This is what I call the real airdrop scam

[Lida93]

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.

They put the trap on the time that participants cannot back up anymore, because you will think of the time you spent from doing those task only to waste it for not paying, XEmpire is not going to do that; many platform will imitate this scheme. because its easy money and they are forced to do the payment.
People should scrutinize platforms that they are going to work with We now have a sample, if you see another platform that has the similar features like XEmpire and not yet implementing a forced payment, then better stop than feel sorry later.

I have been doing follow up with a few of these telegram airdrop projects as I do have persona around me that takes so much interest in participating in them. And from what I have learnt in the recent X-empire distribution of their tokens a lot of participants that for one reason or another didn't make payment transaction of the 0.5TON as requested, many have been flagged ineligible for the airdrop despite how much time and energy they had put into it for months now. Having given a listing date for the final phase of their rewards I am in the lookout to see what value they can give better than the previous projects that got their participants disappointed as some got dust after send 0.5TON.

[pakhitheboss]

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I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

[danherbias07]

If my memory serves me right, I have not yet joined such airdrops where a payment is needed so I don't have any clue if they are scams or not but it's most likely a scam in my own prediction. Simple, they didn't even make an effort to create a system where an investor would be intrigued to pay for something like a game that will be played or an application that can be used.
They just straight up "Here is the coin (airdrop), but pay me first." which I believe is already fishy because if it ain't a coin with the same value then you are just either giving them alms or fool enough to be scammed in an easy way.

[Pandu Geddon]

If my memory serves me right, I have not yet joined such airdrops where a payment is needed so I don't have any clue if they are scams or not but it's most likely a scam in my own prediction. Simple, they didn't even make an effort to create a system where an investor would be intrigued to pay for something like a game that will be played or an application that can be used.
They just straight up "Here is the coin (airdrop), but pay me first." which I believe is already fishy because if it ain't a coin with the same value then you are just either giving them alms or fool enough to be scammed in an easy way.

Paid airdrops will not get many enthusiasts. because some hunters really want tokens for free. but such methods do exist, and some people may succeed, but there are more who fail.
Airdrop is something free, if someone asks for a transfer fee or anything at the beginning before we get it, it's better not to follow it. and also always don't use the main wallet when they ask to connect the wallet to their website. there are many cases of wallets that end up having their assets drained after connecting to the airdrop website.

[Lida93]

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I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

That's part of many apprehensions to why I haven't really given a paid attention to these airdrops or get freaked by the rewards that some of those successful ones like Dogs and Notcoin which got to pay their participants some ample sum of airdrop rewards. Because what actually generated the high participation level with these recent airdrop games where due to how handsomely Notcoin and Dogs paid well with actually requesting anyone to make any TON payment to any address. But the airdrop games that followed after them now uses that leverage to exploit people thereby denying those that which not to make payment for a project one is not sure about what he's to receive as rewards and you can't contest it to anywhere if you're rewarded with dust after making TON payment.

[X-ray]

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I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

0.5 TON for eligiblity requirement is always ridiculous, it's as if, the airdrop scene has shifted, from investors and dev redistributing wealth to people to literally the dev begging for money from its participant .
at this point, does telegram airdrop even worth it?.

trust me as the time goes, people just gonna have bad stigma about ton blockchain and it will hinder the growth of the blockchain, the ton ecosystem too much diluted with these shit tier project that everytime I see some new project I almost instantly consider them to just trying to drain the community of their money.

I guess SUI will take ton's spotlight eventually, just matter of time.

[UTON Blockchain]

I feel that many airdrops are to attract new users. There should be fewer of these. If you want to make a profit in the long run, it is most undesirable to ruin the customer's feelings.

[dunfida]

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I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

0.5 TON for eligiblity requirement is always ridiculous, it's as if, the airdrop scene has shifted, from investors and dev redistributing wealth to people to literally the dev begging for money from its participant .
at this point, does telegram airdrop even worth it?.

trust me as the time goes, people just gonna have bad stigma about ton blockchain and it will hinder the growth of the blockchain, the ton ecosystem too much diluted with these shit tier project that everytime I see some new project I almost instantly consider them to just trying to drain the community of their money.

I guess SUI will take ton's spotlight eventually, just matter of time.

Things become shit on the moment that airdrops are trying to have those kind of involvement with those transfers like in TON which is really that very common on TG airdrops nowadays.
They do make it as a criteria for someone to be that eligible for the upcoming airdrop on which this is something that unknown yet.  Not Developers will really be that running legit projects and you will be able to expect those scam devs will really be thinking up on taking advantage into those people who are really that trying out to dive with the current trend. It might be looking up to be indirectly since you arent that forced to do
make those kind of transactions but in general sense it is really that they are really that begging to people to make transactions. 

[Webetcoins]

I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

That's part of many apprehensions to why I haven't really given a paid attention to these airdrops or get freaked by the rewards that some of those successful ones like Dogs and Notcoin which got to pay their participants some ample sum of airdrop rewards. Because what actually generated the high participation level with these recent airdrop games where due to how handsomely Notcoin and Dogs paid well with actually requesting anyone to make any TON payment to any address. But the airdrop games that followed after them now uses that leverage to exploit people thereby denying those that which not to make payment for a project one is not sure about what he's to receive as rewards and you can't contest it to anywhere if you're rewarded with dust after making TON payment.

The problem about these airdrop chaser is how they expect so much, and then willing so little. The idea of this is 0.5 ton would worth about 2-3 dollars at most, so you are saying that this airdrop may not pay as much as 2-3 dollars, and you are asking for it to be free, correct? That's what OP is saying, they want free airdrops and not to pay for it, which makes sense to me because airdrops should be free.

But looking at hamster kombat, that one paid about 20-30 dollars to each person on average, some people got more, some people participated with more than one phone/account and got a lot more, but on average it was about 20-30 dollars at the release. And people were furious, they went mad, because of how little this was. So what we understand, people hate getting paid 20-30 dollars, but not willing to pay 2-3 dollars, ten times lower amount. I am sorry, but airdroppers want way too much and expect to do very little.

[Wakate]

I feel that many airdrops are to attract new users. There should be fewer of these. If you want to make a profit in the long run, it is most undesirable to ruin the customer's feelings.

There are so many airdrops I have been seeing on telegram that do not even worth any miner wasting their time on them. Truecoin airdrop has been one of the most stupid and scamming crypto project that has no plan of launching. The team is only interested in miners running transactions to buy Star for them to be entitled to some . certain benefits like VIP and others. This is a funny way mist users looking for free money are being scammed and I urge every miners to stop it because in the second hand, airdrop is not meant to require money before you get your allocation. It's only retroactive airdrops that require you to have funds for for mining and staking before you can get better allocation.

[Lida93]

I am one of the individual who had spent a lot of time on this game but didn't qualify for airdrop token as I did not pay the scammer 0.5 TON. Don't worry about the price as the token will be dumped as soon as it get listed only for one reason which is to get back the money users have paid to get the X tokens. I am confident that many participants will be posting here on how they were not even able to claim back USD value of 0.5 TON that they have paid for eligibility

That's part of many apprehensions to why I haven't really given a paid attention to these airdrops or get freaked by the rewards that some of those successful ones like Dogs and Notcoin which got to pay their participants some ample sum of airdrop rewards. Because what actually generated the high participation level with these recent airdrop games where due to how handsomely Notcoin and Dogs paid well with actually requesting anyone to make any TON payment to any address. But the airdrop games that followed after them now uses that leverage to exploit people thereby denying those that which not to make payment for a project one is not sure about what he's to receive as rewards and you can't contest it to anywhere if you're rewarded with dust after making TON payment.

The problem about these airdrop chaser is how they expect so much, and then willing so little. The idea of this is 0.5 ton would worth about 2-3 dollars at most, so you are saying that this airdrop may not pay as much as 2-3 dollars, and you are asking for it to be free, correct? That's what OP is saying, they want free airdrops and not to pay for it, which makes sense to me because airdrops should be free.

But looking at hamster kombat, that one paid about 20-30 dollars to each person on average, some people got more, some people participated with more than one phone/account and got a lot more, but on average it was about 20-30 dollars at the release. And people were furious, they went mad, because of how little this was. So what we understand, people hate getting paid 20-30 dollars, but not willing to pay 2-3 dollars, ten times lower amount. I am sorry, but airdroppers want way too much and expect to do very little.

I am one person that discourages the idea of airdrop participants expecting having high expectations from airdrop projects rewards, however, I don't blame them should they chose to have weigh high expectations considering the energy and resource they put in over months of the project participation in executing one task to another and playing games even when ordinarily you don't feel like.

It just shouldn't be just about the money 0.5TON as basis to aim high regardless of how small the TON amount required is little but it just shouldn't be a basis at all otherwise why is it called an airdrop in the first place if money was what is needed to be paid before receiving something tangible as rewards? Decades back or should I say in recent years many airdrops that gave huge rewards didn't even requested for all these payments. So why the new trend now and still it's just 20-30$  for reward.

[Miles2006]

I feel that many airdrops are to attract new users. There should be fewer of these. If you want to make a profit in the long run, it is most undesirable to ruin the customer's feelings.

There are so many airdrops I have been seeing on telegram that do not even worth any miner wasting their time on them. Truecoin airdrop has been one of the most stupid and scamming crypto project that has no plan of launching. The team is only interested in miners running transactions to buy Star for them to be entitled to some . certain benefits like VIP and others. This is a funny way mist users looking for free money are being scammed and I urge every miners to stop it because in the second hand, airdrop is not meant to require money before you get your allocation. It's only retroactive airdrops that require you to have funds for for mining and staking before you can get better allocation.

What’s the allocation even if the airdrop is worth the attention and time given? No one knows, it’s so rare seeing a quality airdrop with good potential. Funny enough after Launching an airdrop there’s a probably within hours the airdrop might face dump. Telegram mining is so popular and that’s the major reason scam project and selfish project owners target audience making use of telegram, I could remember all this fame started from notcoin after then every other project needed massive support without paying for the effort.

[bias]

What’s the allocation even if the airdrop is worth the attention and time given? No one knows, it’s so rare seeing a quality airdrop with good potential. Funny enough after Launching an airdrop there’s a probably within hours the airdrop might face dump. Telegram mining is so popular and that’s the major reason scam project and selfish project owners target audience making use of telegram, I could remember all this fame started from notcoin after then every other project needed massive support without paying for the effort.

Does it matter, if you have to pay in order to get it? Airdrops have never been paid to be done! What's the point of it if you have to pay?
If someone wanted to pay to get any token/meme/alt/ whatever, they would do it from the beginning of the project. I felt twice on this fake airdrop trap, so when I see an airdrop or a reward that you need to pay any kind of amount, I just pass it and block it.

[CK485]

I feel that many airdrops are to attract new users. There should be fewer of these. If you want to make a profit in the long run, it is most undesirable to ruin the customer's feelings.

There are so many airdrops I have been seeing on telegram that do not even worth any miner wasting their time on them. Truecoin airdrop has been one of the most stupid and scamming crypto project that has no plan of launching. The team is only interested in miners running transactions to buy Star for them to be entitled to some . certain benefits like VIP and others. This is a funny way mist users looking for free money are being scammed and I urge every miners to stop it because in the second hand, airdrop is not meant to require money before you get your allocation. It's only retroactive airdrops that require you to have funds for for mining and staking before you can get better allocation.

seeing the situation people quickly start it in terms of this airdrop, but in terms of development and allocation they tend to enter it directly without looking at the background of the airdrop, it is necessary to take all of that into account, so that all better understand it first, when you work on the airdrop.

[pakhitheboss]

It just shouldn't be just about the money 0.5TON as basis to aim high regardless of how small the TON amount required is little but it just shouldn't be a basis at all otherwise why is it called an airdrop in the first place if money was what is needed to be paid before receiving something tangible as rewards? Decades back or should I say in recent years many airdrops that gave huge rewards didn't even requested for all these payments. So why the new trend now and still it's just 20-30$  for reward.

I was wondering how many users who paid 0.5 TON were able to get their money back after they sold their tokens. I have earlier participated in NOT and DOGS airdrop and trust me the amount of tokens that I had received were good. It is not about participating in every airdrop it is all about finding airdrops that have the potential to deliver tokens that are worth more than $10. I expected the same with X Empire and I would have gotten a good amount of free money but when they brought in the condition of paying first to receive those tokens I knew something was not right. Looking at the current price of the token those who have received 40K or 100K tokens will not be able to make $10 from it.

[fikrett]

It just shouldn't be just about the money 0.5TON as basis to aim high regardless of how small the TON amount required is little but it just shouldn't be a basis at all otherwise why is it called an airdrop in the first place if money was what is needed to be paid before receiving something tangible as rewards? Decades back or should I say in recent years many airdrops that gave huge rewards didn't even requested for all these payments. So why the new trend now and still it's just 20-30$  for reward.

I was wondering how many users who paid 0.5 TON were able to get their money back after they sold their tokens. I have earlier participated in NOT and DOGS airdrop and trust me the amount of tokens that I had received were good. It is not about participating in every airdrop it is all about finding airdrops that have the potential to deliver tokens that are worth more than $10. I expected the same with X Empire and I would have gotten a good amount of free money but when they brought in the condition of paying first to receive those tokens I knew something was not right. Looking at the current price of the token those who have received 40K or 100K tokens will not be able to make $10 from it.

It all depends on the faith you have in the project.
You can buy and spend TON, or find projects without such additional costs, but all them could screw you up on the allocation nevertheless 

[Lida93]

It just shouldn't be just about the money 0.5TON as basis to aim high regardless of how small the TON amount required is little but it just shouldn't be a basis at all otherwise why is it called an airdrop in the first place if money was what is needed to be paid before receiving something tangible as rewards? Decades back or should I say in recent years many airdrops that gave huge rewards didn't even requested for all these payments. So why the new trend now and still it's just 20-30$  for reward.

I was wondering how many users who paid 0.5 TON were able to get their money back after they sold their tokens. I have earlier participated in NOT and DOGS airdrop and trust me the amount of tokens that I had received were good. It is not about participating in every airdrop it is all about finding airdrops that have the potential to deliver tokens that are worth more than $10. I expected the same with X Empire and I would have gotten a good amount of free money but when they brought in the condition of paying first to receive those tokens I knew something was not right. Looking at the current price of the token those who have received 40K or 100K tokens will not be able to make $10 from it.

Not sure a good percentage of them got something good for a reward after the listing because even the pre-lisitng  alone for many of them is discouraging and worst still is after listing the token price falls sharply thereby reducing value that an initial token that was supposed to worth like $20 could go down to $6 before you even able to sell to USDT that's if you're fast enough. I am seeing similar happenings with X-empire because that coin from the on set appears to be a real shit coin reasons many participants refused doing the 0.5TON transaction.

[Accardo]

I feel that many airdrops are to attract new users. There should be fewer of these. If you want to make a profit in the long run, it is most undesirable to ruin the customer's feelings.

Real projects or companies still offer genuine airdrops that'll bring in customer's interests, but most developers now use it to lure in victims and waste people's time. Recently, airdrops as task effective as it may be, is not something that energizes my curiosity. Because most of it are not worth the time.

[Tmoonz]

The above topic was birthed by this post 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.



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.

Honestly people are getting disappointed with the way majority of the on going telegram airdrops are being carried out by project teams, scammed projects are even more in circulation unknowingly to participants, how the specific criteria for airdrops are not made known to participants are overwhelming, it is very wrong for them to make 0.5 ton transactions for eligibility of airdrop after all the time, energy your data subscription, the best advice will be to participate and expect less perhaps it is not by force to participate but by choice. I reduced my interest after harmster Kombat airdrop allocation was nothing to be compared with the stress put in.