REQUEST FOR GAS FEE TO GET PAID ARE SCAM.

[rahmatullah9305]

basically the airdrop program is a kind of giveaway that is used as a promotional tool, as a condition of getting free crypto tokens, participants usually have to follow orders to do certain tasks. I found lots of airdrops scattered about and almost everything was rubbish. Airdrops are now stubborn, from stealing user identities to someone who deceives potential airdrop participants frankly, because now airdrops ask us to fill in Private Key data and there are airdrops that ask us to transfer eth in small amounts but through links the website that they set, and I have seen the website, and the website is clearly phishing, so be careful choosing airdrop

[Astvile]

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.

Actually bounty hunting still pays off but don't expect to get the same amount as we are getting back in the days where bounty hunting will give you a lot of fortune. But if you're doing this as a part-time job you don't need to worry about getting a low reward from this.

[DonFacundo]

It's an old style to scam people, I remember in the year 2017 airdrops was profitable, instead of sign up the form and do a little task, scammers requires you to send a little amount of eth in order to get the token. Stay away this kind of airdrop it's a scam!.

[jessyj48]

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 have heard alot about scam projects that ask people for gas fee to receive their tokens but since i have been in this crypto space i haven't come across any which means they are easy to ignore or avoid, its an old version scamming skill and even if you see any of such just stay away

[trauchot]

Quite right, in almost all cases when someone from the company’s team asks airdrop or bounty hunters to pay for gas to get tokens for their work, it means that you either will not get anything or you will get tokens that won't even cost one cent , therefore it is better to bypass such frauds right away and you should not wind up your nerves because of such problems.

[r_delossa]

I cannot agree with you, because I have experienced another side of a coin. I took part in a bounty programme and devs ask to pay the gas fee, because sending rewards to participants would be roughly 50k USD, so I got my tokens and sold them successfully at the ICO price on exchange.

[asriloni]

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.

There are some airdrops are still using this kind of a crap trick to the airdrop participants to sent a little amount as gas fees to the developers. If the dev is a real developer with a lot of experience and the dev can create such a new contract that can be executed after the address was requesting to the smartcontract and this needs fees in the airdrop participant's wallet and the dev doesn't need to do a lot of effort for that.

This is an old trick but if you wanna try to search even more and you will find some airdrops are using this trick but even some scammers have made the airdrop participants to sent its privatekey.
This trick very similar to the phishing method.

[Javi_Anibarro]

I cannot agree with you, because I have experienced another side of a coin. I took part in a bounty programme and devs ask to pay the gas fee, because sending rewards to participants would be roughly 50k USD, so I got my tokens and sold them successfully at the ICO price on exchange.

Mind to tell me what project is it?
I never knew sending multiple transactions in ETH network could ask you that much of fees, what is the average fee he was using when he sent the transaction?
most dev or project who asked you to send some ETH to their address to cover up the transaction is a scam.
and your case is quite strange, how much you have spent and how much you get?

[Quidat]

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.

Nothing surprising on with these kind of scheme and this had been known already in the past where project owners
do ask out some gas fee for them to sent out those shit tokens?thats total BS if you do sensibly think on but there
were fools who do easily believe into those claims without even realizing that they are throwing out money into the
mouth of those scammers.Yes, gas fees are just too small but if its being accumulated it would really be still a good cost
for those scammers to enjoy on.Lastly, Bounty hunting is nearly considered to be totally dead nowadays.

[Impaler]

I normally don't participated in airdrops. Cause they are not worthy. Its waste of time. Normally airdrops are free. But if some airdrops  asked for gas fee I would suggest to not join them.

[X-ray]

I cannot agree with you, because I have experienced another side of a coin. I took part in a bounty programme and devs ask to pay the gas fee, because sending rewards to participants would be roughly 50k USD, so I got my tokens and sold them successfully at the ICO price on exchange.

Mind to tell me what project is it?
I never knew sending multiple transactions in ETH network could ask you that much of fees, what is the average fee he was using when he sent the transaction?
most dev or project who asked you to send some ETH to their address to cover up the transaction is a scam.
and your case is quite strange, how much you have spent and how much you get?

I guess that's just a luckiness on the side of that guy, The developers of that kind garbage coin usually use the money to make some kind of fake liquidities on the exchange (usually garbage exchange aswell) to bait people into adding liquidity and buying that coin so that developers could dump his coins that are created out of thin air even further resulting in a huge profit on the developer side. It is like that scheme when turning mainstream coin to ethereum blockchain still popular back then they are doing this kind of method and manipulating the pump and dump activities.
For the people out there just don't expect something from airdrop that demands money just for the sole reason of sending the reward, I mean if the developers can't even afford the fee what do you expect?

[erikalui]

Airdrops are a waste of time as mostly projects demand KYC details or end up paying few cents as tokens which cannot be even transferred anywhere as the gas charged is more than the worth of the tokens. I have seen projects charging GAS fee but they were genuine and not scam. I received few airdrops this year without even participating. I feel some are misusing my address to get paid.

[airdropdude]

You are 100% right and I have no doubt on this. Why would a project request for eth as gas fee and pay you with thier token which will never start trading 
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.

[airdropdude]

You are 100% right and I have no doubt on this. Why would a project request for eth as gas fee and pay you with thier token which will never start trading 
It's scam and no doubt.. Most people dont know this because they have no experienced people with them.

[Bitbtc8]

I hope you are not mixing things up, hope you aren't talking about claiming tokens through metamask that you will be ask to send little amount or zero eth to a contract address? if this is what you are referring to then it is legit and not scam, i have claim both airdrops and bounty tokens this way

[terencio]

I've joined one bounty recently, where the team asked for the small amount of gas fee to distribute the token, but based on the credibility of the team they are reliable, so anyway I sent and received my reward also. But this is only an exemption because I've participated a lot of their bounties.

[Lizzylove1]

Any project that request you pay gas to send your airdrop token, is a pure scam. They are actually saying they lack the capacity to make the project successful. Only neophyte fall for such cheap scam.

[livingfree]

How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?

Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.

Airdrops spread like wildfire before. You see a lot of twitter accounts and many telegram channels with thousands of followers sharing the airdrop forms. A newly created airdrop can get hundreds and thousands of registered participants in just an hour.

Yeah.

And all of those records were being stored by the manager or the bounty management or the company that ran that bounty. That's why all of those information were kept for another purpose.

It can be sold by them or they can use it again for another project to market. That's why if your email was receiving unnecessary notifications from different bounties, that might be the side effect of using your email through bounties.

[ven7net]

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 always considered participating in Airdrop wasted time. Almost 100% of all airdrops are hype. Deception is manifested, as in a very small amount of payment, by deceiving payment for a commission, and also often in a complete refusal to pay or to pay in part. Even those Airdrops who have fulfilled their conditions and paid, all have a terrible price for their token or coin. Unfortunately, what could have helped many participants get start-up capital just turns out to be ordinary fraud.

[Cacingkemi]

I've joined one bounty recently, where the team asked for the small amount of gas fee to distribute the token, but based on the credibility of the team they are reliable, so anyway I sent and received my reward also. But this is only an exemption because I've participated a lot of their bounties.

I think in the future you should be able to choose projects carefully with the professional team that is available. however it is very unethical if a project asks for gas costs in advance to distribute tokens that will be given to the participants. a professional team will certainly give their best for the projects they have developed and will not charge gas costs to each participant who participates in promoting it