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.
This is not just sad but also pathetic by this Xempire developers, they know very well what they are doing, because I believe that this was not stated at the beginning of the project, because if most people knew of this, they wouldn't have even engage in it, all my time doing airdrop, I have always seen those developers that that want you to pay a certain amount of money before you will be considered for the airdrop as scam, and this particular one has all the trademark of scammers, and to be frank, it would be foolish to pay such and amount to them which we all know that it's not gas as requested by ton keeper.
So it's a very good thing awareness is being created already for most of this newbies that doesn't know how these airdrop scam works, just imagine how much they will make if like one thousand users decide to do their bidding and pay such an amount to them? So the advice I am going to give to all airdrop hunters is that, they should take any project that demands payment from them as a scam, and to me that's the best way of thinking when hunting for airdrops.