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Hello guys am a newbie how can i know if an airdrop is real or fake

Besides reading the actual white paper, I don't think you can really know unless you try. Why do you need to know though? You won't lose anything on an airdrop as you won't be needing to deposit something. It's an airdrop for a reason and not an ICO.

We can't really say if the airdrop is real or scam. And it doesn't even matter if it is a scam, just joined airdrop because you're not going to loose anything, we don't spend much of our time earning their coin/token so there is nothing to loose. And last and foremost it is free. So there is no need to be afraid at all.

Hi,
We can't say if the airdrop is real or scam so please don't give your Private Key.

I think it’s easy to recognize if it’s a fake airdrop  and you should be careful  E-xxx token airdrop.
1）A real airdrop always has a detail introduction , a fake airdrop always very simple.
2）A real or good airdrop always has a official website.
3)A real airdrop never ask for your private key.

First read white paper and try to understand it. Don't give your private keys for anything. If any project ask your private keys definitely it will be scam.

the first i see to know that would be SCAM ICO is their thread, how looks like. if i see no design(low skill design) i assume that would be SCAM ICO.
Then i read the white paper, and see what they focus on. then see how about other people says on their airdrop thread

Firstly, I always see who open that threat, official fresh-account or manage by old-account bounty manager. Then I look at their content, how detail and compact the information they give. Is there any weird thing. I usually observe first about 1-2 days before deciding to fill up the form. And be careful before fill the form. Now, I always consider if they show the spreadsheet publicly.

do give people my mew address, will cause any harm?
specially those apply for those airdrop/

Often it can not be predicted. You have to go through your hunch, but I would not engage in such things with people you do not know at all. Of course you can do it yourself but it is very difficult.

thanks for the info

you would be right if they give you time for read and understand the project, instead airdrop timings are often very limited so, wrongly, I keep registering for airdrops before to know what the project is. this is sad actually

Do you think that you can fill out all the forms for AIRDROP? If the data is created specifically for this purpose.

Just be careful buying into these. They are often fly-by-night projects set up by anonymous developers who just throw up a whitepaper overnight and airdrop a bunch of coins. It's all well and good if you get them for free. But usually what happens is the developers wait until the market has risen a bit, and then they dump all their coins on the investors. Then the project basically dies.

So I would treat them all with this in mind. They are much less likely to succeed in the long term than POW coins or well-run ICOs.

There is no real way to find if the project giving out airdrops is going to be legit or not. One can only do their own research and look at their whitepaper and the team behind the project to get an idea.

Airdrop means you can get some coins without invest your money, so I think you just need to try and you will know if it is fake, anyway, you will not too much loss if it is fake.

right .. we will not lose anything ,,, i just sign up and it's up whether scam or not ,, i do not think it's a scam or not ,, just sign up ,, but we need to be careful too, do not give private key wallet ,

Well, it doesnt matter if you are going to receive those tokens for free, you should always be aware of the token or the project that you are going to be working for, so you should always try to read the whitepaper before joining some kind of bounties or campaigns, because it would be risky to join one and dont be paid for your hard work.
If their whitepaper seems shady, then dont join, because you are going to lose a lot of time and effort in there.

I think that those kind of threads should be posted in the other board of the forum in order to avoid those kind of spammy replies..
Of course that there is no way to find out if you are going to work on a scammy project if you dont read the whitepaper and pay attention to the replies that they get on their ANN, i would suggest you to follow those steps before joining a project if you dont want to be paid with $0 tokens once that the ico is finished.
be careful with this, those kind of projects are like a plague.

usually fake airdrops I think just a matter of luck . You can win sometimes airdrops :)

In this early phase it is usually hard to recognize which Airdrops are fake qnd which are good. Since there are so many Airdrops lately, first what you can do is a quick validity check. Does the project has a whitepaper, is there any roadmap, do they have a website? If they are asking you a private key than it is a scam and you should runaway from it. I also don't apply for Airdrops where they are asking to install a wallet. You never know is there any malicious software integrated in the wallet. Be careful and everything will be ok. Wish you much success

Nowadays a lot of airdrops are coming . Its very difficult to find out which one is real and which one is fake . There are some ways to findout real .1st you should check their website ,their roadmap and their team

Fake airdrop may be see by:
Real airdrop no request private key off your wallet!
No need more info as they can hack your account
And sent email to all peoble said have airdrop!

Its easy to create your own coin.  Just fork any coin from github make few alteration,  then presto new coin!

Some scammers are using airdrop to hack people.  By downloading their infected wallets you can be infected by their trojan that allows them to access your conputers,  find bitcoin core wallets and private keys or even access your poloniex and Bittrex account.

You will never know which airdrop is legitimate and which is not... If you have time just sign up for every single one, maybe you will be lucky and it will be worth it.

Haha the wonderful world of air drops. You really have no true way of knowing if they are a scam or not but your risk is very minimal. They like 5 minutes to read the rules and register and the worst case scenario is you dont receive any tokens ... If you do then its a bonus for what is essentially no work on your behalf.

That's what i think too. We can't know if that is legit or not because a lot of airdrop project is promising but some developer after they get what they want they will abandon the project immediately and probably making another fake airdrop project.

I am convinced many of these airdrops is just to build up a database, devs have no need to get your e-mail address, telegram, etc.

If you need to give your e-mail address use an alias, you can always bin it the end of the month  8)

I wonder how many send their priv key instead of private key of ether wallet  :D

Yes Dear, here is many Airdrops is scam and fake.actually i don't know, how can i detect a fake or scam Airdrop project. i think some of way that mean check whitepaper, ERC20 approval, is there any roadmap, do they have a website?
I also don't apply for Airdrops where they are asking to install a wallet.

Some airdrops are asking for donations to cover the cost of gas.  I'd stay away from these.  I have been signing up for a lot lately, some have delivered, some have not.  I'm not donating anything yet.

 If the project has a decent website, active social presence, responsive developers and large community, it's probably not fake.  Whether anything becomes of the project is another matter.

It doesn't matter if that airdrop fake or good you are not putting investment so you did not lose  your money. Fake airdrops are asking your private key and that way I don't intertain that. Many participants of project that's not scam. Anyway airdrops is free no need to invest some of them asking donation but its up to you.

When they ask too much private information and if their whitepaper is not so legitimate-looking. You will really know by instincts if an airdrop is fake. However there is really no much risk because most of the time you will just be asked for your ETH address.

I also set "picky" mode on airdrops. I don't wanna be a victim of fake airdrop. I usually look at their visual first, then how the way the manage their airdrop. How detail their briefs. And the most important (for me) is how they display participants data. If they publicly show the data without curates/ hide important info, then I have to consider another airdrop program.

We can easily know that this coin is a scam or a fake because of its information located in the thread, if that was less interesting coin, leave it either. Roundmaps and other plans and some purpose omand goals is not been stated in that thread

Real projects have real people working on them, real code and real infrastructure.

Check websites, code repos and team.

If your are asked for private keys and it ask you to pay gas fees or pay something otherwise you will not get paid extra are fake airdrops.

Well, you can't really actually identify if an airdrop is real by just reading or thread or seeing the rank of the poster (Most newbie did this mistake)

There are airdrops of coins, with really good Design on thread. But end up fail/gone/scam.
There are airdrops of coins, with just few line of text. But end up as a successful airdrop coin.

So its really up to someone to check, research and think about the future/possibilities of a new coin

It is not easy to know the fake airdrop projects, because the fake devs try always to show their projects as legitimate ones, however there is some signs could help to find the fake projects. For example if they asked you to provide your private keys (or even the public keys), or if they asked you to send high amounts of ETH as donations, so its better to stay away from such projects.

There are even active airdrop bounty, and you end up getting 0.77 token. just great

When you see a dev that gives tiny little amount of airdrop and the roadmap is going very long with no definite plan for development in short to medium term, then you should know that the particular airdrop is fake. In addition to point made, when there is minimum amount of effort is not put into white paper, Ann, bounty that is also anothet red flag. These factor mentioned so far is not limited to airdrop alone, it should be apply to ICO, altcoin etc.

The key is read. Just read the white paper their roadmap everything about it because mostly of the scam coins is they dont do effort about the coin and mostly they dont have any roadmap in their coin its just about to be listed on exchanges. Read and think as a investor like you want to invest your money to them

that is airdrop, you no need to invest anything and that is free coins/tokens.  avoid if they make you to pay something or ask your private keys, just join commonly airdrop

thanks for your positive responses

Does it matter?
U get their tokens for free and just wait and see, maybe You eill get lucky.

Only possible scam could be airdrop which asks for your private key with intend to steal your tokens.

As an individual that participating in airdrops , i must say that i cannot really know if the airdrop that i participating is fake or not . Unless i receive their free tokens and waits an update for their tokens , what will be the future of it , what exchange can be traded , the roadmap of the project if there is one. And the whitepaper of the project. Many airdrops are good but most of them are shits.

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The problem with this is that we lose our time in applying to airdrops which turn out to be fake. That is the only thing I get concerned about. I don't like the idea of wasting my time. Time is money, and fake airdrops are the worst.

Fake airdrop on my experience are airdrop who made you interested to join because of the name. Like 10M Token (10MT). Many people join that airdrop because in their mind they will get 10 million token. And if the community 10MT growth, the dev then made 10 MTI token. I don't know what the purpose so the 10 MT airdrop become shitcoin now. Thats just a stratregy to manipulate people. Dont be trapped

You can really never tell legit and  scam tokens. But there are obvious projects that are scam and also the ones who are requiring to donate 0.01 to 0.1 eth shit are known are scam. But just take all the tokens that are free, who doesnt want free money though? Just dont give private key (if youre not that dumb)and a lot of money with no assurance from this.

As most airdrops have no whitepaper, no roadmap, no nothing, to me it is just a pure gamble ;D
Sometimes it can go big or poof just gone

For me now, the best thing we can do is atleast following their telegram, atleast we know real time info

But if you're just holding your airdrop token, nothing to lose eh?  ;D

What's the difference though? It's an airdrop, you don't pay for it. If it doesn't work out, who cares?

for me that was right but taking too much time to know if it was fake are just a waste cause we know that this is just free and you only have to make soem registration or for what they are rules for so until you can take that opportunity then you can grab it if you can get some free coin then feel thank you for it but if may not because its just fake then thank too. That was for my opinion only.

I always find the whitepage and see if it hold many fake information, there maybe a fake airdrop

If you reading the white paper of an Airdrop Project, you relly dont know if it a scam or not. There are many scam in airdrop. It's up to you if you really wanna try. Besides you wont invest to an airdrop.

I think you can notice if they are scammers, especially when they are already asking with your private keys. Read a lot on their theard if they are legit. Don't just fill up the form without reading the project.

Yeah, and I combine with some fake info on website , exmple: bitbase- a lot of fake info about dev team, almost info from a dating site

we do, we work for it, if you just waste your time to joined an airdrop then they run/wont pay you, how about that ? and you work for a months or more.
it's hard to guess, the first i see is their web, should have good web. and secondly it's the roadmap and whitepaper. third find trusted OP like legendary/hero rank just think twice they will run and lose their account.

You do not really know if the airdrop is real or fake unless  you cannot entered it.

I also tryied 1000 airdrops only few are comning. Please be sure that dont give your private key to airdrop


If a airdrop asks about a private key of wallet definitly it will be fake one.. Other things you consider

You ask from this forum, see the white paper , telegram app users comments , website , apps
We can figure out is this a viable project or not

Nothing will lose whether an airdrop is fake or real. Just try to fill up all the forms you can. But be very aware on some application form because scams have scattered. Your question should be, “How to know if an airdrop is a scam?”. Now, to know if they are a scam or a hacker, if the link they provided lead you to your wallet or they ask you your private keys, I’m very much sure that those are scams.

it's easy, just check whether the project that held the airdrop has a good whitepaper or not.

I think if for airdrops, I do not really believe in airdrops, because so many beginners make those airdrops threads, which makes me doubt on airdrops. but if you just want to get a free coin, you just need to join and most importantly do not you send your private key address to anyone.

I think the OP intend to talk about the so called airdrop that tries to sneak your private keys or emails.
What everyone should realize is there's no need to share your private key ever except for loading your wallet.
And use a different email address for airdrops than your personal address.

Real altcoin doing airdrop, they will have some basic like: the name of altcoin is not copied from any other coins, clear roadmap with date, active channel chat...

If someone says the usual stuff about their project, like it being the future of cryptocurrencies or whatever with absolutely no basis then they are definitely a scam. I mean you can't really lose money participating in airdrops but you'll definitely lose money if you get convinced to invest.

Never, ever invest any money in airdrops.

And it's probably never a good idea to participate in one, unless it legitimately has good ideas behind it.

I Don't Know..I got scammed big time by this. Does anyone know of anything I can do?  ::)

you will never know if its fake or real until you try it just always invest what you can afford to lose because in crypto there always a lot ofrisk
some airdrop give the coin for free but what happen next is the dev is just waiting to hit it in exchange and sell some coin and not develop it
sooner or later the coin will not worth anything 

I really don'tknow how to determined wheather the airdrops is fake also. What am I doing is just filled up all the forms and wait to received tokens.

If those project is asking about your private key of your wallet, surely that is scam, also you can distinguish if there are fake. So dont trust in some airdrop if you have doubt about there project.

90% of airdrop are fake so why bother ?  Participate to ICO it's better and more rewarding

You wont be able to mark an airdrop fake or real. By the way why you are worried about fake or real airdrop is free and it doesn't cost you anything to try it out.

The ones that ask for private keys, I'm surprised these threads don't get deleted fast enough.
Other ones that ask for mandatory donations, It's not an airdrop if they ask you to send money so stay away from these
Lastly look at team behind the airdrop and just join them I mean in the end of the day they are free so even if it is fake as long as
1 of the airdrops you joined takes off then that's pretty cool!

No better way of knowing at all. I won't bother myself knowing whether an airdrop is legit or not because airdrops are mostly open to limited number of applicants only thus you don't have the luxury of time to further investigate if you want to be on the list. The task anyway is just for you to fill in a form. As to whether it will give you or not, there's no fuzz about it coz the pay is usually not that much oftentimes. Bu you have be cautious when airdrops ask for eths and the most your private key as you may definitely lose on them instead of gaining. You know, scammers are good at deceptions. So i suggest, just fill in airdrop forms as many as you can in a day.

Well, Once you receive the airdrop, you can then wait for the coin to be listed in good exchanges so that you can convert them to bitcoins in good rates.

I think real airdrop has a manager who give many more information about an airdrop. He also give progress information when the project pre sale until the end. Many follower will get coins for reward  ;)

Real airdrop has its site and has a good design on its wallpaper unlike fake has no proper site. Sometimes the project manager on fake airdrop are NEWBIES so that they can easily escape from interrogations, real airdrop handled by higher rank  manager.

An Ethereum analyst on youtube said that fake tokens will first be involve in airdrops to advertise the token, that is why we should always check the unique technology that they are promoting then we must also check the roadmap and whitepaper and even the website, then if you see some red flags then doubt that they are a genuine coin.

Honestly speaking, I don't trust Airdrops because I knew some airdrops asking for a private key and eth address before you become a participants to their program. You may able to get a free token from them but in the end some of it you don't know they already have an access to hack your account in your MEW due to the information you gave.

I haven't saw a fake airdrop, yet. But there are a lot of airdrops/ICOs that might turn bogus if not well-planned. How can we determine them?

First of all, it should be obvious that a project is fake if it has no whitepaper. Whitepaper is definitely the most important part of a project. This will give the people the idea about the project, including the details about the coin/token.

Second, a project should have a well-designed and organized website. Although the looks and designs of a website doesn't guarantee that the project is real (especially that there are a lot of people nowadays that can do web designing easily), it is still safer to join a project with a great website as it will serve as the mirror of the project.

Another thing to look at when joining an ICO is the list of team members. Most project/ICO developers uses the word PRIVACY to hide their identity. Although this is reasonable, there are still some devs who put their team members' faces and backgrounds in their websites. These ICOs/projects are more trustworthy than those who do not show the list of team members.

When you have to pay them. LOL or when you didn't received the airdrop despite of doing what was instructed. Or asking for private keys, being sneaky you know. Good luck.

So if some one who handle the airdrop was a newbie it means we don't need to trust them?

I've been a lot of airdrops before and only few of them were true and most of them I didn't get tokens even when I follow all the instructions.
And I noticed that most airdrops and scam ICOs are started or managed by newbie and junior members.
Real airdrops and ICOs were actually managed by higher ranked members and specially those notable bounty managers are more likely to be true.

That's why today I won't participate in anu airdrops because they're technically difficult and most of them are not reliable managers.
I would prefer higher ranks who are notably managed most successful ICOs. Secondly, airdrops will only give you too little portion of stakes so I prefer wait patiently by joining bounty campaigns rather than getting a single coin or token.

Real managers have to be higher ranks because that way they're telling people that they are offering good ICO. that's why most good ICOs will hire bounty managers whose ranks are higher like Hero or Legendary Members. For me, I feel safe and secured and I don't feel wasting my time on joining airdrops and bounty campaigns.

Hi friend, first i need to let you know that 95% of airdrop are mostly dump after the airdrop end. however there are no simple way to know that airdrop is fake because most of them do cook up good whitepaper and even roadmap to make the project attract many participant. however since you have nothing to lose in taking part in ICO i think you are good to go but be careful in joining airdrop that tell participant to install executable file on their system to claim their free airdrop. most of them contain malware which might affect or even steal files from your system.

as long as the airdrop don't ask your private information like private key, it is fine.

It is hard to know if the airdrop was fake, because if we know that at the first place no one want to join.

I guess by simply researching the white paper and investigating the team behind the project.

Wait the whitepaper, website and the updates, dev's are always be active in telegram, information is presented in the whitepaper, their goals and roadmaps and lastly dont try to join airdrop that they want to send .003 ,004 ,005 for them clearly a scam

Fake airdrop project?when you didn't recieved any token...

You'll never know whether or not the airdrop you are joining is real. In spite of that, you just need to be careful though. When that ask you to take your BTC address and claim to add the equivalent number of 2X coins to your address ahead of the split, beware. It might be unreal.

Do some research and ask some experts if that airdrop is real. There's a lot of experts in the airdrop threads.

usually i if follow airdrop never check whether it is fake airdrop or not? usually I check when I follow the signature, I check whether the coin that I follow good or not, and coin also has good value what not, I think we just follow the existing airdrop, and do not follow the airdrop is not free, usually it airdrop fake, just looking for profit

I use this to check if I join:
* Does it require me to spend money?
* Does it require me to share a private key?
* Does it require me to share personal data?
* Will it take me a lot of time to join / participate?
* Does my gut-feeling says that it's not worth it?

If one of these questions is answered with a yes, I'll skip it...

I always look on if their project is good, roadmap, if they have plan to improve the project. Actually, there are many fake airdrop outhere, others always wanted to ask for donation and in their form asks for the private key. In this case, we have to be very careful on choosen the airdrop, never put in your private keys. And always check the update about their project.

I think if some airdrops have a much bigger portion of free coins is probably fake. Also, if they want you to send some ETH or other coins to them, it is fake.

Look at the history of the coin, if it hasn't been around for a while then don't take the risk of investing in it.

When you see a dev that gives small little measure of airdrop and the guide is running long with no clear arrangement for advancement in short to medium term, at that point you should realize that the specific airdrop is phony. Notwithstanding point made, when there is least measure of exertion isn't put into white paper, Ann, abundance that is likewise anothet warning. These factor specified so far isn't constrained to airdrop alone, it ought to be apply to ICO, altcoin and so on.

In this early stage it is generally difficult to perceive which Airdrops are phony qnd which are great. Since there are such a large number of Airdrops recently, first what you can do is a brisk legitimacy check. Does the undertaking has a whitepaper, is there any guide, do they have a site? On the off chance that they are asking you a private key than it is a trick and you should runaway from it. I additionally don't have any significant bearing for Airdrops where they are making a request to introduce a wallet. You never know is there any malignant programming incorporated in the wallet. Be cautious and there is no reason to worry. Wish you much achievement

I don`t think about it. Just fill the forms. It`s free... If it`s scam I don`t lose my money! BUT. Beware of scammers that send spam on e-mail!

Before signing up in airdrops make sure it has a co plete details to be sure that it is not a fake,  the real aordrops have bitcointalk thread, whitepapers, twitter, telegram and have those road map in their thread, because many airdrops are fake that with a purpose of ganing many followers and even they can scam you,  so beware all of us

my simple analytic about fake airdrop
1. they launch airdrop
2. the form of participant is simple just need address  or ask you to pm them
3. they will not publish the spreadsheet or publish just an address and most of them are the developer wallets.
4. they list it in exchange with high price
5. high price will attract buyers and developer of this fake airdrop success to sell their coin.

Take a look. More info more trust.

there is no harm with participating in an airdrop even if they are fake unless they're asking for some information you are not comfortable with giving it to them like wallet private key, phone number, email...etc 

Why do you need to know if an airdrop is real or fake? Either of the two, nothing will happen to you. What you need to know is, if an airdrop is a scam or legit. To verify if an airdrop is legit, you should look for their whitepaper and team. But will you ever do that? Some airdrops have limited slots only. So you should go for the other way and that is to verify if an airdrop is scam. If they ask for your private key, then they are probably a scam.

Its a big job ro find real airdrop with at least some perspective. Important rule - use just special mail, wallets etc. for airdrops.

If they ask for money when an airdrop is supposed to be free.  If they have really weak info on their project.  It's pretty much all been explained already in the other posts but once you see it it's easy to tell which is real and which isn't.

Fake airdrops is a massive problem. It amazes me how so many of the people who "receive" the airdrops are n00b accounts...

a fake airdrop always try to ask your private key and just give your simple information without whitepaper, roadmap, details, and team about their project...
so be careful before join the airdrop... ;)

Joining airdrops is a great way to win free coins. I prefer not to participate in the airdrops that require me to send money to them at the time of application. When completing your application forms, there is no problem if you don't write your private key and any password when you register.

There seems no way to determine the authenticity of this airdrop, what we can do is to cast only a few more airdrops so that there is always an airdrop that will allow us to get what we deserve

now almost all free distributions of coins are used only to collect information about crypto currency investors and traders. Almost always they do not bring much benefit to their recipients.

if their is no team showing , i think it should be a fake airdrop project,.. as it so hard to find this.

Why wouldn't you want to know? Why keep on participating in scams which in itself is helping these scams stay alive and helps create new ones time after time?

It is not easy to really know that an airdrop is fake.For me just know when its fake when I did not have airdrop tokens that i have received.

Sometimes even if it's not fake but the airdrop has no value at all at the market. You can tell by the token name, the one that serious usually won't use other project name and they will create their own brand with real team and whitepaper, not just a few paragraphs of word.

There is no fixed way to judge whether a airdrop is true or false, and the usual way is to see the activity of Dev, such as twitter, and whether there is a strong community :) :)

Airdrops are gifts from ICOs, gifts have no interest or any back payment, so you can know fake airdrops from the rest if that airdrop is requiring you to donate any amount. Requiring, meaning mandatory, some airdrops are requiring to donate to be able to receive their tokens, others are not requiring it and it is up to you if you want to donate to them.. so i guess it is not a fake one.

Fake projects or airdrops often managed or started by Newbie or Junior Members. Good projects are mostly managed by higher ranked members of this forum that's one of the indicators that how to spot fake or legitimate projects or airdrops.

actually that's not true.
you can click a phishing link and then you're fucked...

I'm always careful if someone announces an airdrop

I think that no.nazhno just do not get upset from the fact that you do not fall anything. All the same you have nothing to lose, and spend a minute of your time filling out the form I think you can afford

a month after you filled out the form, you'll find out its fake or not))
dont give your private key.
to many airdrops create to easy pump their social networks

We can find the fake airdrop project  if we research and study first  before we go on to the project because some airdrop is not legit so be alert always . ::)

It is very difficult to determine if the Airdrop of a particular new coin is scam or not. You have to spend time on their site to know about their team and whitepaper etc. I agree that instead of wasting time on reading all this stuff, it is better to fill out the form and be part of free airdrop which is coming to your address.

What's the difference if it's Airdrop? You get their tokens for free and just wait and see, maybe you can sell them.
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This is really fake! Any airdrop that is asking for private keys is scam. Why you give your private keys? Its just like giving your keys of your house to the straner. Beware of this. Better download a chrome extension like the "EtherAdressLookUp" so that if you visit suspicious site, it will alert. Most of airdrops are shady, posted by a newbie with no any info about them. Some are just collecting twitter followers, emails and nothing else.

It's not worthy to fill up that for for airdrop if we could not determine the exact assurance on how legit it is. Well nothing will be lost with you if you try to fill out the form given for airdrop, but some airdrops will collect donations from participants and it made me wonder that scam is really true if that will happen collection small amounts of ethereum; some reached to an amount of 0.0005 eth. That made me suspect of an airdrop to scam people like me, because if an airdrop really provide free tokens they've really on their budget to send all transactions for free to every participants.

I agree with you but it is actually common logic that if someone asks your private key that it is a fake project also if you look up their project and see nothing else on google about it is 100% fake.

Read something about the project you want to participate. I don't think it's a good idea to participate in every airdrop. You need to understand that this or that project has some value. Is there public team? Where is the money to make development? How did they rise or will rise money in the future?

I agree with you also if you see a lot of photo's they have taken much more time into it that means it is something worth it but if you see almost nothing than i would say it is a fake most of the time.

There seems to be no way to tell if an airdrop is real, so much of the current airdrop is a scam, and I've done a lot of empty shots and got nothing.

Actually we can't know fake or legit airdrops till received the tokens. now days most of airdrops are fake.

I don't want to joon to any airdrop for now, because most of them are fake and i don't want to waste my time to participate in any fake airdrop, i must join campaign rather airdrop.

I think there are no fake airdrop, some airdrop have giveaway value tokens to users, some airdrop give no value tokens. The only ways to know an airdrop with no value tokens is    check their whitepaper, roadmap, dev members to see its real or fake, prepare for long time or new set up.

Agree that we can't know if the airdrop is a fake project or not but we can tell some airdrop project are scam when they ask you to provide your private keys. If Airdrop project ask for this then it's a red flag and 100% they will scam or hack people that will provide their address. Maybe we need to be careful when we fill up forms in the airdrop unless we don't join.

Doesn't matter , airdrops are free , you will not lose anything ,just join anything you can see and test your luck whether the one you received actually rockets

Before I join an airdrop project, the first thing I want to do is to check if the bounty or an airdrop thread manager has higher rank and I prefer Senior or Hero and Legendary Members because they are being paid good money to handle everything. A good Cryptocurrency company will give money and efforts to advertise their projects otherwise most fake ICOs and projects that's started by Newbie and Junior Members are the ones that giving coins that has no value.

You do not know if you will not join to their airdrop,  and you'll know that no coins comes to you.
Before you join just observe and know everthing because  not all the time the airdrop is good.

You loose nothing but your time. Spotting fake airdrop project is indeed simple and complicated. The steps are eventually difficult and after you receive tokens, you cannot make any transactions out of it because most of them did not hit Cryptocurrency exchange until today. That's why I stopped joining airdrops and focus on my signature bounty campaign.

Just always be careful when joining an airdrop. Do not give anything that will compromise your security like private keys or passwords. Some even ask for 0.001 eth, don't fall for that. It is an airdrop, it should be free. No one can tell if an airdrop will push through or not, scam or not. If you did not receive it, don't sweat it, you lose nothing anyway.

very hard actually, but according to my experience most who use donation is fake. who always talks about the price and the bonus it's fake

Usually i have made research about the projects, the indicator to know the fake airdrop are the developers team doesn't have experience in the business related projects ICOs, there are no corporations behind the ICOs projects, there are no real business before they doing ICOs selling and they are always gives too much token for all of the people, the best projects of ICOs always give token with a little amount of token.

Airdrops are up in the air for grabs. No investment, no need for advertising them for about a  month or so. All you need is a little time to fill up the registration form but do it with an extra care because you might be filling up a phishing form that would steal your information. If you can be sure that you're doing the safe thing, then it don't matter if that Airdrop is fake or not because you lose nothing though. But if that's a legit one, then lucky for you if you can receive some of their tokens.

I don't really take a big deal with airdrop, since we all know that mostly freed drops coins are almost nothing in value and some of them are not yet listed in any exchanger. Though we really point out if that certain airdrops are real, it is better if we don't take it seriously specially some airdrops are asking for donations in returns with a big amount of their coins.

This is really helpful! Thank you for this!

Airdrop coins are free tokens that are air dropped to out accounts. There is no way to find out if a coin that is being airdropped is real or fake. Maybe read the whitepaper and look at the team and their engagement with the community can give you an idea about their intentions.

The managers are always handling this airdrops, You can depend on the rank of the user who posted it to determine if its fake or real. I only join airdrops that are recommended by this thread here in this forum.

I'm usually check their ANN thread first. If they describe their token with proper details and good explanation, then i can say it's legit. Another sign if the airdrop is fake, they usually need to fill your private key in the form.

airdrop is a place to earn extra coin for free.but you can read white paper to check is it real or fake airdrop.but dont give any personal data like private key to any airdrop.so be careful about this.

I think i joined a fake airdrop a few days back. "GamerBits" Anyone knows?
Lol, its the first one so i almost panicked. But i think im safe ;)

I have observed quite a number of airdrops recently and I don't bother sharing them as some are made to either scam unsuspecting members or increase followership on their various twitter or telegram channels.

Any token or coin having an airdrop should have;

1. A website
2. Whitepaper (not plagiarized)
3. An announcement thread on bitcointalk
4. A group ( telegram, discord or slack)

Any airdrop without the following features as mentioned above should not be given priority, don't waste your precious time registering for such. as most turn out to be a waste of time.

I think Pegasuscoin PGS (it has a bounty thread here) is a scam too.

exactly what you may really need to be more careful when participating for all airdrops that you wanted to have for is you private key i may say that you dont have to take that address is enough this is the most thing that everything does to do for.

I am also curious about the answer to this question, because no one knows whether the team will send you the token of the airdrop, so I think it is difficult to judge.

maybe you should study the project is being developed in more detail also you should find information about the project developer team through the information is quite accurate.

I really dont know but dont join on the airdrops that are using referrals because they are scam most of them

For me we cannot identify exactly what's real and fake because some scammers are too good to fake their identity or campaign to make it more believable. That's the problem here in forum but once they already want to get your private keys don't ever give it and immediately leave that campaign and report it to the moderators because for sure they are scammers.

The purpose of airdrops is to provide a better distribution of the coins/ tokens so that any tech/ blockchain that uses the token later can have multiple nodes and network effect. It was primarily to increase usage so devs could have some idea about the performance.
These days airdrops have become one of the two types:
1. Marketing techniques: These you can judge on the basis of quality of discourse at their telegram etc, their whitepaper and background of the team.
2. Collecting donations: They will typically tell you to buy a few to get the airdrop. They will introduce various ways to buy you in. If the amount isn't too much for you and you are willing to take the risk then fine, otherwise avoid these suckers.

Goes without saying that you should never share personal info out there.

You can't really identify if an airdrop is fake or not. Actually you don't really have to know if its fake or not because you will not lose anything since you will just join the airdrop. Just be careful in signing up; don't give your private keys.

Airdrop can know fake or no ,depending on what you see in the form / form and the roadmap of the airdrop, all the identification is fake / scam or no like that

Actually, it is hard to tell if an airdrop is fake or legit. You can sense it though, through the reaction of the community if they are going to accept the project. Although project with good whitepaper, turned out to be scam at the end.

It seems to me that there is no way to judge whether an airdrop is true or false, but if you are lucky, it will be worth a lot of money.hhh

usually difficult to know or guess, and you do not have to worry if it's fake or not, you will not miss a thing

I think if airdrop wants personal data like private keys or something like that it's most likely a fake airdrop, I'm just using it to identify real or fake.

of course the white paper would come first and after the road map of the project if you see the developers are doing what they said in the roadmap then you have nothing to be worried about you can keep your airdrop or invest in the project by buying some coins and keeping them for the long term vision

There is really nothing much you can do to notice if an airdrop is fake, whitepaper, roadmap etc. no matter how you look at it, you will only know when an airdrop if fake only at the end, thats why i dont join any airdrop because my time will just be wasted if i joined a fake one.

Why do you ask this thing? Did you ever lose some money because of airdrops? :D
I think some people ever told you, that you will not lose money or coins or everything because you follow it. I suggest you to became a participate for all airdrops that you want and when you get that coins, hold them until high prices.

I agree with you here. So many people claim airdrops are nothing but scams which makes me laugh at them since they are effectively free and cannot steal your money as long as you are careful. I have applied for airdrops for a long time now and I have fun while doing it. Never lost a single penny and always gained stacks of money for minimal effort. My best airdrop till now is the Oyster Pearl airdrop which gave me almost $9k for literally no effort.

There is no perfect way to say which airdrop is legit and which is not, but research does help in this case. A well designed ANN thread, great website, experienced development team, great whitepaper etc help in identifying legit airdrops from the fake ones.

difficult to explain an ico project or airdrop. basically all judgments always involve knowledge and experience. so in essence you have to dig more knowledge about many projects ico and airdrop.

It doesn't matter if it's real or scam. Afterall is free and if nothing comes out of it then you let it go and move on, nothing was spent to acquire it.

Actually, Not every airdrop is really profitable and it does not matter if you are joining the fake airdrop or legit because all you need to do is register and that's it, You are already in. If you want to earn altcoin then just work on signature campaign or any social media promotions that will benefit the ico.

in my opinion it would be very difficult to define airdrop real or fake, I think it’s easy to recognize is airdrop always has a detail introduction, and have a official website and you should be careful in filling out the registration form

Those ico's are releasing airdrop's and posting it on their own thread, Airdrop will be fake if the person who posted it is an unknown user. You can determine immediately if it is fake or not and by the way, There is a thread over here in Altcoin discussion where different users are posting airdrops.

i cant know all forms fake or not but usually i am reading whitepaper and roadmaps which i try join airdrop. thats way helping to know

We can verify if it is a real airdrop if they are not asking your Private Key,  the details of the project are not vague, the dev team behind the project is respected, and if it is supported by a well-known persons or companies. Here in Bitcoin talk I always check the airdrop bounty manager's rank if it is legendary, hero or at least Senior member because they are being paid by good money and I believe they are legit.

there is no harm with participating in an airdrop even if they are fake unless they're asking for some information you are not comfortable with giving it to them like wallet private key, phone number, email...etc

my fake airdrop experiences usually give big rewards and have big rewards ahead, though airdrop is just an event that gives free coin but we are required to transfer some eth to wallet with a donation name so our coins can be distributed. it's fake !!

It is hard to know whether an airdrop is authentic or not. There are no clues. Some ICOs include airdrops but the question is how about those which do not plan to create an ICO? We can never be sure unless we try. Besides, profits from airdrops are not that big. Some tokens decreases in value afterwards. It is better to join airdrops of known ICOs rather than those which are not known for anything just to be sure.

I do not analyze airdrop coins, if there is still time to pick it up I do not delay it.
at any time coins from airdrop are valuable and make money. like exrn, ebch and postoken.

The only thing that you can lose about the airdrop  it’s time, it's a pity, but not deadly. And in ICO it is already more complicated, you need to look closely, learn all about campaign..

I also don't know how to say that an airdrop is fake or not. I just feel it if it is scam or not, I also look for their websites if it is nice then it is not scam because I believe that if it is scam they will not create a very nice website for that. Since we don't know how to tell if it is fake or not then the most important thing to remember is not give private keys.

You can actually know the airdrop is fake if the airdrop form is asking for a cheap donation and asking your private key. Then you also need to check and read there project if the information/details are complete like the website, roadmap and etc. so you will know if it is fake or real.

First of all, if they want a donation, you should automatically stay away, otherwise its hard to know which one is real since most of them are fake and you wont receive any coins at all. You have to be extra careful if they want you to download a wallet.

I think we just check whether the airdrop is ico or not.

It is difficult to spot a fake airdrop project before joining.  One thing to look for is do they have a website ready.  If there isn't a website, that should be one clue that the developer is not serious about the project.  Usually, you won't know if an airdrop project is a scam or not until after you join and receive or don't receive any tokens. 

yes but there are numerous ones with website that are fake.

i think the fake airdrop first if u can see the forms ders no acount and u dont know how to contact if incase you have a question or suggestioin

In the case of airdrops, the most popular scams and scammers are on Twitter. They usually copy the names and information of famous people in the crypto sphere and use this to lure people into sending them information or cryptocurrency. They even go as far as to post their scams under the post of the people they are imperenating so read the names very carefully. The most common scam is "Send X amount of cryptocurrency so we can locate your wallet and we will send you back 10 times the amount you've send". Long story short : If anyone asks you for your Private Key or ask you to send them any amount of money - It's a scam.

Usually they offer a very large amount simply for registration. I do not participate in airdrops, where they give more than $ 50, 99% of them are scam.

Now 90% of the airdrops are fake. Most airdrops have only one simple white paper, and some even have no websites. These are fake items. I think whether a project is open or not can be used as an important reason for judging an airdrop.

Not easy to distinguish, but if the numbers are large enough and unlimited, it usually ends in disappointment.

Nowadays, there's a lot of issues about scam in airdrops to avoid this matter, be aware for the people who manage about the project whether its not copied and we can based the numbers of participants. Exactly, we can distinguished wether its legit or not.

the best way for us to know a genuine or fake project. Before signing up on airdrop, make sure that the link has full details to make sure it is not fake, airdrop actually has a bitcointalk thread, whitepaper, twitter, telegram and has a roadmap in their thread , because a lot of airdrops are false with the intention of collecting many followers and even they can cheat us all, so be careful on a project.

You can simulate the way you look at an investment project to analyze the true or false nature of an airdrop project. For example, you can read its white paper and observe the actual role of its team members and its products!

You cant define if airdrop is scam or not, but usually airdrops is like free coin and sometimes it doesn’t have any value even i you hold it for long time. Also if you want to assure that the airdrop is legit, you may check their whitepaper, websites, the team dev manager, and their telegram community, and  we can also based on the numbers of participants.

It is not difficult for me to fill in the form for the airdrop. Therefore, I do not distinguish in categories. I filled in and forgot.

Before participating in any  I often deeply research the project. My advice is to pay attention to whether the projects have a ready-made product as it is some kind of guarantee that it is not a scam as well as long termed activity before ICO. It is an indicator that team goes straight to their goal and will not give up.

You can hardly spot which is a trash airdrop. Only few of airdrop really have the value. Besides, it's free and nothing to lose if it turns out to be useless other than your time provided to get that particular token. It's some kind of game and luck. Sometimes it's valuable, most of the time it's not.

I would to recommend you to not look at airdrops ever.
Because they all become in vain.
Airdrops can give you about 2-5 dollars, and you should maintain a lot of them to get some money.
But even if you do, you won't get much out of it because most of airdrops won't pay you, unfortunately.
Although there are some that pay.

In general, some coin drops might emerge as beneficial, yet obtaining constant benefit from free drops will turn into a mainly impractical mission for the majority of members.

As a matter of fact, it is difficult to discern whether an airdrop is phony or genuine. You can detect it however, through the response of the network in the event that they will acknowledge the venture. In spite of the fact that undertaking with great whitepaper, ended up being trick toward the end.

Unfortunetily you can not be sure for 100% at all. But I would advise you to check the bitcointalk thread and all the info about the project, usually this kind of research is helpful

First read white paper and try to understand it. But these days airdrops are not really worth it. They are slowly becoming worthless.

it's easy to figure out if a airdrops are fake or scam you will know it in the info of their projects they provide that link or simply review their ico promotion so you know if legit or scam because others and scams because they are not compliant their info.

in airdrops companies there are a lot more scammers than in bounty companies. The fact is that the field of activity of a fraudster in airdrops is much larger. Especially since spam advertising from drops is already orderly. Tired, because it is much larger, it is equivalent to more fraud.

I figure you can see on the off chance that they are tricksters, particularly when they are as of now asking with your private keys. Read a great deal on their theard on the off chance that they are genuine. Don't simply top off the shape without perusing the task.

I think there are a lot of fake projects now, so finding a fake project is very difficult, hopefully there are alternatives.

I think for airdrop program is very rarely a fake but the problem of the airdrop program is, we are given a little token on the project so very few results that we can selin it I see very rarely we can make a raise to the original money in the airdrop.

Yes, there is no way to know where the Scam and where not, you just need to do the mass , so that there was less Scam, there were projects with a good product and a team but skamilis , and there were those that did not even collect software and made big money

One way to know a scam airdrop is if you are constantly asked to provide your private key. Some airdrop projects also are just there to gather users information and plan on how to get into their privacies. We have to be careful of the information we use when filling airdrop forms

In order to find out whether airdrop is real or it is airdrop from scammers, you need to seriously bother and delve into the project itself and the company. It seems to me if you participate in airdrop companies you should not do it. Just register constantly in all airdrop.

As for me, it is not so essential question that needs such discussion. You have to fill the form for receiving airdrop and it takes about 5-10 minutes, you don’t invest in it your money like in ICO or a lot of time like in bounties. That is why I participate in 20-30 airdrops every day and don’t think even are they scams or not, it’s like a gambling for me

fake airdrop can be detected by suspicious programs, usually airdrop request to send a number of ethereum on the grounds as a fee and usually also fraud by asking private key wallet as a condition. it is definitely a fake and a scam.

the way to know that the airdrop project is correct or not is to look at the project's website and see also its progress in the group telegram, because many fake airdrop projects with the framework of wanting to cheat and some who want to steal for some reason
alert and thorough if there is something unusual, better avoid

Just dependably be watchful when joining an airdrop. Try not to give anything that will trade off your security like private keys or passwords. Some even request 0.001 eth, don't fall for that. It is an airdrop, it ought to be free. Nobody can tell if an airdrop will push through or not, trick or not. In the event that you didn't get it, don't sweat it, you don't lose anything at any rate.

I highlight the main criteria
1. The form should not contain a referral link
2. The form should contain a link to the official website.

I don't believe that the fact that an airdrop has a lot of requirements makes it a genuine one because they are stress less airdrop with good outcome. But once airdrop requires that one shoukd sent a certain amount of ethereum to get the airdrop reward, I think tgat is fake.

Read the White Paper of the project, which makes Airdrop and study the LinkedIn profiles of all project participants. And also be sure to look at how the website of the project is designed.

Normally I have made research about the activities, the pointer to know the phony airdrop are the designers group doesn't have involvement in the business related ventures ICOs, there are no companies behind the ICOs ventures, there are no genuine business before they doing ICOs offering and they are dependably gives excessively token for the majority of the general population, the best tasks of ICOs dependably give token with a little measure of token.

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Is it not better to participate in a bounty campaign because there are so many airdrops that don't pay the tokens when the airdrop is finished and there is even an airdrop that is just a scam, and even though there is an airdrop that pays the tokens, the payouts are very small and not worth what has been done for participate in the airdrop.

I additionally don't know how to state that an airdrop is phony or not. I simply feel it on the off chance that it is trick or not, I additionally search for their sites in the event that it is pleasant then it isn't trick since I trust that on the off chance that it is trick they won't make an exceptionally decent site for that. Since we don't know how to tell on the off chance that it is phony or not then the most vital thing to recollect isn't give private keys.

It is easier to spot some fake airdrops. Any airdrop that promise huge reward like saying they are giving away 1000 token each to the participants and each token worth $1,you should run from this type of airdrop.

I don't know how to detect fake airdrop because fake projects can also hold airdrops.

You can rely on there number of participants in the project they produce wether it's legit or not, in my perception I think airdrops is often scams that's why I'm not always participated .

You can't really know until the ICO is finished. Maybe a little help will be reading the whitepaper and looking at the team

It is really tuff decision to make because in airdrops we only knew very few things.but for assurance you should read all criteria and study all white paper.

If you do not invest anything, you will not get anything. There are certainly many risks here, but if you take a little time, study the project, the development team, read reviews of other users and invest, then you can multiply your capital at times.

I do not think it’s good idea to waste your time on Airdrops, I do not participate in it around last 4 month but I still receive the rabbish coins in my wallet, and I even can not sell most of them.

Now a days there are plenty of airdrops thas has been out from the webs. You can see it from our social medias while others are in the forum community. They are unstoppable from what they have been done and many of them are such annoying. Better to research firsr before everything else. Goodluck.

Airdrop is rubbish in 99% that makes your wallet a trash bin with none useful Tokens in it or they just cost so cheap that there is no sense to sell them

It's really hard to tell which fakes are fake. Usually I will see if their webpages are well-made, whether their Twitter registration date is long enough, and whether their telegram group members are enough.

You will leave more time to check out, good project or not. It is better to take everything that is there, and faster) have special programs for this and you're in business! 8)

Some of the people behind the project are running a fake account I message one guy who looks like her in the team page and ask her if he is part of the team and she said no, so this is one of the warning sign, and of course if they are not very keen in answering your questions, it's another sign that it is fake.

And what sense to spend time to explore airdrop it faster can be done. That is, if you go to the bounty, there is another matter that will have to study a lot especially the white paper.

For me its difficult to find if airdrops are fake even they have a whitepaper and social medias account we didn't know if they are legit I prefer before joining them you need to do a research about them for you to avoid scam after joining them because some of airdrops now a day's they want to steel your personal information

at a minimum, look the rating of the project on the site -icobench. If the rating is less than 4 points - it is better not to participate

Its really hard identify if the airdrop was fake or scam like bounties they are hard to know if they are legit ones but if the airdrop requires your full information probably that's a fake airdrop and wants to scam you.

We cannot really say whether the airdrop is real or fraudulent.
I think it's easy to recognize if it's a fake airdrop and you have to be careful with it
  Real or good airdrops always have an official website and a real Airdrop never asks for your private key.
And it doesn't matter if it's a scam, just join airdrop because you won't lose anything, we don't spend much of our time getting their coins/tokens so there's nothing loose. And the last and most important is free. So there is no need to be afraid at all.