[NOTICE] Large airdrop channel has been compromised with over 400k users

[Dragonfund]

Forewarned is forearmed!




One of the most common Telegram channels, Airdrop6, has been hacked for several days. They've had hold of the channel for days, and I've seen a series of odd posts that ask users to send ETH and receive double in 24 hours. It's PIN on the channel : AIRDROP6 WITH OVER 400,000 SUBSCRIBERS
The legitimate owner of the channel made announcements by one of the Bots they used to perform airdrops, but the scammer didn't give up and kept repeating the same post over and over about how legit the scam scheme was and how good his withdrawal was.
I'm not sure how many airdrop participants there are on this channel, but it has over 439,700 users in total.

Nevertheless, it's better late than never. Due to nature of newbies with airdrops,  I want you to stay vigilant with how you hunt for airdrops. Any legit platform can get compromised and illegal activities can take place, it's your sole responsibility to stay away from them, don't send any coins or token to anyone.

Nothing is free.

Name of Channel: @airdrop6channel
website: ethereumgift.org

Here are some screenshots from the web give away page.


I check the wallet on etherscan and it seems no transaction has occur or perhaps they are making random wallet daily, I will update the page if there's change pf wallet or an y information regarding the scammers.

Registrar Info  
Name: NAMECHEAP INC
Whois Server:  whois.namecheap.com
Referral URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Important Dates
Expires On: 2022-03-19
Registered On: 2021-03-19
Updated On: 0001-01-01

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[Charles-Tim]

I did not go much deeper into checking if the information is true or not, but this will likely be true. First of all, it is good to address the issue of airdrop on its own, and the risk it poses to people that are using it.

There was a time in 2020 that I joined one, after the first airdrop I participated in required me to pay a VIP fee after the time to release the airdrop coin was over. I have to pay before I can be given the coin, but I had little experience about how airdrops can scam, and I knew it was 100% scam, and I did not pay such VIP fee.

Another one is the means airdrop site will collect participants information after such participants fill in their information with them online, these are often used in phishing attempts by later sending fake emails to the participants. Some can click on the email that will most often direct them to a site they can pay and receive double, or a site in which they can input their wallet seed phrase, or even contain links to malacious malware and the likes. All are just means to scam, any one that follow the instruction will be scammed, the reason the phishing links on email or even text message should not even be click on at all.

So, be it legit or fake, I always strongly advice people not to do it. Although, some people knows their way and still do it but protecting themselves, but there are many newbies that will fall for this scam.

One of the most common Telegram channels, Airdrop6, has been hacked for several days. They've had hold of the channel for days, and I've seen a series of odd posts that ask users to send ETH and receive double in 24 hours.

This has been happening often, but the fact still remain that ones a site demand you to pay for what supposed to be free, do not pay. Even if it is legit site, it has turned to scam. Recently, there was even time a domain of a decentralized exchange was hijacked by scammers, in which the site is hijacked and direct users to a page to input their seed phrase. What is the wallet instruction? Never reveal your seed phrase to anyone. In this case, even if the telegram group has been hijacked, users should know how to protect themselves from being scammed while airdrop is also a way some people can be a scam victim.

[khaled0111]

I check the wallet on etherscan and it seems no transaction has occur or perhaps they are making random wallet daily, I will update the page if there's change pf wallet or an y information regarding the scammers.

I checked the website and I got the same eth address as the one on the screenshot you posted even after refreshing the web page few times. I guess they were too lazy to write few lines of code to generate a new address for each new visitor!!
According to etherscan, not a single transaction has been made to that address (till now) which is a good sign.
Also, it looks like they forgot to remove this notification from the channel's description:

Please beware of damn scammers.

Please remember that all airdrops tokens are completely free.

So, I guess/hope no one will fall for this scam.

[ecnalubma]

That’s a very big community they got, nevermind the veteran crypto users but I’m worried about newbies just recently joined the channel if they believed in the scammers announcements I hope they’ll disregard it. As a community composed of airdrop fanatics I think scammers can only squeeze a little amount but still not good, I hope the channel owners can take it back.

[khaled0111]

The website is showing a new receiving address different from the one I got the last time I checked. I suppose they change it every 24 hours or so.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe they got hacked. I am not very familar with telegram but I think it shouldn't be that hard or take that long to recover a lost/hacked account.

[Coyster]

One of the most common Telegram channels, Airdrop6, has been hacked for several days. They've had hold of the channel for days, and I've seen a series of odd posts that ask users to send ETH and receive double in 24 hours. It's PIN on the channel : AIRDROP6 WITH OVER 400,000 SUBSCRIBERS

First and foremost, people involved in crypto in one way or another by now should know most crypto giveaways are scams and there's no one that will basically just double your funds if you send half of it to them, so notwithstanding if the channel/handle is legitimate and has been hacked by scammers, 'do not trust, verify information that's too good to be true', and this sort of info falls under such.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe they got hacked. I am not very familar with telegram but I think it shouldn't be that hard or take that long to recover a lost/hacked account.

Telegram is scam infested, so it's very much possible that this channel wasn't hacked and the creators are the ones perpetrating this scam attempt, since they are a popular TG channel based on what OP said, then they ought to have acted quickly and either recovered their account or lock it for the meantime somehow.