How to Get a Small Amount of MATIC#
Background: The xlog creator incentive program gave away 14 MIRA, and during the process of withdrawing MIRA, I encountered the need to pay a gas fee, which is a small amount of MATIC, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03, depending on luck (try multiple times). However, I was stuck on how to obtain this small amount of MATIC for a long time.
Here, I will share the feasible steps I just experienced yesterday to successfully obtain a small amount of MATIC, and also share the scams I encountered...
At first, when searching for enough matic fee, some of the results were already expired and some websites couldn't be accessed.
Yesterday, I tried a different approach by searching for how to obtain MATIC fee, and then I came across this How To Get FREE MATIC: Use a Faucet!. I saw the steps to obtain 0.01 MATIC here, as shown in the following image, so I decided to give it a try:
The translated steps are as follows:
- Join Polygon Discard.
- After joining, authenticate by clicking the
startgroup and following the steps to select your interests and send the authentication. - After the authentication is approved, you can see
support, then find thematic-faucetchannel, as shown in the following image: - Then, send
faucet-send YourReceivingAddress, and a bot will reply by sending 0.01 MATIC to the address you provided. You can do this 5 times in total, which is 0.05 MATIC, enough to pay for the withdrawal fee.
Ps: How to obtain an address?
Refer to the image below. When exchanging, it will open crossbell, and a pop-up window will appear when you click the upper right corner. Then, click "Copy Address". Also, please note that when withdrawing, select SWAP OUT.
Operation#
So, I joined Polygon Discard, then authenticated, and found matic-faucet to send faucet-send YourReceivingAddress. Then, a problem arose. The response I received was this:
Ps: If the bot doesn't reply after a long time, check if there is a spelling mistake... Yesterday, I initially sent facucet-send, and after sending it, the bot didn't respond. I thought there was a problem... Later, I realized it was a spelling mistake...
Next, let's talk about the prompt Address must have ativity/previous transactions before requesting.
Of course, I didn't have any transactions or activity... because I didn't have a gas fee, how could I have any transactions? So, I went to find the wallet-support group and asked if anyone knew what was going on and what to do.
Scam#
Then, I encountered my first scam in the cryptocurrency world... Let me explain in detail:
After I posted in the wallet-support group, after a while, someone added me through Discard and said they received my complaint and wanted to help me solve the problem I encountered. I thought, wow, the efficiency of this official group is high, so I started chatting with him.
He asked me to send him the address, saying that he needed to check it. After a while, he told me that there was a problem with the address, that the address node was incompatible, and needed to be updated.
I asked him how to do it specifically. He said it needed to be resolved through their dapps, which was to send me a link and ask me to open it and authorize the wallet synchronization.
Hey, as a clever guy, I felt that something was not quite right, but I thought that I didn't have much money in this address, so he couldn't really scam me. Besides, I was stuck and couldn't complete the transfer, so I decided to give it a try. Then, when I opened the website he sent and clicked on the wallet connection, MetaMask reminded me of the following:
Then I remembered, in the steps I searched at the beginning, there seemed to be this reminder; If someone actively adds you, report them directly. The official team will not contact you...
Then I realized that this guy might be a scammer. The chat records are as follows. I'm sharing them here so that everyone can pay attention during the operation... Always remember If someone actively adds you, report them directly. The official team will not contact you...
Solution#
While chatting with the scammer, I happened to encounter another person sending a message in the matic-faucet channel. I thought that since both of us were trying to get gas fee, this person should not be a scammer. So, I added this person and asked if they had encountered the situation of Address must have ativity/previous transactions before requesting. They said that there needed to be a transaction or activity, and I said that I didn't have enough fee for the transaction. They said that I could try other methods and asked if I had any recommendations.
The person sent me this hmmcoin, and after opening it, I received 0.0005 matic as a reward. Hahaha. Then, the person told me to try sending faucet-send YourReceivingAddress again because this also counted as having activity/transactions in the address. I tried again, and sure enough, the bot replied and sent me 0.01. Hahaha. After 5 minutes, I tried again because my fee had to be at least 0.02... After obtaining enough fee, I successfully withdrew MIRA.