Are airdrops safe?

[Aldrinx00]

I never experienced something that i need to sign in to prove that i own the wallet, however there's some that are asking private key which is already a big red flag. Airdrops are meant to be free for all so if they're asking for a sign in or private key avoid it.

[Jadesola]

Most of the airdrop we have now are not safe anymore, it is either somebody somewhere is trying to steal the information of the people or someone somewhere is trying hard to scam the people, beware.

[Mame89]

I prefer to join social media campaigns and participate in ICO or IEO projects with my own trust managers, rather than joining various airdrops where the results cannot necessarily be traded while we get them by doing KYC which I think is very detrimental because we don't know what was done to our identity after the campaign ended.

[Musekay]

I dont think therw is any harm in filling out airdrop forms that do not require your private keys. Yes it might be free but you have to be guided. Exposing your private key in the process of filling a form is a no no

[Chomsy]

You have to beware of airdrops that come up with any kind of signing stuff. It's taking them directly to your wallet address and if you have valuable tokens there, they will all be gone in a minute.

[globalking]

I don't know of course some of them are genuine and most of them are scams so be careful before you try to do an airdrop.

[MI6]

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

I think sign message is not affect on bitcoin transaction. Because it is only prove that we are the owner of the address. And in bitcointalk, we do sign message too if we want and no problem come with it. And it is really helpful when we lose our account.

[sunstrachaisawas]

even this one you questioning guys? instead of being thankful, duh! It's just a rewards and your just need claim it. How could it be unsafe??  Anyway. people nowadays are full of negativity thats why the complains and rants will be never ended!

[Caishen_Project]

The truth is u have to be careful of some links, u may not be aware they malicious links, but they are sent out to steal your information. And another thing is don't send any BTC or ETH to any Airdrop. Airdrop is supposed to be free, they can only ask u to do some tasks for you to get your tokens

[Rooster101]

Only few airdrops are legitimate and profitable, others might include phising links from hackers. Any airdrop offers with suspicious links should be avoided and that includes offer that require signing messages, they should be investigated instead. Rewards from real airdrops is small compared to bounties and it takes time before it is finally distributed.

[Impaler]

Yeah they are not any harm for me. If you are not sharing too much of your data like KYC or even private key for an airdrop. They normally need wallet information and some online identification that it. But now a days they are nothing but wasting of time for me. Most of the airdrops are priceless or so little in price that you can even changed it to othr coins. So I'd ont recommend airdrops now. So in my opinion they are not harmful but they not worthy of time.

[Mehr Sher]

Frankly speaking, this is entirely to do with our choice of Airdrop Campaign, if the selection is not good, it will not be helping anyone. However, if we make better selection, it will certainly help us to gain. If we join up random Airdrop Campaign, it will just take us nowhere, so this is where it is so vital that we put efforts into figuring out if it’s worthy or not and proceed only if we are certain, it’s not just about gains but also time which could be lost otherwise.

[masterusd]

Participate in airdrop sometimes is very good and safe unless you do not send your private key, or required KYC, be aware that one scam project required KYC to stolen your identity.

[mdenys]

As for me ,doing bounties of a few interesting projects is much much more profitable than taking part in hundreds airdrops.But I have never had any issues with security of airdrops ,all of them were safe.

[Andrews193]

I prefer to waste my time with the bounty campaigns instead of the airdrops. I never download the mentioned Softwares and I understand the risks associated with downloading the dangerous files as "wallet".

Well, the risk received from downloading some files during work with airdrop is what everyone has shared, and therefore, if faced with projects that have these requirements, it is wise to not participate because a very small reward then we lose bigger amounts, that's very silly. And besides this case, a lot of projects are also just scams for participants, their tokens are often not worthwhile, joining them only gets junk, airdrop is really unsafe, if any anyone who wants to participate and make money, bounty is the logical path as you say

[slaman29]

Unless you send your private keys there will not be any problem regarding the airdrops, it has been proved so many times. I never download the third-party software and my personal computer has never been hacked.

As long as you keep control of your private keys I agree, airdrops are harmless. But there are sneaky ways, for example, some airdrops need an email, and then some people keep their 2fa on the same email. When that happens you expose your email, and if it's hacked, so is your 2FA.

And of course there are those who keep addresses on simple websites with weak passwords.

[Delilonia1]

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

Airdrops are actually safe but you have to stay clear of airdrops that require you installing an app or sending them your private keys. If you are careful of this, your mind will be at rest as the chance of losing your BTC will be very slim or impossible

[iyah adrian]

It's safe if you only provide email-telegram- and your ETH address

That is what I want to say that airdrop is safe.

But if like airdrop requires exchange account. email, or ETH private key, you should stay away because it's the airdrop fake and it's scam

If it's like this, I won't participate in the airdrop. And also I want to add a little, Never send KYC just to join the airdrop.

[AdamRay]

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

No, that will not happen. Bitcoin transactions will not require a signature, the word needs private key or key store to log in to the wallet and start trading.
they are not important about signature forms, they are important about the personal information you provide, especially the passport.

[rincoeng1986]

The way they usually work is they give you some string and you sign it to prove you own the address.

Could a malicious air drop make a transaction sending all your BTC to them, and then you sign it, and then they broadcast it to the network?
Or is signing a message different than signing a transaction?

Airdrops are actually safe but you have to stay clear of airdrops that require you installing an app or sending them your private keys. If you are careful of this, your mind will be at rest as the chance of losing your BTC will be very slim or impossible

So far, Airdrops only requires participants to join the telegram and tweet their official Twitter tweets and if there is an Airdrop that requires participants to send a number of funds either eth or btc, you can be sure it is an airdrop scam and don.t  enter your private key in the airdrop registration form.