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October 05, 2019, 11:03:36 AM
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Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
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October 05, 2019, 11:43:15 AM
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I would tend to agree that bounty hunting is no longer profitable this year. I guess this is due to the bearish alt market. But there are still a lot of companies who you just describe. They still bounty hunters to promote their site through air drops.

But in the end, it's either they ask for your private key to be able to deposit (allegedly) but this is obvious a scam or just ask some gas, which I think doesn't make sense to me. Why would a project ask it's hunter a gas just to be able to deposit your reward?
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October 05, 2019, 12:31:47 PM
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I use to see a lot of these give-me-gas-fee airdrops when I was a very active hunter back in 2017. I also call them scamdrops because gas fees should be handled by the team distributing it. If they cannot even take care of the gas fees, then that means they have no funds to develop their own project.

If you see something like this, better report it or try to inform participants in their twitter/telegram groups. You will likely get banned but at least you've done your part.
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October 05, 2019, 12:38:58 PM
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Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
Its just old scamming trick,not sure still people falling for it? Its just an obvious scam when they ask you small amount of ETH to give their tokens.
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October 05, 2019, 12:43:03 PM
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Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.
Thats an obvious scam why they wanted your "private key" and need some gas to be able to get paid, But sometimes some Bounty Campaigns needs some gas in return to send your tokens in your address by sending it to the "given smart contract" from the company and not directly needed any participants private key or whatsoever, dont fall for that crap its an obvious scammed! and I agree to your opinion that 2019 is a fruitful year for bounty hunters and thats real deal and we cant do anything about it.
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October 05, 2019, 12:46:55 PM
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How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way? Or you mean they lure their victims with fake ICO, IEO or airdrop then turn around to demand for ether gas fee from those who want their coins sent to them?

People accept this airdrops blindly unfortunately. They do not research the projects to know if they are scams or not.
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October 05, 2019, 01:08:30 PM
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whatever the form, if you have been asked something from the bounty or AirDroid that you follow immediately stay away from the project.
one more thing from me if the project looks suspicious like having to buy their tokens on the web in order to get the bounty to leave immediately, because that is also the way cheaters ensnare you.
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October 05, 2019, 01:29:05 PM
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Gone are the days when airdroppers and bounty hunters were making it big in the hunting. Nowadays, a lot of people claim to be working on a crypto project do so just to disguise to obtain funds with ill intentions from the public. Most of these project conduct neither ICO nor IEO. They only call on airdroppers to publicize their tokens in return for payment in the publicized token. They use the airdroppers to build their communities. The hunters refer one another with the hope of getting paid.
The will the get their shock of life when the project team demand for little tokens as gas fee for the reward to be sent. Most of them have big pool of participants who if they should pay, the team easily cart away several thousands of dollars worth of ETH.

I remember what happened with STCDR project, after several weeks of marketing by bounty hunters, during distribution, they created a new token and distributed to hunters saying that the token is a gateway to the STC community and not tradable unless hunters donate some eth so they can list it on exchange. It was ridiculous
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October 05, 2019, 01:41:59 PM
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Its just old scamming trick,not sure still people falling for it? Its just an obvious scam when they ask you small amount of ETH to give their tokens.

The trick is really very old. However, there are still people who fall for this simple trick. In particular, this happens in the bounty, when the participant has a good jackpot, but to get it you need to pay a little. From the latest examples of such scams, I can highlight the Neluns project. Also I have no idea who will do this for the sake of coins from airdrops.

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October 05, 2019, 01:44:20 PM
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yes this is common in projects that distribute airdrops. they say to get the prize we have to send the GAS fee. but in the end none of the tokens entered into the pallet. this is a scam, and very detrimental they just want to get a free token. that's why I don't recommend that you participate in projects like this.

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October 05, 2019, 01:47:52 PM
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this is common in airdrops. maybe the amount requested by them is small, but still this is very problematic. there are many bounty hunters who were fooled. and more sadly this is not a new problem. this problem has existed since popular airdrop first. but there are still many who are fooled.
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October 05, 2019, 03:09:55 PM
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I have participated some airdrops before and to be honest it is just like bounty ,
It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.

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October 05, 2019, 03:20:55 PM
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I have participated some airdrops before and to be honest it is just like bounty ,
It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.
The truth is that if you only participate in the airdrop as a normal person with an account you will not earn a bit. Airdrop is a race of a group of people or people with hundreds of accounts.
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October 05, 2019, 03:28:59 PM
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This has been a long time, and working in a telegram group, even many on behalf of large or well-known projects to look for victims. I've also seen posting on the original Facebook, so fraudsters make accounts like original project and comment on original project post that contains fake airdrop. Need to be alert.
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October 05, 2019, 03:46:18 PM
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Well, those days were just part of your memories now. Since last year, many bounties were not really profitable and realizing it until now. The remaining existing bounties, don't hope for something with them.

They can be from known and unknown companies and the procedure that they conduct is the same as others so the results are likely to be the same. There's still a few that pays but I wouldn't bother or waste my time of joining them.

How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?
Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.

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October 05, 2019, 03:51:43 PM
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Anything and everything that asks you to pay at first are scams. If you are no completely sure about what you are doing, don't even send a penny to anyone. There are many fake airdrops that collects your emails, social profiles and access to different functions in your social profiles and some even dare to ask private keys from the unsuspecting users. If you need to participate in such airdrops, just create a dedicated email, wallet and social profiles for them.



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October 05, 2019, 03:56:12 PM
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Anything and everything that asks you to pay at first are scams. If you are no completely sure about what you are doing, don't even send a penny to anyone. There are many fake airdrops that collects your emails, social profiles and access to different functions in your social profiles and some even dare to ask private keys from the unsuspecting users. If you need to participate in such airdrops, just create a dedicated email, wallet and social profiles for them.

Don't even bother to send them your email in exchange for airdropped coins. That is another bait that you are taking. Even if you say that you are creating a special email for that airdrop alone, that is still a waste of your time. The best thing to do with these airdrops is to completely ignore them. One of the reasons why they are thriving despite the history of airdrops which are mostly failures is that a lot of newbies give their attention to them. 
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October 05, 2019, 07:36:19 PM
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There were many such projects in 2017. And from many received coin, truth most of them so and remained in purses and their more not sell. It's garbage. So Yes, it's most likely scammers. I remember only a few bounty campaigns that were asked to send a little Ethereum to receive payments and everything went fine, even on the exchanges after that listed.

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October 05, 2019, 09:53:28 PM
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Every person who is requesting money promising to give you more is probably a scammer, and everyone should be alert.

An airdrop which requests gas fee... or a project that request eth to pay for the bounty hunters, or someone who asks "send me 0.1 eth and I will send back 1 eth" or anything like that...

Stay away from anything like that, because probably it is just a scam.

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October 05, 2019, 11:11:38 PM
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Why would a project ask it's hunter a gas just to be able to deposit your reward?
Some projects ask for gas to prevent people with multiple accounts from participating because the multiple account users won't want to be sending small gas from all the wallets they used for the airdrop/bounty.

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