Scammers are using the name of Airdrop to take the wallet's private key.

[ScamViruS]

Now that the crypto market is on an up trend, it is easy to assume that there are a lot of new users coming to the crypto market. The activities of scammers are increasing by competing with the market. And by exploiting this state of the market, scammers are looking for ways to trap newcomers to every step.

The most commonly used method by scammers today is to create phishing websites fake giveaway/ airdrop. This allows scammers to easily scam new crypto users. These scams are far more dangerous than the fake giveaway of the rules for sending funds. Because once a victim sent money of a scam, people realize that he has been cheated. And there is no risk to the rest of their wallet funds. So he will not make such a mistake second time. But these Private key theft scams are very risky in this case. Because if a crypto user gives the private key of their hodl fund wallet to join this airdrop, then his entire fund will be taken by the scammers.Then there is nothing left for them to do, they face huge losses due to their own mistakes and greed.

Because there is a misconception among the newcomers that it is possible to make a quick profit from crypto. So they participated in everything in the hope of a quick profit, and the scammers continue to exploit this greed of the newcomers. So our responsibility is to keep newcomers away from such scams, to give them accurate information about crypto. I think the method that scammers are currently using to steal private keys should be discussed in detail. So I am creating this thread. I'm trying to discuss in detail, using Ocean's fake airdrop website as an example.





The first page contains a detailed discussion of their purpose. This page discusses as many tempting offers as possible, making people more interested in this airdrop of scammers. They put more information on this page about the fund hold in the wallet.



This page is designed to collect information about the wallet address and the number of funds held in that address. The second step is to collect such general information. After providing this information, their real purpose will be understood in the next step.




This page is for the most important scammers as well as crypto users. Because if the crypto users provide the information that the scammers want on this page, they will lose all the funds in their wallet. They will force you differently to send your wallet confidential information to them. Scammers have created this website only for this page.



And here is some information about the wallet. They want the private key of these wallets from you. So you have to be careful at every step in the crypto world.


The private key of your wallet is a very secret thing not to share it with anyone. It is very important to know well about those things before investing in anything. You don't have to provide a private key to get the official airdrop, the main purpose of those who say to provide your private key is to gain access to your wallet. So be smart yourself and fu** the scammers.

[Charles-Tim]

People that know nothing about bitcoin are supposed to be using bitcoin wallet, normally a person that fall for this type of obvious scam is a little foolish, please, permit me to use that word, but although anything can happen. I think the requisite to using a wallet is to know that private key should be personal and should not be disclosed to anyone, that it can be used by another person to access the wallet to hijack all or part of the bitcoin stored on it.

Using bitcoin and bitcoin wallet is easy, but the truth to be known about bitcoin before using it at all. Truth like not disclosing your private key to anyone.

[Hamphser]

One of the most basic scamming scheme on this market where airdrops, giveaways and other promotions that just masking out to be legit but
in the end they do really try to pull out some scamming attempt for them to lure in people to input their private keys.For people who doesnt have
much knowledge about on how important their private key is will most like to be victimized by this one.. Someone shouldnt really be giving out
these sensitive information because once a certain person do have these keys then they do have the full access into your wallet.Its just common sense.

[hugeblack]

It is a very old ploy and its idea was developed by creating wallets and promoting it as safe.

[erikoy]

Yes, they are not only targetting btc but also the small amount of crypto you had in eth wallet or in an online wallet usually eth. The new comers are always their target because they are new and most of them are get hype whenever they receive a token giving the promise to earn big in it then the said will going to believe in it in which it will disclose the the information to be provided by the scammers fake site. This is usually the way scammer work so keeping always aware the members here in the forum especially the newbie is a good way to prevent them from getting scam.

[ultrloa]

One of the most basic scamming scheme on this market where airdrops, giveaways and other promotions that just masking out to be legit but
in the end they do really try to pull out some scamming attempt for them to lure in people to input their private keys.For people who doesnt have
much knowledge about on how important their private key is will most like to be victimized by this one.. Someone shouldnt really be giving out
these sensitive information because once a certain person do have these keys then they do have the full access into your wallet.Its just common sense.

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

[akirasendo17]

Things to remember to be safe in this kind of scheme

Airdrop only needs wallet address - asking for private keys is 100 % scam
Asking fee's to be able to send your token to you are one way to scam
personal message pretending that they are VP or head of the team, no one in the right mind will send personal messages especially if he is the president VP or head of the development.
No website, no team, no projects, remember contract address can be copied and pretends it's their coin, I've seen this in some airdrops after they get what they want they will vanish.

[libert19]

I had received similar message for stellar airdrop many moons ago, everything seemed legit including email, finally when they asked for private key my brain lighten up. Not that I was holding any xlm but still whenever anything asks for your private key, it's likely to be a scam.

[hd49728]

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

Back in days, in 2018 (?), there are many scam forks or clones of Ethereum. Those scammers try to create many clones of Ethereum, Ethereum Dark, Ethereum Classic Vision, .... and to claim those clone coins, people have to waive their mnemonic seeds. Metamask reacted and mark all of clone coins that require seeds to claim as scam.

Community helped to report scam clone coins. [ANN] [ETCV] Ethereum Classic Vision | Fork 3:1 of Ethereum

[pooya87]

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

[noorman0]

Currently this method is still used mostly by sending bulk private messages directly to email and telegram messages. Fraudsters know that promoting it publicly will be annoyed with warning reviews and risk the site being reported more and going down faster.

I received a lot of these airdrop messages over the past 2 months in the spam folder, mostly the 2nd to Xth uniswap airdrops. And it only consists of 1 phishing page using the Amazon website service (AWS)

[Mandarava]

So be smart yourself and fu** the scammers.

If you want to really f**k scammers, then it's not enough just not to fall into the traps they have set. In order to f**k them, you need to create some kind of counter algorithm that will lure the scammer into your own trap and compromise his in accordance with your personal scenario.

And this is not as easy as it seems. Most beginners still have a huge chance of losing their money, not to mention even punishing the scammers.

[Raflesia]

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Yeah at this time the ICO scam is getting bigger where the scamer is doing this seriously and making money. Many newbies who just entered have a loss and they leave because they have been tricked and don't believe it, after a long time now they definitely come back again and it's all because of developments crypto that is getting faster and also the token hype that is being created will also be an attraction for beginners to come back again.
Well here the scamer will continue to watch how to trap the victim with what they make to get their private key, therefore their awareness is very important for us to save it.

[Strongkored]

Two ways that are currently usually done by scammers, besides sent a phishing link via email
1. Ask to give PK whose wallet must have a balance
2. Send some funds to the scammer's wallet
Always remember Private Keys is confidential info, if need to send funds first to get airdrops, then you can be sure it's a scammer work.

[Eureka_07]

As far as I know, and I think it is what realy it should be, is that no one should input their private keys on any other websites, applications, or any plaforms except your wallet.
If you happen to enter the key on that site or plaforms like that who's asking for your private keys or seeds, your wallet will be more likely be compromised sooner or later.

Keep those private keys and seeds to yourself, and never share them to anyone specially anyone on cyberspace, unless you really trust the person(e.g. family).

[Rodeo02]

I also found same airdrop last day what's even more frightening is that he uses a well-known decentralized exchange that actually issued free tokens back then to it's users.

And there is  a humor a second proposed   airdrop will be given away to users of unisswap last day  but they failed to get the enough vote  . And this  phising website came from no where offer an airdop but asking for your keys or mnemonic phrase to get it which is a websites that will steal your keys .

[Rikafip]

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Unfortunately it already started few months ago, fueled by DeFi and greed. Funny thing, bunch of those that lost money during ICO craze are investing again in similarly risky things like they didn't learn anything, and that brought even more newbies who probably read stories about x1000 returns in couple of month. For them slowly acquiring BTC is too conservative, they want profit now.

After all, there is an endless supply of naive people, like in that old saying "there's a sucker born every minute".

[ultrloa]

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Although ICO is dying but there are still few running, but there are changes and now it has change to DEFI scams which is currently happening right now that's why it's best for people to not easily believe on new technology or anything that promise to change everything especially when they say they can change your life and earn with the platform since most of them are scams.

[cheezcarls]

This scheme is already common and I’ve seen those fake airdrops doing that from time to time. When I see an entry that requires “private key” to claim the airdrop, it’s a freaking scam. Until now, newbies and beginners in the crypto industry are prone to “shiny figure syndrome” when they see the reward for completing the airdrop without questioning its legitimacy.

And the sad reality is that it’s hard stopping them from getting victimized. We can only educate or give them advice, but we cannot really control them because of the “reward” that they see without checking if it’s legit or scam. 

[Taskford]

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Unfortunately it already started few months ago, fueled by DeFi and greed. Funny thing, bunch of those that lost money during ICO craze are investing again in similarly risky things like they didn't learn anything, and that brought even more newbies who probably read stories about x1000 returns in couple of month. For them slowly acquiring BTC is too conservative, they want profit now.

After all, there is an endless supply of naive people, like in that old saying "there's a sucker born every minute".

I'm sure they know the risk already about the DEFI but some think that they will last longer the same when ICO introduce here but suddenly the ending is the same where many people still lose their money so better this one will be the lesson for people on not even think about investing on tokens who seek money for investors.