HOW CAN ONE KNOW A FAKE AIRDROP?

[Akiko]

I often encounter fake airdrops on the bot's telegram channel. and in my opinion, fake airdrop criteria such as offering high rewards and requiring participants to perform a KYC system or even asking participants to send ETH fees that are not worth the pay.

This is the mostly use platform that want to make fake airdrop.they are just want boost the group telling them they are given free tokens or coins  then selling the group they get many members to join.This is common happening right now I don't why still many people to continue joining of that kind of airdrop even they know that no one earning by participating in it. You will join in many groups but you will receive nothing in exchange for it

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[michjoe93]

dont pay anything for Airdrop to spread awareness about new coins and their products.legit Airdrop will not ask for any money

[tvplus006]

It actually can be tough sometimes to determine whether an airdrop is fake or not. I usually look through there website, LinkedIn, and whitepaper(if available) to determine whether the project is legit. I don't participate in KYC unless I 100% believe in the project.

Sometimes it is easier to perform the necessary actions to participate in an airdrop than to check its legality. This is the strategy followed by most bounty hunters who take part in all airdrops that they meet. Some, just like you, are stopped only by passing KYC, but this is also not an obstacle for most.

[YOSHIE]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

If you don't have time to investigate the web or the ANN Bounty/Airdrop developed in this Forum, you can visit here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0, every day, maybe you will find some Airdrops that you promote are scam or not.

The link I provided above can help you find out which Airdrop is a scam of at least 60%, and so on 40% more depending on you to consider and find out about the Airdrop that you are following a scam or not.

In general, half of the Airdrop journey is going, you will know a scam or not, based on what they show on ANN airdrop.

[CAPT.DEADPOOL]

It is easy to determine an airdrops if it is legit or a scam to determine if an airdrops is legit or a scam first look at their website when the website thinks you can check all their information especially their team leaders because the other is fake airdrops are imitating or they are using another picture of the person to put on their website most of the scam that airdrops is the telegram bot too many scams do it.

[Investo20]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

Most important thing is experience. There is some way by which we can find it. Like we have to observe their website very carefully. All the mandatory points like Team, Partnerships, News Articles, Whitepaper (where available), should be checked. Research about their team carefully. Check their Roadmap and compare their Twitter tweets with their roadmap. You will understand if they are working properly according to their plan or not. One of the best character of a genuine project is they work according to their roadmap and updated the community via twitter. So twitter is one of the best platform to track an project's progress.
Instead of all this many projects scam. Because they also know how we check any project. So they put fake team, fake products, fake updates about their project and also try to create wrong hype like "Binance listing" etc. And for this kind of projects our experience and knowledge comes into play to protect us. Proper knowledge about cryptocurrency network and products and helps you to understand and correlate the updates with the happenings.
And I strongly believe that never do kyc in any project that is not 100% confirmed genuine.

[Falconer]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

It's easy to detect fake and genuine airdrops, you only need to check the website, update information on Twitter and activity on the telegram group,
I'll explain a simple analysis:
1. Website, Every legitimate project has an elegant UX/UI appearance and is not duplicate
2. Information updates on twitter, make sure the team updates some information recently
3. Telegram group activity, every legitimate project has a main conversation about the project and the admin always gives the latest feedback
4. If already listed on the exchange, make sure the trading volume is real.

[totoy4741]

dont pay anything for Airdrop to spread awareness about new coins and their products.legit Airdrop will not ask for any money

This is the Golden Rule in Airdrop. Don't ever pay or send ethereum or anything in Airdrop that is definitely a big scam, airdrop rewards is for free, Another things is when the telegram group is newly created without any other contents and is filled with new members some other are bots that usually spams in the group.

[isaac_clarke22]

It actually can be tough sometimes to determine whether an airdrop is fake or not. I usually look through there website, LinkedIn, and whitepaper(if available) to determine whether the project is legit. I don't participate in KYC unless I 100% believe in the project.

This is a non-crypto but I remember someone busting fake tech scammers where their LinkedIn profile seems legitimate because there are a lot of people vouching for them in the feedbacks. Take it as another advise for everyone that LinkedIn feedbacks can be faked or even paid if that thing still happens these days.
LinkedIn might seem like a professional website for professional people but after I watched that video of scammers being busted and calling by their real names, I was moved.

[Sirait]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

This is something that is hard to guess, even an Airdrop from a large project can be a scam.

For Airdrop, I think you are prohibited from having big hopes and just think that your participation in the airdrop is just for fun. and of course, don't believe it if you are told to pay to join.

[Sondormonn11]

Its so tought to say now that which airdrop is real and which one fake. Perday lot of airdrop now introduced among them only 1 or 2 are real project and others are scam. But you can check some criteria like a real project must have an website, a roadmap, whitepaper ,active social media and team activity.

[bitgolden]

When one claims something so major that they are going to make super rich by joining them, you should know that it is not real.

I am saying the same thing for uniswap as well but people are not believing me right now, there are people who think each of that worths 400 dollars and they are going to have tens of thousands of dollars just because they joined, and some even managed to cash out as well somehow which I congratulate them for but the reality is when it is not locked and when it is exchanged to cash you are going to see that it worths nothing, nobody in the world would give you tens of thousands of dollars for free, why would they do that? What is it in it for them? This is why fake airdrops are fake obviously if you look at the amount they claim to give.

[abel1337]

There are many signs if it is a Good airdrop or Fake airdrop. Those who experience receiving airdrops today knows that most of the tokens they got have no value at all, If the token they received has a value, They just received a very small part of it. One of the obvious signs that an airdrop is fake is when the airdrop is requiring the participants to send eth for fees, Airdrop is some kind of promotion of the project, and letting participants spend for "gas" somehow make participants doubt about the project.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

99.99 percent of all telegram airdrops are fake and scam, am very certain about this, trust me, if you wanna participate in airdrops, choose any platform you like  but not telegram, some of this scammers have become so smart that when ever they launch a fake airdrop, it will be very difficult to tell if it's fake or not.

[adzino]

Stop trying to figure out how to spot a fake airdrop. Just ignore all of them. Since around 99.9% of those air drops are fake, it is not worth wasting your time collecting those shit coins and keeping track of each and every of those coins. You would be better off doing something more productive. And you need to be really lucky to get a good airdrop. Remember, airdrops are given for free and everyone receives them. So, there is always a high chance it won't be of any value other than few dollars. And like I said, you need to be extremely lucky to earn something significant from an airdrop. And its more like you have better odds placing bets on dices and winning something.

[Dedewahyu]

Stop trying to figure out how to spot a fake airdrop. Just ignore all of them. Since around 99.9% of those air drops are fake, it is not worth wasting your time collecting those shit coins and keeping track of each and every of those coins. You would be better off doing something more productive. And you need to be really lucky to get a good airdrop. Remember, airdrops are given for free and everyone receives them. So, there is always a high chance it won't be of any value other than few dollars. And like I said, you need to be extremely lucky to earn something significant from an airdrop. And its more like you have better odds placing bets on dices and winning something.

don't judge too quickly or you lose your chance because if you go on a legit airdrop like uni then you lose thousands of dollars
be a smart person see official news, white papers and moments
that is the key in my opinion

[jrrsparkles]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

If airdrops are worth and real it will make some noise on bitcointalk and other social media so don't waste your time by claiming every airdrop you see on telegram because 99% of them will be fake ones.There is no one rule to find whether the airdrop is real or fake but if you have the analytical skills to evaluate a project then it will help you in finding the real airdrop as well.

[GreenStox]

see the project visit the site and see the team, development, and others that make the project look convincing.
and actually most of the token airdrop will be sent but because of the high gas price then if your token is not sent it means the project is fake, because they don't intend to give the token, or the project is just a hoax.

[Pompa]

For the beginning of project airdrop we can't determine who's projects are trusted and been work. They are the same on figures and way in process. Always double check 8n participating airdop by reading their platform viste their site.

[DabsPoorVersion]

Anytime I go into my telegram account, I see countless number of airdrop with countless offers but the challenge is trying to know which of this airdrop that is genuine.

If airdrops are worth and real it will make some noise on bitcointalk and other social media so don't waste your time by claiming every airdrop you see on telegram because 99% of them will be fake ones.There is no one rule to find whether the airdrop is real or fake but if you have the analytical skills to evaluate a project then it will help you in finding the real airdrop as well.

That's probably true,

but the moment that we can see it on bitcointalk that the certain airdrop is being talked about, the airdrop is probably finished by that time. It only means that it is hard to know fake airdrops and legit ones.