Are airdrops safe?

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Don't waste your time participating with those airdrops that only provides small to nothing in value. The market is no longer friendly with such activities unlike before where you can earned huge amount by doing small things. Participating with airdrops who required you to process KYC needs to be reassess
as there are many cases where participants identities were collected without any rewards.

Indeed, most airdrop nowadays were asking the participants to pass their kyc. So kyc is become a thing and a must to do before you get the reward. Looks like such thing is to prevent people from using several or dozens of alts account so they could get more than what they supposedly have.

Some airdop might have a good value in the future, but the others not so lucky to have a good price. That is why, it's best to not blindly following any airdrops you see. Especially if it's from a shady projects or something.

Yes airdrops are safe but the rewards are very small, and in the end you will need to pass your kyc just to get that reward. 20$ for the kyc ? For now i stop joining in airdrops why because its not worth my time.

Quote from: pallang on December 05, 2019, 03:44:28 PM

Airdrops are safe and I agree with you but mostly these airdrops doesn't have a good value and I can say don't have any value and I recommend you don't join and apply for them, and do better work and earn money

It's an obvious fact that the cryptocurrency space is faced with diverse risks and airdrops are not left out. I know some airdrops require participants to input some details, sign into accounts or register in a platform. These information could be harvested and used for other negative purposes. I understand that there are good and legit airdrops, but there are also bad ones lurking.

Quote from: viananda2525 on December 01, 2019, 04:44:02 PM

Quote from: djkyno on November 30, 2019, 06:33:03 PM

No, there are so many fake and shady airdrops, so you have to be very careful before participating in any airdrop nowadays. There are many hackers and stealers trying to steal cryptocurrencies by spreading the word about their scammy airdrops. Especially don't make any KYC or give your private keys to any airdrop.

mostly yes, many airdrop program could not continue their project and finally dying. If they required some eth or private we have to avoid it. Hackers behind on this program. Many saya that used to lie us in airdrop. But by this case we should not generalize airdrop. But some pay us too in huge amount.

Well it is an airdrop which means free coins and when they ask even a little amount of money or ask too much information then it is safe to say that it is only a scam and they will use the information you have entered there in some illegal things. Analyze the airdrop first if it is a legitimate one then join but if you cannot see if a airdrop is a scam or not better for you to stay away from it, the money you thought you'll get will not be worth it once a hacker gets your information.

If an airdrop requires KYC, I wouldn't bother with it. In fact, it's probably not worth bothering regardless, as most of the time the coins end up being close to worthless.

I guess one exception might be the energi airdrop, but not sure if they plan to do any more of those.

Quote from: poornamelessme on December 10, 2019, 03:27:46 AM

I don't know how you say that you will not get any bother while you verifying the KYC with good or bad ICO projects airdrop campaign. Always know that no one will give security for you in the cryptocurrency field.
If you want to keep yourself safe you can stay from the airdrop campaigns which is not at all worth for the efforts we spend

Only a few times I followed the airdrop, some paid well and some did not pay. In my experience, most of them do not pay. And I have never experienced anything like you, having to sign and hand over funds to them before they send their airdrops to participants. Most likely you cheated by them and do not let you have been fooled and lost your money.

Quote from: sayaya17 on December 12, 2019, 08:07:19 AM

Only a few times I followed the airdrop, some paid well and some did not pay.

good for you that you only follow airdrops a few time but not all the time like most of us here do because if you do , you will feel how its like to be scammed and not paid . you feel verry tired from long days / months of working and in the end your efforts are not paid off . whats good of you is that you still got paid for the few times you spent doing them .

Quote from: sayaya17 on December 12, 2019, 08:07:19 AM

I have never experienced anything like you, having to sign and hand over funds to them before they send their airdrops to participants.

what you mean by that ? sign a meesage on the wallet address that you send to them ? to be able for them to verify that it was you so that they can send your rewards ? thats also new to me .

basically, when airdrops ask you to sign an address with a code or anything in the requirements then at least it is the first step for us to be careful of and if i'm in that position then as soon as possible i will leave it. hey, there are still many ways to get a free token and we should be aware of that

I think the role of airdrop tokens is only to attract the attention of investors. As long as it does not involve users' critical property issues, it is generally safe.

Quote from: ereborltc on December 21, 2019, 01:31:21 PM

I think the role of airdrop tokens is only to attract the attention of investors. As long as it does not involve users' critical property issues, it is generally safe.

Most of the airdrops are free, however, there are also airdrop that you need to invest in a certain coin to be entitled for an airdrop.
For instance, Pundix, had airdrop when you hold its token, but it's already over.

Quote from: justinjja on July 26, 2019, 05:29:30 PM

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?

be careful of frauds that often occur in crypto ... many ways they do to cheat crypto users ... don't let us give something that can be self-destructive just because of a big offer and in the end we don't get anything from it even we lose because it has become their victims ... and in my knowledge while participating in various airdrops, just asking for KYC and following their social media accounts ... that's all I do if I follow airdrop .

Airdrops are safe unless they ask you to make deposit or they ask you to send out your private keys which obviously is a scam, the highest set back you can find yourself in is never getting paid, i suggest you join very popular airdrops