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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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SUKONI 1w ago

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.

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daniele 2d ago

> 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.