How to find if airdrop is fake

[adam1230]

Nowadays its really hard to spot a legit ICO.
Most of them ends with fails and you work for free.
So i was not applying on bounties and airdrops for a long period.

[nemey]

Well, it is good analysis. I also always check the telegram group whether they are seemly trusted or not to hold ICO, bounty,  airdrops, or the programs. Then, never forget about analyzing their team member based on their social media and other link. So that we can check whether they are real or not.

[S[m]OKE]

Yes, there are a lot of coins with the same name, and I don’t think that it’s just like that. Most likely they are fraudsters who hope for inattention.

[terible.hunter]

I think you should check the project that is doing an airdrop. If the project is legit, I would also join its airdrop and I do not think that you should invest so much time in checking an airdrop status. Just ask the admins in Telegram.

And what do you think they should tell you? It seems to me that the situation as a whole resembles some sort of market, where you can come and ask the seller whether the goods are fresh? Of course he will say that everything is fine.

[KKH84]

In my experience it's mostly airdrop from tokens that use the Ethereum platform, so I look for the contract address between the original token and the fake token in airdrop and it's very clear that it's different, so we can be sure that it is fraud.

[isen]

Look for the root cause as a project, study the project itself, the idea, the team, partners, white paper. Find project weaknesses and ask questions about them. So you can determine how good the project is, and if it’s good, then everything that it offers is also good.

[coin-investor]

For me all airdrops are fake, they are distributing their token, because they knew that the receiver of these airdrops will help them get into the market, from there the dev will pour all their bags and those who bought will end up losing their investment.

[poktur]

Even this does not always help to know whether Airdrop is fake or not, from such a large amount of quality there are very few, and those who will bring even less profit!

[PattersonRaquel]

Before making any Airdrop, I checked them. I will visit the telegram of the project and ask them if Airdrop is real or not. It will help me avoid fake Airdrop . You mentioned the preventive methods in the post. It is good for everyone

[nonbody]

Thank you for your reminder. Under normal circumstances, I will only collect free airdrop tokens. If there is any expenditure in exchange for airdrop tokens, I will not hesitate to close the webpage.

[Altero]

Even this does not always help to know whether Airdrop is fake or not, from such a large amount of quality there are very few, and those who will bring even less profit!

I don't see any airdrop that could give us much,  it only just a pity. I've participated a lot of airdrops before but it is so sad that only few of them will give their promise.  It lead into the possibilities that mostly airdrops are just a scam and never expect to have them. That is why,  I stop from doing it and focus on bounties and trading.

[Enzo05]

I do not encounter those fake airdrops because I just look at the official telegram group chat about their announcement if they will be having airdrop .

[cryptolord2077]

For me, the first indicator of a scam airdrop is the need to go through an KYC, or install some third-party application or wallet. That’s how fraudsters get access to our information.

[wattson]

The easiest way to find out if the airdrop is fake or not - is to enter the telegram chat of this project and ask admins there. If there are no telegram chats you can check their social media accounts: Twitter, Facebook, Medium. Also check if they have Discord channel or Slack. The last way to check this issue is writing to their support via email.

[Enzos]

In fact, these experiences are meaningless. In fact, the airdrop mission has been abused. Like the ICO project, they have been abused. Now ICO is dead and the airdrop mission disappears. Perhaps this is a purification of the cryptocurrency market, but I am not sure if it will be reborn.

[pieppiep]

the way you give it is very true and I strongly agree with you, to be able to know the authenticity of the existing airdrop you should be able to ask on the telegram group chat that you can see on their website, make sure they actually provide an airdrop program so you can knowing that the program exists and is not fake.

[feelideb]

I suppose it should be easy to spot the fake airdrop in cryptocurrency community. In the past, airdrops are one of cryptocurrency activities that unite the community to achie e development for their airdrpp project. One of he way to spot fake airdrop is when they insist thay you send money !

[cryptolove.143]

If it's too good to be true it probably is. Another telltale sign of a scam if asking for your private key.

[santiPOGI]

First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..

99 percent of airdrop are not in the exchange, Therefore you can't find it there.
Coinmarketcap needs to have 3 exchanges on before listed on CMC and need a 24 hours volume cap.
It is okay to join many airdrop as long as you can but never do KYC.

[Herdirfauzi]

This TIP based only on my experience how to know if the airdrop is fake

Few months ago i encounter a fake airdrop using a TELEGRAM BOT.
An airdrop bot pretending as a real airdrop of a coin already listed on CMC

How i find out if they're scam or not?
First i search the name of coin on COINMARKETCAP from there i saw the legit website of that coin..
Second i search the TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT link from the WEBSITE of coin
Then i ask the ADMIN in TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT if the airdropbot i saw is legit or not and they said to me its not legit..the COIN that using airdropbot i encounter are using only the name of their coin.


Another FAKE AIRDROP i saw last month is BITAIR, BITAIR asking for selfdrop to buy their token
i search the BITAIR WEBSITE and i find it.i see the TWITTER account from there website
and i notice on there last post was november 2017 if im not mistaken, and bit air ico sale was ended last november.

Both of this type of airdrop are SCAM, I noticed they both collecting a member for their TELEGRAM CHANNEL and collecting FOLLOWER on their twitter account, And asking for selfdrop then dissapear after of ICO Sale.

I hope this post can help some NEWBIE to avoid to be a victim of airdrop with selfdrop SCAM SCHEME.

Any other tip on checking if airdrop is legit?

from various kinds from Airdrop, just as there are various people who are troubled if they want to get tokens must send KYC. looking for legit Airdrop is indeed rather difficult, it is better if indeed we want to get payment try to join in the bounty, I am more confident bounty than Airdrop.