People have been cloning AirdropAlert almost as long as we’ve existed. Fake domains, copied listings, lookalike Telegram channels — after nine years, spotting our own impersonators is practically a side business.
But this week’s find deserves a write-up, because it’s the most effort anyone has put in yet. A complete clone of AirdropAlert running at ansemcoin.xyz (do not visit it, and definitely do not connect a wallet there). It uses our name on every page. They copied our About page. It scraped around 50 of our airdrop listings. And even hotlinks images straight from our own server — the fake site was literally loading one of our exclusive airdrop banners off airdropalert.com while pretending to be us.
It looks convincing. That’s the point. Here’s how the scam actually works, and how to make sure you never fall for this one or the next one.
The anatomy of the scam
At first glance the clone looks like a normal aggregator: 50 listings, familiar project names, categories, a coin ticker, a blog. But look closer and every single listing is marked Inactive — except one.
That one is called the “Ansem Coin Drop.” It’s labeled Featured, Active, and ✓ Verified, described as “our own flagship airdrop campaign” with an “exclusive rewards pool.” The participation steps: click Participate Now, connect your wallet, complete “on-chain verification tasks.”
That’s a wallet drainer. The entire site — all 50 scraped listings, the copied About page, our hotlinked banners — exists to make one button look trustworthy. Everything else is set dressing. They even added a “safety notice” telling you to never share your seed phrase, because nothing builds confidence like a scammer reciting security advice.
The campaign is dated August 19 to November 17, 2026, so this is live right now.
Why “Ansem Coin”?
Our best guess: search traffic. Ansem Coin (Black Bull) has been trending, and when a coin trends, thousands of people immediately search for “[coin name] airdrop” hoping there’s free money attached. There is no Ansem coin airdrop. So someone built a fake one — and wrapped it in the brand of a real aggregator so the page would pass a sniff test.
It’s a smart funnel, honestly. Trending coin brings the traffic, our stolen brand supplies the trust, and the “everything else is inactive” trick herds every visitor toward the single drainer button. We’ve documented the warning signs of fake crypto airdrops for years, and this clone ticks nearly every box on that list — it just does it wearing our jersey.
How to verify you’re on the real AirdropAlert
Five things, none of which take more than ten seconds:
Check the domain, character by character. The only AirdropAlert is airdropalert.com. Not .xyz, not .io, not airdrop-alert-anything. If the address bar says anything else, leave.
We never ask you to connect a wallet to our site. AirdropAlert is a directory. We point you to projects’ official campaign pages — we don’t run “flagship coin drops,” we don’t have a rewards pool, and there is no button on our site that requests a wallet signature.
“Verified” badges mean nothing on their own. Any scammer can type a checkmark. Verification is only as good as the site displaying it.
Beware the lone active drop. A real aggregator has dozens of live campaigns at any moment. A site where everything is dead except one urgent, exclusive, limited-time drop is a funnel, not a directory.
Cross-check big claims. If an airdrop is real, it exists on the project’s official channels. If you can only find it on one website, it only exists on that website.
Not our first rodeo
Impersonation attempts come with the territory when you’ve run the same trusted brand since 2017 — clones, fake channels, and last December, false claims of an AirdropAlert data breach — the full story of how far that one went is in that post. There was no breach then, and there’s no “AirdropAlert coin drop” now.
We’ve taken it as a strange compliment both times. Nobody bothers impersonating a site people don’t trust.
What we’re doing about it
We’re not just blogging about it:
- Reported to Google Safe Browsing, so Chrome and other browsers flag the site with a full-screen warning.
- Filed DMCA takedown notices with Google to remove the clone’s pages from search results.
- Filing abuse reports with the domain registrar and host to get the site taken down at the source.
- And we had some fun with those hotlinked images — if you visit the clone and see a big red scam warning where their banners used to be, that’s us. They’re loading images from our server; we decided what those images should say.
Final words
Airdrops are free money, which makes them the perfect bait — we’ve been saying this since 2017. The rule that survives every scam variant is the same one we opened the site with nine years ago: verify the URL before you connect anything, and if you can’t verify it, walk away.
If you spot another AirdropAlert impersonator, email us or ping us on X. We’ll add it to the collection.
Stay safe out there.
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