months later. You should have paid only $9 to complete the verification and so many people have received their airdrop.
The biggest reward in the history of airdrop. All coinlist airdrop participants have already received their airdrop as well.

Just forget to submit KYC for any airdrop. Top exchange doesn't support it. Looks like I directly sell my information to get some rewards or just for scam coins. OP has been here since 2017 even though he couldn't see the real effect of airdropss. Even so many bounty campaigns offered transaction fees from bounty hunters, all are totally scam.

If you just get a small number of dollars from that airdrop, it really doesn't worth doing KYC there. It is also too risky for your personal data, you must consider it as well. Most people avoid doing KYC for an airdrop, most of them are just scams. If you prefer your personal data to that small dollars, you should forget it.

I contacted support and received a response. If you did not go through identification in 2018, now it is too late to go through it, and nothing can be done about it.

$ 9 is too little for that. however, personally I wouldn't do KYC. yeah, but it's up to you. after all it's too risky and it doesn't necessarily have a price tag of $ 9. think again. if the pay was above $ 100 I might think, but I think $ 9 is too little for a KYC. well, DWYOR.

It was all about luck that DFINITY airdrop was distributed to those who decided to pass KYC. Such luck wont happen again. Passing KYC to get an airdrop already looks silly and suspicious. But paying to have your KYC checked is simply stupid. As I understand, it was never know how much ICP would cost and those who passed KYC and paid for that must be rich/lucky/like to risk.

More clearly this is a scam, it's better to just ignore it because the airdrop is a free token that is given to us without having to fill in KYC and without having to send some funds for them.

I am not in favour of projects that require KYC as it spoils my privacy. When your personal data is known for many people it is not very good. On the other hand, if you are not against KYC, you can try as 9$ is not too much. Developers need this money to pay for platforms that help to run this KYC, but actually, it is a free procedure for users usually on different centralised exchanges.

As long as I use crypto and participate in various bounty projects, airdrops and others that require KYC for data verification, I have never found a platform to charge for KYC validation. I think it's a scam, it would be better if you avoid such airdrops.

I have been in the market for a long time and done a lot of bounty and airdrop free projects, but one thing you always remember that the airdrop is free and if you have to spend money on it this is a project fake or scam project to get your money.

This post was long term before even though I want to attach my advice. I couldn't see a single legit project in my bounty join history those asking for money to complete KYC or distribution. Only scan projects are doing the same. Something I didn't submit KYC if dev didn't mention before filled joining form. We should avoid those projects and I found the same thing in this projects.

I think most people avoid doing KYC for airdrop Campaign. I think airdrop KYC is scam.I'm personally ignoring KYC airdrop. I think it Doesn't a real rules for any KYC airdrop campaign. They are just scam.I still cannot believe this type of Airdrop.

Very bad scam project that offers $9 to bypass KYC, basically there is no way to bypass KYC requirements unless you agree to provide your data, even for airdrop programs there are no KYC requirements unless they want to steal your identity. Stay alert and don't be easily tempted to give KYC to get trash tokens.

if it’s not a decent amount of rewards, do not kyc for only $9, this op created back in 2018. at this moment eth gas fee is more than your airdrop rewards.

and i am not agree for kyc to get airdrop tokens. tons of fake and scam airdrops, your personal data may be misused.  

Doing KYC for an airdrop is definitely a NO No for me because it only takes a rouge team member with malicious intent to capitalize on this very sensitive data and use it illegally.
KYC information are very important and should be protected at all cost, airdrops have no solid reason to try and collect people's personal data, if its not totally free, then its not really an airdrop

It is exactly a scam and fraud.
Does the team ask for money in order to pass the KYC process? it is so funny because wherever we are, KYC doesn't need any money and we only need some data. And although it only needs some data, we must be also very careful because we know that it may be also a scam and will use our data for something wrong and we also don't know the privacy and security of the data.
So, be careful.
Moreover, we don't need to send event small money to a team if they really want to give us airdrop.

I think you misunderstood, OP didn't say that the airdrop is worth 9$, he said that participants has to pay 9$ to get their KYC checked and confirmed, which can significantly reduce the amount of a user claiming multiple times with different addresses, I think it's worth it if you trust that project and their team are not afraid to show themselves to the public.