Can something free be a scam?

[jakecoins]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

[icalical]

Well, imho, scam is not necessarily take away your money. If you give something (your time, your personal data, anything, your signature) because you are promised to be rewarded, but in the end the person/entity is breaking their promise, it might be called scam/fraud.

And BTW when you give your data freely they might sell it to some people, and many people willing to pay for personal data.

[ahmadakbari]

Yes, It can be a scam. Usually the coins that are airdropped are also sold at ICOs. And they usually ask you to downlaod an app, register in their website, join a telegram group, follow them on facebook, follow on twitter, etc. They want to have many subscribers and followers to show that they have a lot of fans.
They want you to help them to attract investors.

[michael shikany]

They may still be a scam, because they just cheated the your information, but most of the time they will not issue any tokens to you, sometimes even ask you to provide certain ETH as transfer fees

[redwings17x]

just make sure its a good project and do your research. it literally takes 5 mins of your busy crypto life

[Ayamj]

Lol  waste of time is a scam too, waste of space is a scam too lol

[rayk]

Most ones are actually scam but they are not necessarily scam just they give free tokens, but if they give most of their tokens free by a airdrop, I doubt it.

[ColdZerk]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Most of airdrops are unprofitable now: In most cases - airdrops is just a way to get e-mail base of potential crypto investors.

[Adunni6758]

It is possible to find a free airdrop to be a scam. Imagine giving your details to a scammer that might later use it against you. I will give you instances. There was this person who is a fan to airdrop, because it is free and has never for once given his private key out to anyone and still got scammed by seeing his cvoins being transferred to another wallet. How can that happen? From experience, when you fill a scam form and you give out your email address. They may start spaming your mail by sending phishing sites to you, until you one day in the act of being curious, you click one of it and your details are revealed to them or your email get jacked and they have access to by our private info.

[Invester]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Airdops may not look like they are scams because they are only giving away free coins. But if you take a closer look at their project, you might find out that more than half of the existing coins are in the hands of the developers. This is one of the things that you should try to consider. And this is enough for you to question why is this so. This is risky because by the time the coin gains value, the developers might dump all the remaining coins with them. And they are also asking for donations aside from that.

[lizardbtc]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Well most airdrops will rquire you to do some work such as joining their telegram channel. So they are building fake community to benefit themselfs in the long run, other than that create disposable email or some email you will only use for airdrops. Since there is a lot of emails being sold under the hood, which can result in future physhing and scaming emails sent to you.

[LinAliza]

It will only be caled a scam when you invest time and effort on it. Just like you are hired to do certain tasks in the real world you invested time and effort as well as money for fares and food after the days work you are not getting the pay don't you think its scammed? And also how can you say you have not invested a dime in it when connecting to the internet cost you sonething the details you send cost you time and effort and with these info there might be possibility that they can get something with it in the long run.

[Adunni6758]

I have seen situations where someone else's details like telegram username, twitter username and other details were used by scammers. By the time a scammer knows that you are airdrop addict and you do not like missing any. What he will do is that, he would send forms out disguising to be real airdrop, but purposely to get some details. By the time he has those details, he would have filled forms using yours or other victims details before you think of filing yours and that is how you will continue to fill even the good airdrops without getting anything in return.

[mummybtc]

Not all free things are scam, but when you see 90% or even more turning to scam them people start to make conclusion that these are turning to a scam.

The issue I have about all these airdrops now is that how do they want to scale most people mentioned Bitcoin but the landsacpe has changed from 2009 when BTC was launched

[darkywis]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Yes it can, in a way the filling up the registration form asking for your personal information and your account details.

[micheal34]

Nothing is free in life even bounty people call free you are working for it by prompting the ico that rewards you after carrying out tasks give to you.

[shinratensei_]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

It has a lot of possibilities to be a scam project. The majority of free ico has created by scammers to grab money from the market. Never try to join any airdrop that gives any obligation to the participants to fill KYC requirements. There is a possibility your data will be used for illegal activity.

Look at the majority of free coin already traded in the market and how the majority of them worth nothing right now.

Because the creator has a purpose to created hype to his airdrop itself.

[sergeykravcov177]

I think that this will not happen once because such strange things happen. You choose a good project and it turns out to be thrown, everywhere is a lie.

[LUCKY21]

In my opinion, airdrops are a waste of time. I had experience of participation in airdrops. Coins were sent by only 5 - 7% of companies. And only 1 or 2% of coins are traded now on stock exchanges. Therefore, I think that you should not waste your time on this activity.

[virtualhero]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

The moment you join an airdrop and you tweet or retweet you are already an accessory to the scam because you advertise it. If anyone who buy on this ICO and the dev dump it and leave, those poor investor will left for nothing. You are also the one that should be blame  unless the airdrop that you join is legit and have a real project and a credible team.