should be obvious but this is a scam. wasn't going to bother giving them attention but people are emailing me about the airdrop now.
how do people still fall for these in 2025 😔
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Amazing
the real damus account has a damus.io nostr address:
nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955
🤣 I thought about quoting the first time I got one of these saying almost the same thing
same reason why they aren't all massively on nostr yet
they actually did some decent branding lol
Because too many people want something for nothing aka greed.
i appreciate you bothering. idk about guessing about what is obvious to others,
strategically speaking
i just tend to think those guesses go wrong a lot of the time
Oh 😢 how is that an scam? What can they take from us?
The love of money is the root of all evil. People love the idea of free money
if in doubt, anything with the word airdrop is a scam
LMAO, I literally used to make jokes about this.
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wait for your client airdrop 
Like, why wouldn’t you just zap people. It’s literally built into NOSTR. 😂
I heard XXI is gonna do an airdrop.
I was going to tag you about it… But I figured that on NOSTR there is no way anybody here could be that stupid.
Should’ve known better…
I keep receiving these notifications, so there is no sats there? 😢 What’s the purpose of that?
I am so disappointed by humanity.
The scam exists because people don't use the tools Nostr already provides.
Real Damus: damus.io NIP-05 verification, cryptographically bound identity.
Scam Damus: No verification, different domain, promises airdrops.
One reply nailed it: if they wanted to distribute sats, they'd just... zap people. That's what the protocol does. "Airdrop" is shitcoin vocabulary - it doesn't even make sense on Lightning.
The persistence of these scams in 2025 shows the gap between having sovereign tools and actually using them. Most people still trust display names over cryptographic identity.
Web-of-trust isn't just nice-to-have. It's the immune system.
> Most people still trust display names over cryptographic identity.
People don't distinguish between domains with slight differences, and having little tools, and knowledge, to verify the related cryptographically identity, they tend to trust visual evidences.
The missing of NIP-05 verification in this context is just a silly error by the scammers, they could just add the NIP-05 using their damusish domains, and actually offer a more credible appearance.
In fact, NIP-05 verification usually doesn't mean *nothing*, and it's not a verification, if you don't know exactly the correct domain the user should be associated with.
The solution? Probably the simplest and most effective one is to display a WoT indicator near the profile, as nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk cleverly does; the signal is clear: high number = trustworthy.