All newbies should be aware.

[Gladitorcomeback]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

I believe only in famous exchange airdrop like Binance new registration/Trade and speculation airdrop for big projects like Arbitrum/Optimism/Zksync/Layerzero/Starknet.

Mail are the old way to scam people where they send malware/phising sites or fake wallet app to access your fund. Airdrop are now mostly used for hacking wallet and they used advance technology to completely washed out your wallet when you connect one time your wallet for claiming airdrop. This year most  of newbie fund stolen by this way. recently Ethereum CEO twitter hacked and before this other projects discord and twitter hacked and scammer just posted phising site and airdrop greed cause million lost for these newbies.

Many pro users will think that no one will be decieved now after saveral cases but situation is totally different. yesterday my friend send me screenshot that I won btc and ask for just 10$ , from where I should sent btc. when I saw screenshot, It was totally scam but as a newbie ny friend was not aware of it. we should teach newbie whenever we feel hackers are being strong.
 

[Porfirii]

Past are the days when you could earn some money giving away minimum to no personal details. One of my first activities with cryptos was taking part in the airdrop of Decred, several years ago. I think that we were around 3,000 people registered, and we were airdropped more than 1,000$ in exchange. Of course, I was a newbie and sold too early (price went nuts in the 2017 ATH and regretted my impatience) but, compared to "modern" airdrops (to call them in some way), it still was a great deal.

Now we can say that if it seems too good to be true, it is almost certainly a scam. Edit: if not backed by giant service providers like Gladitorcomeback just mentioned.

[leonair]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Airdrops coming to Mail only are not scams. Almost all airdrops are now scams. And airdropping can't be any kind of skill so it's stupid to waste time on them. People who are new to crypto are very happy to get few dollars like $1-$5 which addicts them to waste their valuable time doing things like airdrops. This is the biggest mistake beginners make. Of course, beginners should use that time away from tasks such as airdrops to hone their skills.

[Saisher]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

And yet people still go for airdrops thinking that because it's free these airdrops are harmless, they even give their important data to developers not knowing that these developers are selling their vital information.
People should stop patronizing these airdrops it become the hub of scammers.

Good airdrops are long gone, it's past their glory days, people should realize this so there will be no more developers creating airdrops to scam people, especially newbies.

[michellee]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

If I get an email that I don't recognize coming to my email address, I will immediately delete it and won't even look at what's in it. I often get emails like that but don't respond because I heard from my friends about scam emails. And that makes me more careful.

If they promote the airdrop on social media, we have to be more careful because it is in a public place where we don't know whether it is real or fake. And if you have doubts about the airdrop program, let alone asking you to do KYC, it's better just to leave it. Doing KYC with a $5 reward is simply not worth it. There are still many airdrop programs that you can get.

Whatever it is, you have to be more careful because the current popularity of crypto makes scammers more creative. We may never have a program turn out to be a scam.

[Mame89]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Many airdrops today are scams, because for scammers this is a good place to carry out their actions. That's why we have to be careful when we receive an email notification and suddenly coins enter our wallet. Because many fraudsters carry out their actions by sharing links that have writing similar to successful airdrops such as Arbitum, sui etc. They deliberately use names that are similar to the original so that victims are easily caught in their depraved actions, and indeed this is a common practice in phishing fraud schemes. The reason is, users who are not careful will easily get trapped in this mode. Moreover metmask, and actually I'm a bit afraid of the vulnerability, someone can empty your wallet by connecting it to a phishing 'exchange' they send you, and they can control it to approve your transactions.

It's a shame that things like this often happen to beginners. They must understand that when they accept a smart contract trade, they are giving the contract permission to interact with their wallet. even though they do not interact with smart contracts. The contract interacts with their wallet. If you don't think you buy it, don't ever touch it. The best thing you can do is leave the tokens or move to a new wallet.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam
Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Any airdrop that you didn't put interest in participating in them by looking for them and registering should be considered a scam, I'm talking all those airdrops that we received as email invitation without knowing where they got our email from. Those projects buy emails for marketing purposes and this experience of receiving unwanted airdrops invitation emails should let us know that our information can't be trusted with centralized platforms because they collect our personal data and sell them to third parties for marketing purposes. When you receive those airdrops invitation, just block the senders and move it to spam so you don't receive emails from that sender again or you don't see them when they're sent.

@OP you're a hypocrite, if you said airdrop is scam, bounty is also scam if the funds isn't escrowed and not paid with top 50 coins.

He isn't a hypocrite, he wasn't lying when he said some airdrop are scams, you're only misunderstanding him as he didn't say all airdrop are scams. When he said some airdrop are scams, that's the hard truth especially airdrops that we received invitation in the way the OP is describing. We shouldn't trust anything that we didn't initiate interest in, because there are alot of scammers looking for the slightly mistakes we'll make to steal our coins. Some airdrop are paying but not every airdrops. Some Bounties are also playing but not all. We have scams in everything and we have them in airdrop and bounties. The airdrop that are paying don't need to invite you to participate in their airdrop through email, the hype of the airdrop will advertise itself.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Before these kind of airdrops are quite legit like around 2017 to 2019. There are really just wallet add and email like form style airdrops where devs giving tokens and had valuable prices. But now its change aside from doing a lot of task in the end the reward is not worth it cause some shift to nft prizes or tokens that arent being distributed. It seems the worth it drops are into spending like retroairdrop and interactions to protocols.

[Pandu Geddon]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

When those who actively register for an airdrop campaign, of course, their emails will be full of scammers trying to trick them into another airdrop campaign.
I don't know where they got the airdrop info, but I saw on social media and several Telegram groups continuing to share airdrops. indeed, not all are successful, and more will not produce anything. There are even some airdrops that require capital.
especially if there is a successful airdrop with participants getting quite a lot of money. after that, there will be several new similar airdrops. it's clear their goal is just to seize the moment.

[Y3shot]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Airdrop has always been  a strategy scammers use in getting people because of the free offer of getting money at the end. Airdrops these days are mostly scams,  people just need to be very careful with the airdrop they are engaged with. Mails received related to wallet is a scam, non custodial wallet doesn't have anything to do with sending a mail into a email. Newbies needs to be vigilant always and to try their best not to fall into the tricky ways of scamners. In every non custodial wallet their is security guide for every user, but most people sees it as stress to spend time to go through it. Getting information about security helps to overcome the tricks of scamners.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Have witnessed such before but don't you think the notification shouldn't be only newbies or rather it should be for everyone not a specific rank? I said that because like you all know, we have scammers all over this Forum and is hard to identify them so I think some of the newbies here are also responsible for these scam shit, don't you think so? Just saying though.

[Ndabagi01]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

You did well by bringing this up again; this is a well-known strategy used by fraudsters to always entice their victims. By bringing this up again, newbies will be made aware of how readily scammers convince individuals to fall into their trap. It is a fraud and not legitimate if you are required to connect your wallet before you can get your reward.

I've seen projects that have defrauded a lot of individuals simply by connecting their wallets, they infiltrate their wallets and steal all of their other savings. Not your keys, not your coins, as the phrase goes, especially when utilising a closed source wallet.

[Stable090]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Whenever I hear about airdrops, the first thing that comes to mind is scams. Scammers are always using airdrops to get people’s attention. Everyone is always desperate when they know they can get free money. Some of them don’t even care about this risk that might be involved in the action they are about to take. Since they know they are going to be making free money, they will just jump into it, which at the end they will end up regretting and it will be late already.
 
Most of the airdrops are scams, it will be difficult to get free money in cryptocurrency currently. If you are looking for free money, you are likely to lose the money that you have in your wallet. I don’t even think the airdrops that will really pay will be promoted on social media. The ones that are promoted on social media are just looking for people, which they will scam.

[Obari]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Not just newbies but the entire forum and one thing I've always held in mind about airdrops is that they're scam and I've always learned to only feed from what  I worked for and thats why I don't fancy or even trip for airdrops because I know that out of 100 aridrops, 99 percent of it are already scams and very serious time wasting projects and I wouldn't want to waste my time and energy on.

I was a fan of airdrops at sime points and I did all of those airdrops simply because I wanted to follow a thread of bitcoin holders and I never profited a cent but rather kept wasting my money buying BNB.
Airdrops aren't  worth it and I wouldn't advice anyone getting  into it.

[Mr.suevie]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Before now I think some these airdrop were actually paying and was fun to participate in but as time grew alot of fake and scam projects have been developed overtime and many of these projects are now meant for the purpose of scamming people off their little money as so many people are with the previous idea that's some airdrop actually paid some folks not knowing that's the number constant in life @change has had it effect on the whole airdrop system.

[Finestream]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

This is not new anymore as airdrops lately have been more on scams. Gone are the days where airdrops are giving us reliable and consistent profits. So don't be deceived by the promising offers made by these airdrops providers. They are not for us to profits, but for them to satisfy their pockets.

[Sanitough]

Past are the days when you could earn some money giving away minimum to no personal details. One of my first activities with cryptos was taking part in the airdrop of Decred, several years ago. I think that we were around 3,000 people registered, and we were airdropped more than 1,000$ in exchange. Of course, I was a newbie and sold too early (price went nuts in the 2017 ATH and regretted my impatience) but, compared to "modern" airdrops (to call them in some way), it still was a great deal.

Now we can say that if it seems too good to be true, it is almost certainly a scam. Edit: if not backed by giant service providers like Gladitorcomeback just mentioned.

Exactly. Those golden days are over for airdrops so we can't expect to stay profitable at the moment like we're used to before. Maybe if you can find reputable airdrops today then you will be in profits but looking at the current trend, it's rare to find legit airdrops these days. What we have are these scam airdrops that are here to lure every participant that are hunger with instant profits.

[JunaidAzizi]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Yeah, many scammers did a scam by using the name of Airdrop through social media but email is their common trait. No doubt there are some authentic and reliable sources of airdrops but you can't ignore the scam ones. Scammer mostly targets the new ones who are not so knowledgeable about the scams and when they know they got scammed. So I recommend to newbies to follow your instructions that will be beneficial for them.

[letteredhub]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

Gone are the days when airdrop projects were something with a good experience, right now scammers has hijacked the means away that we can't differentiate from the genuine airdrop providers and scammers  scamming people of their funds in their wallets. That's why anyone chasing airdrops still shouldn't I repeat shouldn't connect his personal wallet to any airdrops requesting for such linking as condition to benefit from it. If you must chase airdrops create a completely different empty wallet's for it and also  a new email not connected to your  accounts in that way you're safe if you kind of fall to an airdrop scam. Don't joke with this tips.

[sokani]

Mail + airdrop + wallet details= scam

Most of these airdrops are scams so newbies should avoid these airdrops. Scammers especially promote fake airdrops on social media. Gmail is a street where a lot of fake scam airdrop mail can be found.

I would try to explain this. You receive a mail to participate in an airdrop with the hope of being rewarded with some token for the work done. However, the scammer gets hold of your address and sends a fake token and in the process of transferring the token to another wallet you compromise your wallet and lost your funds. More also, you might be asked to connect your wallet to a particular fake site in order to claim your reward and you end up losing your funds.

Newbies should not be carried away by freebies and airdrops, some of them are fake and are created to launch an attack. They should disregard unsolicited PMs and mails, be mindful of the links they click and know the sites they grant access to their wallets.