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hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .

Thanks for the info. No wonder I never take part in airdrops. Paying penny and can steal my coins. Never!!

Airdrops wont get your private keys,normally they will just require you to fill up some form with your bitcontalk account,wallet address and optional with email addresses you can use dummy email address so that you wont receive phishing emails from these people,do not waste your time with these stupid airdrops instead join bounty programs.

oh yeah i'm totally out of this kind of thing after i have lost half of my funds thanks man

Me too i never join these stupid airdrops to get 5 to 10$ sometimes even less.Just do bounty where you can get sometimes more than 200 or 300$ if you do signature even more if you are higher ranked member

Never join these airdrops that will require your private keys,normally wallet and email address would be the requirement for such airdrops.If someone ask you to put your private keys im sure 100% it is a scam because why would they need to get your private keys if thet arent going to steal your investments or coins.

If you just open that email and don't click/download any attachment then I cant see a reasons that you would be hacked out by someone.This is why we should really be careful on downloading things on pc, executable files will run if you don't have an antivirus that can detect those malwares. Private keys cant be hacked if you don't disclose it into public. Unless if you got phished then 100% you will be hacked.

Private keys shouldnt be given to anyone,because it is the most imporant part of your investments if someone knew your keys you are good as dead,all of your funds might be transfered to his own wallet so that protect your keys as you are protecting your love ones,never give it to anyone because that thing can be the key to your success or failure.

that exactly what happened with me i thougt the email is to confirmed or somthing like that but It turned out to be the wrong  :-\ but i learned from my mistake

I see! Many airdrop program not pay! So I think they open airdrop to get your info! Used it to get your private info! So you can lost your private key!

It could happen, when they send you a link to a pishing site of myetherwallet. So don't follow the links, then they will have no chance to hack your wallet. There are many scamming devs, but also airdrops of awesome cryptocurrencies.

Indeed often we find the name of the project Scam. It makes us very disappointed, When first investing but we meet is a scam project and make us very down.

Always protect your private keys from anyone,it shouldnt be given even to your families so that your money wont be stolen by these people.You need to know that these people wont stop doing shitty scams to steal the newbies investments,so you need to research before doing anything in our community so you will be protected from these hackers.

Some airdrops requires you to provide private keys and that's a clear scam because in the first place you should not give not key to anyone. Giving your email is ok but don't ever download anything from that site because you might really got scammed if you do better to be safe than to get some shit coin that don't have any value after all.

These people shouldnt be given any chance to scam people,this is the reason why the world doesnt want to get into our market because most of the people are taking advantages to each other,the mainstream media will always be negative to our community that is why we shouldnt be doing anything that can harm the reputation of cryptocurrencies.

Then what happened after you click such link? As long you didn't input something or download then you didn't commit any mistake.

Even just on common sense you will able to identify if a thing is a pure scam or not. We do know that private keys is the most important information/access to our wallets and even creating our wallet in first place do have caution about on keeping it for yourself which means theres no reason that you haven't told or being reminded in relation with it.Keys is on your full responsibility don't give it to anybody no matter what.

All of the people who will ask for your private keys will surely steal all of your funds,so protect your keys just like protecting your wife and children,never give it to anyone private keys will be your assurance you better get some hardwallets like ledger and trezor because it can give you an extra protection with these hackers.

that right if someone want to get into cryptocurrencies and somehow stole his money  like me he will hate it for ever that must be some kind things like controlling those scammers ... and we ask ourselves why all the world against the idea of cryptocurrencies for that kind of things  

That's very true, I agree with you. Crypto is indeed very profitable but full of enormous risks when we invest and when it is also we know that when we invest it all is a scam or fraud. Many are afraid to invest in fear of being cheated. Because there is no guarantee all back when we invest. This is a lesson for us when we want to invest in caution against fraud and other things.

Are you one of the KYC victims who sent all his data over the internet and clicked on a bunch of emails from the KYC company? 

The hackers are using KYC to steal your funds.  Your handing them all the info.

This is why I dont join on any airdrops anymore because of the scammers. Once you filled a form to join their airdrop they will send you an email and that email an attack to scam your private keys and other important things in your pc. It happen many times so better dont click an phishing attack in your email.

i will never be part of those airdrops again  :'(   :'(

T hanks for you warning and I will watch out for that.

For experience people, they can avoid to click link from any unknown source example email.
However, if you want to join airdrop, please avoid to join any airdrop which ask you to do ubnormal thing.

There are so many scammers nowadays. Some are creating their own websites imitating the website we used to log in our credentials. We have to be alert and watchful on those things because they might trap us. Be watchful, everyone.

In fairness with the Airdrops, there are also good and profitable coins you get from Airdrops, that was before when I participated in some. But today it was being abused, being used to scam people, thats why I get rid of these Airdrops and better participate in Social media campaigns or Signature campaings.
For your security, never ever input your private key in any of doubtful and unsafe websites and emails, and always bookmark everything legit.

Thank you for the information. As I see airdrops could be scam. Is the most dangerous thing there is to download their attachements and click the links, right? Or what else?

Yeah the KYC scams are running rampant at this point.  People are getting seriously hurt when they make the mistake to compromise their personal documents.  Hackers now have a wealth of information on you to begin brute forcing into your computer to steal your funds. 

Thanks for the warning. I have a little bit idea regarding scam but not expected too much scam. Maybe be vigilant and do our own research. Take your own risk.

Yes your right its better to join bounty than airdrop, your effort will useless..

Dont waste you time for airdrop if the free is not valuable, its better to participate bounty campaign.

You should have installed an anti-malware/virus for safety reason. If you have one already then updating to latest version is very important.
I rarely join airdrop but if I join, I will not open a link they sent. It's better safe than sorry.
Anyway just continue your involvement in cryptocurrency and be careful from now on.

thanks for your concern! hope they dont scam my private key because im a newbie here! And i dont know what im going to do when they do that to my private key!

I am totally confused, why a lot of hackers today can easily enter by building any forms of applications and then sometimes automatically downloaded to our gadgets. Many times I been discovered that some applications automatically downloaded to my phone. So, I difinitely say that social media also cannot detect hackers. Because they are giving way for some hackers entering here in social media. For me hackers can also contributes income into social media because they are freely here perform any abused and take advantage to other weak prople.

For safety of all people who love to join airdrops and you are unstoppable. Just don't send your private key to anyone. It's only for you to keep your funds safe and don't be so gullible that they will send your free tokens in exchange of your private keys that has balance. Once they gain access to your private keys, they can easily open your wallet.

This would be a big reminder to many airdrop lover, scammers do lots of thing to scam us because that is their job we only need is to be careful and choose the airdrop which are possibly legit or create other wallet to received token from airdrop for our safety.

There are no free lunches under the sun. Although many airdrops can get free tokens by spending a small amount of time registering, it seems very appealing, but I would like to know how to study what airdrops are deceptive.

Thanks for this valuable information. Scammers won't really stop in their wrongdoings. Why there are people like this who's happy stealing from others. They don't have any respect to the feelings of their fellow human.

yes this is right i agree with this, dont click the links they send especially if they personally email you some links offering ne airdrops or what so ever they want you to fill in, because in that way they can hack or access to your accounts i dont know how they did that but just be consious enough not to trust right away, because scammers are skilled people want to earn money in a bad way.

Yes for that we must be careful for the airdrop program, although not all airdrop programs like what you mentioned, but airdrop prize is small and it will make you lose time. It's better to follow the signature campaign, because it's more promising.

There are so many airdrops today that are unregulated and prone to scams. So let us not fall into their trap with too good to be true projects which they collect some personal data and some  private key on our wallets. So let's beware of these suspicious airdrops when they ask you some KYCrequirement, token donations and private key .

How they can steal your private key through your eth address? Is that possible? 'cause I'm wondering 'cause actually those emails from airdrop is just a normal email which is its impossible to hack our private key.   unless if you used your private key to login on their sites then you verify it through the email from airdrop.  Hmmp

this is where anti malware programs should be working for you. I work in the tech industry and yes while it’s easy to make a script to look for a certain file from your hardrive, retrieving it is a bit of a stretch unless you were baited to another form that allowed the program to send the information back. I hope this serve as a lesson for everyone, the development of softwares to protect you from these kinds of attacks are there for a reason.

Nonetheless owning a cold wallet is always a great layer of security. There is no such thing as “Overly secured” especially ehen it’ thousands or millions worth of money is what you are talking about.

Be careful out there folks— 1. Never joins something that guarantees and are always to good to be true and 2. Always be secured.

Thanks for the warning. It's really hard to join some airdrops now a days, most of them are just scam. This should be a good lesson for us to not trust in most airdrops.

Thanks for your warn,  we might be careful now. And it's true,  many of the airdrop is scam or it has no value. And i think this the lesson to be more careful and your personal information become more secure.

I have been receiving many mails in my spam box which look suspicious to me I discovered that those emails are from some airdrops I applied for sending a link to me telling me to claim my tokens I never care to read those mails I ensured that I delete them immediately.

it wasnt airdrops whos OP stealing money,it was the people behind those airdrops that requires you to out email address,but your right airdrops are sucks,they are created by damn people whos involve in many shady activities here.people who loves to get from others than providing their own.this people must put behind bars

This is a good reminders for all the participants joining in any kind of campaigns.  Everyone should be aware or must be watchful for scammers as we all know that scammers are really existing and they are real. Be wise, and make every  every effort to  identify those scammers.  Being a victim of scammers is very disgusting  and  very  frustrating so folks  watch  out for scammers.

Wow, this is a new way to steal our tokens. I think I will get enough attention.
Thank you for sharing.

There's a lot of Airdrop Form i've seen that are asking for private key but it's nothing to me i will continue join their airdrop, instead i put my private key in the form, i just put my ETH address.
And there are also Airdrop that asking for donation. Their rules are (If you will not donate 0.1 ETH you will not received your tokens) be aware from that brother that's obviously a scam.

I thank you for the information and let us be aware. This is just means that hackers could be also a campaign manager or even project producer and just fool us. what will happen in our crypto-world if investors will be afraid to invest at crypto. we should increase security in all aspect of crypto community.

Never used airdrop and never ever gonna use it by means of cryptocurrency because of this, scammers are really anywhere but I will not risk my coins to be scammed by those group of scammers. Thanks for the information.

We need to know in every step we will do because scammers are all over the world. They will just hit if their is an opportunity. They can easily gather informations and if we are talking about money they will just come up without hesitation. We need to be careful to trust someone because we might even don't know what are they going to do with us.

I also have the same thinking of many scammers that can inject Malware and spyware to your computer some of the unsafe links by sending you an e-mail. But, can't understand how they do it only by clicking the links. If somebody has the details idea then post here the remedies we should take.

Exactly the main problem of Airdrops now
IMO, tons of Airdrops now are actually sketchy and scammy.

They would mostly first ask for Public address
Then tells you to login to claim your tokens and etc.
Then people end up going to the fake site

My suggestion here is to install MetaCert - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cryptonite-by-metacert/keghdcpemohlojlglbiegihkljkgnige?hl=en
If you are not a person that are cautious and protective, this might be a good tool to protect you :)

Very useful advice. I know several people who recommended the same stuff that you advised which helped me out. So many people jump into the crypto world head first without thinking too much and focusing on quick profits who are targeted by hackers and scammers for easy money. Such investors conclude that this is mainly the problem with the crypto market itself and begin spreading FUD like crazy which shows how naive they truly are. For example, some people were spreading FUD recently saying that Binance was hacked while the truth was a trading bot was hacked. Be smart people.

I  always try to be careful when I sign up for airdrops, and usually use those better browsers like Firefox instead of Chrome so that the scammers can't get any of my info from backend autofill forms, which might be what you're talking about. Thanks for the heads up!

There are fake wallets out there that steal your coins. When a coin forks or a new coin comes out and people are confused, it isn’t uncommon to see fake wallets pop up. Make sure to use wallets officially endorsed by the entity or community behind the coin. If you are unsure, do more research. Following random online instructions can be a really bad move.

thank you very much sir

be alert and prepare for many scammers are now spread around us to keep safety our things being careful that items or files to not waste our hard

If there are 100 airdrop 60-70 of them try to steal your funds bro. I use my rpi for airdrops mail and I'm relax with that.

we all know that scamers are everywhere, they have many ways of doing scam. we must always be careful in choosing airdrop to avoid things that are not desirable. so we should always be careful in maintaining the safety of our wallets ..

I have no problem with most airdrops, but I won't send payment to cover cost of delivery.

Also, do not open sketchy emails on your PC that has your crypto coins.  Do that on an old phone or something.  Better yet do it on a windows phone.

Honestly, the scammers are everywhere especially in the field of cryptocurrencies, so everyone should be wary of them, As well, I see that  many have been robbed by those scammers, because simply, they do not have much knowledge in the field that  they use ,  and unfortunately there are many idiots,  and everyone must learn how to protect himself before entering into the area of crypto.

On the other hand, the private key in "Myetherwallet" is a personal protection, and it is certain that  we should not give it to anyone. Otherwise, the airdrop is the easiest way to trick many people,  and the  greed is  prevalent in many of them, because  they want to make money in an easy way.

that is why don't click any links from them because they are injecting worms and viruses in order they could penetrate your computer and they could get whatever they want.
I never joined even a single airdrops because I knew that they're not worth of my time and efforts because last year I have no good experiences on joining Airdrops because most of them are just plain useless and scams.

This is the fact evidence that blockchain technology and Cryptocurrencies are hack proof and the only way they could get something worth out of Crypto is to send malicious stuff to the users and holders that will trigger and giving them green light to penetrate their victim's computer and get private keys and other confidential stuff from your computer.
If they got your private key then  they could get every coin in your wallet and you'll wakeup the next day seeing empty wallet.
so, better stop joining Airdrops and focus on something else, that is joining bounty campaigns will offer you higher chance of getting new altcoins that will soon offer you good fortune.

That's very bad, just by sending an email they can steal our Privat key ..Always be vigilant, and thank you for the info you provide.This helps a lot of people

You shouldnt be joing airdrops,or giving your main email addresses because these people will only going to send a lot of phishing emails and will try to steal your private keys that is why we shouldnt be using our email addresses if we are joining these airdrops,use some dummy email accounts so that you will be safe from these spam emails.

Thanks for the information

Next time I will watch the scams.

Thanks for sharing this case, i joined airdrop only from legit project. I prefer to join bounty program and spend times for trading. Airdrop is small reward and sometime waste times to handle it when sell the token in exchange. For the better more focus on bounty and altcoin trading.

You are absolutely on point. I observed most of shit airdrops out there are just their to collect people’s information and keep spamming emails after getting the information. Bunch of scammers, no doubt

As they say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Thanks for the info. I'll keep it on mind

Airdops cannot steal your private key because airdrop only got your ETH address during the survey or the form that you are going to fillup and submitted to thier site. The reason why we are scam its because we give directly our private and personal information and also wen we are  applying on airdrops.
 
But thank you for this information this is a big help for us.

Thanks for the warning. I dont join airdrops by the way they are just a waste of time. Aside from they don pay, they will take thousands of participants so get only very few valueless tokens. Will reauire you also to,perform tasks whis is a waste of time also. Better bounty than airdrops.

Thanks for the heads up, but I personally think it is unwise to store your private keys eletronically. Quite risky. Put it on a sheet of paper, with that it can never be hacked.

Good post, to add to what you have sais, everyone should let it be your part of core not to click on untrusted links, that is how people are being hacked of private keys.

At this point I would not advise anyone to participate in any kind of airdrops because almost all of them are scammers that are looking for a way to steal your coins by asking you to paste your private keys to log into your wallets in order to earn the coins from the airdrops. DON'T DO IT. Stay away from airdrops and if you need to earn some free tokens then do bounty and signature campaigns.

There are some phishing sites, they imitate etherdelta, but they have subtle differences, maybe etherdelta2.com, or etherdelte.com, so when you have to open your eyes.

It's ok to join any bounty campaigns or airdrops available on this forum but never give your private keys for you not to be scammed.
Open MyEtherWallet on your browser and hit bookmark in order not to open phishing sites in the future.
That will prevent you on losing your crypto assets because you are the owner of your wallet and you are only the responsible on taking care of it.

EtherDelta isn't safe this year due to many attacks on their servers and even on their DNS that you'll then redirected on their clone phishing website in order to get your keys.
Phishing is one of their main attack because blockchain servers are 99% attack proof so their only way to get money is to attack crypto holders remotely.

This is silly. Most likely because of their mistakes people accidentally send private keys from their wallet. Moreover, we are small people who have nothing to steal. And even more so to guess the key of 64 characters is almost impossible.

Seriously?
But I think it depends on information that you will give from any site, in that way there's a big chance to steal your funds. The better you should do is don't just clicking any link that someone's give because there's possibility that is the way to hack.

Airdrop scams are increasing nowadays since it is very accessible and easy to most cryptocurrency traders who are looking for easy profit plus its normal for some airdrops to ask informations which can easily be altered by phishing sites. I suggest that you participate airdrops carefully and maybe join the telegram group first and observe the community.

unknown through the mail or not to pump out the information, but it is better to keep valuable data not in the computer. I have all the most important things on a removable media , not even one .

Oh,thanks for the information! Another proof that joining airdrops is a waste of time and energy. I have decided for myself long ago not to them, instead I prefer participating in bounty campaignes. It takes more efforts, but the result is better!

Do not waste your time in airdrops wont get your private keys,normally they will just require you to fill up some form with your bitcontalk account,wallet address and optional with email addresses you can use dummy email address so that you wont receive phishing emails from these people.
Start doing bounties Bro  :)

It's not silly, and you're not even close to how people steal files and password information. The likely guess is that the email may contain a link to a website that has an exploit kit on it, delivering an encrypted botnet payload designed to steal wallet files and keylog the passwords.

Also the airdrops wallets they tell you to download may just have an encrypted botnet bind on the file as well that executes hidden when the other file executes.

I do not even know how this can happen. I do not send my personal keys to anyone. Perhaps they are just trained to receive very personal information without our permission.

Everyone who has some stake and has invested in crypto should be on the look out for scammers as they are everywhere. Some have schemes that they have come up with to get people to put their private keys into phishing sites and then they steal all of their crypto. Everyone needs to be very careful, crypto is very safe on its own but scammers and hackers are what make it dangerous