Don't share your first email or KYC documents with every bounty or airdrop!!!

[jhongzjhong]

now a lot of projects are asking for KYC and it turns out that their projects are scam, they are very clever to cheat people by making an airdrop and bounty task and they make their projects expensive with their own fake exchange then after many register and KYC they don't raise gifts and the price of their coins is small change, they are very easy to get KYC people with this fraud is very sad that fraudsters do

Something you're keen. Create a working project (token + exchange) to just get your personal data is at least laborious. As it has already been written here, many are ready to give them for receiving tokens for airdrop.

There are some people willing to exchange their personal identity just with small dollars. I hate airdrops, asking too much task before you can get nonsense token and that include your KYC as your personal data. Then, you don't know without any research the projects you've passed verification had been shutting down and may use your personal data or maybe they sell into the dark web. Same as you have been shared your active Gmail address use.

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[Chicky213]

Some of this projects just want to take advantage of hunters and collect personal information for their personal gain or business. The rewards are always not worth sharing these personal info at all. Most even end up as scam.

[Nesbee2]

 I don't give out my kyc document for cheap Airdrops and even some bounties are not worth my true identity . the rate at which bounties are asking hunters to do kYC now is alarming .

you could imagine an Airdtop that pays less than $10 asking for KYC from Airdroppers. and most of these Airdrops are nothing but scam including some bounties.  we just have to be careful how we sell our identity for peanuts.

[Lan75]

I don't give out my kyc document for cheap Airdrops and even some bounties are not worth my true identity . the rate at which bounties are asking hunters to do kYC now is alarming .

you could imagine an Airdtop that pays less than $10 asking for KYC from Airdroppers. and most of these Airdrops are nothing but scam including some bounties.  we just have to be careful how we sell our identity for peanuts.

I can understand that it is not worth our KYC those cheap airdrops but in bounties wherein you have huge stakes, are you willing to give up your KYC knowing that those asking may sell our documents to the black market as what OP stated? We should take a stand on stopping campaign managers asking for KYC for bounties and airdrops.

[blackhawkeye1912]

I don't give out my kyc document for cheap Airdrops and even some bounties are not worth my true identity . the rate at which bounties are asking hunters to do kYC now is alarming .

you could imagine an Airdtop that pays less than $10 asking for KYC from Airdroppers. and most of these Airdrops are nothing but scam including some bounties.  we just have to be careful how we sell our identity for peanuts.

Two years ago, airdrop was a good source of extra income somehow. But these days, they're not worthy enough. Just like you'd said, if coverted to dollar, that amount is not worth the risk. This is the problem with other airdrops, they asked for kyc considering tge small amount. I can't blame the promoters because there are still people being persuade to give kyc.

[Shova]

I strictly deny to join any bounty that asks for my personal documents. I'm okay with sharing my social profile, photos or even had a face to face talk with the bounty managers. But I'd never share my government issued documents as their illegal use may bring me into trouble.

[ansarose1]

As far as i remember couple of years ago kyc is not required by a bounty campaigns and even airdrops, now i dont know why is it necessary to do so. Thus, they requiring kyc yet we dont even know if the bounty campaign and airdrop we join would be a successful. Maybe its not safe joining bounties and airdrops that requires kyc.

[princeyeboah]

Good work done OP. It is surprising how the issue of KYC and AML have popped up recently and there is no doubts about the fact that most of the projects that ask for KYC and AML are scam or incapable of surviving on the market. What then do these projects need our scanned documents for? Investors and bounty hunters must think through this carefully and perform series of research into the project before submitting their scanned documents.

[Msworld83]

I dont think there is no way someone will participate in bounty and will not submit email to really track your record for any notification, you just have to be careful in giving out the data and so many project don't ask for kyc at beginning again but at last point where people can't go back and you know what that means to them , which show that most of those project are scammer and ready to use the kyc to scam participants and also sell their details .

[wwzsocki]

I know one thing. I have participated in many airdrops, bounties and used a few made up emails to do so.

These emails are literally lost. The amounts of spam are so overwhelming that I already missed multiple updates and notifications from this 5% of legitimate projects.

There is no doubt that all these emails are sold, as I have described in the OP (used for marketing purposes).

Multiple times when signing to a bounty or airdrop one have to confirm the email by a code or link click.

This is when one gets on the list and additionally give them permission to mail further, which this stops swaps and email services from banning such actor.

From hundreds of airdrops and bounties, I got maybe 10$ in total last year. So is it really worth to feed these scammers further?

If we will keep signing up with new emails to new airdrops, bounties and promotions of all sorts and give them the fuel to move on forward with this shady business then nothing will change never.

All depends on us. Is enough to stop with this bullshit.

[SirLancelot]

So if a project requested for someone information it is necessary for you to give out your information only for you to get your reward from them.

Email and KYC are not remotely same things. Email is something you can open in 10 minutes and than you can never check that again unless you have to whereas KYC is your own personal information that you are giving. I would agree that never give your ID or anything to anyone without a proper reason but if you want to give your email and have to do what I did, open one mail for stuff you do not want to give your actual email and use that not just on crypto but anywhere you don't want to share your real email.

[franciscoDC]

Yes,do not be daze in a little amount of money for the sake of your security because giving too much of identity is not good for you, you better watch now what was currently happening in our society they used many fake account or fake identities for some illegal activity so be smart at that.

[Indrawan77]

This is a great information and this need to be implemented, when I was newbie I ever join a faucet using my real email and its end up badly, I got notification that my account being accessed from abroad, so from this lesson I learned that email need to be separated when you want to register in some site, kyc is a big no no when it comes to airdrop

[RDNX]

This is very useful information.
I have regretted giving my personal data to register some free airdrops.
I just found out that it turns out that personal data can be sold in such a way on Dark Web.

[Ozero]

We just need to wait for government regulation of ICO projects. I do not think it is legal to require ICO bounty campaigners to undergo KYC checks.
In my state (Ukraine) there is a law on the protection of confidential information of citizens, in which the right to demand such information belongs only to public authorities in clearly defined cases. But here we give such information to some unfamiliar temporary public organizations that do not know how to keep it and what to do with it further. I think that soon we will have common rules for regulating the activities of ICO and then the period of its "wild" activities will end. If the OCO teams do not have the right to right, then we will not be obliged to pass any KYC checks.

[wwzsocki]

We just need to wait for government regulation of ICO projects. I do not think it is legal to require ICO bounty campaigners to undergo KYC checks...

I am quite sure they are not entitled to perform KYC by themselves which is mainly the fact and for sure not full scans only covered with only main information visible like name, photo, country. If not they have hired somebody to do KYC for them with all needed standards of safety. This is already so expensive that this airdrops can't afford this.

This is sad trues but 95% of times in airdrop the main commodity are the documents collected from members and emails. This would be sold as described in the OP multiple times to many marketing services. Is enough to look at such a bounty email and how many spam it receives. There is no way to find something between this spam. All messages are already in the spam folder market correctly by Google algorithms.

Of course, there were legitimate bounties and airdrops in the last few years but I can count them on my fingers and they never asked for KYC or even email.

[delarossa]

Thank you for warn us about this. But in this time now we have to see many bounty campaign inform about the KYC process to all bounty hunter. Actually I am a little worries about that, because our data will be used for the criminal actions if that fall to the wrong person.

[wwzsocki]

Thank you for warn us about this...

I see that this thread caught a lot of attention so there are for sure plenty of people who already shared their documents with airdrops and I hope this will be a warning for all newbies to better research all free coins giveaways with KYC, which is insane when one only think for a second about this.

[Crypto5060]

But this claim is wrong...

I don't understand you? Which claim is wrong?

Please be more specific and I will be happy to answer your question.

I reffered to the claims companies make when taken to court as you stated. My point is they're telling lies as they ask for full documents of individuals during kyc. Hope you get me now?

[Gabteb]

Yep you are right sometimes tokens or coins don't worth it even some exchanges don't worth your personal info as even good ones sometimes get hacked so all your personal info can be sold anywhere in the internet space.