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How to Get a Small Amount of MATIC#

Background: The xlog creator incentive program gave away 14 MIRA, but when withdrawing MIRA, I encountered the need to pay gas fees, which required a small amount of MATIC, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03, depending on luck (try multiple times). 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, I searched for enough matic fee, but some of the results were already expired and some websites couldn't be opened.

Yesterday, I tried a different approach. I searched for how to obtain MATIC fee and found 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:

1. Join Polygon Discard.
2. After joining, authenticate by clicking the start group and following the steps to choose your interests and send the authentication.
3. After the authentication is approved, you can see support and then find the matic-faucet channel, as shown in the following image:
4. Then, send faucet-send YourReceivingAddress, and a bot will reply and send 0.01 MATIC to the address you provided. You can do this 5 times in total, obtaining 0.05 MATIC, which is enough to pay the withdrawal fee.

Ps: How to obtain an address?

Refer to the image below. When exchanging, it will open crossbell. Click the top right corner to open a pop-up window, and then click "Copy Address". Also, note that when withdrawing, choose SWAP OUT.

Operation#

So, I joined Polygon Discard, authenticated, and found matic-faucet. I sent 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 the bot didn't respond. I thought there was a problem. Later, I realized it was a spelling mistake...

Then, let's talk about the prompt Address must have ativity/previous transactions before requesting.

Of course, I didn't have any transactions or activities... because I didn't have gas fees, how could I have any transactions? So, I went to the wallet-support group and asked if anyone knew what was going on and what to do.

Scam#

Then, I encountered my first scam since entering 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 he wanted 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 wallet synchronization.

Hey, as a smart 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 scam me. Besides, I had been stuck with this unsuccessful transfer for so long, so I decided to give it a try. I opened the website he sent and clicked to connect the wallet. At that moment, MetaMask reminded me of the following:

Then I remembered that in the steps I searched for 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 be careful 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 this person should not be a scammer since we were both trying to obtain gas fee. 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 suggested that I 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 would count 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 sent it again because my fee had to be at least 0.02... After obtaining enough fee, I successfully withdrew MIRA.