What are the potential risk in joining an airdrop?

[Lape77]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

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[xenomorphe1]

You are right to never give your private key. They just need your public key. You may need to be careful about giving your email address or put a password. You should never use the same password, use a different password for each website. As they may be hacked or they may be collecting passwords. For twitter and telegram, it may help them transfer the information to other people about an ICO. Or they may sell some of your informations (email, twitter, telegram)? I don't know...

[X - Mas]

seems risky if our data is recorded by the airdrop project,
sometimes they collect an email, twitter email, telagram etc
because we don't know the data will be used for,, ?
i will join an airdrop only if the project need only an address not more than that

[thenextking]

None. it free

[bbcolex]

Risk of joining a "Fraud" airdrop , When you mistakenly input your private key in the form. Some people mistakenly put their private key because they wan't to be in the list as fast as they could. Also, when airdrop ask for your private key. Usually newbie who will fall mostly to this kind of scam. No one should be asking for your PRIVATE KEY and NEVER give your key to anyone else. Also, another thing when dev will ask for some money to make your transaction faster in receiving coins. Some of them will deceive you that if you will contribute atleast some Eth then you will be on the special list , where in fact their coin or token has no value. Though , some airdrop are legit like postoken . most of them are rigid and are made to make dev rich!

[lx001]

You have to create an account in some airdrops on their website, make sure you will not use the password which is used somewhere else. Because you still can be tracked, your address>your bitcointalk account>your email. After that they may be able to access your exchange accounts. Same thing happened with my friend and he had 1btc stolen from an exchange.

[mahessapap]

Mothing is free is not it? unless you are told to send some eth / btc or other altcoin before receiving airdrop, you have to be a little careful and be careful when there are incoming emails related to airdrop, and you are told to click the link. Maybe it's phishing.

[kumiskura]

potential risk ? joining an airdrop ?
seriously ? an airdrop is created to give the users a coin,token or something like that for free.
so it should be risk free,
if you find something like that but asking you to send your personal data and etc etc.
it would be better for you to get away from it,because it'll only trying to get your data aka collectin people data.
there're a lot of airdrop out there,but do not join them blindly and choose the better one.
most of them are scam,bear it in your mind

[bundo]

Now should be more careful if you want to follow airdrop, let alone download wallet and ask for private key address
anticipate do not directly join if there is airdrop ,, check first registration if only ask for email still safe enough.

[geyayy]

Why would you even give your private key if you know that they can access your account through it? That is a lot of common sense needed, bro. Just be smart, if you sense that it is not worthy of your trust, then don't join on that airdrop. And airdrops are free, just join if you want.

[CTO@MyBitMine]

Airdrops can be risky as all. For example if you need to download software to participate in air drop, or if you need to register your email it can be spammed. But  in most cases airdrops are safe.

[analyzing]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

as far as you are not giving your private keys , you are safe ,
 and also

1) never disclose your original email ,
2) never use same password which you are using for your email . use always different one when you are signing up .
3) and of course never share your private key for any of your address .
4) do a complete research on company when you are sharing social accounts with them during signing up.

[oyinkansolaberry]

I don't see much risk in signing up for free airdrop, so long as intending participants are careful not to disclose sensitive information about them that can make scammers gain access into their personal accounts. there's little that can be done with the basic information such as e-mail, telegram username, Twitter username and Etherum address etc. that are usually required to complete airdrop forms.

[marcbitcoins]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

The most potential risk will be if you mistakenly input your wallet private keys during join form fill up and to download their wallet application in which it might hack your bitcoin private keys and information. I just wonder why they are asking for donation if they are giving free altcoins, maybe they have other purpose but anyway i never join any airdrop because i am very busy of campaigns and trading these airdrops is just a waste of time for me.

[A1exander]

The main risk seems to be getting more e-mail spam. I also never join "airdrops" asking for a donation, never give my private keys to anyone, and install any new wallet programs in a virtual machine. Other than that, an e-mail address dedicated to various forums and GMail spam filter do the job.

[sprdy]

I can't see a risk but you should not use your main email and you should use a different password if you need to make an account

[Beicin]

You're doing it right by never giving out your private key. I would also stay away from airdrops that ask for all that kind of info (email, twitter, telegram, etc), because they can just sell it for more than their token is going to be worth (most recent airdrops have been pretty much worthless).

[Billie2017]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

I dont see any potential if you give your email address, twitter account, telegram account, or any social media account as long as you dont give your password.. and also your private key because once you give it, they can access your wallet.

[Howtrain]

If you have to download a wallet for the airdrop, there is the potential it could have malware inside, so always scan it in a sandbox first!

[chefcryptoshark]

You have to create an account in some airdrops on their website, make sure you will not use the password which is used somewhere else. Because you still can be tracked, your address>your bitcointalk account>your email. After that they may be able to access your exchange accounts. Same thing happened with my friend and he had 1btc stolen from an exchange.

I hate managing multiple accounts, but I have found it necessary in order to quarantine my assets. If you follow any of the major crypto youtubers, most of them have accounts dedicated to different holdings, activities, etc.

[feelideb]

The only risk is you lose very precious time you could have use for high value activities for shjit gathering token. The second thing that is at risk is your wallet full of shit token.

[skullsandbones]

Airdrops are designed to give Users coins or tokens for free - similar to Bounties.
Just keep hold of your account passwords, and never share that!!! Thats rule no1 of the entire universe btw!!!

[mikaeltomcruz12]

I think there's no have to worry about because the donation is not mandatory that you donate by force, Airdrop is made of group that want to help beginners and other members to earn some coins.

[Maxre]

I think there is no risk whatsoever if you are careful in doing the airdrop form filling.
most importantly never give a private key.

[Account Supplier]

If they want any sensitive information you should not tell them.
If they want extra money (ETH for fees etc.) you should never send them.

[Kemileye]

There is no risk actually but do not make mistake when giving out your wallet address, some people do fill their private key instead of ETH wallet.

[KuromaYoichi]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

The only risk that i can think is they will know your email address, but you can prevent this by using other email and if the airdrop is limited to a few participants, there's a high chance that you'll enter your private key instead of the address if you are in hurry and don't recheck what you type in the form. Other than that, there's no risk because it's free, you don't need to pay anything to join.

[barlo357]

Just look if its reliable enough. And yes, makes sure you don't give your private key to anyone.

[Lm2e4]

You have to create an account in some airdrops on their website, make sure you will not use the password which is used somewhere else. Because you still can be tracked, your address>your bitcointalk account>your email. After that they may be able to access your exchange accounts. Same thing happened with my friend and he had 1btc stolen from an exchange.

I have learned new things about airdrop thank you on your advice sir. I'm glad I'm not more being active on airdrop now! Well, answering your question, I can't see any risk on airdrop rather than giving data that shouldn't be given that's all. Just be careful and always take a look on community feedback's because maybe it can help.

[Maveth13]

I never give private key and I don't join airdrop that request Eth donation. Are there some other potential risk in joining an airdrop giving for examples my mail address, my twitter and telegram account and other basic information? I also use dedicated profile to join them. Thanks!

You're already on the right track here. Of course you don't give your private key, and airdrops that require you to send eth for "transaction fees" are almost always a scam.
If you're too paranoid on your email address, then just create one for airdrops. Besides, most people use gmail, thats really not easy to hack.

[tiggytomb]

I think airdrops using an ETH address is pretty safe if you are only giving your address to them, if an airdrop is for a good old fashioned altcoin this is where you can come unstuck by downloading a wallet which is new and unknown, as always just be vigilant and like you already have said, never give out private keys to anyone.

[kaloloy]

There is no risk on joining any airdrop unless they're trying to ask your sensitive information like private keys but that would not happen. If an ICO will distribute as many coins as they can then free airdrop is the best solution. They want to circulate their coins as soon as possible and start making money out of it.

[eternalgloom]

Just practice basic opsec and you'll be fine, don't use the same username/password combination on every website.
It's also a good idea to create an e-mail address specifically for registering on these ICO websites.

People are trying to gain access to your accounts, I have tons of 'Lost password' emails because my data got leaked from when certain services were hacked
.
This forum for example and also Patreon, I've changed all my passwords but people keep trying to use my e-mail and old password.

[youok]

Airdrop program is a program to give coin for free to the user. when the implementation of this program, you found  something that less reasonable such as:
1. giving the  private key.
2. giving your  personal data.
I advise you to stay away from that airdrop program. because I am worried that the program is a scam.  i think that is a potential risk in joining an airdrop program. 

[Cixboy61]

I dont think airdrop has any risk about your accounts. You just be careful about giving ETH Address. Dont give your private key.
Also some airdrop coins wants to manage your twitter accounts or something. You should think twice before this twitter agreement.

[andrii.povkh]

There are no risks involved if you don't do anything stupid like give your private key or password. But can anyone explain what is the benefit of the airdrop for developer? If there is a benefit is it that much considerable for developer to bother and spend time and money to send tokens to many airdrop participants?

[ilya_gr]

Maybe they use your information to create multiple accounts in other airdrops and bounties:)

[munareal]

There is no potential risk  associated with airdrops. You are strictly advice never to give your private keys out on any airdrop.Airdrops are means of giving out newly created coins or promoting the use of old and existing coins for free. Don't join any that ask for your private keys they are out to scam you if they do ask for the keys.

[GiorgosK]

I don't think there is any unless you give out sensitive info
email passwords, private ethereum key etc

[johnleo]

Almost all advice had been given to avoid the risk so I think we don't need to worry about airdrop. But we should think carefully to buy any altcoin that distributed via airdrop

[macchiato]

There are really no risk in joining airdrops as long as you keep your private keys to yourself. Also do not disclose extremely private informations about yourself. Those airdrops who asks too much private infos are obviously frauds, it is just a matter of common sense.

[dobol]

I think the data misuse. because now it is very widespread use of illegal data from airdrop results. so be careful.

[jayco25]

giving your private key. pay for the transaction. dont do that

[blockchain-man]

If you want to be safe, use a secondary email, link your phone number and set up F2A security for important accounts.