This is what I call the real airdrop scam

[EarnOnVictor]

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.

[Nwada001]

@Dr.btc_strange talk about just this type of scamming behavior by airdrop developers Be on a Look_out, for there's going to be many scammers in disguise.  

The same amount is requested to be paid by each user in order for them to be eligible for the airdrop; this is just exploitation that is being carried out by them as a good means to raise funds without actually asking for token sales, and at the end of the day, such project tokens might not even be worth anything in the market, and those who pay that fee might not be able to get their money back, adding to their wasted effort.

[Hispo]

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.

These kinds of scams only will taint the name of Telegram and alternative currencies even further, as Telegram is the application of choice which is used by scammers to run their schemes.
And you are right, sending up to 0,5 Ton not even knowing the amount of the airdrop will be worth a fraction of the initial investment is stupid and reckless.

[Adbitco]

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 is one major reasons that made me dislike airdrops and after trying much times to published your ref links to people around you would still have to make some initial deposit to be able to withdraw your funds from the platform which I find it very stressful and annoying.

This scam isn't a new thing and people has been falling prey for such airdrop especially those newbies who doesn't know about how the system works, they would go ahead making deposits to sure for them to received their airdrops since would be fighting to have free coins from them.

[Tipstar]

lol.I knew where these airdrops were heading to. Don't mean to say every of them are bad but its a genuine example of how they are profiting from time and money from users. I too am an old user of X empire initially Musk Empire but didn't gave much time to it as I thought it to be a cheap copy of Hamster Kombat. Currently I'm level 9 and having heard about the upcoming airdrop, I was thinking of using it actively for few days but the info you provided is a clear sign that its not worth it. Even for users who have spent months, 0.5 Ton is over $2.7 and they are unlikely to get that amount from airdrop.

[coin-investor]

@Dr.btc_strange talk about just this type of scamming behavior by airdrop developers Be on a Look_out, for there's going to be many scammers in disguise.  

The same amount is requested to be paid by each user in order for them to be eligible for the airdrop; this is just exploitation that is being carried out by them as a good means to raise funds without actually asking for token sales, and at the end of the day, such project tokens might not even be worth anything in the market, and those who pay that fee might not be able to get their money back, adding to their wasted effort.

And I made lengthy posts about this scheme, and this is my excerpt of that I was an early participants of Musk Empire but I don't like their new implementation of verifying, There are other ways to verify your account this is not an airdrop anymore; they deceived us.

We are actually paying to get their token, and we have worked hard for months to become popular, and I would like to mention that they obliged us to view their videos with ads on them; imagine with millions of views they are already making a lot of money.
Its like they are hitting two birds with one stone with their strategy

I just knew the scam scheme pays first to verify your address and account that are still prevalent on casinos and exchanges will find its way in the Tap to Earn platform, their community data says they have 16 million users just imagine half of these accounts paying 0.5 Ton, the developers would have made 4 million tons on this scheme.

[markm]

Wow, this is all so crazy!

Here I have been telling marketers that crypto is so ridiculously lucrative that crypto folk regard marketing as too much like work or as too much work, only to come back here and find nowadays the word airdrop has been co-opted to, it seems, mean probably at least as much work as the kind of click for traffic marketing used for example by this viral fundraising page!

And worse, at least that viral fundraising actually works, if you actually have the discipline to keep plugging away at, whereas these newfangled "airdrops", apparently, are often outright scams!

Truly if the latest so called airdrops basically amount to clicking for credits, you might as well do the marketing thing instead, at least with that you could be building your own mailing-list and downlines and thus eventually actual income!

If you actually looked at the above viral marketing link I should warn you that it has the massive glaring flaw of having you promote pages other than a simple subscribe page ("squeeze page") recruiting people onto your own mailing-list, which the "Leads Leap" tool that page has you join (free) provides free for its free members, so if you do try out that stuff at least do not promote your copy of that viral page directly, instead promote your own free mailing-list via a free subscribe page that Leads Leap also lets you create and use, for life, for free; and only send your subscribers to any other pages once you have them signed up.

If you cannot be bothered broadcasting emails to your list from time to time, you can just set up the "welcome email" of your list to tell each new subscriber about the viral fundraising page and worry later, when you have umpteen or more subcribers, whether to someday bother broadcasting to your list...

Oh I mentioned that I tell marketers that crypto is so lucrative it makes marketing seem too much like work, but neglected to give you a link to an exemplar page that does that so here is one: https://llpgpro.com/thkgv45j/

-MarkM-

[Patikno]

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's sad, days, weeks or even months of playing ends with you having to pay. Telegram mini app like this have a lot of users, the minimum is probably 100K users, I imagine 0,5 TON x 100K users, that will make instant profits very easy for developers. It seems like we are at the end of the hype, slowly one by one the projects are charging their users.

[Marykeller]

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's sad, days, weeks or even months of playing ends with you having to pay. Telegram mini app like this have a lot of users, the minimum is probably 100K users, I imagine 0,5 TON x 100K users, that will make instant profits very easy for developers. It seems like we are at the end of the hype, slowly one by one the projects are charging their users.

It is very sad indeed that months of playing and data burned only require someone to pay 0.5 Tons for the reward tokens, not knowing what will be the value price of the Xempire token.

I am trying to do simple arithmetics if, for example, 200k users from the millions of users all over the world decide to pay 0.5 Ton(which is about 2.77 of the current price of Ton) to be eligible for the airdrop. You can imagine the amount we will be talking about here, $550k
that Xempire developers will be realized from an airdrop that no one is sure what will be of it, next "to launch on crypto exchange successful or not to be launched," to project as a scam.

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

[aioc]

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's sad, days, weeks or even months of playing ends with you having to pay. Telegram mini app like this have a lot of users, the minimum is probably 100K users, I imagine 0,5 TON x 100K users, that will make instant profits very easy for developers. It seems like we are at the end of the hype, slowly one by one the projects are charging their users.

There's also a possibility of rugpulls after at users send them the required amount; they already have enough money so why would they push for their project, By announcing it late weeks before the distribution, they deceived their users.

There is a possibility of a scam here if they surprise their users with this announcement, because the users will find it difficult to part with their allocations after months of working day and night. This is just unfair.

[GiftedMAN]

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 is one major reasons that made me dislike airdrops and after trying much times to published your ref links to people around you would still have to make some initial deposit to be able to withdraw your funds from the platform which I find it very stressful and annoying.

This scam isn't a new thing and people has been falling prey for such airdrop especially those newbies who doesn't know about how the system works, they would go ahead making deposits to sure for them to received their airdrops since would be fighting to have free coins from them.

The fact that people even get to post different links to different social media platforms just to get the opportunity to get some tokens is not the problem but after doing all the required task and spending money to buy some coin to be eligible to receive the airdrop and after that the project will exist no more is the big problem.

Newbies are not the only people that has been scammed lately because the number of airdrops are increasing daily and the newbies can not afford to be losing it they have been scammed several times I think the originators of the airdrops targets those people who are already in the crypto space because they are more exposed to knowing the potentials in a project when it is not launched. People are already aware that airdrop scams are real but since they can not stay away from free things they are not getting away from scammers.

[Cryptoababe]

I hardly do most of these things. We all know there should be a way for them to make some money not just create a Telegram mini-app for people to perform activities and later distribute money to people for performing those activities.

This is why I prefer Citizen, participated in Dog's airdrop because it's somewhat owned by Telegram's owner. I will always go into any meaningful one where users can buy more power, play PVP, and fight for higher levels.

[$crypto$]

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's sad, days, weeks or even months of playing ends with you having to pay. Telegram mini app like this have a lot of users, the minimum is probably 100K users, I imagine 0,5 TON x 100K users, that will make instant profits very easy for developers. It seems like we are at the end of the hype, slowly one by one the projects are charging their users.

Obviously this is very sad, why does every airdrop have to be paid for by us to be airdrop eligible? Is this way the developer is taking advantage of the hype community? Obviously if the community makes a TON of transactions that the developer wants then the instant profit is obtained, while now the telegram mini airdrop is crazy many people join up to tens of millions.
Don't let us do that, I never do it even though there are some tasks that require the community to make transactions.

[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.

These kinds of scams only will taint the name of Telegram and alternative currencies even further, as Telegram is the application of choice which is used by scammers to run their schemes.
And you are right, sending up to 0,5 Ton not even knowing the amount of the airdrop will be worth a fraction of the initial investment is stupid and reckless.

Already i see in some telegram mini app airdrops required to spend dollars as like Catizen, who spent large amount their rewards is exciting, and now i see in X Empire although i didn’t participated in this airdrop, but it’s unfair policy to spend money in free airdrops. You can't compare with UniSwap and X Empire both of different, UniSwap was like test net and was required to transaction in their platform. But in telegram airdrops some project huge successful, so scammers taking this opportunity and they also launching similar projects and earning huge money from users just require to spend money as fees.

[dunfida]

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 is one major reasons that made me dislike airdrops and after trying much times to published your ref links to people around you would still have to make some initial deposit to be able to withdraw your funds from the platform which I find it very stressful and annoying.

This scam isn't a new thing and people has been falling prey for such airdrop especially those newbies who doesn't know about how the system works, they would go ahead making deposits to sure for them to received their airdrops since would be fighting to have free coins from them.

Airdrops should really be that free of charge or any transactions related even if we do say that the amount needed is really just that a peanut but if it would be accumulated by millions of users then that would
really be still a huge sum for those scam devs to make easy money on. Just like on what you have said that on the moment that i have checked out that there would really be some sort of blockchain transaction
kind of tasks then this is something that i do immediately leave and would be ignored. Its not really that shocking that scammers will really be taking advantage of the hype after a very successful project that make
out huge hype specially into those who do make money or tons of people get free money then they would really be that making use of that opportunity on which this isnt something that shocking i must say.

For those who are really that fond on airdrops then its not really that bad to deal up with those things as long you do really know on what are those chances on getting some peanuts. If you do tend to risks
with these types then it would really be that up to your choice. You should really be that careful on whatever the actions that you are taking specially on making transactions on which these arent supposed
to be asked because airdrops is something that needs to be free or something that doesnt have any charges or whatsoever.

[BitMaxz]

I found another airdrop soon that requires making a ton transactions of 0.5 ton to be eligible for airdrop if you heard rockybit rabbit which will going to be listed soon they also require you to make a ton transaction to be eligible.

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.

[EL MOHA]

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.

Not all airdrops are actually free there are some retroactive airdrops that are not free because they need you to engage on their platform like a testnet daily which usually requires gas fees but if you look at this airdrops and this tap airdrops they don’t set a fee that they want it is the transaction fee during the testnet period, this fees are way too low to be considered even a fee but the rate at which this telegram mini app are going I think people will soon realize that they are milking them.

This is why I prefer Citizen, participated in Dog's airdrop because it's somewhat owned by Telegram's owner. I will always go into any meaningful one where users can buy more power, play PVP, and fight for higher levels.

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

[rhodelmabanal]

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.

Well that was really a very sad moment,when after all are almost done then you saw the airdrop turn to scam, after all the hard work and your about to recieved the airdrop, that is why we need to select the good airdrop and be more cautious,not all of them are legit,just like some signature or bounty campaign in the forum not all of them are paying good profit and some will never pay. we need to select the best to avoid wasting our time.

[Stablexcoin]

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.

These kinds of scams only will taint the name of Telegram and alternative currencies even further, as Telegram is the application of choice which is used by scammers to run their schemes.
And you are right, sending up to 0,5 Ton not even knowing the amount of the airdrop will be worth a fraction of the initial investment is stupid and reckless.

Any airdrop which demands any amount to be deposited to claim is purely a scam. At least by now a lot of airdrop participants should be aware of this. The reason is said so is because the previous airdrop that paid other participants did not demand anything so participants should not be overwhelmed by all the tricks on telegram.

Again, I think all the airdrops they are participating in should be shared on their channel stating that they won't demand any fee for claiming the token. The project should be in charge of guiding the participant to avoid any form of scam by sharing possible ways they can get scammed on Telegram. The last message I got that had to do with a scam was that the person told me he would be buying my airdfropped token, lol and that i should send it first to him he would send me my USDT.

[Cryptoababe]

This is why I prefer Citizen, participated in Dog's airdrop because it's somewhat owned by Telegram's owner. I will always go into any meaningful one where users can buy more power, play PVP, and fight for higher levels.

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

Yeah, but my point is Citizen Finance gave a reason to level up and that's the difference. But just asking people to send 0.5 TON doesn't look right. If there had been a way for people to purchase higher power and play PVP, then that would be more meaningful instead of trying to raise funds by asking people to send 0.5 TON.