Airdrop Scams and How to Stay Safe

How real airdrops work

Projects distribute free tokens to early users, often based on past activity on their app or network. You typically check eligibility on the project's official site, connect your wallet and claim. You pay only the network's normal gas fee.

How fake airdrops work

• Drainer sites: a lookalike site asks you to connect and sign. The signature grants a contract permission to move your tokens, which it does immediately.
• Seed phrase requests: a form asks for your seed phrase to "verify" or "sync" your wallet. Anyone who has it owns your funds.
• Pay to claim: you are told to send a fee to unlock a reward. It never arrives.
• Mystery tokens: unknown tokens appear in your wallet with a link to "claim" or "sell" them. Interacting with them leads to a drainer.

Rules that stop almost all of them

1. Only use links from the project's official website or verified official accounts, and type the address yourself or use a bookmark.
2. Never enter a seed phrase anywhere except when restoring your own wallet in its official app.
3. Never pay to receive an airdrop.
4. Read every signature request. If it asks for approval to spend tokens or "set approval for all", stop.
5. Ignore tokens you did not expect. Hide them in your wallet; do not try to sell them.
6. Use a separate wallet with a small balance for claiming airdrops.

Our airdrop list

Our airdrops page only lists campaigns we have checked, and every entry links solely to the project's own domain. If an airdrop is not there, that does not make it fake, but verify it yourself with the rules above.