Are airdrops safe?

[elisabetheva]

I don't think all airdrops are safe. There are few legit airdrop but it's very difficult to recover your gas fee for make transaction. There is few scammer who would ask you sign a message with their code, if you do that then you might lose your fund. Because by their code they are asking for fund, if you sign it fund would go to their address. So be careful about free airdrops.

It is true that airdrop actually seems to eliminate a lot because it might be an improper use and is very detrimental even though some are true. but because the prizes obtained were not appropriate and eventually many left and were not interested in airdrop.

[BennyK]

Just as we have some bounty programs ending up in scam, some airdrops can be scam. It is only up to the participant to research in order to know the authenticity of the airdrop before joining. Anyway, I don't participate in airdrops of late because they reward with few cents to about just $5.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

If you doubt about airdrop make it simple just leave it because you won't get a big profit from it. I often see many airdrop who ask the participant's KYC only for $25 it is not fair IMO. There is many ways to earn money through this forum especially, you can take part bounty campaign or signature campaign who paid with bitcoin. When I was newbie I often to taken part with airdrop event but till now I didn't feel the result from it, most of them are useless.

[Greatchu]

If you are interested in airdrops then find the right source that have verified airdrop campaigns because 90% of airdrops are useless tokens and the remaining 10% might not even pay you up to 20$

[ansarose1]

Airdrops could be safe but sometimes its dangerous because many airdrop campaigns now are not legit and only getting your follow with their social media accounts and left you behind without being paid. The saddest part is if the scam airdrop requires kyc, then your personal identity could be used by such scammers, too dangerous.

[peterlustig]

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?

So far I was never asked to sign a message for participating in any airdrop. Signing is a message is just way to prove that you are the owner of that wallet so I think it should be safe, but if any airdrop is asking you to enter your private keys or seed words than stay clear from those airdrops.

[Joyawan13]

some say here that some airdrops are dangerous and some say some airdrop is a scam, but not all airdrop is a scam, there are also many people who participate in airdrop that can make them benefit, so we want to participate in airdrop for sure we have to do some research first, and make sure the airdrop is safe and not scam, but of course it's not easy for us to distinguish it.

[vanjava]

while airdrop pays and there is a price I will definitely follow. during this time I followed airdrop still safe. especially when airdrop has been registered in the market, I will immediately do the airdrop task or rules correctly.

[fzatni]

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?

there is no advantage in following airdrop, I think 80% of airdrop scam, not paying, if you pay there is no price.  it does follow airdrop for free but you have to maintain the data.  it's better to just follow the bounty

[andika2018]

Airdrop safe but not profitable. I passed hundreds of airdrops and earned a lot of coins that cost nothing. Do not send money to any airdrop, do not give your personal data, private keys and passwords. Your MEW Wallet address can give. It's safe.

Agree, indeed the allocation for airdrop is small because of the large number of participants. As long as the airdrop doesn't need our documents for KYC, I think Airdrop is still safe to participate

[ccsang]

Message signing is a way you can prove you control a particular address and demonstrate you have ownership of the funds, sometimes people accidentally filled the private key into airdrop form, it's should be safe unless you giveaway private key to them, don't join the airdrop if they required participants import the private key to claim free tokens.

[chanc3r]

Airdrop safe but not profitable. I passed hundreds of airdrops and earned a lot of coins that cost nothing. Do not send money to any airdrop, do not give your personal data, private keys and passwords. Your MEW Wallet address can give. It's safe.

Not all airdrops are safe and as long as it's not asking our priv key and it can be considered as a safe airdrop. we are joining in the bad airdrop but those people have joined in decred airdrop or ontology earn thousand dollars of money. this time airdrop is dead.

[Smokey23]

any airdrop that asks for your private keys or passwords is an immediate RED FLAG! Just use your common sense and you'll be safe most of the time.  Most people in crypto are victims of their own mistakes.

[farraddy]

There are airdrops that require KYC procedure they request your personal data and even photos. But that airdrop requested private keys, I have not seen.

[pinoy.bolanon]

Some airdrops are legit but a lots of them are just scams and just collecting some private information, be careful about asking those private keys in the airdrop forms as they are 100% scams. Been in the industry for many years now, and i am so very careful about joining this airdrops because some of them are just scammers who are trying their best to victimized those who are unaware of the situations, spreading awareness is the most important thing now.

[notblox1]

Nowadays most of airdrops have almost no value at all.
Some of them are a scam, so open your eyes wide if you join any of them.

[rdewilde]

Although it has been long I had anything to do with airdrops but I have not seen anyone requesting users to sign their address. But however, I have seen many asking for private keys or directing users to a phishing website.
I think the days of airdrop is over as they hardly amount to anything good.

[asbak66]

Yeah I think, usually we only add our address to receive the token and doing some simple task like follow Facebook Twitter and looking for referrals. No need to worry asking as you dont give your private key.
And just wait for the token landed on your wallet

[#Darren]

Generally airdrops are safe, you are not doing more as subscribing to social media and filling a google form, so it cannot harm your data. However, you will get tons of spam emails, but this is the worst damage you can get by taking part in airdrop campaigns.

[coin-investor]

They are safe provided that they are not going to ask you to download anything ask your private key and do KYC I only participate on a bounty campaign that ask me to follow all their social media sites and promote their airdrop other than that I won't agree.