Topic: Avoid Airdrop Scam on Trust Wallet via Links (Read 385 times)
Yes i am agree about this in this time many free nft are coming in wallet and there are mention link and say go to link and collect reward but they hack your wallet that is big scam i advise to everyone not trust any free airdrop links etc without prove that is real don't click if anyone click without research definitely they loss there wallet..
This isn't new and likely these airdrops are done automatically when these malicious actors see if you're have an active wallet being involved on airdrops as well. Good thing crypto wallets these days have that feature to hide these lousy tokens on your wallet so always update it and exercise the necessary procedures to secure your wallet.
Unfortunately many hunters are still falling into this trap despite of old tactics of the scammers.Scammers are also adopting the trend so if you will not care on clicking links you might become a victim. Hackers and scammers are all over the cryptospace, this is not new to see them hunting the hunters so if you are into airdrop don't be greedy to participate on airdrop, better to do your own research first.
To be frank, this is the reason I avoid pursuing free NFTs and participating in Airdrops, as linking your wallet always carries some level of risk. If someone still wants to take a chance, it's advisable to connect with a brand-new, empty wallet to minimize the potential loss if anything goes awry.
In addition, never ever connect your wallet on random links or websites and always verify if the airdrop is true or not, and don't be greedy for the sake of a few dollars. Cause sometimes when we become too greedy, it could lead to a problem rather than a good result
It is something we need to be more vigilant about and think about several times before making a decision. We can't underestimate scammers as they are also knowledgeable about the market.
I received several random NFTs in my different wallets, and most of the time I just ignored them since I knew it was a scam but when I receive a scam NFT on my Solana wallet I just burn it so that I can get a small amount of SOL. There are a lot of airdrop scams not only in trust wallets, and you can see it everywhere and I always see them on Twitter and some of them might even tag you that you have won their raffles even though you never joined in the first place. It usually happens to me and I just block them so that they won't be able to tag me or see them on my feed.
In addition, never ever connect your wallet on random links or websites and always verify if the airdrop is true or not, and don't be greedy for the sake of a few dollars. Cause sometimes when we become too greedy, it could lead to a problem rather than a good result
In addition, never ever connect your wallet on random links or websites and always verify if the airdrop is true or not, and don't be greedy for the sake of a few dollars. Cause sometimes when we become too greedy, it could lead to a problem rather than a good result
We must always vigilant when someone is sending us link where we need to connect our wallets directly to the site. If we can, we must use an isolated system and a new wallet to the site to be secure. We can do this by having a dedicated mobile, or device for this kind of airdrop. We can also create a virtual system to isolate any malware or virus the site can inject and if they turn out to be a positive scam and hacking attempt, at least the attack is contained in a simulated and separate system.
But if we want to avoid setting up a virtual system, we can always avoid these links of airdrops.
Just avoiding those airdrops seems like the easiest choice, as taking all of those precautions is indeed possible, but that means that you are assuming already those links belong the scammers, which they do, and in that case the best course of action is to have nothing to do with them as you never know if they could find a way around your security measures, or as I have seen sometimes on the past in which people connected wallets without funds and then the hackers asked for a wallet that had been used and had money in it, and the victim was dumb enough to connect their wallets and then lose their money this way. But if we want to avoid setting up a virtual system, we can always avoid these links of airdrops.
We must always vigilant when someone is sending us link where we need to connect our wallets directly to the site. If we can, we must use an isolated system and a new wallet to the site to be secure. We can do this by having a dedicated mobile, or device for this kind of airdrop. We can also create a virtual system to isolate any malware or virus the site can inject and if they turn out to be a positive scam and hacking attempt, at least the attack is contained in a simulated and separate system.
But if we want to avoid setting up a virtual system, we can always avoid these links of airdrops.
But if we want to avoid setting up a virtual system, we can always avoid these links of airdrops.
Recently I had the same type of nfts showing in my wallet with more dollars written on it it was just a scam as you had already told me in your post, But from where these has been sending and what is the benefit of sending these? How can hackers get through it?
I guess they are just sending it randomly in hopes that someone would be fool enough to try to claim the money thus they got the money from that person.after all minting NFT is as easy as clicking at some buttons, thats why they are so motivated to do it.
but i'm sure people with right mind would always consider something that comes out of nowhere also too good to be true to be just scam, so most of them are just gonna outright avoid it.
thats the thing with blockchain these days, there are also many dusting tokens, scam tokens that lure you into interacting with their smart contract function and steal your money, people need to learn these basics honestly.
until they would really be able to realize that it was too late and they had already been scammed already. Lots of methods and ways that had been exploited and known out but since not all people do made out their research and there's still lots of newbies who do fuel and feed out these hackers and scammers then the cycle would continue. It is really just that normal that if a certain method had already been known or bust up then they would come up with something new on which its never been that known but eventually these things could really be that stopped or be avoided if you are really just making use of your own common sense on which it would really be that a common approach that you should really be that sensible on whatever offerings that turns out to be too good to be true then its 100% scam. Airdrops and dropping those suspicious links is nothing new
but surprisingly on which the are still people who do really fall out with this kind of method.
Recently I had the same type of nfts showing in my wallet with more dollars written on it it was just a scam as you had already told me in your post, But from where these has been sending and what is the benefit of sending these? How can hackers get through it?
I guess they are just sending it randomly in hopes that someone would be fool enough to try to claim the money thus they got the money from that person.after all minting NFT is as easy as clicking at some buttons, thats why they are so motivated to do it.
but i'm sure people with right mind would always consider something that comes out of nowhere also too good to be true to be just scam, so most of them are just gonna outright avoid it.
thats the thing with blockchain these days, there are also many dusting tokens, scam tokens that lure you into interacting with their smart contract function and steal your money, people need to learn these basics honestly.
There are lots of different scams that is taking place and we need to be very careful and watchful so that we are not going to miss the updates that will prevent us from doing the wrong thing that will make us to lose funds due to our ignorances. I have received some of these airdrops before and I never bothered to click on any link that could direct to another website for no tangible reasons. Since I never did any airdrop to warrant any. Scammers and hackers are now using different medium to steal funds and if we are not alert, we can become a Victim without awareness.
Airdrop hunters should be very aware of this since they don't use their eyes see something free like free airdrop rewards, I know its very hard to control but sometimes when they see airdrop is most irresistible to over look because they believed that something positive could likely come out of it without knowing they are risking themselves while try to join.
Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
Scammers are experts at playing this game, they give all kind of promises about how valuable those NFTs will become on the future and people believe them because they want to think that making money can be as easily as being on the right place at the right time, so they take the risk thinking that if they do not act fast then someone else can get their spot and deny them what they consider to be rightfully theirs, only to discover at the end that not only they will not get any money but that they will lose the few assets they had on that wallet.Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
This is where greed comes in whenever someone is too desperate about making gain or profits look very well such person or people is about to lose huge amount of money since they allowed greed to enveloped them due to some silly sticker or pieces of arts as an NFTs. Is somehow suspicious seeing an airdrop tokens in their wallet without being applying for it and or just seeing a link of airdrop showing in their wallet and all they need is just to connect and claim airdrop, look very carefully there's something phishy and suspicious about such free rewards which as a normal person you could sense and perceived danger coming.
Airdrop hunters should be very aware of this since they don't use their eyes see something free like free airdrop rewards, I know its very hard to control but sometimes when they see airdrop is most irresistible to over look because they believed that something positive could likely come out of it without knowing they are risking themselves while try to join.
Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
Scammers are experts at playing this game, they give all kind of promises about how valuable those NFTs will become on the future and people believe them because they want to think that making money can be as easily as being on the right place at the right time, so they take the risk thinking that if they do not act fast then someone else can get their spot and deny them what they consider to be rightfully theirs, only to discover at the end that not only they will not get any money but that they will lose the few assets they had on that wallet. Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
Airdrop hunters should be very aware of this since they don't use their eyes see something free like free airdrop rewards, I know its very hard to control but sometimes when they see airdrop is most irresistible to over look because they believed that something positive could likely come out of it without knowing they are risking themselves while try to join.
Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
Most newbies are much familiar with trustwallet so they chooses to launched attack through trustwallet.
I already avoided airdrop scam on trust wallet.Free received all airdrop scam because no work any payment received not possible.100% sure this is scam token. Didn't added trust wallet scam token.You didn't added scam token your wallet you are safe now.
Recently I had the same type of nfts showing in my wallet with more dollars written on it it was just a scam as you had already told me in your post, But from where these has been sending and what is the benefit of sending these? How can hackers get through it?
Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.
This doesn't only happen in TrustWallet, you can find such scams on Twitter a lot and on Telegram as well, very rarely on Facebook as well. So almost all the social media platforms are covered by these scammers, they pay some money and run ads on their accounts they create on these social media platforms and then earn money by scamming people by luring them into their websites with fake promises of giving away NFTs and tokens and other valuable stuff.Those who understand that there is a catch behind these will basically avoid them and move on, but newbies that don't have much experience actually think that they might get something from them and that is what makes them fall in their trap and then they regret after they have been scammed.
This is really big problem and basically new of crypto market. A scam trap that often traps new crypto investments. Many people have lost their money due to this kind of scamming. In fact, everyone should know that there is no way to earn free money from crypto, so if they do that, they are definitely scammers. They will collect our private wallet key in various ways and later remove all the money.
Actually it's not really new, the fraud trap as described by the Op is a fairly common type of trap used by scammers, only the method of spreading is different. I who have been in the crypto space for a long time already know these types of pitfalls. They target new users who do not fully understand crypto and take advantage of their ignorance by sending traps. There is no such thing as free money from random people in crypto, they must be scammers. Free money only exists if we do a job like some of the recommended airdrops, because some airdrops are full of pitfalls. Remember that there will be no airdrop asking for your private wallet key, if they ask then they are definitely scammers.
This is really big problem and basically new of crypto market. A scam trap that often traps new crypto investments. Many people have lost their money due to this kind of scamming. In fact, everyone should know that there is no way to earn free money from crypto, so if they do that, they are definitely scammers. They will collect our private wallet key in various ways and later remove all the money.
Unfortunately there is not anything we can do about this, scammers know they can get away with this because on many countries cryptocurrencies are not even considered to be valuable assets, so a person living there could literally steal a lot of money all over the world and they will not be considered to be a criminal at all, but even if the laws changed as long as their scams remain on the low side they can keep scamming with impunity and get away with it.
This is really big problem and basically new of crypto market. A scam trap that often traps new crypto investments. Many people have lost their money due to this kind of scamming. In fact, everyone should know that there is no way to earn free money from crypto, so if they do that, they are definitely scammers. They will collect our private wallet key in various ways and later remove all the money.
Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.
This has been one of the most common ways of getting access to one’s Wallet by phishing. All these airdrops and testnets like always requires you to connect your wallet to a particular site, some might have paid off in the past but most are definitely not worth the hassle. Do not connect your wallet to any website no matter how trust worthy they claim to be.
If at all you would like to engage in airdrops which you should know is no longer worth your time or risk anymore then I would suggest you use a different wallet entirely from your personal wallet where your coins are stored. If there is even a way to use a different device then kindly do that, because most of these sites instill malware like Clipboard Malware which would not only affect that particular wallet but also the entire wallets on that device
This is the risk of participating on all of those airdrops introduce to the public since we don't know if the owner want to launch a good project or they are just there want to scam people by those malware attach on their platform. Maybe for that we should create more dummy wallets so that we can avoid getting huge damage once we got penetrated by those scammers. We also need to avoid those airdrops which is obvious shady to lessen the chance that we will encounter those issues.
It surprises that still yet some people are hunting after airdrops when they should be busy with other things of relevance to their crypto portfolios, maybe I will have to assume some actually don't know the risk involved and how hackers are using such medium to attack them, maybe airdrops could be the best recommendation for begginers to have an avenue to learning but they should forget about the reward than knowing how to begin with the whole process in learning about cryptocurrency transactions and wallets.
Don't get surprise about it since there are people who cannot spend some amount of cash for investment that's why they go to those airdrops and try to earn some money with it. There are times that they can earn and there is not but what important is they show know the risk involve especially when a platform request to connect your wallet with them and ask permission to access your account since its really risky action to do.
Maybe building up on other matter especially for newbies will come later on once they learn more about crypto but on early stage its fine that they participate on airdrops so that they experience the risk and how to trade on many platforms thru the airdrops they gained.
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