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Crypto scam are getting advanced but simple to know day by day. Many people have been sent to prison because of hyip scheme scheme in the past, but pump and dump or dump and dump in crypto today is like an advanced hyip scheme which lead to scam in a way the regulators can not do anything.

A friend of mine told me about Tapswap. I tried it because I like to test somethings about cryptocurrencies than to remain not aware of what is going on in my environment. I always tell people around me to be careful about these Telegram tapping or whatever they are called. Telling them not to pay money that it would be a scam if they pay money.

At first, to double your Tapswap coin earning which is not even a coin at all, you can buy it with 0.5 ton or so at the time. Later the option is not more there. But recently I saw what that did not surprised me about Tapswap. You can check it yourself.

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After they have millions of people community, they also let people to watch YouTube videos which they are making money from. Also encouraging people to buy pay them money. This is no more airdrop project but ways to earn money from people. Do not pay any money to buy any worthless thing from them. They keep postponing the launching date.

This spread like a widefire in my country. People of all age groups I know of where involved in tapping. I can say, they still are. They tapped every where and any where you turned, there was someone who should have been busy making the most of their time on something profitable, tapping their phones screen. While some have given up as their expectations were not met, other are hopeful that they will cash out in the end and their they will reap the rewards of their tapping. In my estimation, the developers had this plan all along. And the perfect psychology was that people were seeing the instant "virtual but non-withdrawal " money from their taps.

I actually played this game earlier and really trusted it when it was still planning to be launched on the Solana blockchain only from the fact that it was like the most popular after Notcoin bot and thought maybe they would act somehow like the other but sadly no, they began to show signs of scam to me when they asked players to used 0.5Ton to double their funds and also then it was announced they won't be using Solana blockchain but after their AMA people started trusting them again but like you said they keep on postponing it.


To be frank all what these telegram tapping games are about are using players to make millions and give them little to nothing but all these postponement I believe is an initiative they got from another tapping game Hamster Kombat who started the YouTube video and now all are moving to that point in order to make more money and because of what they're earning now they don't want to launch all thanks to greed.

I also think if Pavel Durov the telegram owner doesn't try to act about this rather just concerned about what he earns soon Telegram would be banned globally or at least banned by many Nations since it has been a den of scammers and this time he as much blame since he can see what's going on which is more likely a potential scam but rather just don't bother about this

The number one annoying fact about these telegram apps for airdrops is that they make use of the $ symbol on their minted coins in other to deceive their participant of being rewarded of same about in USD, which is obviously a big lie because of the amount of money that would have been involved, secondly, some will also make use of the bitcoin logo BTC just because of the same deception, in this case OP has highlighted, i don't see a reason for making the purchase of these when i can easily wait and mint them, could this be true when its appearing to be too real to be true, i hope many of them were not just wasting peoples time and efforts tapping on them.

There is no free money any where, and to so called telegram tap to earn games is taking a direction which many other hype's have done in the past, after gaining popularity and attention from the general public, their start demanding for fees and payment which is where the scam will end


I for once I am not a fan of altcoins most especially shitcoins like the memecoins craze, because I have seen a lot and gained experience, that only the scammers will denefit from the scheme, airdrops hunters will just help the to promote their scams to the wether public which in turns generate them more victims to scam along the line, best to totally avoid them, and if it works for them the airdrop participants so be it best of luck but for me, I stay clear from airdrops such that is a hyped one.

After the success of TON, a lot of these Web3 tap to earn projects have popped up on telegram and most of them are copies of each other. They follow the same blueprint, build a community whose faith in you is based on the success of TON; build your followers/subscribers on all social media platforms; incentivize users to follow and watch your YouTube videos; Keep postponing the expected date of listing.

It was after people made a lot of money in notcoin that I think this was introduced or maybe it had been there but came known to many people after the success of notcoin. A lot of people rushed into it hoping that they’ll make a lot of money from it but failed them after so many postponement of launching date. They didn’t start that YouTube video not until others did and they saw how they are making money from it before they also started. They are always looking for strategy to milk their users. I am not thinking this is going to launch anytime soon and if they do, they might not be worth anything after listing. It’s better to stay off anything associated with them that requires paying money for it.

I don't play TapSwap but some of the airdrops on telegram bots are mostly like that under the pretext of increasing boosts so that they can rank up the next level, some people are willing to deposit USDT to buy coins that I don't know what the use is whether this will be worth it or not, which is clear that the tap-tap game has now spread its community to more than tens of millions.

And indeed with tasks seeing impressions on their Youtube it is an advantage for their team to get funds from there and maybe a little distributed to the community the rest they eat.
There are so many bots on the telegram of this kind of game, but the only successful ones are notcoin and dogs which will soon be listed on the exchange on the 20th.

First I most say that thread would have been more better discussed in the altcoin discussion thread but however, it is also a good thing you brought to the beginners and help community. Generally, it is an airdrop such that there is no guarantee towards rewards participating, participation is voluntarily whether it is a scam or not the ends shall surely justify the means considering the fact that there are  lots of airdrops rampaging especially after lots of people benefited from participating in notcoin airdrops. But yeah everyone needs to be more careful as not to overly rely on any airdrops rewards or becomes vulnerable of being scammed.

I think you meant NOTCOIN, because the main Toncoin is a project that has been around since 2021 and they didn’t do a tap to earn airdrop. This new scheme was revolutionized by Notcoin success where many who participated actually got rewarded. Immediately after its lunching and even listing on big exchange like Binance many new projects started coming with this Tapswap already there people got into its hype really fast. Personally I don’t place a thing on whether and airdrop will turn out to be scam or not but my warning always is spending on airdrops like this which are not retroactive airdrops is just a bad idea. How can you double your points by donating few dollars to the group, what then is the advantage of long term farmers of it who can’t donate, so they will probably have same token? The indications of it turning out to be scam is there already

Anytime any project that initially comes out with the idea of rewarding users for tasks starts performing some kind of trick to lure the users to start paying for some things that can boast their earnings automatically, I consider that a red flag for me.
 
Right from the beginning of this Tapswap, I have always considered it to not be a straightforward project; rather, it's a community that is built only to generate revenue for one person, which is the project developers. The tappers are just being victims of the whole thing; if you are required to pay for something, it's no longer an airdrop.

I am a tapswap airdrop participant and I have reached legendary level so far, but I rarely open tapswap these few weeks because they are very boring delaying the coin launch and they have not even listed on the pre-market, I do not really expect to make high profits from this project because they use the community to make high profits from watching youtube videos and they have difficulty opening item purchases at high prices, of course that is no longer the type of airdrop and the airdrop community is very disappointed with the update on item purchases on tapswap. However, I have switched to the Dogs coin which is currently getting attention from the market, the price of dogs has increased high because of binance's post about dogs which indicates the potential for dogs to be listed on binance

It's crazy that even well experienced crypto-currency enthusiasts actually fell for this scam and if experienced members fell imagine how many inexperienced members would have fell. There are people who joined or had something to do with crypto-currency because of this sort of things.

The awareness Notcoin created has a part to play in the publicity of all this. Notcoin appeared to be a successful tap and get coin scheme that some had missed out on, so the coming of tapswap was another opportunity they did not want to sleep. It's wise not to fall for hype, FOMO .

It surprises me how they actually think that these airdrops would pay off so much after launch. The trust is that the airdrop developers are making so much form peoples activities on their so called telegram app. They give so much of task for millions of people to complete and at the end of the day allocates little or no amount of the token to them. They are just schemes to grow their social media handles. Imagine an telegram game with zero subscribers turns into millions of subscribers in less than months. YouTube for instance would start monetization and they will. Earn so much from other people's engagements. The real scams are yet to come. Sooner or later we will here the reports.

A friend of mine who's into this told me his disappointment about this project. I think that I see the same thing with other tap projects not just with Tapswap that they'd like their users to buy and deposit with such amounts for them to have a better point before the promise they'd list the token they have for their projects. It's a low-key scam IMHO because there is deception on the end of the developers that they're fooling their millions of users and making them believe that something is being done. They'd earn from subscriptions, transaction fees(commission from TON), and other in-app purchases through crypto. It's sad that they boast they gather millions to hundred of millions of users within a span of days and then these users have that hope that they're into something big.

I lost interest in this tap mining project when I discovered that it was created by a 12 years old, then their was another story that the 12 years old founder was a all lies by some writers to gain audience and the real founder was some guy from Kenya called Kibiru Muthaka, the identity of the founders is not very clear so I bothered not to waste my time on a project that's too good to be true.

 Tapswap has made some miners believe that most recent project after Notcoin is not real, they've not been very transparent enough and owe their community some truth cause I wonder why they keep postponing their launch date, well this new method of stealing money from their community has made me come to a conclusion that it's a scam project.

 Anyone who's currently still taping should further waste no time and energy and should channel that energy towards accumulating more Bitcoin, instead of giving money to scammers investing it on Bitcoin is a better option.

I'm one of the people who joined crypto because of the application hype on Telegram. There are many applications that I play. The first name is Hamster Kombat, then followed by Pixelverse & several other similar applications.

At first I was happy to follow the instructions given in the application, but over time I realized one thing, instead of doing an airdrop, they actually wanted to monetize their users, look at Hamster Kombat which was inconsistent with their statement saying that the airdrop would take place in July, it's already August & until now there hasn't been any airdrop.

Tapswap probably does the same thing to its users, I can't trust these kinds of apps anymore.

These types of projects and tap apps have increased their popularity because of notcoin. After the success that it has made, they're putting their projects into comparison to become known to the masses too. This isn't a new style of these project developers because even before, they're all imitating or attaching the project's name to a successful one. Good that you have come to realize it quite early by losing your interest in tapswap and its kind.

Sadly, because of other projects like 'dogs' is about to get listed on many exchanges. I am sure that many of these tap apps or projects will also do the same hype for fooling around users that they might be the next type of this project just to garner views, subscriptions and money from the gullible users.

I completely agree that crypto scams are getting more clever and we need to be careful. Scams like Tapswap are very worrying. They trick people into investing and it is hard for authorities to stop them. I think it is great that you are testing and warning others about these scams. Tapswap  actions like selling fake coin and making money from YouTube videos are obvious warnings. They keep delaying their launch which makes us even more suspicious. Basically I also joined this project earlier when they were saying that they are backed by Solana. I don't know you remember or not they say first that they are backed by Solana. But after sometime Solana refused that they are not backed by us. So I leave this project that day and I never used it again. And now 99% of Telegram mini apps are made for making money. And they will not give any good return.

With more people join this ecosystem, more capital spent there, governments and their authorities will see more benefit there like gaining tax, more need to regulate this ecosystem, there will be stricter Act, laws and regulation on cryptocurrency. Scammers in future will have harder 'jobs' to do their scams but as always, in any space and any industry, there is always space for scammers to do their 'jobs'.

No government, no Act, no law, no regulation can prevent scammers completely. As citizens, people who join this cryptocurrency ecosystem, we need to prepare knowledge for ourselves and know vital principles that if we are not too greed, scammers can not scam us.

Scammers easily make their scam 'jobs' done with greedy people.

Someone who has been around for some time should know about Arbitrum airdrop that happened some time ago. Airdrops usually used to be different, you would need to do some social tasks such as following social media handles and doing some retweets to become eligible, but Arbitrum did the first airdrop based on early-user participation method where those who used their testnet/mainnet or dapps to make transactions would be eligible for an airdrop, and the airdrop was a huge success, people got so much money for their participation.

What happened after that? Every protocol project started doing the same thing because they needed promotion, and people were doing everything to become eligible for those airdrops because of how much money people made in Arbitrum's airdrop.

The same thing is happening with these tap-to-earn bots in Telegram. Notcoin was the first one and it was a huge success because all participants got great profit from it, and then all projects started doing the same, and we have hundreds of bots at the moment. How many of these bots will actually give something to their participants? No one knows, but just because the very first project did give something to its community, people are hopeful.

A great analogy, and in both cases, nobody can say for sure whether the efforts and money put in would be worth it. Hope is the main thing going on here, whether we like it or not. Hope pushes people to tap, in this situation ;D

Good strategy, it turns out that all of that has a purpose for fundraising with a scheme that requires finding or inviting new users to join and assigning us to watch their YouTube videos in exchange for coins or tokens. This strategy is often found in airdrop or game projects on Telegram. I just realized its cunningness

I'm one of the early tappers. I stopped tapping because of the monetized ads; they are following the leads of the PI network, which abused their members by monetizing their platforms. Its not only TapSwan; there are other tapping mining that's been doing the same.
I think that is not right, it's taking advantage of users, no wonder we have a lot of scam-tapping miners because that's the easiest way to increase their followers and make money, once they make enough money from their cash cow, they will take down the platform and we do not who we are going to get after because we do not who are the people behind these projects.

Pi network was very popular in my country a few years ago. Now the hype has died down, I don’t hear anyone talking about it anymore. You would think people would learn from their experience with Pi network and other projects that have failed but no. They simply move on to the next hype and hope to earn loads of money when the coin is officially listed in reputable exchanges.

Tapswap, Hamster Kombat are no different from your typical scams. Their community members choose to ignore the red flags. They probably believe that they have nothing to lose since all they have to do is tap their screens and do a few social media tasks. But the reality is that these projects are using their large audience for promotion gigs and others. They have no real plan for the project.

People likes to follow trends and when they hear that there's a place where there is free money they'll all flock their without carrying out research. The success of NOTCOIN opened the door for many people to come into cryptocurrency, believing that any project that operates like Notcoin will reward them with airdrops. After the launch of NOTCOIN I was surprised at the level of people's commitments to tapping on these follow up projects and I knew that scammers will take advantage of the situation to scam many people.

I wouldn't be surprised if they keep postponing the launch because as it is they're making money off their victims. NOTCOIN has made many people to be ignorant of the many scams that are in the crypto space and I guess that many newbies will learn from their mistakes.

It became popular anywhere since lots of people hoping to get a lot of money from that coin. Especially that there are teasers regarding on the price also for what they say pi mall which many people look forward since they think they are close to get wealthy if this coin will be listed on exchange. But guess all the hopes of those people who believes falls down as the Pi project or team behind it didn't deliver what they promise to people who follows them.

Tapswaps is not really different since again they create another questionable things which people also expect to much from this project. Maybe people should stop about thinking about money since this one lead to pure disappointments especially if they cannot get something from the project where their expectation to gain is so high.

 When things happen like they give the link to the players to watch their videos and they get the benefits it seems like this is one of their plans, honestly we doubt the events in the last few months especially about tapswap which will give airdrop to its players, but when it comes to buying and paying them with money, we think this can be called an airdrop.



 From the way they work, it seems like this could be one of their alternative ways to make a lot of money by manipulating the players who have joined, they keep shifting the launch date which in reality is them continuously playing with the program and the players who have been trapped in it.

I believe Tapswap, Hamster Kombat, and Pi found more audience in third world countries than in the rest of the world. They are easy targets because people who are living below the poverty level are not going to research the legitimacy of the project. Their major and only concerns would be if the project is profitable and once they are convinced that they can make money from it (usually word-of-mouth recommendations), everything else doesn’t matter. Nobody wants to miss out on an opportunity to make money even if it means following the herd and doing something you do not understand.

still now sure it's scam or not, but their recent activities looks very suspicious, actually not only taptap swap, others dozens of tap tap project just boosting their community but they did not paid rewards, i never deposit in their projects, from last few months telegram bot airdrop is trendy, but users getting rewards? millions of users playing those games.

Already I know this tapswap of a thing could lead to serious lost because people aren't careful with it, scammers are exploring many ways to scam people because they knows no one would want to be left out because when it get to them they would make huge profit so they want to be involved with all means without knowing it's actually scam. For example, the area of sending fee to get whatever because I don't think a good project request for fee outside take from what ever they had already given the user.

At the beginning, tapswap was a platform that promised profits by doing simple tasks, it seemed similar to NOTcoin, currently it is difficult to determine whether tapswap is a scam or not because its users have reached tens of millions, so they have attracted a lot of attention, as in other crypto projects, credibility is one of the good keys, with a clear and informative project but the importance of doing your own research, it seems like the best way. because the official value of tapswap will only be determined by their system's tokenomics team.

The popularity of a crypto project is not a determining factor in evaluating a legit or scam project. FTX was a famous exchange known all around the world and still they were found guilty of several crimes.

You cannot make money by tapping on your phone. Who would pay for that? Knowing that users can automate it on iPhones and get multiple tops all at once. The project developers know this even if most don’t, they are not worried about your “taps”, if you can get participants to subscribe to their YouTube channel and watch their videos, they can monetize their platform and start making money from ads and sponsorships.

It's the classic new project following the path of its sucessful predecessor, in the case of tapswap project, most of them are blatantly farming their communities, since the communities themselves aren't really seasoned airdrop hunter, they just keep going and getting farmed left and right, most of the tapswap project now also requiers to buy some item or watch ads to farm.

kinda obvious what path these project are taking, which is farming the farmer, exactly what most of airdrops are doing nowadays, the community themselves are the product and yet they didn't even know about it.
moreover, the fact that the participants were so many amounting to hundred millions, means it gonna benefit the devs meanwhile the reward for the participants become lesser since it's pooled rewards.

Tapswap scam or scam? This game basically like the other tap tap game it blow off when notcoin the original of tap game in the telegram showed up back couple month ago and from there out of nowhere binnace listing the token and the price become a good one and so many people start get the jackpot from there.

You know crypto right when there is something blow off the other developed would follow the example in the past is like the DeFi apps Decentralized Exchange, NFT, Metaverse and play to earn etc. Tapswap is one of the many game that has same character like Notcoin and now is "evolving" so player can basically pay some money to boost the game and hope to get money in the future