It's always worth reminding and advising people to really think and analyse the airdrop token or coin they are being part of. Always do your due diligence to research the project, team, contract address, concept, wallet etc. Only us here in the forum can really stop a scam from spreading by raising our standards of what a decent project should look nowadays. But it seems that mostly low rank accounts participate in shady projects, either by being bots or just desperate to get airdropped free money, but the consequences can be severe and is it really worth it to be exposed for merely $5 in airdropped tokens?
One recent example of a deceiving project is
ATLR Token. They faked pretty much the entire project so your filters won't raise any red flags at all just at a first glance. The website has a security certificate, a beautiful design, a pretty solid core concept of the project, a solid team "behind". Everything looks somewhat decent until you start noticing the subtle red flags.
The member that posted the ann is a newbie.
The ann design is not related to the website design.
Their only social media was twitter, (recently created account) and a telegram group for only notifications.
The contract address and donation address were not making sense.
The airdrop form was poorly written with text like: "we're going to the moon guys!"
If you didn't know about the actual project they copied and pasted their website layout (Nucleus Vision) how are you suppose to know the project is a scam if the project itself looks promising. That's why the community is so important because we can help each other. But if you jump right away to just comment in the thread to receive your airdrop tokens without caring the repercussions of your actions, the consequences affect all of us.
Of course by now they realised that the scam was unsuccessful to their goals (even tho they did raised like 0.80 eth) they shut down the website, abandoned the thread and the account that posted is never to be seen,
but the damage has already been done. They collected over 4,000 email addresses and twitter handles in the airdrop form, so now they can figure out who to target their scams more specifically. People gave away their data for nothing. This happened to me once because I used to just want to participate in as many airdrops as I could, until I didn't realise that I gave my data in one of those forms to hackers. Got spammed in my email with phising links, attempts to access my account, etc.
So lets just work as a community and filter the scam out from the forum, which has clogged it so much recently and it's only getting worse.
