This is what I call the real airdrop scam

[bastian466]

As soon as I see an airdrop which requieres participants to send any quantity of money for them to become elegible, in my mind can only think it is a scam and I need to stay as away as possible from it.
Actual airdrops, like those from some years ago, like Uniswap, did not require one to send money first to be elegible, it was enough by participating within their ecosystem, providing liquidity and interacting with their smart contracts without giving away our private keys.

In other words, this has deviated from the true nature of crypto airdrops, as if they were only looking for their own profit in planning the airdrop that they would launch, and we would rather say that this has moved towards fraud, many people are heavily affected by this, we suggest that when airdrops with uncertain bases should choose to stay in a safe position.

Right, the only way we have to do is avoid similar airdrops, honestly I have never been trapped in spending money to meet the requirements of an airdrop project, because in the past airdrop tasks were very easy, very simple and short, unlike now which is very complicated, there are lots of tasks that must be completed and must compete to increase the ranking by inviting people to join

[Qiubell5]

It reminds me the scam scheme of donating to receive a bonus for the donation you have just done. It's definitely not a giveaway or airdrop, as such offers don't involve the participants having to give money from their own pockets to participate. These offers can demand you to complete a task, but you give only your effort in counterpart for the final payment. Even if you hear some people saying it's legit, I believe it's not a good idea to join, because there is a high chance it's a ponzi scheme.

Unfortunatelly crypto industry is full of scammers and I risk saying there are more scammers than ever right now. Very few offers are legit these days and worth to be executed for small amounts of profit.

This airdrop does offer benefits to its users, but now with so many offers, with so many people visiting this airdrop, it creates an opportunity for those who think badly to do things that are detrimental, and it is necessary to apply care in this matter before jumping into it.

[fikrett]

As soon as I see an airdrop which requieres participants to send any quantity of money for them to become elegible, in my mind can only think it is a scam and I need to stay as away as possible from it.
Actual airdrops, like those from some years ago, like Uniswap, did not require one to send money first to be elegible, it was enough by participating within their ecosystem, providing liquidity and interacting with their smart contracts without giving away our private keys.

In other words, this has deviated from the true nature of crypto airdrops, as if they were only looking for their own profit in planning the airdrop that they would launch, and we would rather say that this has moved towards fraud, many people are heavily affected by this, we suggest that when airdrops with uncertain bases should choose to stay in a safe position.

Right, the only way we have to do is avoid similar airdrops, honestly I have never been trapped in spending money to meet the requirements of an airdrop project, because in the past airdrop tasks were very easy, very simple and short, unlike now which is very complicated, there are lots of tasks that must be completed and must compete to increase the ranking by inviting people to join

There are different tasks and different projects, some more credible than others (that's why we would do their tasks even if they would be a bit harder than in others) - however, you are right in the fact, that, paying to receive the airdrop at all is fishy from the outside. It surely is and it may be a fraud.

[X-ray]

Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

It is the new scamming scheme now through the telegram airdrop tapping fever that is invoke. I also discovered another similar one yesterday through a  colleague who requested for my assistance in making the 0.5 Ton transaction for him in order that he will be eligible for the airdrop, they call it Rocky Rabbit. Lol At first I tried convincing him not to waste his money as much as he has wasted his time cos the project appears to not be genuine but he still insisted  he has to do the task. I granted his request waiting to see how that works for him eventually.

Funny how they place a limited time counter to put pressure on their victims that they carryout the task of sending the 0.5 ton. Am not against airdrops for I have made some fortune from it in past times but experience has thought me that genuine airdrop project that will pay it's loyal community won't necessarily have to take from them first.

it's such shady behavior putting counter and all, just to put pressure on the participant' psychology, this clearly reflect the intention of the project developer. which is just trying to make money off people.

nice finding out there, people doing airdrop need also to have basic on how to not get scammed by these shady dev, the success of not and dogs has picked the interest of these scammer, moving from solana to ton, I bet there will be more to come.

tbh, genuine airdrop usually request donation or sale in exchange for something, but this one just grant task completion like what, exchanging money for useless fabricated point.

[FortuneFollower]

Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

It is the new scamming scheme now through the telegram airdrop tapping fever that is invoke. I also discovered another similar one yesterday through a  colleague who requested for my assistance in making the 0.5 Ton transaction for him in order that he will be eligible for the airdrop, they call it Rocky Rabbit. Lol At first I tried convincing him not to waste his money as much as he has wasted his time cos the project appears to not be genuine but he still insisted  he has to do the task. I granted his request waiting to see how that works for him eventually.

Funny how they place a limited time counter to put pressure on their victims that they carryout the task of sending the 0.5 ton. Am not against airdrops for I have made some fortune from it in past times but experience has thought me that genuine airdrop project that will pay it's loyal community won't necessarily have to take from them first.

it's such shady behavior putting counter and all, just to put pressure on the participant' psychology, this clearly reflect the intention of the project developer. which is just trying to make money off people.

nice finding out there, people doing airdrop need also to have basic on how to not get scammed by these shady dev, the success of not and dogs has picked the interest of these scammer, moving from solana to ton, I bet there will be more to come.

tbh, genuine airdrop usually request donation or sale in exchange for something, but this one just grant task completion like what, exchanging money for useless fabricated point.

Totally. If a project is credible, nothing wrong with the transaction in 0,2-1 TON. Just tell the community for what it is and if it has value in the long run - why not?
But how it's done here - it's really shallow waters and may be ending badly.

[Lida93]

Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

It is the new scamming scheme now through the telegram airdrop tapping fever that is invoke. I also discovered another similar one yesterday through a  colleague who requested for my assistance in making the 0.5 Ton transaction for him in order that he will be eligible for the airdrop, they call it Rocky Rabbit. Lol At first I tried convincing him not to waste his money as much as he has wasted his time cos the project appears to not be genuine but he still insisted  he has to do the task. I granted his request waiting to see how that works for him eventually.

Funny how they place a limited time counter to put pressure on their victims that they carryout the task of sending the 0.5 ton. Am not against airdrops for I have made some fortune from it in past times but experience has thought me that genuine airdrop project that will pay it's loyal community won't necessarily have to take from them first.

it's such shady behavior putting counter and all, just to put pressure on the participant' psychology, this clearly reflect the intention of the project developer. which is just trying to make money off people.

nice finding out there, people doing airdrop need also to have basic on how to not get scammed by these shady dev, the success of not and dogs has picked the interest of these scammer, moving from solana to ton, I bet there will be more to come.

tbh, genuine airdrop usually request donation or sale in exchange for something, but this one just grant task completion like what, exchanging money for useless fabricated point.

Totally. If a project is credible, nothing wrong with the transaction in 0,2-1 TON. Just tell the community for what it is and if it has value in the long run - why not?
But how it's done here - it's really shallow waters and may be ending badly.

Honestly speaking you can't really tell which project is credible right from it's early stage and if they come with the notification that people would have to pay certain amount of money as a part of the entire process then a lot of persons won't care more and that will mean they won't have a fledging community enough to drive the value of the token high.

So they do keep the part of transaction requirement towards the end of the project to be airdropped so that persons that have spent time and data following up the project would be compelled to have no alternative than to oblige. All of these are predetermined, and that a project looks credible throughout the time doesn't always guarantee that it will pay in the long-run.

[FortuneFollower]

Honestly speaking you can't really tell which project is credible right from it's early stage and if they come with the notification that people would have to pay certain amount of money as a part of the entire process then a lot of persons won't care more and that will mean they won't have a fledging community enough to drive the value of the token high.

So they do keep the part of transaction requirement towards the end of the project to be airdropped so that persons that have spent time and data following up the project would be compelled to have no alternative than to oblige. All of these are predetermined, and that a project looks credible throughout the time doesn't always guarantee that it will pay in the long-run.

Yeah, too bad we can't say for sure before it's too late.
That's the problem of it, and it's the risk everybody takes or not, their choice.
You either press the pedal full-on or never start the road in the first place. That's how I see it, because if you already got your funds there, you believe in it - and you won't stop probably, because your investment is at stake. It would be really hard not to.

[ethereumhunter]

If a project ask us to make a transaction before we get the reward, that is a scam because an airdrop is something that we can get after we do the tasks from them. That is not make sense because we already fills the tasks as they want but they need us to request a transaction. Maybe 0.5 TON is not much but what if they can get that amount from many people who wants to chase the reward? They can run away with many TONs and will not give the reward to anyone. People needs to stay away from that project even if they already do many tasks and forget that project. If all people who participate on that project is not send the TON to their wallet, the project will fail and will not continue.

[bastian466]

As soon as I see an airdrop which requieres participants to send any quantity of money for them to become elegible, in my mind can only think it is a scam and I need to stay as away as possible from it.
Actual airdrops, like those from some years ago, like Uniswap, did not require one to send money first to be elegible, it was enough by participating within their ecosystem, providing liquidity and interacting with their smart contracts without giving away our private keys.

In other words, this has deviated from the true nature of crypto airdrops, as if they were only looking for their own profit in planning the airdrop that they would launch, and we would rather say that this has moved towards fraud, many people are heavily affected by this, we suggest that when airdrops with uncertain bases should choose to stay in a safe position.

Right, the only way we have to do is avoid similar airdrops, honestly I have never been trapped in spending money to meet the requirements of an airdrop project, because in the past airdrop tasks were very easy, very simple and short, unlike now which is very complicated, there are lots of tasks that must be completed and must compete to increase the ranking by inviting people to join

There are different tasks and different projects, some more credible than others (that's why we would do their tasks even if they would be a bit harder than in others) - however, you are right in the fact, that, paying to receive the airdrop at all is fishy from the outside. It surely is and it may be a fraud.

What if you find an airdrop model that ultimately has to be claimed at a cost, for example 1 TON coins with a fairly long journey after completing various tasks given, but in the end you have to spend money to withdraw the airdrop tokens or coins, then what will you do?

[lixer]

The very point is that some of these mining coins are looking for ways to siphon money from people. That's why I hardly partake in them because this same act of asking for Ton as a way to be eligible for mined coins

It's clear that many of these projects just want to steal money from their users, instead of having to burden users with 0,5 TON in transaction fees, why don't they follow the path that the big projects do, namely by partnering with an exchange that will list their token, so that later transfers can be done off-chain.

Maybe because they think everyone is doing that already and they think people already figured that tactic out, so they are trying to be different even though this trick is not new either. If they follow what you suggested there, users will still have the burden to pay for the transaction fees and in fact it can be a lot. So users will like what they have done their better, not until they realized that it was not legit.

There are still legit projects though that can work the same as that. If you mean, that they can only earn 0.5 TON and it looks very cheap, you are wrong with that. First, they are not only earning that on one to two users but if many are doing that, combining each 0.5 TON can already go a long way. Secondly, they might have access to the users whole wallet once they initiate the transaction, so they can steal more money.

[Moreno233]

The above topic was birthed by this post claiming TapSwap was a scam which I refuted a while ago as nothing monetary was mandated whatsoever. But today, I point out a real scam if at all one should be called out in this manner, and that is the X empire airdrop structured plan to allocate the airdrop.

Airdrop is supposed to be a free money paid for performing very simple tasks that does not cost anyone money except time and internet subscription. But when it shifts from this to something else such as making payment or paying for withdrawal fees, then it is a sign of scam and most likely a scam. I saw this airdrop but I never though a time will come when they will require participants to send TON to an address as part of the task and now that I know, it is obvious they are up to something that is not good. I will advise everyone to be careful of things like this to avoid regrets.

[Asiska02]

Honestly, I don't think it's worth making a transaction of 0.5 unless if it's just a cents and if you have large amount of profit per hour and coins but if you don't have a large amount of coins and profit per hour sending 0.5 ton is not worth it.

This profit per hour doesn’t matter because if they’re scam projects, even with the large amount of profit per hour you’ve gathered and all the coins accumulated, it will be worth nothing. So paying that money is not making any sense both for those that have big number of coins and people that have little coins gathered. It should not be mandatory on everyone and if you wish to you can and if you can’t, you should still be eligible for the airdrop.

Both are still the Same, Catien was all about using money to level up and they rewarded base on the money spent, dog didn’t stress people a lot but they actually did ask for transactions too which was around 0.1ton. And they gave those that Carried out the task extra dogs. Other airdrops requires Stars which is another form of payment. So all of the are same and Sooner or later people will get tired

When almost all the airdrops begin to ask for such fees from their participants in order to be eligible for the airdrops, they will one day get tired of doing it and will not believe in any airdrop that asks for money in order to be eligible. Dogs ask for something like this and participants were rewarded more for that which at TGE, many participants even those that didn’t do that transaction were eligible for the airdrop. Using money as an eligibility factor is a red flag, one should just be on a watch out as it has started showing the behavior of a susceptible scam.

[passwordnow]

That's true about airdrops, they should be for free but then these projects have gotten the idea that there are a bunch of airdrop folks that are doing it full time. And that's why they're trying to take advantage of it and any amount that they'd collect from everybody multiply it with their userbase and even a 10% from it is totally a lot of money from them already. These tasks about doing a ton transaction is always present from all of these airdrop projects. I won't be surprised if soon that the most tasks will be about sending transactions here and there and they get a commission from it. I only participant in the airdrops that are for free and I don't mind getting few points from it because most of them are only giving high points to the tasks that they're requiring to do a transaction whether it's from user to project or just a casual transaction to claim those points.

[CK485]

Airdrop is supposed to be a free money paid for performing very simple tasks that does not cost anyone money except time and internet subscription. But when it shifts from this to something else such as making payment or paying for withdrawal fees, then it is a sign of scam and most likely a scam. I saw this airdrop but I never though a time will come when they will require participants to send TON to an address as part of the task and now that I know, it is obvious they are up to something that is not good. I will advise everyone to be careful of things like this to avoid regrets.

Yes, we do have to be more careful in choosing airdrops, sometimes there are withdrawal fees, which are actually legitimate as long as they do not exceed what we can afford, but it is still doubtful, yes, if possible, do not trust it to avoid all of that which is certainly detrimental to airdrop users.

[adzino]

The above topic was birthed by this post claiming TapSwap was a scam which I refuted a while ago as nothing monetary was mandated whatsoever. But today, I point out a real scam if at all one should be called out in this manner, and that is the Xempire airdrop structured plan to allocate the airdrop.

I've always known airdrops to be free giveaways, but not in this case anymore and the two pictures below speak enough volumes already. This nonsense is no more worth it.

-snip-

Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

Most people don't realize this. They think it is only like 0.5 TON or like $5, but imagine hundreds and thousands of people are paying that $5 and giving free money to those developers who is actually scamming people. People don't even know how much they are going to receive from those airdrops and most of them don't receive anywhere near what they have sent as a fees. Those tap to play games are milking people till the end. An airdrop like you said should be free. No one should be spending any money for those airdrops. They are already doing tasks that are generating revenues for the developers.

[bitLeap]

The hype of airdrops on the TON network with the Tap to earn concept has made scammers take advantage of this for the very ideal purpose of deceiving many people. I always avoid hype which is basically from the success of NOT and DOGS will not be repeated in the next type of airdrop even with the same concept. So instead of spending a lot of time working on airdrops like this, I prefer to focus on developing skills in testnet and Node because even though it is not profitable, at least there is a lot of new knowledge that can be obtained regarding Dapps development, how to run nodes and other activities that will be very useful in the future. Tap to earn is now over and there is no guarantee that a similar concept will benefit you. Indeed, to complete the check-in task of paying gas fees with a few cents is not too expensive, but imagine if the number of users reaches millions, then 20 cents will be valuable.

[o48o]

The above topic was birthed by this post claiming TapSwap was a scam which I refuted a while ago as nothing monetary was mandated whatsoever. But today, I point out a real scam if at all one should be called out in this manner, and that is the Xempire airdrop structured plan to allocate the airdrop.

I've always known airdrops to be free giveaways, but not in this case anymore and the two pictures below speak enough volumes already. This nonsense is no more worth it.



Imagine, after many tasks were done over time without knowing, suddenly when the effort is about to bear fruit the project is requesting for more, perhaps something many people will not be able to afford/sacrifice. What a waste of time! Xempire mandates you to make a TON transaction before you are eligible to airdrop and when I tried to check where the gross approach was heading, I discovered you have to part ways with a whole 0.5 TON, who does that? For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

This method is called Advance fee scam, and it pre-dates cryptocurrencies. New thing in this is that in crypto, it's easier to organize larger scams and there are more greedy people then you get by emails these days, as those are stuck in the email filters.

Also micro transactions are a genius part in this, there are so many people joining in that only 0.5 ton makes it worth it. From the point of view of scammed people, no one even cares that much for 0.5 Ton that they would involve police, and it would have to be a group effort, as police doesn't do investigation for someone wouldn't go after any single person for losing under $3. Time and the effort of reporting the crime on this isn't worth anyone's time.

[Churchillvv]

For what you are not even sure of the price or receive something up to the 0.5 TON's worth? This is pathetic.

I used to know airdrops to be a way in which projects tries to test their tokens to different wallets by request people to submit their addresses and get some of the tokens then since the tokens will be in circulation they would have achieved the volume of transactions which they want and perhaps those who luckily submit their addresses without paying a dime gets lucky enough to earn from this tokens released to their wallets but nowadays I don't even see anything close to that.

All we see this days is totally scams with a very beautiful paint on the surface covering the muds that's a good reason why I don't like participating in airdrops anymore because most are scams in disguise.

[Patikno]

If you mean, that they can only earn 0.5 TON and it looks very cheap, you are wrong with that. First, they are not only earning that on one to two users but if many are doing that, combining each 0.5 TON can already go a long way. Secondly, they might have access to the users whole wallet once they initiate the transaction, so they can steal more money.

I'm not saying that they can only get 0,5 TON, and it has a very cheap price. 0,5 TON is currently worth close to $3, and that's a relatively high value. The projects we are discussing here have a lot of users, so if 0,5 TON is accumulated, it could even reach a million dollars, so you're wrong about your view of me. On the second point you're also wrong, there's not a single project that requires a direct wallet connection, so on-chain theft is impossible, at least until now.

[mdzahed134]

As soon as I see an airdrop which requieres participants to send any quantity of money for them to become elegible, in my mind can only think it is a scam and I need to stay as away as possible from it.
Actual airdrops, like those from some years ago, like Uniswap, did not require one to send money first to be elegible, it was enough by participating within their ecosystem, providing liquidity and interacting with their smart contracts without giving away our private keys.

In other words, this has deviated from the true nature of crypto airdrops, as if they were only looking for their own profit in planning the airdrop that they would launch, and we would rather say that this has moved towards fraud, many people are heavily affected by this, we suggest that when airdrops with uncertain bases should choose to stay in a safe position.

Now every single airdrops looking for their own profits, as like users following their Twitter handle and subscriber their YouTube & Telegram channel that's is common but if when require to spend dollars, then it seems suspicious. But sometime also a good airdrop ask for a transaction, so it’s difficult to know that which is real or SCAM airdrop, that's why people’s participating in every airdrop.