[Alert] Risk of connecting a wallet to an unknown website.

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Quote from: Hts1 on September 28, 2022, 11:55:41 AM

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This is why you should use a burner or dummy wallet when connecting to some unknown websites. Hackers/scammers are very smart now that they are able to write a code where they will have a complete access to our wallet once we connected it on their site. If we use a burner wallet, we can avoid our assets being stolen without our pemission.

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Connecting your wallet alone isn’t enough to have your coins stolen. Normally they will ask you to approve some smart contract and this is where the trouble begins. Any website that isn’t a well known DEX or dapp shouldn’t require you to approve anything. You should also always make sure you are on the correct website and instead of a phishing site impersonating a DEX.

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Quote from: NicNacCoin on October 05, 2022, 05:54:14 PM

You should always be careful and stay away from such activities.Never setup your wallet on any unknown web site.It is very risky. I have seen many people fall into the trap of such fraud. And later saw them completely destitute.There are many fake websites that will tell you to connect your wallet and once connected your full access will go to them.And they will become the owner of your account. Always stay away from such scams and keep yourself safe.

This is very common and people need to be aware of this, just to give and example this is the equivalent of someone asking for your wallet on the street because they needed to borrow it for a few hours and you accepted such a thing and then you never see them again, if you were asked to give up your wallet willingly to a stranger on the street will you do it? Because I know I will not and as such we should not do this either with the wallet that is holding our coins.

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Quote from: Hts1 on September 28, 2022, 11:55:41 AM

Currently there are many scammers present in the forum so everyone should be careful at this moment. Recently, a close friend of mine worked on a project called Spin2Earn. They enticed him to give him some spins and asked him to connect his wallet. If the wallet is connected as he said, they take all the money in the wallet.

After that, I can check and see that they are really scammers. They have provided some wrong KYC report as screenshots on their website, I went to all the platforms where they said to KYC their project and found that no projector named Spin2Earn was verified there.

According to Spin2Earn they have done these KYCs:

1. https://app.spin2earn.io/build/images/KYC_Cyberscope.7dd1d587.png
2. https://app.spin2earn.io/build/images/KYC_InterFi.cda91dfa.png
3. https://app.spin2earn.io/build/images/company-certificate.743103a9.png

Links to all the platforms where they claim to have done KYC:

1. https://t.me/coinscope_announce
2. https://t.me/InterFiNetwork

But as of here speaking no KYC verification of Spin2Earn project has been found.

( https://spin2earn.io/ ) is a full scamming project.
So everyone will stay away from the fraud of this project.

And be take care with your wallet.

I think sometime last year, I could have almost fell into a trap where I received a token and was told to connect it to a website to swap it to a stablecoin. But good thing that I’ve read an article about honeypot scams, and that’s where I think that the token I have received was a honeypot. So yeah I didn’t connect my wallet there into that scam website.

Then in the middle of this year, there’s someone who reached me out pretending to be a development team member of a platform who wants me to do a review about their project. However, I do my due diligence by just taking time verifying if the website is legit or not. Good thing I found out that the website being shared by the phishing scammer is a fake one because of verifying it to the real admins in their official Telegram, Discord, etc.

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You should always be careful and stay away from such activities.Never setup your wallet on any unknown web site.It is very risky. I have seen many people fall into the trap of such fraud. And later saw them completely destitute.There are many fake websites that will tell you to connect your wallet and once connected your full access will go to them.And they will become the owner of your account. Always stay away from such scams and keep yourself safe.

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Quote from: jaberwock on October 05, 2022, 02:16:10 PM

Quote from: ScamViruS on October 04, 2022, 04:34:48 PM

Online risks abound and even if you are a little careless you can fall prey to scams. Not only unknown websites, sometimes scammers can also create clones of your known websites to fool you. So it is important to check the website url before sharing important information, and the simple solution is to bookmark the website url you are using.
Newbies should first try to learn about using wallets and how to stay safe from scammers.

But, who will visit to unknown websites anyway? As long as we have a common sense we will avoid it as soon as possible because we know that it might be risky. Also if we are an investors, we already know where to buy coins but we should always bookmark the right url's and won't just type the exchange in google to avoid being phished out.

We may have common sense but not everyone. Many experienced investors in the crypto world are also victims of hacking and lose large amounts of funds, which means that even after their security is so high, they are still the target of scammers. We are talking here about newbies, who always believe different types of updates, emails after seeing them and fall victim to scams. Tempting offers attract crypto users the most and often connect wallets to unknown websites to catch them. So we can't say for sure here that everyone has common sense and are not falling victim to hackers/scammers.

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Quote from: ScamViruS on October 04, 2022, 04:34:48 PM

Online risks abound and even if you are a little careless you can fall prey to scams. Not only unknown websites, sometimes scammers can also create clones of your known websites to fool you. So it is important to check the website url before sharing important information, and the simple solution is to bookmark the website url you are using.
Newbies should first try to learn about using wallets and how to stay safe from scammers.

But, who will visit to unknown websites anyway? As long as we have a common sense we will avoid it as soon as possible because we know that it might be risky. Also if we are an investors, we already know where to buy coins but we should always bookmark the right url's and won't just type the exchange in google to avoid being phished out.

Setting up 2fa's on the wallet that we are using is also important so that hackers can't easily access them since they will need to have the 2fa code first which you can only be obtained as long your emails and sim cards are still in your possession. It only becomes a problem if both of them are also hacked.

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Quote from: alik111 on September 28, 2022, 12:14:07 PM

We should not connect our wallets to an unknown website at all because it's very dangerous and may be a scam trap where many beginners will fall. So always we should research before connecting our wallets and we can use a new wallet if someone fell the website is risky.

This is a big risk and many innocent investors had lost bigger funds as a result of this big mistake. Scammers are also looking for opportunities to steal from us and if we are not wise enough to prevent there attempt then we might end up losing big big funds for this carelessness.
Newbies should note this post and pass it to other newbies so that they will ready and understand and not make silly mistakes

Online risks abound and even if you are a little careless you can fall prey to scams. Not only unknown websites, sometimes scammers can also create clones of your known websites to fool you. So it is important to check the website url before sharing important information, and the simple solution is to bookmark the website url you are using.
Newbies should first try to learn about using wallets and how to stay safe from scammers.

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Quote from: milewilda on October 03, 2022, 05:40:28 PM

There's no way for your wallet to be emptied out but only via on exposed private keys or seed.Giving out access permission on your wallet wont really put up risk for your funds on getting accessible.
Next, would be someone does have access on your device and wallet of yours had been logged then he do made out such transaction but if there's none, then there's no other way
but with having those known private keys because there's no way on accessing out an wallet but rather only with those seed or keys.
If you are really that paranoid when it comes to wallet connections then its always suggestible to logged out or un-tie or off those permissions.

I was also surprised when people where complaining in the Telegram group that their wallet have been empty, I was thinking how is that possible, but I think maybe they gave the site permission to access their wallet address, most of them connected their wallet to the website thinking they will receive free spin, which at the end they ended up losing all the funds in their wallet address, we all have to be very careful when connecting our wallet to any website, I always discourage that, but if you have to do it make sure you disconnect your wallet immediately you are done or to be at a safer side just create new wallet and use it for anything you want to use it for incase if they will hack your wallet they won't meet any fund their.

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Quote from: jostorres on October 03, 2022, 04:24:10 AM

Quote from: Hts1 on September 28, 2022, 11:55:41 AM

Recently, a close friend of mine worked on a project called Spin2Earn. They enticed him to give him some spins and asked him to connect his wallet. If the wallet is connected as he said, they take all the money in the wallet.

At first read it sounds like your friend is part of the team but I think he isn't and he is only a normal visitor of this site but it's kinda scary on how his wallet got emptied by the time he connects it and play the game. How is that possible?

Maybe your friend is being asked for his private keys or 12 word phrases to be input in the text box that he sees because I can't think of any other ways except from this for ones wallet to be hacked but anyways thanks for the warning even if many of us are not really new from this tactics but this is still helpful for those who are new in the crypto scene. On your thread you are showing how important is it to do a research because any project can lie easily.

There's no way for your wallet to be emptied out but only via on exposed private keys or seed.Giving out access permission on your wallet wont really put up risk for your funds on getting accessible.
Next, would be someone does have access on your device and wallet of yours had been logged then he do made out such transaction but if there's none, then there's no other way
but with having those known private keys because there's no way on accessing out an wallet but rather only with those seed or keys.
If you are really that paranoid when it comes to wallet connections then its always suggestible to logged out or un-tie or off those permissions.

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Quote from: Hts1 on September 28, 2022, 11:55:41 AM

Recently, a close friend of mine worked on a project called Spin2Earn. They enticed him to give him some spins and asked him to connect his wallet. If the wallet is connected as he said, they take all the money in the wallet.

At first read it sounds like your friend is part of the team but I think he isn't and he is only a normal visitor of this site but it's kinda scary on how his wallet got emptied by the time he connects it and play the game. How is that possible?

Maybe your friend is being asked for his private keys or 12 word phrases to be input in the text box that he sees because I can't think of any other ways except from this for ones wallet to be hacked but anyways thanks for the warning even if many of us are not really new from this tactics but this is still helpful for those who are new in the crypto scene. On your thread you are showing how important is it to do a research because any project can lie easily.

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Quote from: Hts1 on September 28, 2022, 11:55:41 AM

Currently there are many scammers present in the forum so everyone should be careful at this moment. Recently, a close friend of mine worked on a project called Spin2Earn. They enticed him to give him some spins and asked him to connect his wallet. If the wallet is connected as he said, they take all the money in the wallet.

After that, I can check and see that they are really scammers. They have provided some wrong KYC report as screenshots on their website, I went to all the platforms where they said to KYC their project and found that no projector named Spin2Earn was verified there.

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So everyone will stay away from the fraud of this project.

And be take care with your wallet.

It is a good thing that you are warning the community about this project, however it always surprise me how people do in fact know how to do their due diligence but they refuse to use it at all before they invest in a project, and it is only once they have lost money and it is impossible to recover it when they finally decide to investigate the project which scammed them, so while I am sorry about your friend he needs to change his attitude or something like this will happen to him again.

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Those who consciously connect their wallets to unknown websites that are not deemed as safe should take the loss. I mean, it's 2022 and people still fall prey to these obvious scamming techniques employed by some crooks. It takes less than a minute to check the legitimacy of a service nowadays, and if you can't be bothered searching for something on Google then I guess you deserve to lose your money. I check the site, and upon watching the video, I cringed at how the man explained how easy it is to earn tokens just by doing what he says. Also, lots of videos on YouTube claiming that this project is indeed a scam. Didn't take me 2 minutes to search, read, confirm, and type these things regarding the said website.

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Good job, this is an example of how to do research on a project suggested by someone else. I will also do the same of course, check if the project is safe or not.
Because if you have to connect your wallet with a website, an unknown project will be very dangerous. it's best not to use the main wallet to connect it, it's better to use a new wallet so that there are no worries of losing assets in the main wallet. Must be thorough before following a new project.

It is always important to do some research before buying or joining a project,
we know for ourselves that crypto cannot be separated from scams, therefore it is better to prevent it,
although actually doing research is not a guarantee but at least it can minimize the risk

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Quote from: AicecreaME on September 30, 2022, 02:39:06 AM

Whenever there's a "free" money on a certain faucet or whatsoever, always make a new wallet and use that to connect on them, that is the safest way if you're really hoping that you could get the "free" money without risking anything in return. You just have to outsmart them, simple as that. If you don't really know the site and it's smells fishy, just don't do KYC just to finally get your "free" money.

This is a good suggestion since it’s easy to create wallet you just need to save the details and it can be good already, connecting wallet will be more safe if you have a new wallet intended only to that project. I’m doing this in some of the bounty before and It’s really safe. I just don’t know if its worth the time and effort, but as you can see you’ll lose nothing if you try that. If you feel you are not safe, then don’t participate simple as that.

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Quote from: BobK71 on September 29, 2022, 01:00:00 PM

I saw the pre sale campaign of this project where they were showing it graph of BNB collection via bot. There I saw that BNB accumulates after a certain period of time. And those who through spin used to display the winning reward. I was shocked to see how it was possible to get a big reward one after another? Then I was pretty sure it was a scam project. Moreover, they did not have any social media accounts or any information. At the end, that came true.

I saw the project pre sale also, when I saw the amount the raised I was thinking the project was legit but after they claimed that they have already reached soft cap but haven't gotten to hard cap yet so they extended their presale by 24 hours, immediately the extended their presale I was suspecting scam, I knew they were just buying time to cover everything they did. They designed their website in a way that people will believe their presale was going smoothly, if you see the amount raised during this bear market, you will think the project is legit and it will encourage everyone to invest in the project, but everything is scam.

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Whenever there's a "free" money on a certain faucet or whatsoever, always make a new wallet and use that to connect on them, that is the safest way if you're really hoping that you could get the "free" money without risking anything in return. You just have to outsmart them, simple as that. If you don't really know the site and it's smells fishy, just don't do KYC just to finally get your "free" money.

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You should never link a wallet with your funds on it to a new site.

You can if you use an empty wallet for it. However, even so, it still contains risk because your device can be infected with dangerous threats.

Quote from: hd49728 on September 29, 2022, 08:39:17 AM

If you want to experience a new website, create a new wallet and use it. Scammers can not steal any money in that empty wallet.

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Using a new wallet to test a site is a good idea but never risk the wallet with your funds on it.

You are right but I did noted that it is still risky.

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You are responsible for protecting and securing your wallet. Do not link it, especially on suspicious accounts no matter how nice their rewards and bonuses offer. Scammers are wiser nowadays and they will do everything to attract you and for their victims to fall for their trap so you must be wiser than them.

A best practice is ignore all DMs from strangers and especially if it contains strange links, has request for something relates to your wallet, seeds, password, connection, and so on. Skip it and you can even go further by reporting.

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The first thing we should avoid is connecting our wallet to these unknown sites and then grant them permission to our wallets and some are ignorant enough to connect their main account only.When you do this you are already at risk that wallet will be drained out easily with all your savings and collectibles in it.But why should you to these sites and connect your wallet if you are aware about the consequences?

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I just assume that nothing is safe, and therefore would never trust anyone with my password or anything. Stay safe and don't give your wallet info to strange websites! But as others have said, they need your password right? I don't know, I would never connect my wallet to a site like that.

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