Shibarium Safety Tips
2 min readApr 23, 2023

NFT Airdropped to your wallet ? 99% scam!

Airdrops are a convenient way to receive NFTs, however, they are also a convenient attack vector for scammers. In the rare case that an unknown sender attempts to send you an NFT you were not expecting to receive, it is recommended that you don’t attempt to claim the airdrop.

If you think you’ve accepted a NFT airdrop you weren’t expecting, you may want to consider moving everything out of your self-custody that you had pre-airdrop to a different self-custody wallet, depending on the current value of the crypto assets and NFTs in that wallet. Please note that additional fees (such as transfer fees) will incur from your wallet service provider.

The easiest way to verify whether a discord server is the official one is to access it through the project’s official twitter page, which should show the Verified badge next to their Twitter handle.

Tip: Check the url before you click or tap on it to make sure you’re routed to the official site. If the link looks unfamiliar, make sure it’s been published on the announcements channel so you know if it came from one of the admins.

Most credible discord servers should also have a channel titled Official links. You can reference that channel to confirm if you are visiting the official pages of the NFT project

Only accept airdrops from verified profiles on Opensea:

With. blue checkmarks next to the profile name.

From profiles you absolutely trust.

An airdrop is the distribution of a token to multiple users’ self-custody wallets, usually for free. Airdrops are seen as a marketing tactic for new projects to quickly gain user adoption by providing a large number of users with tokens as an incentive to interact with their DApp or Blockchain. Airdrops are typically also distributed to users who have already interacted with a project as a way to reward them for being early adopters.

Receiving an airdrop may be beneficial to you, however you should be cautious about the safety of the smart contracts you are interacting with when claiming an airdrop. Claiming an airdrop requires you to connect your wallet to a smart contract and sign a transaction. This process can leave your wallet exposed to hacks if the smart contract is constructed with malicious intent.

You should always check if projects offering airdrops are verified on multiple social media channels and do your own research to understand what others who have received the airdrop are saying about the project.