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This is essentially for those who are new to the space, that they do not fall prey to cheap scams. The above ad seem to be very popular on facebook, a mimic, requesting you to fill the form and make some deposits to claim your rewards. That's is the scam part. The legit site is https://www.coinmama.com/ and NOT coinmama.com.ru. I am sure those who made deposit will not get anything  out of it as it obviously mimicking another popular site. Just be careful.
Any contrary opinion is welcome for discussion pls.

Damn! Any airdrop asking one to pay is scam. Also, I usually advise crypto enthusiasts, don't just click any random site you come across,  some will even install spyware to your device. Some sites will ask noobs for private key or keystore, in a bid to hack their wallets. Let's be guided please.

Sometimes, some of these airdrop might not ask you to pay directly, but that you should login your wallet through your private key, which is most times scam.
Some people have fallen victim of something of that nature, before they could learn their lessons.
We should not all wait until that happens. A post like this from the OP, can be of great help to lots of people.

Always be vigilant and don't fall for such giveaways. Check and validate if its from the official account of the exchange.
This happened many times and they will even ask you for a deposit but sadly your money won't be deposited back to you because their main purpose is to scam depositors. Avoid such phishing sites.

I wonder how google allows that,they probably have the best AI to easily sieve out phishing sites and warn users of such potential risks.Somehow they don't.It is sad really

It's a new register domain which age only 1 month, "$500K XLM giveaways" - can't trust at all.

I never believe the advertisement from facebook, scammer not only target on cryptocurrency, normal shopping ads also can't trustable. This ads target is cryptocurrency newbies, they don't know it's real or fake. I'm advice newbies learn basic cryptocurrency knowledge before investing, if not you will loss more than that.

They just have to pay the money to get that advertising spot and nothing else. Google doesn't reviews nor they do in case of applications in Play store. The only way is to find them and send a report if you find something suspicious or malicious.

You can't do anything about it nor they will do anything to change it as long as they are making quick bucks.

I often find sites like that and I also often remind some of my friends to always be careful when looking at airdrops like this, and I also advise friends to participate in airdrop on bitcointalk

This is very illogical in the first place.
You want to get the airdrop which is usually small amount, and must send coin first ? Then the airdrop reward will be minus!
This phishing is worse than the one who ask your private key to receive airdrop.

Good post ,this phishing ideas have been around for years and I bet many newbies know nothing about it, before you click on any links make sure its from the right source ,learn to use google ,if you are good with google you will easily detect fake phishing links

If you surf the Internet a bit, bookmarks are a good solution. Otherwise, you should be attentive to bookmarks as well. There are quite tricky scripts that replace the links in the bookmarks with something else. Crypto is a difficult environment, we need so much attention to not get caught.

I guess we should be vigilant always on every sites that we visit. Additionally we could install add ons on some browsers that monitors the integrity of sites we visit and could give us an early alarm if possible. Also, if we see news that seems too good to be true then we must investigate further  and conduct DYOR to avoid being scammed.

I think the first foremost, avoid free and cheap offers
Then you need to bookmark the websites you visit often and also be watchful
Dyor and don’t be in a hurry to trade your tokens

Thanks for the fair warning you have given to the community. Yes, I agree that there are a lot of phishing sites out there, so people should really do their due diligence before clicking or sending any info on the webs as you might be another statistics on the growing list of victimise by those scammers out there.

Just for clarity though, this is the phishing site,


And kindly remove the link in your post, or replace it like coinmama[dot]com[dot]ru so that no one will accidentally click it. Thanks.

I think there will be no opposition in your post OP.  It's been a practice of this scammer to use phishing site, and this kind of tactics to acquire BTC or other altcoins for free.  Thank you for keeping us informed about this kind of scam.

Someday you wake up and see a website that advertises that you will get $ 500k free XLM? If it can easily come to you, then I am sure it will be unfair for everyday hard workers to earn $ 10 in this market. I believe that free things come with scams and trash.

Phishing sites or links are very scattered everywhere. If the site or project is successful, of course there will be people who will imitate it and ask people to make shipments or payments. I have often found that and now it is indeed very important to look carefully at the website address or something else.

Thanks for the reminders But the sad truth is the scammers was still using a rampant scamming method like duplicate and copycats sites and its not new in the crypto-space. But many was still victimized by this cheap method of scamming activities, thats because some people has not learned how to compare the bogus and the legit one.

Scammers are everywhere and this is sad guys. I am getting tons of emails and telegram notifications to contribute some ETH to get special rewards. Never trust such guys and always check the website of a crypto service.

Only greedy and naive people will fall for such scams, there is not free launch anywhere, no one will give you such amount of money for free just for doing nothing, even bounty hunting doesn't pay such amount, people should be careful not to part with their hard earned money to phising sites and online scammers

this will fall to newbies into the crypto world.. mostly scammers are sending emails with the phishing site and if you will not check properly the links there is a possibility that you'll get hack and be scammed.. be vigilant when clicking those links..

there are too many scam project from 2017 until now, it all make crypto reputation broke and fall down to the bottom like now.

Thanks for sharing this info. It will really help leftovers to avoid this scam.
This is not something new. In 2018, hackers earned Ethereum worth $150,000 from MyEthereumWallet. Hackers steal over $150,000 in cryptocurrency with DNS scam (https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/25/hackers-dns-phishing-scam-cryptocurrency-myetherwallet/)

I read that and that is one of the reasons why I left using Myetherwallet, there is no guaranty that they will not have a repeat of what happened back then, I'm now using hardware wallet and of Mycrypto desktop wallet it's more safer than an online based wallet.

I have seen so many of these on Facebook and Twitter but if you frequenting the scam sections, there are a lot of posts that are similar to this, people back them do not know this until so many scammers are doing this, it's become so popular and until now it existed and people should be aware of all of these.

Thanks for sharing this mate, I am sure it would have helped lots of people who would have fallen victim to avoid it. I think by now, so many people having understood everything going on in the crypto space should be wise enough now not to fall victim, no matter how new someone is to cryptocurrency, there is no way he or she would not have heard of the high rate of scam going on in the crypto space, and be extremely careful with his dealings.

Thorough research must be done very well before using any site that we come across, and when it comes to these exchanges site or some projects sites, I usually do prefer to go through the sites registered on coinmarketcap if they have any record of such projects on their database.

thanks for the update and warning.  It is actually very important to looks out of the website we visit and make sure they are the exact correct website. Scammers can use different means possible to get money away from anyone.

I am one of the victim like this, its really hard to detect where is legit and where is not, as some of this phishing sites are too legit but in the end, its a scam. The experienced that i had, serves me the right not to fall any types of scam like this, many of this postings are now popular in crypto groups, so lately what i did is that, i ask some members of the group to check whether the said program is legit or a scam.

The sad thing is they are using google ads nowadays and google is not doing anything important about it until it gets reported. Like they do not care themselves and let it be until it gets reported and they check the report, in reality it should be not getting advertised at first and google should not allow them to exist at all but they let the work done by the people and only check it if it is reported.

If it is not reported (unlikely) google wouldn't do anything about it. Which means you can put a phishing website to google advertisement anytime you want and google will allow you to exist until you get reported and you will make as much money as possible until you get banned. That means for a while all phishing websites are allowed and they are capable of getting money.

First of all, thanks for sharing this valuable information with us. I am sure someone with a similar question about coinmama will find this thread on Google. The phishing sites are a knownly common problem but there is no way to stop these scammers. The only solution is to warn other traders.

thank you very much for that warning mate. Currently with the market turn over, I know many of this scam activities will come up so definitely so I personally applies caution in what I do and what I visit.  I urge every other person to be vigilant and careful as well

Thats true some airdrop are damn because they do their best to scam others especially the begginer in crypto space..I saw many things like this and its alarming that they spread again because they know that btc is growing again.

Thanks for information. Nowadays incidents of scam are rising with the market getting supported by the world. On a daily basis, I encounter such ads asking for signing up for airdrops or for dollars.
But I tend to avoid them simply as I do not have much time. Now I have become aware of such fishy activities of such projects. We must stand together against such projects.

Just ignore such e-mails, and people that are trying to make you to contribute to something. Always do your own research and do not listen to anybody. You have the right to make your own decision, so just forget about those guys.

This is really a stupidity. How the hell facebook allowed such a scam, google ads as well as allow this. Newbie get trapped easily into this type and no one will get anything.

In fact, I also often remind my friends, to be more careful and see in detail before entering and filling in the data. A small example when entering a phishing site, typing an address of 1 letter (false) will be bad. Never be bored to warn to stay alert to many ways of scam. Thanks for the information. Of course I really hope this will be beneficial for all of us.

A very simple trick of scammers, when they offer some profitable action on their sites or something similar, you should always remember that free cheese, only in a mouse trap and better such sites pass by. Especially if it's related to the cryptocurrency.

Better to login the crypto related websites from coinmarketcap site will really help us to avoid those phishing sites.Or bookmark the one site once you did confirmed legit trading experience will make to be a secure to phishing sites.

You are adults, you should understand that fraudsters never do anything in vain if they give something they ask in exchange for your personal data or other information, but this does not go without a trace.

Thank you so much for this, it is well known or even a big error to demand payment from people before rewarding them, I believe this post will serve a great deal to those new to this space.
Secondly, I have always adviced people to always visit website either by directly asking for the link from the admin in Telegram or by visiting CoinMarketCap then following the link from there, and afterwards bookmarking for safety reasons.

Well, a strong antivirus will prevent them from installing unimportant files to your computer if you know how to tweak your own computer. For sure newbies will always gonna fall to that part when the site starts asking their private keys. Anyway, the best way to prevent it is to not click on an unknown site or any site that seems to be dodgy, you will know it eventually if you are a computer geek.

Demanding payments from participants is a No No and always a sign of scam, I believe this post will teach a lot lessons. We shouldn't be driven their Juicy offers that we give them our hard earned funds. Furthermore, the project's TG or discord group has always been the best place to get the right link so as to avoid Phishing.

There are many of this scam attempt in telegram groups, they drop those phishing message almost every second in telegram groups, we should all be careful and mindful of the links we click.

Good one make us aware of this  I had fallen a victim with a dubious phishing site that almost left me heart broken so any information on how to tackle and prevent any future occurrence is totally welcomed

Phishing is becoming the other of the day and it is getting rampant, just a little change in the website and someone might get phished. From experience, the best way to avoid this is by bookmarking the website, while in cases where we lost track of them, visiting either CMC is always the best shot and for projects that are yet to be listed on CMC, then the individual support groups should come handy.
About collecting payments before sending of reward; I think it's newbies that will fall for this, some even request private keys at least a friend was victim.
We should all be careful of the links we visit, as well as the information we release this is the internet many things are bound to happen.

Is there a resource for people so that people know how to avoid phishing sites?

There are lots of programmes, bounties and airdrops that appear very cheap. Whenever I come across things like this, if I am have not done any intensive research on it, it is already a red light for me to take my leave.
Phishing sites are sent to emails and the likes.

This is funny, a project asking participants to pay a certain fee should be a sign to those participants that the project is a scam ,but owing to the fact they might mimic the real project those participants might be confused thus sending the payment.
Let it be clear especially to those who don't know, no project will ask for fee before rewarding its participants and anyone doing such should be scam example Is the one posted here. To clear doubt, it is wise to visit the appropriate group of that project to be sure.
Secondly, Phishing is real and should be taken into consideration; especially exchanges, we should bookmark our favourite exchanges in order to be safe.

This is bad and shouldn't be welcomed at all, no participants or users of any platform is meant to pay for whatsoever unless the person is participating in public offering. Any project asking for funds via form is always scam and should be stayed away from, of course they will always mimic the genuine projects to carry out their act thus the reason it's wise to ask questions when such arises.
Phishing on the other hand is getting worst, let's endeavour to be careful and alert always.
Also, thanks for bringing this up so that people will learn and be guided.

Good share up and a worthy thing to be read for those newbies out there regarding on phishing attempts.

Always put up on mind that never ever clicked randomly even its a giveaway,always have the habit on verifying things up
which google is widely open to search the real url's or even finding sites feedback.

stuck in a phishing link or website will not happen as long as we are able to do every activity carefully or not carelessly, always bookmarks the related website because this is also something important at least you will always check the url every time you want to login

Thanks so much for this information. So far, I found so many phishing and scams in crypto world. Many are deceived both the funds and identity. That is why we must be careful and understand more about phishing. I'm sure that being active in this forum can also help us because they commonly provide real information.

Of a truth, phishing shouldn't be taken for granted as it is a very serious thing. Most platforms, exchanges have been victims of phishing thereby losing huge amount of money. Some of the ways to avoid phishing is by bookmarking the website, getting the right platform links from the telegram group or by searching for the platform on CoinMarketCap.
Secondly we shouldn't give any body any funds whatsoever through a form or otherwise, even on telegram the admin will always point it out that they won't pm or ask for fund, so let's always have that in mind.

This is a good way to avoid phising site, nowadays the hackers are getting more and more creative to set a trap for users, its better to check carefully before enter and clicking any link, used different password and email for register and don't give your kyc to unknown site, if you are not sure about the site, find the information thoroughly, don't be reckless and lazy, one wrong click could end up all of your account being hacked

This is why back then, Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertisements.I remember seeing a lot of ponzi/hyip or phishing scams circulating in Facebook.

Some tips to prevent phishing attacks:
1-Sometimes anti virus or anti-phishing toolbars alerts you if the website is suspicious so be sure that have one of those as precaution
2-Don't click on ads/popups/email links to access a website even if you know it, google it instead.

Scammers will always deceive other people to get people fall to their traps. Don't login everywhere and be sure what website you are logging in. Sometimes we are too careless of not checking the URL and that's one of the weakest of most people that falls to these phishing sites.

That's true almost fall for that there are so many phishing sites that cloaking their website and advertise using AdWords targetting keywords, so if you do not know how to look or differentiate a url you will become a victim, so bookmarking and using metacert are two of the best practice.

This is why I don't join in any airdrop especially from those sites who are not reputable.

The only XLM airdrop that is legit is from blockchain.info and nothing more for me. You can create a post regarding this kind of scams and phishing sites anytime but there will be still some newbies who will fall into this trap. Sad but true because they are newbies and they don't have any knowledge about it.

Well if it sounds too good to be true then it's 100% a scam. But guess the most have us learned some hard lessons in the crypto world. Like me, I lost 2 btc at hash-profit a few years ago. :-(

Google is really not to be blamed for any of those shit sites, there are thousands of projects that goes through Google ad on a daily basis, and these projects do pass the little verification that Google can do, they are very good at manipulating everything, and there is no way Google cam completely know which site is there to scam or not, like this one op mentioned, to Google, it is just a content that is genuine, and until proving wrong before any action can be taken against them.

People are the ones that needs to be extremely careful with what they look or search for over the internet, the site does not have any bewitching spirit to coerce anyone into to taking action, we do that out of our willingness, so we should be the one to be extra careful in picking sites.

That's one reason why beginners have to fall there. Because they do not have outside knowledge and also they do have to do so in order to earn income. But in reality they don't even get income and actually get phishing or scam for participating in all existing airdrops.

The market has definitely recovered, and a huge number of scammers have returned, all sorts of letters from scammers come to email, be careful.

This is one of the most scariest thing that may possibly happen to anyone.

According to the Webroot Threat Report, nearly 1.5 million new phishing sites are created each month and according to Intel, 97% of people around the world are unable to identify a sophisticated phishing email.

Awareness and readiness are important to counter this kind of risk.

1. Keep Informed About Phishing Techniques

2. Think Before You Click!

3. Install an Anti-Phishing Toolbar

4. Verify a Site’s Security

5. Check Your Online Accounts Regularly

6. Keep Your Browser Up to Date

7. Use Firewalls

8. Be Wary of Pop-Ups

9. Never Give Out Personal Information

10. Use Antivirus Software

http://www.phishing.org/10-ways-to-avoid-phishing-scams (http://www.phishing.org/10-ways-to-avoid-phishing-scams)

Always we need to check the domains what we are entering into to save our login info and also bookmarking them will save us.

Still we need to do lot like use the browser with high security and never use any browser from Cheetah mobile which steals all the user details and selling them.

Well, anyone who is wise should already know that this is a huge scam. First of all they claim. To be giving away free cryptos and then they tell those who register to deposit money before they are given their free cryptos… so how does that even make any sense. You tell someone to register so they can get a free crypto, then you expect them to then deposit and after depositing, they will be given free crypt is and they can then withdraw their money and the free money as well… that just doesn't make any sense. And btw… free air drops should be asking people to first of all deposit money before they are given anything. That's why I don't even show interests to things like this, not to talk of giving any information about myself to them.

If you are a newbie in this space, one of the best things you can do is learn to bookmark, just like there are numerous genuine projects out there, there are many scammers too aiming to relieve people of their hard earned cash so we have to always take precautions.

We all have to be extremely careful of the websites we visit and most importantly, do not use Google to search for links to financial websites, always bear in mind that every transaction for make is irreversible as long as it has been mined.

And stop searching for wallets on google because it's known that google also allows these phishing sites to avail their boost ad. Those ads that will come out as result of what you are looking for because of the keyword but if you are not too curious enough of learning what that site is, you can fall as a victim.

My mail is almost every time spammed with different messages containing links, which are most times called unsolicited messages.
If you cannot remember and confirm where it is coming from, it is better to just ignore it, because it might be a phishing site.

Always watch out of any kinds of phishing. Sometimes, phishing and scam really bring very nice ideas, from popular sites, with very worthy rewards. However, we must be more careful. Always check and recheck all information related to the promotion, programs, and also rewarding activities in order to avoid phishing and scams.
This information is very important and thanks to letting us know about it early  ;)

It's not recomended use google for searching wallet and important thing, always bookmark true website about cryptocurrency. alot of newbie don't thingking about it when happen talking here was happen attacked by hacker

I also noticed that most of scams are now in the form of giveaways. When I look at Binance twitter account, it's full of those scammers comments that testify using their fake accounts claiming they have received a lot of bitcoin or whatever coin is popular and they even pop up in CZ's twitter account. Those scammers know ICO or airdrop is not going to give them free money anymore so this is the best that they can do and that is the promo and giveaway scams.

Scams like this are very disturbing to many people. And I think already a lot of people are stuck in a scam. This site offers a pretty good profit but you don't get tempted. Stay alert to all potentially fraudulent sites.

Actually this kind of strategy is very obvious and totally fake and in fact this is the common strategy of some scammer to catch some fish around the internet, wherein they just provide a big amount in order to convince ppl to join and to put money on it easilly and then will disappear afterwards. Lol

if someone fell on this kind of manner then they're very stupid and noobs.!

Yes, they use google ads and google doesn't care if its a phishing site. Not just with those kind of sites but also there are scam sites like HYIP and cloud mining that have been using google ads to boost their search results.
Many are disappointed on how google is tackling this issue, looks like they are not serious with the community's concern.

My friend just fell victim to a very similar phishing scam that's the reason ALWAYS bookmark the sites you frequently visit especially sites like MEW.

Thanks for sharing this though, this is one of the ways these scammers use to lure poeple into their traps especially crypto starters who just joined this industry. Also, i know there are legitimate giveaways out there especially on https://cryptoadventure.org but let's not be greedy as it this is the only way that makes people fall for such cheap schemes.

It is good information. We must be careful when going to join certain airdrop or reward program. As in this case, they use "Coinmama" site fake in order to do phishing and this is totally interesting. If we are not careful enough, we will really consider that it is a very legit airdrop program that must be followed.

Just ignore such messages. Nothing is free in this world and if somebody promises free Bitcoin or Ethereum, just leave such guys aside and keep working to achieve your goals. Never answer somebody on Telegram and delete fraud emails.

The issue of scam airdrop are getting popular this days. The aspect of making payment for tokens is rather very daft, as most people participating in airdrops are in need of funds. My major fear as regards airdrop is the possibility of installing spywares which are very harmful and gives the hacker access to one's private information.

When the airdrop holder telling you to download their wallet just don't do it I mean it's not worth it and you are probably doing something dangerous for a mere few cents. airdrop is good only if it requires you something simple and not submitting your data to stranger out there. even I'd say that don't join an airdrop if you are really concerned about your own data and privacy.

thanks for the alert! i always double check such kind of sites, but when it pops up in fb profile it's easy to click there automatically.

It is good for you and others.  We need to be more aware of small things that can have a big impact.  Phishing sites are one of them.  With vigilance, we will be safe and avoid scammers.
Scammers have many ways to get what they want.  I'm used to not joining airdrop and not visiting sites that are usually sent via spam email.

it like old kind of airdrops, they asking payment for getting reward, but the different the old airdrop asking payment just for gas fee , but for now it will positif as scam. Beware of any airdrop that asking payment, private key or your KYC.

I've seen so many this kind of phishing sites in twitter like giving away ethereum or any cryptocurrencies. In order to get reward you just only to sign up their website, but it's a scam, they only want your information or the private keys so be careful guys.

So extra careful before clicking any sites, especially if you are unsure, just like this forum a lot of Phising sites, and in telegram who are sending personal message, so don't dare to click it or else you will lose everything in your computer. My friends has been a victim of this, someone sent link to his telegram via pm, he clicked it then he can no longer access his btt account.

Damn! i fell for these guys when if first heard about cryptocurrencies and started investing. I remember i visited a clone website of MEW and unfortunately accessed my account on their site. The next thing i knew was my tokens being moved  :'(. It was later that i checked the site again and realized it was fake! Seriously newbies and starters in here should be careful of cloned sites of popular crypto projects.

I doubt that unless the hacker somehow managed to obtain the password of your friend's bitcointalk account, because otherwise there is no way to exclude the original owner of the account without his password.

Either way, did your friend open a thread in the meta section of this forum to ask admin(s) for account recovery? That would be the logical step to follow if it wasn't a throwaway account.

Phishing is the most popular method to scam peoples, in cryptocurrency or outside cryptocurrency world.
The best way to prevent is by bookmarking every time we first visiting the legit website we want to use.
Always be careful and take caution when we want to use new website that we have never use before.

That's very unfortunate.
You should have been marked those sites in your bookmark. This helps to avoid being a victim of phishing sites especially those cloned sites.
This scenario is the most common thing that the hackers/scammers do on these days. You should have been alert every time.

Most scams targets those who aren't aware of the ways of the internet. They'll blindly follow the hope of huge rewards, not thinking while doing actions such as pay-to-get rewards schemes. Almost all of the time, when one site does that, it's outright scam and double think always if you're entering sensitive data on the internet because once it's submitted, there's no turning back.

yes, how to overcome to be safely immediately bookmarked every time sites that are frequently visited such as exchangers, web wallets to avoid phishing websites, keep incoming e-mails unknown, do not visit the sites they provide.

there are so many sites like this scattered here and there.
they always offer quite a lot of prizes, so we should avoid sites like this.

we really need to be more careful, don't click on any site randomly, maybe the scammers have infiltrated spyware on that site. always be vigilant and we also have to always check and make sure the site we are visiting is safe and of course it must also be genuine.

As I know whose name is airdrop or giveaway we are not required to deposit to them because it is all free.
If anyone tells the deposite it is likely 100% scam. And before filling out the form an airdrop check all existing on its platform such as a whitepaper, roadmap, team, etc.

The phising site is growing this holiday season so we have to be careful! Don't believe in give aways right away as this is the usual mode of scammers.
It's best to bookmark the websites we go to, especially if it's our wallets or trading accounts. Because this is usually the target of thieves. It's easy to find fake websites especially in its spelling just like your post.

indeed at this time a lot of airdrops in circulation and one of them I've heard the airdrop will be distributed when making a deposit with a certain amount even the minimum deposit amount is very much, if you find it like that then you should not make a deposit because it is a fraud and I have experienced that problem and lost a very large amount of bitcoin.

I usually ignore such promotional e-mails, because in 99 percent of cases it is going to be a scam. Never click on such links, because even a simple click can cost you your private data and maybe even passwords.

Well said, these kind of problem can't be easily avoided particularly these days but having some enough understanding about safety and security might help you because you know how you can keep away from it. I don't usually visit some sites that aren't familiar to me because of what I have experience before, I just don't want to repeat the same mistakes that makes me regret every decision I've made. If you are curious about that specific site then try to ask someone if they have any idea or just do your own research, maybe its a bit laborious but it helps you to get rid of scammers.

This type of fraud is common, but there are still those who are caught in the trap. Usually you have to fill in the form with your personal data or information in the form of your email and social media accounts. This will be used by them to spread phishing, or give a message if you become a winner in the giveaway they launched.
must be careful with fraud models like this.

Just a little bit curious how could you even call it an airdrop if you need to pay in order to receive it?
People are surely being blinded by their greed if they would fall on to this kind of tricks.
And also those airdrops that would ask for private key or keystore is clearly a scam so how could anyone fall for it?
Those new in crypto should be guided properly and know the difference between scam and legit airdrops if they want to join airdrops.

Don't forget to bookmark it. You can also check its domain registration date, if that exchange or platform site was already like running for years already.
Try this site to look for it: https://lookup.icann.org/lookup
Be cautious out there, hodlers.
I was almost a victim of some kind of scheme where in they redirect you to a fake MEW site, and wanting you to log your wallet into their site along with your private keys.

Yes often we get emails and often we find sites on them. Sometimes we feel curious and finally open the site, I think this is something that often happens to all of us. When we feel that we need to open it, we will open the site and before we realize it is a phishing site. For now we better be careful with the sites that are submitted, don't be too curious about these sites.

Yes so many people are working in this now a day people use to spread such sites which gives people new hope about getting fast profit so we should not open those sites and make your own research about having profited by only real sites. Those who are greedy and want to become rich faster will get scammed by them.

Since I learnt through the hard way during the early days of myetherwallet that phishing was rampant, I now know better that the best way to access project websites with assurance is via coinmarketcap.com

This has been a very old method through which people's online wallets and exchange wallet were asked. I never thought anyone in cryptocurrency world will still fall for it. I think is now very pertinent that one knows the websites he or she want to visit offhand before inputting or creating a password on them.

For wallet websites, bookmarking the main page of the wallet site and using the offline version of the online wallets can save the user's time.
The mobile apps also have the inside browser which is targeted by the scammers, the real authentic email copies are used for tracking the users.
Even 5 people from 100 people fall to this trap, it is enough for scammers to continue their dishonest behavior.

Well, that will be too obvious at first glance because they will already ask you for deposit to claim your reward from them. With that advertising strategy, it was already suspicious because why would you have to exert such effort depositing into their site to claim reward for an instant? We should be mindful of taking care of the information we share online due to the fact that there are lots of scam websites that share the same strategy. It is very relevant to educate everyone about taking care of their information specially their online wallets not to share to a suspicious site and to a stranger one. I know we might be all desperate to earn big but nothing can be earned that easy. It is very important that we spread awareness here in the forum so that newbies in this space will be aware not to get victimized by this strategies so that they will continue and enjoy their journey within the crypto space.

Phishing sites is too easy to determine unless the one who click that link and redirected on the phishing site dont even have a small time checking the url are the ones who will get thier account hacked easily.

Greedy mentality is always brings disester, there are in bitcoin areas some crimer ambushed some people by their enticement so we need to protect myself from their fishing attack. In that case an investore must have to be a sensible and awake.

Investor was really do it always. I also experience greediness too when I earn a lot. I think when there are such knowledge of every bitcoiners they could always safe from scammers even they are greedy. But it was impossible because newbies want to earn as fast as they can even they lack of knowledge.

I no longer wonder why so many have fallen victim to fraud like this, even fraud like this has happened many times, but the number of victims is increasing. Big prizes are always hunted without first researching a project that is being run. When they asked for money from the start, the smell of a planned fraud had been detected. So be careful.

thank you for the information that you have told us all ... because don't let us here become victims of fraud from various applications that give free dollars  because before I was a victim of fraud, then from me I was very happy if someone wanted share information about fraud that often happens today, let's share information to avoid fraud.

As  a community then its just a normal thing for us to help out other people to be aware on possible scams that would be faced up specially to those noobs out there which are main target of these scams due to lack of knowledge and experience.

As a part of being a noob you should at least do really have the time to read up things for you to be aware and would avoid loss of money.Be wary on each actions you would made because it will surely cost you once you get scammed.

Having enough knowledge can help us to easily identify if the project can give us profit or it can take away our money. We should not just believe to their promises because promises are meant to be broken and we can become a victim of this kind of strategies by the scammers in the market who focusing the people who recently become aware to the cryptocurrencies.

I strongly agree with this warning because so many people have become victims of fraud by scammers through phishing sites. then we must be careful in opening the site to maintain the account and wallet that we have. lest we become further victims of fraud. because scammers will never stop to find ways to fool us.

Haha! old scam strategy, funny desperate people will still fall for this cheap scam. Why will anyone make deposit to get rewarded, if an airdrop can't give everything for free, forget about them. Bygone is bygone.

Thank you for sharing this. I am so sadden to see so many different ways evil doers use to scam innocent people. I have always been shouting and advicing my friends to always desists from clicking on any kind of link. Scammers are very deadly and cunny so I will urge and advice people to stop downloading any form of stuffs they see online and to stop clicking on phishing sites.

A fraud system like this is still widely used even though many people know it but the internet keeps increasing the presence of new people and it is always they are tempted to press an interesting thread even though it is a fraud or phishing site, it's good we have to keep broadcasting this warning to all people to be more careful

That kind of scam is still going on in twitter, they trying to scam people with their fake giveaways or airdrops. For sure they are many still victim of scam especially newbies.   

I do truthfully agree. We must not fall into such phishing sites specially for those newbies within the crypto space that are being taken advantage by some veterans or those that are already old into using cryptocurrency. We must always be aware and be observant so that we may not fall into such schemes because even those that are already staying long enough with crypto are also getting victimized. Always remember that there is no such short way on earning not just in cryptocurrency but as well as in real life. Also, keep in mind that as sites ask you for payment to be able to claim such promising reward, you can already consider it as a scam because if it is a real reward, then you must not pay for it. Such obvious schemes must be avoided for you not to be scammed by those sites and kinds of people.

First it is a giveaway or airdrop then they started asking for deposit to claim reward, then the question is, why the giveaway if am to pay to get it. Like you said, there is need to be very careful of the websites we visit and also be mindful of the type of information we pass onto those websites, some might even ask for private keys etc. Also, this issue of phishing is becoming rampant and it makes sense to bookmark all the websites we use everyday from exchanges to other important ones, this will surely reduce phishing scam to an extent.

I think the first approach should be; let everyone be careful of giveaways flying around, most times those behind the giveaways use attractive rewards to lure victims thus the reason one should be careful of them. Also, on coming across any giveaway, let the first step be to visit the social media accounts of the project in question to be sure it is from them. Furthermore, just like someone earlier suggested, there is urgent importance to bookmark the websites very important to our day to day activities such as exchanges and so on.

The bitter part of all this is that even after this post many will still fall for this kind of scam. The issue we have here is greed. Personally, any giveaway or airdrop or sort asking for a deposit before I can get is off for me.

If only we can be vigilant, make researches and put away greed, these scammers will surely go out of business and hungry.

I think I have seen that link,newbies really need to take note,any airdrop that would ask for deposit before withdrawal is definitely a scam project,also everyone needs to be careful on the links he or she clicks on,most are phishing links that could get your wallet or even your exchange hacked.

Something is always common to all these scams , they usually sound too good to be true. Anyone that is conversant with crypto will understand this more. I will advice anyone not to click any link until after proper investigation.

Phishing is one of the ways of scamming people which will always be with us not only in the cryptocurrency space but in other systems as well, this is because most times people might find it hard differentiating between a genuine website and a scam one. Also, phishing is not only done during giveaway events but an all-round stuff as I could remember a friend who visited a phishing website and was scammed thereafter. However, one won't be too quick to forget that giveaways even some airdrops are always targets used for this phishing scam. My suggestion is, take note of each website mostly used, if possible bookmark as it is the safest way. Also, don't pay anyone for any giveaway or airdrop and don't ever reveal private keys etc.

I think everyone must also try to remember never try to double-check but there must be an exception for legit link from the trusted party. and remember these scammers were always using the various method to scam the crypto users, especially in the telegram channel.  
I got a bunch of pm in my email and sometimes there was a scam addon too that must be avoided by everyone.

You should always be critical of everything, especially in those moments when you are offered something for free without requiring anything in return. Surely there is some kind of catch.
No matter how reputable the service, and how much it has an impeccable reputation, you should always double-check any information related to the free distribution of something, even if you are 100% sure of this service.

I was added to many telegram groups in the name of top exchanges where the people were claiming that the company is running promotion and if you send btc or eth to company address you will get double or triple amount within few hours and their were regular messages about the process and people posting yes they doubled or tripled, i think all they use is robots but yes they do present like legit and original company and it is very luring to say the least even the first time i saw it i was almost going to send them btc but i stopped myself because it was too good to be true and i realized it cannot be real after that i have been added many times but i just ignire and report such groups. We have to be very careful online to save ourself from scams.

We really need to be more careful, don't click on any website at random, maybe the crooks have hacked the spyware on that site. Always stay alert and we should always check and ensure that the website we are visiting is secure and of course it is genuine.

It's the phrase "too good to be true" to be remembered. When somebody offers you something that sounds great but asks for nothing in return, don't take it! There's a great number of scammers in this market and you'll never know who is who until you got scammed. Therefore, be careful traders!

My brother was once a victim of phishing site. Scammers are really smart for the know exactly who their victims and that's the new born crypto lovers. That's why it is a must to look the URL address of the site you want to visit to make sure you'll not get screwed.

true, always check the website that you visit and never open the ling via email too because usually there are people who send phishing links to emails by offering great benefits, some even offer some famous cryto for free,

I am getting lots of mail Recent one is stellar airdrop . easiest way to find scam is check the email address from you received mail . Mostly it would be yahoo , outlook , gmail . SO that we can find . Another way of scamming is telegram support if we raise any concern in exchang telegtam soon we will get the private message from same name as admin . It is also we have to be careful about . It is better to go with necessity if your really need to go for website then only go dont follow mail or messages

It's true! New comers tend to get exited to earn money right away that they don't even know if it's even a scam. So just a reminder to newbies out there, Talk to a person who is longer than you or have more experienced than you when it comes to crypto for your first investment.

 I have been a victim of this before . then I was new in crypto , I invested in some projects and was also introduced to airdrops . At some points fake airdrops started coming out and I mistakenly clicked a phishing link and the private key to my wallet was stolen  . Before I could know what was happening the hacker had finished removing my assets both the Airdrop and some Eth based token I bought.
it was an ugly experience.

People always fall for these good to be true scams, we have seen that with doubling scams and then the recent twitter hacks where they were able to collect millions promising to double the coins in a short period, the scammers understand that it is quite easy to gain a gullible users trust and then play with their greed and that is what is happening with all these scams and phishing is another part of these get quick rich scams.

How not to fall for phishing scams:

- Always carefully check all the links. Do not click on links from the messages from Internet services — instead, manually enter the address of the desired service in the address bar of your browser.

- Never reveal your private key.

- Use antivirus which has special protection against phishing.

Scammers are unavoidable but we can prevent them from fooling us. We just really need to be more careful, and do not immediately believe on any website that says it is good and promising we must first study carefully before taking risks, because if you immediately believe it. Always stay alert and be smart.

Greedy people will surely get caught in this trap, for you to get the reward you need to insert your private key to connect your wallet, this is giving away your money to scammers the easiest way, if you love Airdrops that much then go through airdrop sources like airdropbob.com, not all scam Airdrops will ask you to deposit money, some will tell you to claim your free tokens by inserting your recovery seed.

Google is the first line of defense and I feel like they are not doing it proper enough which is the biggest problem. There is still a lot of ads on google for many different websites that has a phishing link instead of the real one, and I agree that when you report that to google they do take it down but between that ad being up until you report and gets taken down, whoever that scammer could have convinced was convinced and this is why I think it shouldn't be accepted to begin with.

I know google makes deals in billions of dollars every year so it is hard to follow every single website and link that they get ads from, but that doesn't change the fact that it shouldn't be checked before accepted, phishing is something serious and millions are lost to it every year, google should be held more responsible for it.

I do not know a single person, who was never deceived or scammed. However, successful guys used these fails as the best lesson in their life. Now, they are very cautious and try not to make similar or even the same mistakes. Only fools cannot be taught ever.

Scammers are too clever these days and even use the Google ads program to advertise potaainga sites above real sites.
Always double check and if possible.bokkmark the sites once
You verify that they are the real ones.

Nowadays scammers are rampant and words or promises are very flowery to use to deceive. So we should not just believe right away. So it is better that if there is a project that is being offered to you, you must first study it carefully to find out what it contains to make sure that we are not fooled. Do not trust immediately until it has been reviewed.

The difference between a domain is very clear, from a real website and a pishing website. for most beginners do not seem to care and it is a big advantage that they perceive. Moreover, the gifts they offer are also tempting. My advice is for anyone to be more thorough and not send petrol just to claim airdrop tokens.

Sometimes we have to pay dearly for a valuable lesson. That failure will make us understand better that this ecosystem is quite dangerous if we are not careful about security. Don't be sad, it's a process. Evaluate the failure so that it does not happen again in the future.

Agree. scammers, use various manipulations that we don't even think they will. But that's what happened, I was surprised that they even made an official ad on google to convince potential victims. We really need to do some in-depth research, if in doubt it's better to leave immediately. Don't invest in something you don't know well, let alone just follow other people's advice. only invest what you can afford to lose

Agreed as long you are able to keep your greed in check, it is nearly impossible to fall for scam.
As for those asking to send eth or whatever the coin might be, for you to receive your free token are majorly scam, but come to think of it, no serious project will go that route to do that.

Actually, if we do it carefully when we visit websites and don't click directly, should have avoided becoming a victim of phishing.
Unfortunately most people do not have this awareness, then be careful also to find the address of websites through the google
search engine which usually often appears phishing sites. One more thing, don't be easily attracted by giveaway whose amount is
unrealistic and requires a deposit first to get rewards, therefore it is likely the method used by scammers.

There are many scam creating fake website so people will join. It always happen and scammers are really existing, this is why we should be careful before we click any sites. And always do diligence to avoid getting scam since these days scammers are ready to grind people.

There are many modes used by scammers and we should always be vigilant and pay attention to our browser tab and see the web certification to convince us that the web we visit is not a fake one. In addition, it is not arbitrary to click on the link sent to us because it could be malware

Thats why it is important to have knowledge about phishing espexcially newbies on crypto, they must be aware of it. Having knowledge about phishing you will already  have the best defense from scammers.

Many people especially newly crypto enthusiasts tends to fall into phishing sites from several con artists and scammers that is why it is really important for each and every one of us to be more vigilant and wiser before making an action online, you really need to think twice first in order to avoid getting caught of those phishing websites and to avoid getting fraud/scammed.

I appiciate you for post such kind of things here.although this is not new in this crypto platform.already so many scam site were revail here.because of money flow, scammers target this platform, taking advantage and continue scamming people.although expriance people aren't going to trapped by them but problem with new comer, and they are large by number.just need to careful and check deeply

AirDrop is a giveaway that is used by crypto developers as a means of promoting their project or token, and AirDrop participants are usually required to carry out certain tasks as a condition to get a number of Cryptocurrency Tokens, examples of tasks are following social media and sharing Twitter, Facebook posts or participants are required to join their official telegram, but if there is an airdrop developer who provides a number of funds, both usdt, eth and bitcoin, we can be sure if the airdrop is a scam and we should also be careful in clicking the link they provide because it could be that link Phishing links that are able to read and take over assets that we have in personal wallets.

Those kind of Phishing Sites launched daily to scam people.before belive any rumor, should analysis properly before trust.newbies are aways do mistake and scammed by scammers.coinmama is good website and have enough reputation for allowing users to purchases crypto using credit card.so people will easily believe the giveaway but should check the domain nake first.this step can save your money

Unfortunately, those who will always be victims are new traders who still don't have much experience, so they end up getting a scam and stuck on a phishing website.

I already give up to perticipate those kind of give away as well as airdrops.we can't stop for being cresting fake website but should be attention and check careful before click any link. I don't deny that give away and airdrops are bad! Those are good in some field but taking wrong step by clicking phising links might be the reason of great regret of our life.so always try to be alart about it

For the lolz! This hijacker stole my account.

As we enter this new platform, we are already held responsible of the money we take in our accounts or wallets. We should always stay updated on what are the current schemes of the scammers and be extra careful on the sites that we are visiting or making transactions of. Many people gets unfortunate as they become careless and too goal centered that they do not pay attention with the risks around them at all. Extra security in our wallets are not being exaggerated, instead we are just proving how much we value the money we get from investing and trading in here.

So the one you claim to be legit is really legit? I remember having read many negative reviews about coinmama.
Maybe the one with the .ru domain is a total scam, however I doubt the original one is what we can call legit.
Always do research when you are about to send your money to somewhere you don't know anything about.

Actually, any airdrop asking users to pay or send money for gas to send your reward is a complete scam, some scammers have used this method to acquire alot of money for themselves, I personally had an experience last year where I joined one airdrop on telegram, it seems all legit with a nice looking website, they were able to gather over 100k subscribers to their telegram channel, at the end, they asked participants to send 0.005 eth to cover the gas cost of sending their tokens, tens of thousands fell for this, I personally monitored the scammers wallet and the idiots were able to raise over 36 Ethereum in a period of just 3 days, really baffles me how gallible some people can be.

Experience is the main asset so that it doesn't happen again. The airdrop is now like flowing water. without stopping airdrops arriving using an enchanting concept. Why pay for the gas fee to get an airdrop token, while other, more legit airdrops are still waiting ..right ? ;D

Most adds on Facebook really don't hold that much credibility in ky eyes anymore. I even experienced phishing back then because of such useless ads that cost me more than $2k it's just so sad and sickening at the same time thinking about how people can bear to do this to other who work hard for what they have. Don't they stop and think that what if they stole from a person that needs the moneyin paying for chemo therapy, Dialysis or other important things? They are basically killing people. Murderers and thieves. Shame on these people.