Can something free be a scam?

[Casalania]

not all airdrops are scam, but you will experience it many times if you join every airdrop that will be launch.
even if you dont give your money, or something valuable to the airdrop and they dont pay you, as long as you spend your time for it, it is also a scam.

[silver23]

Yeah sure, free coin is possibpe to scam.
You know, like Airdrop and Fauchet is all free.
And so many be scam.

[zakariajaki]

all can happen and it is the risk of cyberspace but if I may argue in my opinion there is no airdrop scam, the nature of the airdrop is free and may be full of quota given from the developer of the number of airdrop participants that should be studied and observed more depth how the security of workers when getting a project to avoid projects that will be a scam project, so keep up the good cooperation and high confidence when undergoing such work

[Freezingel]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

For me it's still a scam because although you don't spend any money to get airdrop but you give them your personal information, email or other data. They already promised to give you some tokens but they don't send you anything so it's a scam as you already gave him some personal information. They can sell your email as well as others and sell it for crypto related ads.

[gandame]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

I think some airdrop are scam because you filled up the form they need after that they will send a coins but the coin can never be exchange.
Usually some ico need kyc and i think the info of investor are private and safe.

[justine11]

Well yes it can be scam why? because you have to put an effort and time just neet their requirements in order to get something "free" or should i say payment and the owner doesn't pay you. So, in other terms you've wasted time and effort for the exchange of promise like free coins or goods if i were you should check it first before joining a free coins amd goods.

[adekogbe]

Its risky to give out your personal data, airdrops may seem harmless with nothing to loose but registering for any kind of airdrop without prior research is risky as you expose yourself to different forms of scams.

For example scam emails were sent out to some of beetoken's whitelisted members with a link to a fake cloned website.
Some people lousy their money so easily.

Research airdrops as you would ICOs before giving out your personal details.

[wel24]

Yes, most of the free token especially huge amount of free.It will turn into scam if the developer will abandoned the token .Some dev will take advantage they will sell the token when the price will up then dump the value .That is why the token will dump nobody will trade because of the bad doings of dev.I advise you to sell your free in the earliest time before  the value will turn into bubble.

[Flickkk]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

yes many Airdrops are scams.
they uses the Word Donate for More Tokens to be receive.

and while in some ICO. they letting the Investor invest and Sell their tokens for a high price but in the end of Exchanger's price
the price of the Token being sold by the Altcoin is a Shit coin

[awazieik]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Not every scam has to do with your money . Some of these sites that ask for your email , telegram id and wallet to get an airdrop or bounty sometimes don't fulfill their promise but use your information to sell other schemes; i have seen these a lot.

[irmasany]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

free project to be a scam how do you mean, free project it is airdrop. then what are you discussing besides airdrop? I think you should be more clear for us to discuss

[jakecoins]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

free project to be a scam how do you mean, free project it is airdrop. then what are you discussing besides airdrop? I think you should be more clear for us to discuss

With free ICO I meant projects which distirbute their whole coin supply for free (Like MTC). But yea you are right, these things are  basically a airdrop...

[Herressy]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

of course everything could be a fraud. I myself do not really understand what the actual purpose of airdrop. but if you are an investor or a bounty hunter, you should be careful. because there is no law in this crypto world. so you have to be smart if you want to succeed.

everything here in this currency are done with carefulness that all of us must gonna do and yet this is hard at first to do for and we all know that for what we are doing here in this currency are taking back also on what we may ever have to receive profit here.

[laluna24]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

Not every scam has to do with your money . Some of these sites that ask for your email , telegram id and wallet to get an airdrop or bounty sometimes don't fulfill their promise but use your information to sell other schemes; i have seen these a lot.

This is the reasons that we need to be careful not to share your own details. Some just wanted to scam users for their own benefits. We can say scam even it's free because we do an effort spend our time. Many airdrops but we have to be careful most of it are tuly scams.

[DAOfan]

Yes, even free airdropped coins can definitely be a scam.

For example, imagine someone comes out with "Heaven Coin" a coin that promises that when you get enough coins to create a "Heaven node" you get to go to heaven and meet Jesus. They airdrop a bunch of coins and people start trading.

Maybe you didn't invest anything, but you trade your Heaven Coins on an exchange. Maybe you even tweet about it.

Now you are part of the scam. You created volume on the exchange and made it look like a legitimate project. Even if you didn't sell anything, you helped create the appearance of a decentralized project - which WILL suck in some foolish investors. You are part of the problem.

It is important morally to avoid scams. We are all in this world together and just because someone is a fool doesn't mean we all don't lose when someone steals that fool's money.

[gowobonyok]

they could offer something for free and a big profit. when we have to enter our wallet address, they may just want to steal.

[lionheart89]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

when we are asked to provide personal information and we do the tasks assigned to get the prizes that are promised but the fact the gift is not given is a scam. for me time is money!

[ethereumhunter]

Hi everybody,
Lately I am reading a lot of posts asking: is this airdrop a scam? Is that free ICO a scam?
So I am wondering how can something that doesn't cost you a penny be a scam. Sure, they get your email adress and maybe a ETH Adress, but how can you  really be scamed with only this informations? I am not talking about airdrops that require kyc registration, that for sure can be dangerous.
Cheers,

I think if we give the email address and eth address, it would not be a problem. but the point is the dev is run away with the money from an investor and not continue the project as he promises before. this is for every project that needs investor because every project needs money to run the project so if the dev is run with the money then how the project will continue and the project itself will be failed project without any one wants to continue.

[jayco25]

Yes you know that many free tokens are a big scam. Giving free token is one way to attract people to buy especially if it's cheap but their project is really no purpose and their goal is to sell shitcoin only. There are also called pump and dumps after the price up they will sell all their hodl token then run and abundant the project they started.

#Datarius

[Getmon]

Well, imho, scam is not necessarily take away your money. If you give something (your time, your personal data, anything, your signature) because you are promised to be rewarded, but in the end the person/entity is breaking their promise, it might be called scam/fraud.

And BTW when you give your data freely they might sell it to some people, and many people willing to pay for personal data.

I highly agree. A scam does not only mean it will take away your money. Once a certain project or ICO presented themselves as a good project even if they are not, they are already a scam. Once they create tokens which the people can buy and sell, even if this token has no real value in the future because of their lack of plan and vision, it is already a scam. Moreover, it does not mean that since the project or ICO did not get any money from you, you will not consider it a scam. Who knows, it might have gotten a huge amount of money from other people?