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The above topic was birthed by this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5506270.msg64429402#msg64429402) claiming TapSwap was a scam which I refuted a while ago as nothing monetary was mandated whatsoever. But today, I point out a real scam if at all one should be called out in this manner, and that is the Xempire airdrop structured plan to allocate the airdrop.

I've always known airdrops to be free giveaways, but not in this case anymore and the two pictures below speak enough volumes already. This nonsense is no more worth it.

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Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

@Dr.btc_strange talk about just this type of scamming behavior by airdrop developers  Be on a Look_out, for there's going to be many scammers in disguise.  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5509384.0) 

The same amount is requested to be paid by each user in order for them to be eligible for the airdrop; this is just exploitation that is being carried out by them as a good means to raise funds without actually asking for token sales, and at the end of the day, such project tokens might not even be worth anything in the market, and those who pay that fee might not be able to get their money back, adding to their wasted effort.

As soon as I see an airdrop which requieres participants to send any quantity of money for them to become elegible, in my mind can only think it is a scam and I need to stay as away as possible from it.
Actual airdrops, like those from some years ago, like Uniswap, did not require one to send money first to be elegible, it was enough by participating within their ecosystem, providing liquidity and interacting with their smart contracts without giving away our private keys.

These kinds of scams only will taint the name of Telegram and alternative currencies even further, as Telegram is the application of choice which is used by scammers to run their schemes.
And you are right, sending up to 0,5 Ton not even knowing the amount of the airdrop will be worth a fraction of the initial investment is stupid and reckless.

This is one major reasons that made me dislike airdrops and after trying much times to published your ref links to people around you would still have to make some initial deposit to be able to withdraw your funds from the platform which I find it very stressful and annoying.

This scam isn't a new thing and people has been falling prey for such airdrop especially those newbies who doesn't know about how the system works, they would go ahead making deposits to sure for them to received their airdrops since would be fighting to have free coins from them.

lol.I knew where these airdrops were heading to. Don't mean to say every of them are bad but its a genuine example of how they are profiting from time and money from users. I too am an old user of X empire initially Musk Empire but didn't gave much time to it as I thought it to be a cheap copy of Hamster Kombat. Currently I'm level 9 and having heard about the upcoming airdrop, I was thinking of using it actively for few days but the info you provided is a clear sign that its not worth it. Even for users who have spent months, 0.5 Ton is over $2.7 and they are unlikely to get that amount from airdrop.

And I made lengthy posts about this scheme, and this is my excerpt of that I was an early participants of Musk Empire but I don't like their new implementation of verifying, There are other ways to verify your account this is not an airdrop anymore; they deceived us.

We are actually paying to get their token, and we have worked hard for months to become popular, and I would like to mention that they obliged us to view their videos with ads on them; imagine with millions of views they are already making a lot of money.
Its like they are hitting two birds with one stone with their strategy

Wow, this is all so crazy!

Here I have been telling marketers that crypto is so ridiculously lucrative that crypto folk regard marketing as too much like work or as too much work, only to come back here and find nowadays the word airdrop has been co-opted to, it seems, mean probably at least as much work as the kind of click for traffic marketing used for example by this viral fundraising page (https://llpgpro.com/2x2d8c3p/)!

And worse, at least that viral fundraising actually works, if you actually have the discipline to keep plugging away at, whereas these newfangled "airdrops", apparently, are often outright scams!

Truly if the latest so called airdrops basically amount to clicking for credits, you might as well do the marketing thing instead, at least with that you could be building your own mailing-list and downlines and thus eventually actual income!

If you actually looked at the above viral marketing link I should warn you that it has the massive glaring flaw of having you promote pages other than a simple subscribe page ("squeeze page") recruiting people onto your own mailing-list, which the "Leads Leap" tool that page has you join (free) provides free for its free members, so if you do try out that stuff at least do not promote your copy of that viral page directly, instead promote your own free mailing-list via a free subscribe page that Leads Leap also lets you create and use, for life, for free; and only send your subscribers to any other pages once you have them signed up.

If you cannot be bothered broadcasting emails to your list from time to time, you can just set up the "welcome email" of your list to tell each new subscriber about the viral fundraising page and worry later, when you have umpteen or more subcribers, whether to someday bother broadcasting to your list...

Oh I mentioned that I tell marketers that crypto is so lucrative it makes marketing seem too much like work, but neglected to give you a link to an exemplar page that does that so here is one: https://llpgpro.com/thkgv45j/

-MarkM-

It's sad, days, weeks or even months of playing ends with you having to pay. Telegram mini app like this have a lot of users, the minimum is probably 100K users, I imagine 0,5 TON x 100K users, that will make instant profits very easy for developers. It seems like we are at the end of the hype, slowly one by one the projects are charging their users.

It is very sad indeed that months of playing and data burned only require someone to pay 0.5 Tons for the reward tokens, not knowing what will be the value price of the Xempire token.

I am trying to do simple arithmetics if, for example, 200k users from the millions of users all over the world decide to pay 0.5 Ton(which is about 2.77 of the current price of Ton) to be eligible for the airdrop. You can imagine the amount we will be talking about here, $550k
that Xempire developers will be realized from an airdrop that no one is sure what will be of it, next "to launch on crypto exchange successful or not to be launched," to project as a scam.

The very point is that some of these mining coins are looking for ways to siphon money from people. That's why I hardly partake in them because this same act of asking for Ton as a way to be eligible for mined coins

There's also a possibility of rugpulls after at users send them the required amount; they already have enough money so why would they push for their project, By announcing it late weeks before the distribution, they deceived their users.

There is a possibility of a scam here if they surprise their users with this announcement, because the users will find it difficult to part with their allocations after months of working day and night. This is just unfair.

The fact that people even get to post different links to different social media platforms just to get the opportunity to get some tokens is not the problem but after doing all the required task and spending money to buy some coin to be eligible to receive the airdrop and after that the project will exist no more is the big problem.

Newbies are not the only people that has been scammed lately because the number of airdrops are increasing daily and the newbies can not afford to be losing it they have been scammed several times I think the originators of the airdrops targets those people who are already in the crypto space because they are more exposed to knowing the potentials in a project when it is not launched. People are already aware that airdrop scams are real but since they can not stay away from free things they are not getting away from scammers.

I hardly do most of these things. We all know there should be a way for them to make some money not just create a Telegram mini-app for people to perform activities and later distribute money to people for performing those activities.

This is why I prefer Citizen, participated in Dog's airdrop because it's somewhat owned by Telegram's owner. I will always go into any meaningful one where users can buy more power, play PVP, and fight for higher levels.

Obviously this is very sad, why does every airdrop have to be paid for by us to be airdrop eligible? Is this way the developer is taking advantage of the hype community? Obviously if the community makes a TON of transactions that the developer wants then the instant profit is obtained, while now the telegram mini airdrop is crazy many people join up to tens of millions.
Don't let us do that, I never do it even though there are some tasks that require the community to make transactions.

Already i see in some telegram mini app airdrops required to spend dollars as like Catizen, who spent large amount their rewards is exciting, and now i see in X Empire although i didn’t participated in this airdrop, but it’s unfair policy to spend money in free airdrops. You can't compare with UniSwap and X Empire both of different, UniSwap was like test net and was required to transaction in their platform. But in telegram airdrops some project huge successful, so scammers taking this opportunity and they also launching similar projects and earning huge money from users just require to spend money as fees.

Airdrops should really be that free of charge or any transactions related even if we do say that the amount needed is really just that a peanut but if it would be accumulated by millions of users then that would
really be still a huge sum for those scam devs to make easy money on. Just like on what you have said that on the moment that i have checked out that there would really be some sort of blockchain transaction
kind of tasks then this is something that i do immediately leave and would be ignored. Its not really that shocking that scammers will really be taking advantage of the hype after a very successful project that make
out huge hype specially into those who do make money or tons of people get free money then they would really be that making use of that opportunity on which this isnt something that shocking i must say.

For those who are really that fond on airdrops then its not really that bad to deal up with those things as long you do really know on what are those chances on getting some peanuts. If you do tend to risks
with these types then it would really be that up to your choice. You should really be that careful on whatever the actions that you are taking specially on making transactions on which these arent supposed
to be asked because airdrops is something that needs to be free or something that doesnt have any charges or whatsoever.

I found another airdrop soon that requires making a ton transactions of 0.5 ton to be eligible for airdrop if you heard rockybit rabbit which will going to be listed soon they also require you to make a ton transaction to be eligible.

Honestly, I don't think it's worth making a transaction of 0.5 unless if it's just a cents and if you have large amount of profit per hour and coins but if you don't have a large amount of coins and profit per hour sending 0.5 ton is not worth it.

Not all airdrops are actually free there are some retroactive airdrops that are not free because they need you to engage on their platform like a testnet daily which usually requires gas fees but if you look at this airdrops and this tap airdrops they don’t set a fee that they want it is the transaction fee during the testnet period, this fees are way too low to be considered even a fee but the rate at which this telegram mini app are going I think people will soon realize that they are milking them.


Both are still the Same, Catien was all about using money to level up and they rewarded base on the money spent, dog didn’t stress people a lot but they actually did ask for transactions too which was around 0.1ton. And they gave those that Carried out the task extra dogs. Other airdrops requires Stars which is another form of payment. So all of the are same and Sooner or later people will get tired

Well that was really a very sad moment,when after all are almost done then you saw the airdrop turn to scam, after all the hard work and your about to recieved the airdrop, that is why we need to select the good airdrop and be more cautious,not all of them are legit,just like some signature or bounty campaign in the forum not all of them are paying good profit and some will never pay. we need to select the best to avoid wasting our time.

Any airdrop which demands any amount to be deposited to claim is purely a scam. At least by now a lot of airdrop participants should be aware of this. The reason is said so is because the previous airdrop that paid other participants did not demand anything so participants should not be overwhelmed by all the tricks on telegram.

Again, I think all the airdrops they are participating in should be shared on their channel stating that they won't demand any fee for claiming the token. The project should be in charge of guiding the participant to avoid any form of scam by sharing possible ways they can get scammed on Telegram. The last message I got that had to do with a scam was that the person told me he would be buying my airdfropped token, lol and that i should send it first to him he would send me my USDT.

Yeah, but my point is Citizen Finance gave a reason to level up and that's the difference. But just asking people to send 0.5 TON doesn't look right. If there had been a way for people to purchase higher power and play PVP, then that would be more meaningful instead of trying to raise funds by asking people to send 0.5 TON.

It reminds me the scam scheme of donating to receive a bonus for the donation you have just done. It's definitely not a giveaway or airdrop, as such offers don't involve the participants having to give money from their own pockets to participate. These offers can demand you to complete a task, but you give only your effort in counterpart for the final payment. Even if you hear some people saying it's legit, I believe it's not a good idea to join, because there is a high chance it's a ponzi scheme.

Unfortunatelly crypto industry is full of scammers and I risk saying there are more scammers than ever right now. Very few offers are legit these days and worth to be executed for small amounts of profit.

It may ring a bell or two for everybody involved, and it's everybody's responsibility to look into any project that may request additional funds to be even eligible or to get bonuses from it.
It may turn out badly in the end, though, it all depends on the credibility of such a project and who supports them, with who they collab, etc.

This is not just sad but also pathetic by this Xempire developers, they know very well what they are doing, because I believe that this was not stated at the beginning of the project, because if most people knew of this, they wouldn't have even engage in it, all my time doing airdrop, I have always seen those developers that that want you to pay a certain amount of money before you will be considered for the airdrop as scam, and this particular one has all the trademark of scammers, and to be frank, it would be foolish to pay such and amount to them which we all know that it's not gas as requested by ton keeper.

So it's a very good thing awareness is being created already for most of this newbies that doesn't know how these airdrop scam works, just imagine how much they will make if like one thousand users decide to do their bidding and pay such an amount to them? So the advice I am going to give to all airdrop hunters is that, they should take any project that demands payment from them as a scam, and to me that's the best way of thinking when hunting for airdrops.

The true airdrops must be free or at least make the payment optional (voluntarily), all you need to do is to complete some tasks, which should not be monetary. Though you have a point, the project matters, like the Testnet and others, but this Testnet of a thing was not like this in the OP, people knew what they were signing for and it was honourable when crypto was still crypto and not how everything was turning now.

Many would even participate in the Testnet and will not expect anything in return because they believe in a project, so it's just like technically sponsoring the project in their little way. But there are too many crooks flooding the internet in the name of airdrops now, especially Telegram and mostly now the TON blockchain. It's just annoying and even their tokens after listing are often worse shitcoins. The success of Notcoin has made them gain popularity but this will soon fade away just like their former ways of toying with people's emotions in the name of airdrops.

We can see it when there is a popular and profitable project. there will be thousands of scammers. we also saw some time ago how the airdrop on the Solana network was popular and many tokens were born and then disappeared.
It will not be much different from what is happening now on the TON blockchain. you are right, airdrops should be free. no fees to claim NFTs or make deposits to increase mining speed. we see a lot of such projects now. maybe not all of them are scams, but more of them end up scams.

Though one case would be a rent for the NFTS on the chain - if for signing a contract for such an NFT a bit of TON is needed - it's okay and it's no scam, as far as I know. It's a rent to get in on the chain for a year or for the time it's needed.
That's just what popped up in my head.

That's what I don't like about the current airdrop style, which requires spending money and I will ignore it if I meet a model like that, I will not spend a penny on any project, let alone an airdrop event

It's clear that many of these projects just want to steal money from their users, instead of having to burden users with 0,5 TON in transaction fees, why don't they follow the path that the big projects do, namely by partnering with an exchange that will list their token, so that later transfers can be done off-chain.

Heck why even bother getting listings on exchanges rather than simply minting your token initially on a platform that has native tokens and native exchange, such as Stellar?

Trivially cheap to mint and to use, I use it for many Galactic Milieu (https://Makemoney.Knotwork.com/) tokens.

-MarkM-

Same here.

I was flabbergasted by the other post just recently regarding airdrops asking for 0.5 ton not realizing this project is doing the same thing. Not only is Xempire scamming you for your money, they are also scamming you for your time and effort. Yes, it might not be huge of a task but I know some people who played this game religiously lol.

And you’re right they will just be giving out $2.7 for no reason at all. Wasted effort.

for this part I missed it and indirectly I missed the reward if this is a factor in getting a prize from the airdrop, when I play airdrop to find free coins and can be converted into money so if I have to make a payment like the picture I will not spend  money ,
where if 2 $ in one project then if I do several projects Ton with such costs I am not sure 1 project will give me a financial victory

I am agreed with your point, it’s very logical if any project will ask TON fees to upgrade level or unlock new features that's valid, in Catizen some people’s spent even 300$-400$ and they're eligible to receive thousands dollars worth of tokens. But the X Empire is different they asking 0.5 TON to transfer in their WALLET, so if they have a few millions of community members that means they can raise fund millions of dollars, so what's the guarantee they will pay rewards end of the day?

There are no guarantees, really; they want to get rich from the pockets of their communities who will pay these irrational fees compared to the cheap Ton network fees, and it is possible that even if they pay the rewards to the players, they will get dust or the value of the coins that may be less than the price of the fees spent.

I had already shared my experience with a Telegram game bot called BYIN ^{[HERE (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5507917.msg64502891#msg64502891)]}, where they prevented many people from withdrawing their unlocked tokens from the stake, claiming that the wallet address was not whitlisted before the TGE [which was a lie]. The game shows that the withdrawable coins are zero for the TON wallets and has set an arbitrary withdrawal condition for CEX... They also set up a task where you had to spend 0.35 TON to complete the task verification and grant players a significant amount of game tokens. They took the fees without anything happening. In the end, the $BYIN token was listed on an exchange and dropped by over 60% within hours of listing, making the value of the airdrop less than 1 cent, which I was supposed to receive. So, I agree that many games are backed by greedy teams/developers. Clearly, Hamster is one of the Games that exploit players, and I expect it won’t provide worthwhile returns to its participants.

In other words, this has deviated from the true nature of crypto airdrops, as if they were only looking for their own profit in planning the airdrop that they would launch, and we would rather say that this has moved towards fraud, many people are heavily affected by this, we suggest that when airdrops with uncertain bases should choose to stay in a safe position.

This project right here is a scam and there's going to be more of projects like this that'll be launching in disguise as Airdrops because many people are interested in tapping airdrops. You're enlighten about scams like this that's why you didn't fall for their tricks but sadly some newbies are going to become victims of this exact scam either from this project or from other projects that'll be arranged in this way. Airdrops should be free and required little efforts because airdrop are marketing strategies to bring in new users to the project. Any airdrop asking you for money is going to be a scam because the project only want your money that's why they're launching their airdrop. Many Airdrops aren't going to be worth it anymore that's why I didn't bother to do all the new trending airdrops. I don't want to risk exposing my device to sites that I don't trust and giving out my social media handles to scammers.

too much grifters in ton space right now, people should be alert that not all project in ton ecosystem are legit and this one is example of how the project just trying to profit off people.

if it's retroactive where people just need to make tx, doesn't matter where the money go then it's fine but clearly demanding money is really cheap move, the fact that they even don't try to give clear explanation about what the task really is, on its own is a red flag, the developer know people won't send them 0.5 TON so they try to be discreet.

I'd say, only follow the project that got endorsed official ton team.

I saw a similar pattern of fee requirement with one of those telegram game, called "Rocky rabbit" I also created a topic about it just like the first comment pointed out.

People, especially crypto newbies who doesn't have any idea about all these scam, needs to be informed so that they will not end up make the mistake of wasting their money on these airdrops, believing that they would make huge profit from it.

Some people (newbies) are thinking that it's the number of points they have in those games that will be distributed to them, they have not yet realized that allocation will he made from some criteria, that's to show how uniformed most players are.

If you know someone that knows people that are playing this games, please warn them, I know most people are not on this forum but for the few people that are here, do good to discourage players of those game from paying any transaction fee that is more than $1, unless the person is willing to accept the lose.

You have a good point, but this is not about NFT, there is a separate case for that on the app as they have the NFT in a big form. Another good reason to collect money is the Testnet but unfortunately, the situation here is beyond that, it's senseless and selfish. TON never asked anyone for money and the airdrop project is not such that needed money because some had done it ahead of them requesting $0 from people and had airdropped successfully.

But now, the gimmicks have graduated to being fraudulent but it could have been less painful if people had known earlier rather than after investing their time they would still not be able to afford the 0.5 TON for the airdrop or be forced to do so. These guys are only cashing out on people's desperation for money and are making themselves so rich even if their projects fail. That means money for them from marketing, money for them from the rug pull possibility and money for them from people's non-refundable deposits. This awkful!

Yeah, it seems like it, however, everybody decides for themselves.
Many projects take some fees for themselves for the bonuses or other boons instead, it becomes a common practice. An entry fee of sorts.
If you do believe in the project - you would do it, hands down.
And you will see where the money would flow afterward in the Tonscan or explorers like that.

It is the new scamming scheme now through the telegram airdrop tapping fever that is invoke. I also discovered another similar one yesterday through a  colleague who requested for my assistance in making the 0.5 Ton transaction for him in order that he will be eligible for the airdrop, they call it Rocky Rabbit. Lol ;D At first I tried convincing him not to waste his money as much as he has wasted his time cos the project appears to not be genuine but he still insisted  he has to do the task. I granted his request waiting to see how that works for him eventually.
Funny how they place a limited time counter to put pressure on their victims that they carryout the task of sending the 0.5 ton. Am not against airdrops for I have made some fortune from it in past times but experience has thought me that genuine airdrop project that will pay it's loyal community won't necessarily have to take from them first.

Right, the only way we have to do is avoid similar airdrops, honestly I have never been trapped in spending money to meet the requirements of an airdrop project, because in the past airdrop tasks were very easy, very simple and short, unlike now which is very complicated, there are lots of tasks that must be completed and must compete to increase the ranking by inviting people to join

This airdrop does offer benefits to its users, but now with so many offers, with so many people visiting this airdrop, it creates an opportunity for those who think badly to do things that are detrimental, and it is necessary to apply care in this matter before jumping into it.

There are different tasks and different projects, some more credible than others (that's why we would do their tasks even if they would be a bit harder than in others) - however, you are right in the fact, that, paying to receive the airdrop at all is fishy from the outside. It surely is and it may be a fraud.

it's such shady behavior putting counter and all, just to put pressure on the participant' psychology, this clearly reflect the intention of the project developer. which is just trying to make money off people.

nice finding out there, people doing airdrop need also to have basic on how to not get scammed by these shady dev, the success of not and dogs has picked the interest of these scammer, moving from solana to ton, I bet there will be more to come.

tbh, genuine airdrop usually request donation or sale in exchange for something, but this one just grant task completion like what, exchanging money for useless fabricated point.

Totally. If a project is credible, nothing wrong with the transaction in 0,2-1 TON. Just tell the community for what it is and if it has value in the long run - why not?
But how it's done here - it's really shallow waters and may be ending badly.

Honestly speaking you can't really tell which project is credible right from it's early stage and if they come with the notification that people would have to pay certain amount of money as a part of the entire process then a lot of persons won't care more and that will mean they won't have a fledging community enough to drive the value of the token high.

So they do keep the part of transaction requirement towards the end of the project to be airdropped so that persons that have spent time and data following up the project would be compelled to have no alternative than to oblige. All of these are predetermined, and that a project looks credible throughout the time doesn't always guarantee that it will pay in the long-run.

Yeah, too bad we can't say for sure before it's too late.
That's the problem of it, and it's the risk everybody takes or not, their choice.
You either press the pedal full-on or never start the road in the first place. That's how I see it, because if you already got your funds there, you believe in it - and you won't stop probably, because your investment is at stake. It would be really hard not to.

If a project ask us to make a transaction before we get the reward, that is a scam because an airdrop is something that we can get after we do the tasks from them. That is not make sense because we already fills the tasks as they want but they need us to request a transaction. Maybe 0.5 TON is not much but what if they can get that amount from many people who wants to chase the reward? They can run away with many TONs and will not give the reward to anyone. People needs to stay away from that project even if they already do many tasks and forget that project. If all people who participate on that project is not send the TON to their wallet, the project will fail and will not continue.

What if you find an airdrop model that ultimately has to be claimed at a cost, for example 1 TON coins with a fairly long journey after completing various tasks given, but in the end you have to spend money to withdraw the airdrop tokens or coins, then what will you do?

Maybe because they think everyone is doing that already and they think people already figured that tactic out, so they are trying to be different even though this trick is not new either. If they follow what you suggested there, users will still have the burden to pay for the transaction fees and in fact it can be a lot. So users will like what they have done their better, not until they realized that it was not legit.

There are still legit projects though that can work the same as that. If you mean, that they can only earn 0.5 TON and it looks very cheap, you are wrong with that. First, they are not only earning that on one to two users but if many are doing that, combining each 0.5 TON can already go a long way. Secondly, they might have access to the users whole wallet once they initiate the transaction, so they can steal more money.

Airdrop is supposed to be a free money paid for performing very simple tasks that does not cost anyone money except time and internet subscription. But when it shifts from this to something else such as making payment or paying for withdrawal fees, then it is a sign of scam and most likely a scam. I saw this airdrop but I never though a time will come when they will require participants to send TON to an address as part of the task and now that I know, it is obvious they are up to something that is not good. I will advise everyone to be careful of things like this to avoid regrets.

This profit per hour doesn’t matter because if they’re scam projects, even with the large amount of profit per hour you’ve gathered and all the coins accumulated, it will be worth nothing. So paying that money is not making any sense both for those that have big number of coins and people that have little coins gathered. It should not be mandatory on everyone and if you wish to you can and if you can’t, you should still be eligible for the airdrop.


When almost all the airdrops begin to ask for such fees from their participants in order to be eligible for the airdrops, they will one day get tired of doing it and will not believe in any airdrop that asks for money in order to be eligible. Dogs ask for something like this and participants were rewarded more for that which at TGE, many participants even those that didn’t do that transaction were eligible for the airdrop. Using money as an eligibility factor is a red flag, one should just be on a watch out as it has started showing the behavior of a susceptible scam.

That's true about airdrops, they should be for free but then these projects have gotten the idea that there are a bunch of airdrop folks that are doing it full time. And that's why they're trying to take advantage of it and any amount that they'd collect from everybody multiply it with their userbase and even a 10% from it is totally a lot of money from them already. These tasks about doing a ton transaction is always present from all of these airdrop projects. I won't be surprised if soon that the most tasks will be about sending transactions here and there and they get a commission from it. I only participant in the airdrops that are for free and I don't mind getting few points from it because most of them are only giving high points to the tasks that they're requiring to do a transaction whether it's from user to project or just a casual transaction to claim those points.

Yes, we do have to be more careful in choosing airdrops, sometimes there are withdrawal fees, which are actually legitimate as long as they do not exceed what we can afford, but it is still doubtful, yes, if possible, do not trust it to avoid all of that which is certainly detrimental to airdrop users.

Most people don't realize this. They think it is only like 0.5 TON or like $5, but imagine hundreds and thousands of people are paying that $5 and giving free money to those developers who is actually scamming people. People don't even know how much they are going to receive from those airdrops and most of them don't receive anywhere near what they have sent as a fees. Those tap to play games are milking people till the end. An airdrop like you said should be free. No one should be spending any money for those airdrops. They are already doing tasks that are generating revenues for the developers.

The hype of airdrops on the TON network with the Tap to earn concept has made scammers take advantage of this for the very ideal purpose of deceiving many people. I always avoid hype which is basically from the success of NOT and DOGS will not be repeated in the next type of airdrop even with the same concept. So instead of spending a lot of time working on airdrops like this, I prefer to focus on developing skills in testnet and Node because even though it is not profitable, at least there is a lot of new knowledge that can be obtained regarding Dapps development, how to run nodes and other activities that will be very useful in the future. Tap to earn is now over and there is no guarantee that a similar concept will benefit you. Indeed, to complete the check-in task of paying gas fees with a few cents is not too expensive, but imagine if the number of users reaches millions, then 20 cents will be valuable.

This method is called Advance fee scam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam), and it pre-dates cryptocurrencies. New thing in this is that in crypto, it's easier to organize larger scams and there are more greedy people then you get by emails these days, as those are stuck in the email filters.

Also micro transactions are a genius part in this, there are so many people joining in that only 0.5 ton makes it worth it. From the point of view of scammed people, no one even cares that much for 0.5 Ton that they would involve police, and it would have to be a group effort, as police doesn't do investigation for someone wouldn't go after any single person for losing under $3. Time and the effort of reporting the crime on this isn't worth anyone's time.

I used to know airdrops to be a way in which projects tries to test their tokens to different wallets by request people to submit their addresses and get some of the tokens then since the tokens will be in circulation they would have achieved the volume of transactions which they want and perhaps those who luckily submit their addresses without paying a dime gets lucky enough to earn from this tokens released to their wallets but nowadays I don't even see anything close to that.

All we see this days is totally scams with a very beautiful paint on the surface covering the muds that's a good reason why I don't like participating in airdrops anymore because most are scams in disguise.

I'm not saying that they can only get 0,5 TON, and it has a very cheap price. 0,5 TON is currently worth close to $3, and that's a relatively high value. The projects we are discussing here have a lot of users, so if 0,5 TON is accumulated, it could even reach a million dollars, so you're wrong about your view of me. On the second point you're also wrong, there's not a single project that requires a direct wallet connection, so on-chain theft is impossible, at least until now.

Now every single airdrops looking for their own profits, as like users following their Twitter handle and subscriber their YouTube & Telegram channel that's is common but if when require to spend dollars, then it seems suspicious. But sometime also a good airdrop ask for a transaction, so it’s difficult to know that which is real or SCAM airdrop, that's why people’s participating in every airdrop.

That's what I noticed when I joined the mini-bot. I have been receiving invitations from friends and family to join this because everyone thought it had good potential, but when I joined a couple of days ago, I was shocked when I checked the "Airdrop" page only to find out that it is mandatory for a user to make a 0.5 TON transaction before they become eligible for the airdrop, I mean, what the hell? Since when did airdrops from mini-bots start asking for money to get an airdrop? We are already spending so much time and effort to promote the projects, isn't that enough?

Well, I have asked everyone I knew who was involved in this project to not do this because it's wrong. They are not supposed to ask money from us to get an airdrop because we are working for those tokens, it's not for free because we are spending our time and promoting their project all around the internet.

Would someone consider they are getting money for free when someone asks them to promote their channels and get paid for it? No, you are working for someone to get that money.

Actually, I think these airdrop projects will be a big scam going forward. At first few projects they will pay without any fee but later on every air drop will start a big plan to make transactions slowly and from there scam huge amount of money. In fact, it is very foolish to expect jobs that are very easy and make money overnight to not be scams. Where a person needs merit and hard work to get money and is paid just because of tapping, there is no more intelligence left to know that it is a big scam. At the beginning people will be greedy and at the end of the day will grab big amount of money. People's precious time will be wasted.

Absolutely right, you know NOT & DOGS was massive successful airdrops ever i have seen in Telegram mini airdrop, actually these two airdrops bring trend in TG airdrops, and these two projects paid a big amount of profits, who guys miss those airdrops, now they're crazy to participate in every airdrops, even they didn’t research to spend money as transaction fees in every airdrop, of course if mostly will be SCAM, so our valuable time will be wasted with money.

It is important to stay vigilant in a situation like this because you will never know what is at stake or the possible outcome of a specific project. Many people could promise something but say otherwise. It’s always good to research something before anything else.

I think it still would be okay, as long as you made free money and Gave nothing that would hinder you.

This is terrible and it is what most of the Telegram-based airdrops are bringing on now as the task for airdrop eligibility, this process is just a way of milking money from participants and the project might not even pay well which result to complete waste of time and money.

I have seen one of the airdrops on telegram named Rocky Rabbit; the project also demanded 0.5 Ton for airdrop eligibility, and they end up given them dust, most of them couldn't even make back the money they spent of Ton transaction, is this not rubbry?
Although, I only believe people that trust them to give them both time and money because no airdrop should be trusted because they can scam everyone anytime, and no one would be held responsible.

It can indeed feel very disappointing and frustrating when, after spending a lot of time and effort, you are asked to do something bigger or more expensive than expected, especially in the case of crypto projects like Xempire. If it turns out that it requires 0.5 TON to qualify for the airdrop and there is no guarantee of profits commensurate with the costs, it is natural that this is considered a fraudulent or unethical step.

In the crypto world, things like this are not uncommon. Many projects leverage airdrops to gain exposure or participation, but then insert conditions that are burdensome or mislead users. Asking people to part with a certain number of coins without any certainty of return value can indeed be considered a trap. In situations like this, maintaining a skeptical attitude and being careful with any requirements that arise becomes very important, especially in an environment that is not yet clearly regulated.

It depends on the faith put into the project.
If it's credible, you will trust it and put your funds into it.
If not - it's the end of the road you share with it.

Because rest assured scammers are going to join into anything popular these days. Be careful always

That's not an airdrop in my opinion. It is more likely a task or challenge where you have to complete a task which  the task also require you to spend money or make a transaction before receiving the token or whatever they give to the participants. For me, an airdrop should be a simple task like follow account on twitter, share/repost posts and other task like that and you only need to spend money for transaction fee if the airdrop doesn't require task to complete but you only need to claim it on their website.

Time flies
Time changes
Things changes

Supposedly airdrops should really be that free of charge going back into those good old days but now majority of them will really be requiring up such tasks. Yes, you could still deal up with it for free
but expect that you might not get eligible for the airdrop or you would really be that getting something which is really that too small since you havent been able to do such tasks. Anything which is really
that related for you to be eligible or doing something for the sake of getting those tokens then it is really that considered be part of the airdrop. This is why its really that important that you should really
make yourself that at least wary about those probability or situations, so that you wont really be that expecting too much.

The wrong thing about other people who do engage with airdrops is that they've been expecting too much. They were thinking that they could get thousands without spending some money for gas or making transactions.
Even if you do make use of money but still it wont be a guarantee of success. This is why people who are really that trying out to spend money to maximize profitability then its not something that they could assure
into. So its really that still talks about risks taking on the moment that you do make out such decisions.

Indeed, you know a good scam when they force farmers to make ton transaction on claiming. It can be okay to have a tax that requires ton transaction, but it's based on personal choice, not a must. Probably at the beginning of the project, it should be stated that you will need ton to claim, so people know if they are interested or not, making it a must, like a major criteria for getting the token, people have been farming, is just plain scam.

Imagine such criteria before you can claim all the hard work you've gone through and all your internet allowances you've used to farm the project.
And the sad thing is that some folks go ahead to make those transactions in anticipation and hope of what comes out of it. Indeed, if an airdrop asks for ton, it simply means they are looking for your money. Because having to do the task, building their community, building their social media platform, should be their aim for this project, and rewarding the community for three to six months' of hard work should be the reward of the community, not asking them for the money they have offline. I mean, people are doing this project to have money, why take from them? Why? It's just scam.

And all this airdrop should be looked into. They should be stopped because they are harvesting from poor masses and people that innocently farm with high hopes.

with the many airdrops nowadays, it is necessary to choose which ones are trustworthy, which really pay even though the tasks performed are simple, even so it is difficult for us to know in choosing a really good airdrop for us to visit, so as not to waste time, that is what needs to be thought about for now.

Yes you are right, few hours ago, hamster kombat airdrop was listed and the price wasn't that bad. But what spoilt the airdrop was that after all the tasks and all the claims the participants did, some of them received penny from everything they did. However most airdrops might not be scam but makes it them useless is too much tasks and some takes almost half a year to be listed. Some participants also give up before the listing date.

Maybe you are right into your assessment about this but currently as things are going we have to be checked few things which are creating problems and also having fishy things because recently too many scammer developers are doing tricks for having funds like these airdrops are having many ways of doing tasks with few surely also needed to do few transactions because in past while I was also active on airdrops I have done transactions like these then we have our funds.

In recent time we are having too many things which are having no worth so we are facing troubling things like these and newbies are facing troubles with also losing their funds due to not understanding main points and having link their wallets with scammers.

It's just important to remember that, in the long run, drops may not give that much of a profit, thus, your expectations shouldn't be too high.
You may use your time for them, you may not - it's up to you. Especially without needed software/account farm.