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It is without a shock these days that when one downloads apps to explore, like game apps; features or tasks that can earn one some coins or diamonds, or candy come with real earning prospect. If one could successful convert such earns from these games or other apps, these monies could be used to get gift cards or could be withdrawn in some instances.

Is it okay for one to just go ahead and tryout any or all of these apps with their crypto coins or cash not minding scammers or hackers or exposing oneself to information theft?
For most cases where the earnings cannot be converted, but purchases could be made with bank cards, to fund them, what is best adviced?
How real are some of these winnings/earnings, incase anyone has had luck cashing their gaming/other apps wins to real cash/gift item?

Hope you are not talking about those play-to-earn games? There are advertisements that tells you that even if you just download the app, you will earn $100 and you will also start making money as you play. Do not mind those adverts, they are not real. It is not even gambling but a means to earn little amount of money that does not worth your time, or maybe my time.

I don't think they are real,one or two years ago was one ad that kept popping up at that time that showed that if you are skillful at a certain game,if I remember correctly it was a cards game that if you were good at it you could be earning 100 dollars,it was so massive back then that in every game or app like FreeVPN that I used this always popped up,the fact that it does not anymore means that most probably it was a scam.

Of course not all of these apps are scams but sure there are much better ways to earn money online rather than keep trying to do so by installing those apps and losing your time.

Not sure what kind of games you mean in particular, but, as cliche as it is, if something is too good to be true - it's probably not true.
Any games/apps that promise you high rewards for no effort are lying or outright scams. The only viable and sustainable model for apps to be able to offer regular payments is to share some of their revenue with users. And as most of their revenue would be generated from ads (assuming non-gambling apps), the best you could get is a tiny fraction of what they get paid from advertisers to show you ads, so almost never worth the effort.

Was it a game apps related to gambling or something that is play to earn?
Coz to answer your question, these are most likely not gonna work until they get to make people to deposit and put their money into the game to put value with their coin.
While gambling doesn't offer free money without you making any deposits first.
If the gambling website offers you free money where you can use it to place a bet, believe me, you'll be ask for the deposit on the latter when you request for a withdrawal.

Do you mean game apps related to gambling?
With the exception of applications launched by trusted and well-known platforms, I do not think that any application from the App Store can be easily trusted.
Do not believe all the ads you see promoting applications promising the user rewards and bonuses. Most of these applications will ask you to deposit money or ask to verify your identity. Don't believe that someone can send you free pennies without it costing you anything. Most offers will be too good to be true.

Avoid those kinds of offers as much as possible because most likely you'll have to do some extra steps that aren't mentioned in the initial offer and I agree with the others as they're not worth the time. I remember seeing those offers on some micro earning apps and sites where you can pick tasks and they tend to give the highest rewards since they usually require you to download games or apps and possibly put in your credit card as well. The risky part when doing these tasks is that there's always a chance that the reward doesn't come in even though you've completed everything.

In most cases, those apps are all waste of time. If I'm sure about it, these apps you are referring to do have tons of advertisements.

Unfortunately, no one can even confirm if they are paying since no one can even reach the requirements to become eligible for the payment.

Some users will advance fast on their early progress but when it's only at least 1-2% needed to complete the required tier, that's the time something not right will happened and the progress will stuck now, for let's say 98%.


We can give you much better and more accurate responses if you can give examples of the apps you are referring to.

But as I mentioned, mostly it's a waste of time.

I payed axie for a while and would've made a profit on my $240 buy in if I sold the tokens I earnt when I'd earned them after playing it for about a week or two for about half an hour a day (I was familiarising myself with NFTs so don't think it was time wasted).

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If you're buying into something that's new, it'd make sense just to buy the token once you've researched it (when released, games can be bad for graphics too until there are enough initial tests done).

If you plan to install anything, I'd recommend getting familiar with creating a virtual machine and then you'll keep your wallets as safe as possible. If you're playing nft games.a lot require you to share a code between the machine the game is on and the website (with your wallet connected). Anything more than that is probably a bit sketchy. Your wallet will also try to make sense of what you're signing so if you're more used to understanding these messages then you'll also be a bit safer (ie spotting the difference between sending funds and signing a message in the wallet software you need to use to connect).

I stop doing these things they will entice you to upgrade so you can earn more and many of them are offering plans that are very similar to the Ponzi scheme the free coins are just to make you sign up and make you believe that you can make free money from their games, but there's always hidden agenda, if you will rely on their free coins it will take you a lot of time and you need a big number of referrals to reach your payout and make your time worthwhile on this platform, it maybe different from what you are discussing but all the apps on Google paly that has this scheme are all the same in one feature or the other.

I have tried only Fone, it do payout it do have a future I hope, i know the developers, decent lads.So i can only tell you if u want something really close to blockchain, this is the app. You can sell nft and shi**, dont expect to sell them tho, but people will press the like button, its for somekind eko future, overal its 2/10,but compared to the mass others its 10/10.

There's no such thing about freebies on the world today and expect that there's always a catch if something is offering you some free stuffs.Just like the rest been saying that making up some downloads on some games and enticing you to upgrade which promise out to generate  more profit or income then its really just a very old way on milking out people.This is why you should really
make yourself at least aware and sensible on things that you are dealing with. No gambling sites in the market today does offer these things and i do believe that
op is pertaining into different stuff and this topic shouldn't be here imho.

Be careful if that's your aim to test them out for the prizes or airdrops that they may give.

There have been reports that in game purchases could be recorded by those and you'll be enticed to do that when they've got some good offers that you can't ignore.

At the same time, as you download and install, it could also be included to the user term agreement that a malware might be attached on it not knowingly you've got it already monitoring all you do in your app and phone.

But I don't think that this has something to do with gambling.

First of all, I don't think this is for gambling discussion although there's a factor of risk.

I have been browsing the Play Store for quite some time looking for a casual game that would entertain me while I am waiting for my kid from school. I can tell there are lots of games now that are free to play and give out rewards but I won't download them in a rush if I were you. Most of them have advertisements inside, long ones, and a 30-second feed mostly. Are they real? Some do, but it takes time before you can withdraw it because the minimum for withdrawal is an amount that you will need to play for months to achieve it.
My wife tried to do it once, but after withdrawal, she never played it again. It will bore you to the core and will be stressed by the ads popping up.
Oh, and Google cannot always keep you safe, there are too many files in your storage that will be left when you are done with it.

You can try them out and see for yourself. But if they ask for your personal info then you know what to do next. Some of these aren't really gambling apps; if you're familiar with get-paid-to websites then some of those that you're mentioning might just be like those ones which ask you to download something and try it out before getting paid. They're not necessarily gambling, they literally asked you to do a job and you get paid pennies for it.

As for actual gambling apps with in-app purchases, always go and download it directly from official sources such as Playstore or App store, so when the developer decides to run, you can contest for a refund on your purchases and get your money back.

and before installing any of those gaming apps, better check the reviews/feedbacks. you may be installing an app having phishing complaints. also, as you've mentioned, most of the time the rewards are just pennies and not worth your effort. are you willing to disclose your personal details just to sign up the suggested app? think about possible repercussions not the pennies your will get from them. your security may be at high risk if you will register in all those game apps.

I don't think it's safe to connect any of your wallets to these kinds of games, especially since even you, yourself don't even trust them. But if ever you really want to try them out because there are a lot of people out there saying that they've earned this and that amount by playing, then it's best to always create a fresh wallet since it's not even hard to do.

Actually, there are really a lot NFT games out there where you can earn a few bucks but I don't think it's worth of anyone's time, especially for free-to-play users.

I only tried it once because of the free coins they are offering, two things, first  these apps are loaded with ads and surveys, they are making money from their users and what the users are getting is only a fraction of what the developers are getting from those ads and surveys and second, there's an option to upgrade and you need tons of referrals to earn a decent amount, upgrade, referrals and watching tons of ads this is what you need to do before you can earn here, it's not worth with your time and effort

I can't generalize those apps but sometimes there are really paying and there's just a pure bunch of craps.

How to determine if those apps are paying? No other options but to research deeply on that specific game and find some reviews. Just be careful as sometimes, reviews are not generic, and maybe good reviews are for cover-up only to make the app goods look.

Another option is to play those apps in actual and see if your effort and patience can keep up.

Of course, we should mind what we have to download everything, not just games that supposedly gave us winning because as you have said, scammers and hackers are everywhere.

On the contrary, why not stay away from it? I mean how much are you going to win? I think it's not that big and not worth to try it because you might compromised your mobile phone or your computer, just saying. I used to download this kind of apps way before there is crypto, like ptc and others, I I would say that the pay is so small that its not worth your time.

It seems to me that is precisely what they are talking about and it surprises me this is the case, who has not made a query on a search engine and eventually found an ad about how it is possible to make thousands of dollars in a single day?

And despite the claims on the ad we know that such a thing is not possible, and the few which can make so much money will go to their grave and keep the secret for themselves, and I suspect the same is true for those play to earn games.

Those are p2e, nothing new, and especially not something to be posted here. Might be better to put it in the Altcoin discussion. I've dabbled in p2e early on, but rarely do nowadays since most of them are basically just a scam of sorts, or are worth nothing. In all honesty, I wouldn't call it "theft" since you're technically allowing them to allow your information yourself by fulfilling the details that they want. Nothing we can do about that. Now if it's legit or not, that's really up to how you research them since not all of them are fake. Some are real as they can be but as I said, they're worth next to nothing most of the time.

I use to see some of those adverts a pop up on my screen, but I don't really take them seriously as most of them are not real and can't even earn players real money.

Sometimes I just classify those so call a play to earn games that never reward the players in real time are like faucets, both will only amount to time-wasting and if one is really looking for ways to make money while playing games, it is better to visit a real casino make a deposit and try out your luck.

Don't download apps on Google Play without finding out more about the site because Google Play now has a lot of apps that can trick you if you don't research them. Talking about the app, some people can win and withdraw the winning money into real prizes and their wallet or send it to their bank account. But it takes a long time because the increasing price of crypto makes the developers reduce the prizes they give to users, so users have to work hard to reach the minimum withdrawal. That doesn't include the KYC problems they sometimes apply to users before withdrawing money.

I have deleted one of the game applications that provide prizes in the form of new crypto because this is not worthy at all, the calculations are very small and not to mention the opportunity to be able to sell the coins obtained has not been seen, and it is not easy to get lots of coins, you have to be able to have referrals to be able to get a lot
All will really depend on a person if he feels it is feasible then it is definitely not a problem for him even if he has to download an application which can harm his device and also for not understanding that many apps are dangerous

Usually I will stay away from game applications that are not official or are in the testing phase unless their application is well-known and has been used by millions of people then I will not worry about installing and using it either on my cellphone or laptop, sometimes security must come first to protect money our crypto

Yes playing in a play-to-earn game is just a waste of time and there is no more benefit from playing the game.
If there are games that are more profitable, why should we choose games that can only provide benefits that are not worth the time we need.
What's more, in the game there are lots of promotional ads that only g
used to attract players without distributing bonuses the same as what is in the advertisement.
I'm not giving advice or influence for someone not to play the game, I just want to inform all of us that we can choose and play games that can give us a commensurate advantage and not be detrimental to us.

As for me I prefer the gambling site apps, no other apps I prefer because they are not earning enough that can make it fun for people to play, if it is gambling I will know I risk my money for it and expecting win or loss. Yes of course that I will even know the site that I gamble before I can download their app, or using their website instead. But OP is talking about something that is very different and people need to be very careful because scammers prefer to go for what many people are doing to see if they can try their luck and see who to scam, there can be some fake apps like that on playstore that are designed for people to be victims of scam.