Claim Airdrops: How to Spot Real Crypto Airdrops and Avoid Scams

When you claim airdrops, free cryptocurrency tokens distributed by blockchain projects to promote adoption. Also known as crypto rewards, they’re meant to reward early supporters—not to steal your wallet. But most airdrops you hear about online aren’t real. In 2025, over 90% of airdrop offers are scams designed to trick you into connecting your wallet or entering your private key. Real airdrops never ask for your seed phrase, never require you to send crypto first, and never use flashy websites with countdown timers.

Projects that run legitimate airdrops, like GamesPad, a GameFi platform that distributed GMPD tokens to NFT holders, tie rewards to actual participation—holding an NFT, joining a community, or using their platform. The ZAM TrillioHeirs NFT airdrop, which gave holders multipliers on future token launches, is a good example: it offered real utility, not just free tokens. On the flip side, fake airdrops like Zenith Coin, a project that vanished after its 2020 drop and now has clones pretending to be active, or DMC by DMEX Global, which doesn’t exist but has fake websites collecting wallet addresses, are pure traps. These scams rely on urgency and greed. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Many people think claiming airdrops is easy money. It’s not. It’s a minefield. You need to know which projects have a track record, which exchanges are trustworthy, and which tokens have real use cases. The posts below cover exactly that: real cases like the REVV x CoinMarketCap airdrop that ended in 2021, the MTLX drops tied to FET token holdings, and the GMPD airdrop that rewarded NFT owners—not random Twitter followers. You’ll also find warnings about fake airdrops like ORI Orica Token, Zenith NT, and Domitai—all designed to look real but built to steal. No fluff. No hype. Just what you need to know before you click "Connect Wallet".