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After having so many awful experiences in the crypto world, I decided to write this topic to save so many innocent users from new tricks from scammers even on this Cryptotalk forum. Myself, I am not an expert but I try my best to elaborate according to my pure experiences.Everything will be straight forward and I hope you might say aH-Ha at the end😉! Due to increasing craze in the cryptocurrency, so many people are entering in crypto world everyday. Scammers are finding Airdrop and any sort of giveaway options are the best way to cheat newcomers. Let's see I am uncovering the scammer's tricks. First of all, they promote their so-called airdrops, bounty programs, and giveaway programs on airdrop notifier different sites and channels like telegram channels, airdroprating.io, airdropalert.com ,medium page etc. Average people including newcomers are always looking for free cryptocurrency and scammers have clearly understood this fact so they create the attractive fake schemes first.Since participating in the most airdrops is not so hard, which includes completing some social media tasks like; Twitter follow and retweet, Facebook page Like, follow and share, Telegram/Discord group/channel join, LinkedIn/Medium follow, YouTube channel subscribe and, Website registrations and KYC verification After getting so many followers on their social media networks, they list their useless currency on lower ranked cryptocurrency exchange sites with extremely lower 24 hours trading volumes or zero in some cases where you can not find any potential buyers. Now it's time to widespread their fake schemes by highlighting like their coins/tokens are already listed on some exchange sites.This is a turning point, not only newcomers, even some experienced players might fall in this trap because cryptocurrency which is already listed on exchange sites(most of the people do not care about quality of exchange for the very first time) can drop our attentions. Now let's see their scamming trick step-wise. To claim the airdrop, they ask for fee in ETH or BTC and you have to fill the separate Google form to reclaim no matter where you have initially filled the form for airdrop like on telegram bot or even on their own separate form.In the google form they may ask following things to spot your bank account; -Primary email address -Phone numbers -KYC document ID A reason behind asking information via google form is to spot your Gmail id. So what benefits will they get from your Gmail id?If you are chrome browser user on both Android Smartphone and PC, you have to login Google to enable sync feature.On android device, one Gmail id can work for all existing applications like PlayStore, YouTube, Chrome Browser, Gmail app etc.They start to attack by sending malicious links to your Gmail inbox.Some of their email may also contain attractive offers according to your interests. So how they detect the things that you love the most? As per their Airdrop requirements, you should already have to subscribe their YouTube channel. They track your watch history,liked videos, and subscriptions to detect which contents you love the most on YouTube(It is advised, always keep your YouTube account in private mode).There will be the greatest chances of clicking on the links which you have received in your mailbox along with attractive offers. So how dangerous will it be if you wrongly click on such malicious links? They may send you coins/tokens in your personal wallet and immediately launch the another serious of Airdrop say "Round 2 Airdrop", reason behind to do so is, they want to show continuous effort for project so that participants are not leaving their trap so early. They start to show hopes like they are going to list their tokens/coins on some bigger exchange and keep encouraging participants to participate in their selfdrop by depositing ETH, BTC,LTC etc so that they are getting enough funds to cover listing fees. (Note:-Selfdrop is a type of offer where participant has to deposit certain amounts of cryptocurrencies to expect tokens/coins as a return from some projects) When their promised listing date comes very closer, now they create announcements, they are about to cancel agreements with their mentioned bigger exchange's listing by showing the fake reasons like; -the exchange is not working according to their favor,and -their partner has cheated them to harm their project by grabbing away most of the tokens and coins. After that, they ask participants for token swap and fee again for swapping purpose by accusing the reasons, their earlier token has become bad performer and they are about to create another unique tokens. At this stage, again participants can not leave their trap because they would have already invested the amounts in their selfdrp programs to expect huge profits and again they will be compelled to pay fee for token swapping purpose. At the end, neither they list their coins/ Tokens on the exchange nor they return collected funds from the users.They rush away by closing everything like telegram group/channel, Facebook/Twitter etc. So for free airdrop you are not just expecting free crypto but also you are opening your entire secrets to scammers according to their needs. HERE ARE TIPS TO AVOID BOUNTY AND AIRDROP SCAMS Never pay the amounts to participate in the airdrop.If some project is repeatedly asking for deposit from any types of offers like selfdrop,token/coin swap etc, never trust them. If they are begging money every time, how can you be sure for their project's continuity in the future? Since the real projects work very hard to create their website and contents for social media platforms, check if there are poorly managed official website or social media channels.Always do not forget to check following details, -Team behind the project and company registration number, official location, contact details etc.Some website may show a fake team information and photos, try to use search engines properly to find stock photos or other's random photos if they are being used. You can use these search engines Yandex, Google , and Bing where you can upload photo to get details about that. -Uniqueness/vision of project and their white paper( Do not forget to check if contents on white paper are copied from external sources. There are so many online free tools to detect copied content) Never share your all real personal information including sensitive KYC documents, Primary emails, Phone number and permanent address For participating any types of airdrop, I advise you to use brand new cryptocurrency wallet address not an address from your main account and also do not share private key. Never response to spam email, if you reply them, they will be able to track your real IP address and always use good quality premium antivirus software. If you see any of symptoms which resemble above mentioned cases, get away from them. Thank You! Stay Safe 😍