Airdop concerns

[leithy]

What are members views regarding downloading wallet to receive airdrop? I do not do it as I feel it is possibly unsafe access to laptop.
What do members think of having to send ether to receive airdrop? I do not believe this to be a genuine airdrop but a donation to an ICO.

[admin]

Some tokens and coins are on their own blockchain, that's why they might require you to download wallets if they are not yet listed on exchanges.
As for donating to receive airdrop, that i can understand, as sometimes processing 1000-10 000 transaction can cost a lot of ether, it is better that the promoter developer cover this, but sometimes the airdrops are simple tokens for ideas... that's why in our airdrop section we ask the person doing the airdrop to make sure he has enough ETH.

[bfn]

What are members views regarding downloading wallet to receive airdrop? I do not do it as I feel it is possibly unsafe access to laptop.
What do members think of having to send ether to receive airdrop? I do not believe this to be a genuine airdrop but a donation to an ICO.

you can try by yourself, if the airdrop need to sending any ether, dont take it, if the airdrop doest need a deposits, take it

[iconoclast]

Like most things I think the answer depends on the circumstances. If it is a tiny amount of ether then it is legit. Though I can see how some people might try to abuse things by asking for more ether than necessary.  As for wallets I have only been asked to download established wallets so not a problem though I would probably be suspicious if it was a brand new wallet.

[shinkosmos]

Thanks for sharing this information with us. Now I will delete a suspicious software...

[FLASH1K]

Always use virustotal.com for such software and suspisious links.
Btw, one time had participated in airdrop where u needed to send ur phone number to get verification sms, all was ok, as a result token now have good price it was worth of it.   

[mavee33]

60% of all wallet based airdrop failing with virustotal.com

[Holie]

I don't feel safe by downloading a wallet for an airdrop...so most of the time I just give up all the "please-download-wallet-airdrop"
I'll be fine with an online wallet though.

[ganeshramk]

one needs to be very careful about the wallet download for airdrops.. scammers are very active nowadays.

[claudio2]

I rarely participate on airdrops that need to download wallets. It's very dangerous, especially if is a shitcoin without a known team behind it.

[Owillz]

i personally dont buy the idea. there is 85% chance for a pass than to download a wallet to receive airdrops.

[sw1911]

downloaded a couple wallets and ethcash scanned with malware issue. 

[rahul10948]

Lots of opportunities  there

[diezorocket]

always a bit concerned as well when I have to download a wallet to participate
I've only done the ether donation thing once or twice and I think it worked once

[1kings]

I don't download random wallets. I only stick to ERC20 tokens and web wallets.i can't in a bid to get tokens risk my personal data or expose my pc to inadvertent mining for someone else.